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i’ve said many things that perhaps warrant me being struck down by lightening and i think last night i received a warning.  after spending the day with mikey who has now returned from his trip, we came back home and picked up where we left on our Wii Smash Bros. Adventure.

now, i’ve always known you aren’t supposed to use electronics in severe lightening storms, or so i remember being told when i was little,  but we really wanted to beat this level.  my mom is always sending me dooms day warnings about what can happen if you’re on the phone during a storm or that your tv could blow up or any number of poltergeist-y things.  since i love a good summer storm–not including tornado’s–ahem, brett–where people die–i had all my doors opens and the wind and the rain just whipped up a frenzy outside.  love it.

and there we were playing when a bolt of lightening slammed down…it seems just outside the doors in the middle of the courtyard.  now, it probably wasn’t right down in the courtyard, but it had to have been just a hundred feet away.  (my suspicions were later confirmed when walking the dog later that night and i saw the tree it must have struck, a large chunk of it dangling by a thread over a couple parked cars below it.  should i call someone one?  eh, not my problem).

this all got me thinking…since i almost got struck by lightening and those happen so rarely to one person in a  lifetime, is it safe to assume that i will never be attacked by a shark?  i mean, seriously, what are the odds of me being almost hit by lightening and then bitten by a shark?  isn’t it now kind of in my favor that i won’t be?

in other, more disgusting news, my prego sister will be induced into labor in just a couple of weeks.  see, the baby is growing abnormally fast, it seems, …wait, that sounds weird.  not abnormally, just a little fast.  maybe some calculations were off  about the date of conception.  and it’s head is, according to her description, growing faster than it’s body.  let me see if i can explain this.  the baby as a whole is about one week larger than where it should be, but the head is like two weeks larger than where it should be.

if this baby has an enormous head when it comes out, i don’t think we can hang.