We now have your weather!

Wed, Jun 02, 2010

woo. so the weather here these past few days has been pretty horrible... :-/ *sigh* kinda puts a damper on the whole not having a car thing, you know. so yeah. CRAZY awesome lightning storms. CRAZY lots of rain, and long days with... well, not much going on, really. this past week we've been doing LOTS of finding, which unfortunately has not been bringing much results. most of the contacts we get are pretty much fake. :'( and some of the appointments that we DO get set up end up falling out cause they aren't there or the house just doesn't exist. Grr, angry. BUT, crazy story! :D so we've been having tons of lightning this whole week, and we had an electrical storm three nights ago. and then two days ago, the lightning kept up pretty strong, and so we decided to head back a little early for lunch. So, we're sitting there cooking lunch, and there's lightning all around us and just the HUGEST thunder (it's crazy loud, even when it's far away :3 ) and then all of a sudden, *ASDKFHWKAHEFIOEHWAIOFEHIWA* this huge snap of electricity *skidoosh!* HUGE CLAP OF THUNDER immediately afterwards. it almost sounded like it came BEFORE it! :-O so I look over to Elder Ralston and he had these huge eyes. he goes, "holy crap, dude. i freaking SAW that! it hit the house next to us!" :-O crazy, man. crazy. it was seriously so loud, too. awesome stuffs. that's crazy that you guys have been getting such bad weather, too. bummer. :'( but that's pretty sweet that we have all those froggies livin' behind us! :D Puerto Rico is kinda like that. they have the coquí (pronounced "co-key" with the co sounding like "doe") and every night, man. those things RIP. they are SO loud. and everywhere. it sounds like this huge jungle outside all the time.

AH! that's good that Annie finally got a new phone. ha ha ha, now tell her not to lose THIS one. :P :D

so, other news for this week before i get distracted. I don't know if i ever told you, but elder Harvey kinda helped me out with all that tension in my neck. but I think that tension that I had may have been in two parts: 1) from sleeping badly, and 2) from messing around and poking around with my neck, which occurred cause I had all that bad tension in the first place. cause the other day, my neck felt kinda uncomfortable, so I was massaging it a little bit, and then I pushed on something... It went out of place, and then went back again, but then it was SUPer super uncomfortable to talk or do anything. then like, it was super difficult to really change the pitch of my voice or anything. so I waited a few days to see if it would get better, which it didn't really, so I gave sister Dewsnup a phone call. I told her about it, and she said that she didn't know EXACTLY what I may have pushed on, but it might have hit my voice box or vocal chords and if it was really bad, i might have given myself laryngitis. great. so now I'm back stuck with this horrible inflammation that I've caused myself *sigh* so basically, the whole point of this story is this is part of the problem for all that tension that i had, and now, me being the super smart guy that I am, have decided to cause myself this nice little problem. again. so now that it's kinda uncomfortable to talk, the whole being able to contact 24/7 in this walking area isn't exactly a benefit anymore. so I was wondering. would you be able to take a look on the Internet for any instances of this or of laryngitis and what I could POSSIBLY take to help the swelling or whatever it is thats going on right now, to go down? or possibly would help in any way? because this really is horrible. :'( and it's really super frustrating, cause it never really goes away, either. it's always just this constant pressure on my Adam's apple... *sigh* gosh dang it. I couldn't just be happy with what i had. GAH. pooper scoopers. please tell me that you can find something to help with this. and if you could, get back to me with it by next week so that I can solve this problem. that would be superly duperly fantastic.

*sigh* so yeah. that's probably the BIGGEST thing that's happened in the last week. :) sounds fun, right? super much so. I can't even describe the happiness pouring out of me right now.

for my sleep? well, I actually am sleeping quite fantastic you know. I've got this SICK Seally mattress that the moving Elders hooked me up with. the "Seally back saver" is what it's called. really fantastic,. you know? I feel like I'm sleeping in heaven, and I wake up all super rested and everything. GAH, even a five minute nap feels like I've been sleeping for a couple hours! I LOVE it! :D I need one. I just do. I just think that last week I was a little tired cause I didn't get the chance to eat some breakfast. :) but yeah, I've been having like eggs in the morning usually, and I've been taking my vitamins ALMOST every day (I can't say every day cause then I'd be lying :) ) and I've picked ups some apples for the last few P-days to enjoy. but no, I just love pears that much. :) and eh, we don't get fed much by the members here... mostly because we don't ever really have to to just "stop by" and visit. that usually happens when you're walking around all the time and don't have a car for super sweet speedy transportation. @.@

poop... everyone else is done emailing... well, I'm going to try and get a package sent out this week with some extra stuff that i need to send home so it's not taking up so much space in my bags, so I'll be trying to get a letter to Donny and finish up this email in a letter too, stuffed in there. :)

bah, hump day. as far as i know, there isn't a tradition or anything, but I've heard that some people burn ties or a shirt, so I don't know if there actually IS one or anything. just heard it in passing... so yeah. I'll have to find out. the only problem is... I don't have anything to BURN! :'( it's all good stuff! ha ha ha!

on p day so far what we've done is stopped by a few skate shops/surf shop (elder mason and Ralston are big skaters and masons a surfer (he's from Cali)) and today, we plan on "playin' some b-ball outside of the school... ...when a couple o' guys that were up to no good, started makin' trouble in my neighborhood..." *ahem* anyways. sorry about that. so yeah. maybe hit up a few more skate shops today too. last week we went to this really really sweet place called "mega music warehouse" that I found. mmmmm, that was nice. got to play on some guitars. except that I can't play anymore. *sigh* lame. well, I'll have lots o' practice time when I get back, eh? ha ha ha. yeah. *sigh*

OK, well, I've gots to bust a move. hope to hear back about that neck stuff, too. please please please. :)

I LOVE YOU more than Washington loves to rain! :D

~Brandon
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