i never thought i'd say this but...

...i'm glad i'm heavy!

seriously.

when i was at work earlier today i took a break and went to get something from my car. and those santa ana winds were blowing like a mofo in the wind olympics. i checked the weather info at yahoo and it said the winds were blowing 20 mph at the zip code i work in! i think it was more like 30 mph winds. sure that's not in the tornado/hurricane/'my father after eating mexican food' field of awesome wind power, but its still pretty harsh windage.

the palm trees in front of the building were swaying fiercely, dust and leaves and tree scrap that likes to fly into your eyes at the most inopportune time were surfing the wind waves, the window i stare out of was shaking in its hopefully-sturdy frame boots, and anorexic squirrels were lifted up in the air and carried away like a book nerd in a 'going out of business' used book store book sale.

if i were any lighter i might have blown away too!

okay. so no actual squirrels, anorexic or otherwise, were seen flying about today, but that doesn't mean it wasn't happening somewhere else. some place where i wasn't looking. because that wind was blowing hard i tell you!