It's the season's first Hurricane Day!

Well, okay, maybe a little pre-seasonal, but it's still a party!

For those not native to South Florida, Hurricane Days are the day after the storm has swept through and, of course provided that your house is still standing, you choose to celebrate life, liberty, and the outage of power by breaking out your patio grill and cooking everything that threatens to go bad in the refrigerator. Usually this involves a whole block or family of folks, and the menu can be prepared for ahead of time or, as we found ourselves this morning, consisting of whatever you've got to cook or else.

Since there was no actual hurricane (knock on wood), we kicked off this annual event upon finding our refrigerator half defrosted when we woke up. Breakfast was a personal-size DiGiorno Chicken Supreme Pizza, some Hillshire Farms mini hotdogs and creamed spinach, and I claimed the lone remaining Strawberry & Cream Toaster Strudel for my own. Lunch will probably be Lean Cuisine Three Cheese Rigatoni and Hot Pockets. I can't wait.

No, really!

*g* Hurricane Day without the lack of air conditioning (plumb inconvenient, that hurricane season falls during the hottest months of the year)! It's like a holiday only less loud and with fewer drunk people.

Also, y'all need to go check out what Sheila's been up to and, like, shower her with your chosen form of adoration.

Day Nine

Oh my yes. Firstly, I approve of uniforms on my men as a general rule. Cannot express the joy that JC dressed in that disheveled, unbuttoned/untied number on that pile of drums brought into my life. Was listening on the phone when he came out at Wango Tango, got to experience the giddy joy of his wearing the winning band's ensemble, then having it ceremoniously ripped off of him. Such a savvy, sexy boy, that one.

Save Yourself by Tiffany Rawlins

"I was thinking," JC said, "while I watched, when you went up and then down again." Lance nodded under the light touch of JC's fingers on his jaw. "I think it must be like love. You can write a thousand songs and it only sounds right if you were there."

Cheater cheater cheater! I'm a big, dirty cheater. But it's really JC's story and this is on my top ten fics ever written list, so just in case y'all missed it the first time or I didn't make it emphatically clear enough, You Should Be Reading This. Go to.