Today, James and I were driving down Hwy 75 towards Uptown to clean up our old apartment after our big move this weekend. All of a sudden, I said “James, what is that?” and pointed to the sky. It was some fireball in the sky streaming down faster than I’ve ever seen – too big for a firework and too small for an airplane but we were literally driving and watching this “thing” light up the day time sky (it was right before 11:00am CST on Sunday). I immediately called my Dad to tell him what we witnessed. Was it an airplane that exploded (Dallas Love and DFW are both in the vicinity of where we were) or was it a meteorite during the day? We had no idea. I then told James, maybe it was pieces of the satellites that crashed earlier this week but then we dismissed that because we thought we had read that the debris from the Russian and US satellites would be in orbit for “thousands” of years.

Well, now it’s 5pm and it looks like tons of Texans saw what we witnessed. Thank God. And according to the FAA, it does appear to be a satellite debris of some kind. They have NOT confirmed which satellite it is, but it has to be the Russian and US communications satellites that crashed, right?

So glad to know what we witnessed is now caught on tape. Here’s a video of someone taping a marathon in Austin, TX and you can see the bright flash – their view was NOTHING like ours – it literally seemed to happen right in front of our car. Insane.

Those of us who live in the Big D know that when a snowflake falls here, it’s a big deal. How I miss my days in Tulsa, OK when it would snow at least 3 times a winter. Not so much here in Dallas.

Nonetheless, the forecasters said we may get some “freezing drizzle.” Little do they know…

We all have heard the news from the last several weeks and I must say, it really has brought me down. The world’s economy is falling apart, literally. Constant mud is being thrown from side to side in this intense political election year. America seems divided on some major issues which we all know what can happen to a nation divided… crime is constantly around us as is disease and death.

I came home this past Wednesday from work and I was a bit down in the dumps. A long week. James, my boyfriend, decided to take me and our dog, Deco, to a park and it literally opened my eyes to something so profound. We don’t have to step too far away from our own backyards to see that we do, in fact, live in a wonderful world.

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So my coworkers and I went to the Texas State Fair last Wednesday and it was so much fun! In the four years that I’ve lived in Dallas, this is my first time at the State Fair. We ate so much fried goodness that it literally made me sick afterwards.

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So it looks like the forecasts and the meteorologists were absolutely correct. Ike was a monster (much more damage than Gustav) and the storm surge hit Galveston at TWENTY FEET. That’s a higher storm surge than Katrina, people!

Here’s the 10am update for the track – now the massive storm (Category 1 as of 10:00am CST) is heading directly north and now DFW is in the tropical storm wind warning zone. Yes, DFW will be getting up to 50 mph gusts and 40 mph SUSTAINED winds in the next few hours. Hello no electricity! Ugh!

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