whatever the weather

the calvin college webcam is one of the tabs that pops up when we open the internet, and yesterday, everything was green and sunny. just now, i looked at it, and there's a nice blanket of snow! the little weather icon says "33 degrees, light ice pellets." it may just be that i've been in california all my life, but i have never ever seen "ice pellets" as part of the forecast before. i see that and i don't know whether to wear a helmet or what. is there a difference between hail and ice pellets?
i was just talking to a friend about how we check the weather forecast so we know what to wear (even though i am limited when it comes to dressing for school). but anyway, wouldn't it be hilarious if someone gave the forecast in terms of what to wear? for instance, today's weather is going to be long sleeves with a chance of shorts... wouldn't that be awesome?!
back to the webcam... i was just thinking about how awesome it would be to go to sleep one day when it's a rather nice day outside, and then waking up to a layer of white outside of the dorm room window... how exciting!
and yesterday, i did go and play the lottery for my first time... i bought a $1 scratcher and $1 mega millions lotto ticket... psh, the lady didn't even card me!! anyway, i picked 5 numbers, and a mega number. here's something funny though. the night before, i tried to let random numbers come to mind and then remembered them for the ticket, however, when i went to mark the number 57 on my ticket, i started laughing my head off when i saw that the numbers only go up to 56. :) so with the scratcher, it was you scratch all 6 boxes and if three of the six boxes are matching, then thats what you win... the first box i scratched said $1000. i nearly flipped!!! so i scratched the next... $3... and the next... $3.... and the next... $6.... and the next... $50... and the next...$500. i didn't win anything... bummer. i chose the cow scratcher because, well, the cow's been a good thing for me lately so why not go with the cow :)
so then at 8pm, i turned on the tv to check the numbers ( i chose 4 17 29 32 51 and mega number 44)
not a single number matched for me.
my dad turns to me and says, you learned a valuable lesson tonight about the lottery, right?
i nodded: "indeed i have... you need to buy more than just one ticked in order have any chance of winning!!!!!!"

good stuff...
well, gotta go make dinner!

chow