I Prefer The OTHER Kind of Shake…

Earthquakes in the Midwest are not a good thing…

(and… I’m pretty sure that California is laughing at us all right now…because atleast where I am there is little damage…no one is hurt that I’ve heard of…but everyone is freaking out… )

I haven’t slept well all week…so I wasn’t motivated to get out of my bed to survey the situation.  I was in that half awake but still mostly asleep mode…

The last thing I thought as I was being shaken awake this morning was that there was an actual earthquake taking place.

(If I knew I might have been more concerned…and then again …maybe not)

As I laid there I did think of some other possible scenarios for what was actually happening…

*  Fort Knox has gone wild … (and then I thought It would be nice if Fort Knox wait till after breakfast to practice heavy artillery fire.)

*The train that runs behind our house must have derailed.

*Is this another tornado?

*The possibility I might have given myself brain damage trimming the hedges yesterday with the ancient power tools/crazy vibrating hedge trimmers…The Vibrations are all in my head…

* Meth Lab explosion? (not that there are any Meth labs near my house…that I know of…but sounds more probable than an earthquake in Kentucky.)

* I shouldn’t have stayed up and watched Eli_Stone  Finale.  That’s what I get for watching t.v.  Now I’m dreaming I’m in the show… (f.y.i.  Eli has visions of a earthquake…that no one else sees or feels…I don’t watch TV much anymore…but I like this show.)

* If something is blowing up or crashing into my house… I’m gonna have to get out of bed. I sill have 30 minutes to sleep…If I hear sirens I’ll check it out…maybe.

* Maybe it’s not as real as I think it is…my husband isn’t waking up…Is the bed really shaking?  Certainly he would be up if this was serious… (and then I remembered that John can sleep through anything… Like the time there was a major car accident in our FRONT YARD… 2 ambulances and a Fire truck sirens blaring…I was on my way home and I though our house was burning down because of all the police cars and traffic back up…and he was asleep on the couch in the front room and had missed the whole thing.) And now…I can say he can sleep through an earthquake and really mean it.

Anyway…I went back to sleep.

( on a side note I grew up very close to where the fault line in Southern Illinois  where the earthquake originated…)

I’m getting good at this natural disaster stuff…

Since February…Tornadoes,

A Flood (that I didn’t think was that bad, but schools closed), 

Largest snow storm in recent history

and now a Earthquake.

Take_this_survey  if you felt the quake.

Fact of Childhood…

 

I’m not really sure why this is…

but

Candy that comes from other countries tastes  better than regular old candy from home…

(especially when you think the person that brought it back to you is way cool) 

thanks Bethany.