Aloha from the Shaken not Stirred State!
Wow, what a rude awakening yesterday morning! And all I wanted to do was sleep in on the weekend! HA! Sometimes Mother Nature really wants us to know that she's still around and is quite capable of making life incredibly interesting!
So I was cuddled up with my big cat and he was purring away like mad and I was doing that half asleep pet the nice kitty and falling back into a restful sleep. Then all of a sudden I'm thinking to myself, 'What in the f*cking hel is Steve doing that's making our bed shake like that?!' That's when Tubby-boy jumps up from my arms and is standing with his legs splayed out! He was growling and making these weird yipping meows as the bed and house (the bedrooms are on the second floor) are doing this circular dance thing. Freaky! Now I am up and the kids are distressed so I get them to change clothes and get their breakfast because everyone knows that if there is a tsunami the children should at least be fed! Well, no, not really, but I did want to keep them calm and doing something they would have done anyway. I figured that by the time the kids were done eating the tsunami alarm would have gone off. I did have power till about the second earthquake so I was trying to get the local stations but they were all off line. Damn it! I get the kids motivated and tell them we are going to spend the day at grandpa's since he has a working phone line. We grab the really important stuff like papers that can't easily be replaced.
Cable phone is fine until the power goes out. Oh and the cell phones weren't much help either since the towers go down but hey TXT works! So while I'm stuck in traffic on my way to check on my mom and I'm TXTing Steve that we are all OK and that we are going to my dad's. I thought I was being reassuring totally forgetting that he's on the road with his brother going to Fort Mead. Whoops! LOL By the time he got to his room and put two and two together after turning on CNN I was already at my dad's place. I got a TXT from him saying that he's back in his room and I should call him, and I did (my Dad rocks! Letting me use his long distance.) We spent a really nice day there and then my brothers and I went and picked up my Mom so she wouldn't have to eat cold beans from a can for dinner. Luckily daddy got his power back right before we took off to mom's place so he could use his stove in the kitchen. We came back to ramen noodles and burritos. Then my mom, step-mom and I played two games of Scrabble and won em both hands down with 20+ points each time! Yay! These women are incredibly good players so my wins were a huge surprise.
We said our good nights and the boys and I took mom home. She had her lights on so I felt better about leaving her there. We drive home and can see that the surrounding area all had their power back. I had such high hopes that our neighborhood was just as well lit. NOT! We didn't get our power back until this morning at about 8:20! I guess the military is still the red headed step children of the islands!
~After Enlightenment, comes the laundry!~
Topic: Amy (Alien) are you and the boys Alright? (Read 1446 times)