Tonight I was watching a Hallmark movie called Sweet Nothing in my Ear with Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin. About twenty five minutes before the ending of the movie, my daughter called me. We talked for about an hour. At the moment when she called me, a Hallmark commercial was on and I was all teary-eyed and sniffly from watching that! Those Hallmark commercials always affect me that way! Anyway, I was happy to talk to my daughter but I am so curious as to how the movie ended. I guess I could look up on the internet and find out what exactly happened.
This past Friday I had just laid down to go to bed at 4:30 in the morning. I was laying there with my dog beside when all of a sudden I felt my bed shaking. It felt like a big person was under my bed and pushing the bed up and down. I sat up and Dexter started barking like crazy. I was so stunned. My headboard was wobbling and I could hear a horrible noise rumbling. I got out of bed after it finally stopped shaking. It wasn't until then that I realized maybe...possibly it was an earthquake? I called my parents and asked them, "did you feel that?" Yes, they had too and we were all pretty excited. Dad wondered if the oil refinery in the next town had blown up. Mom wondered if it was a plane crash. I went outside with my cordless phone while still talking to Mom. I saw my neighbor across the street turning on his bedroom light and then he came outside on his porch and looked over at me. I hollered, "hey did you feel that too?" He said he felt it too. I was just relieved it wasn't all in my mind. It was all rather surreal.
I told Mom I would call her right back. I called the hospital and asked one of the e.r. nurses if they had felt a bad tremor and she said yes they felt it and she said her daughter had called from 4o miles away and said that the picture on her bedroom wall had fallen off and woke her up. I called Mom back and told her and by that time we both turned on the local tv news and they were already reporting it and said they were getting phone calls from all over about the earthquake. Later I felt another tremor at 10:15 am but it only lasted about three or four seconds long. My daughter said she felt the earthquake in Kentucky too.
On the work front...we won't be working with "Lydia" anymore. She quit.
So before too long we will have to start training another person.
Ordinary Life's Janet has given me a Gratitude With Attitude Award
, bless her heart! I feel so unworthy because I haven't been blogging on a daily or even weekly basis. Thank you so much, Janet. I am going to pass this award on to Mrs. Who, Out of My Mind's cmk, and Deep in the Forrest's Aunt Jackie. I may not get over to read their blogs as often as I would like to but every time that I do, I am reminded of how grateful I am that I ever found them in the first place!
