At 5:04 AM my shaking, rattling, and rolling bed woke me up. When I first wake up, I’m always extremely disoriented. You know when some people are awakened unexpectedly, they sit straight up in bed fully alert. Yeah, that’s not me.
When I first wake up, I’m generally like, “Waaaaait…what…the…hell….”
So when an earthquake struck (Is struck the right word here? Quaked? Shook?) Maryland at 5:04 this morning, and here’s what I thought:
- Godzilla is attacking!
- The aliens are taking me! Please don’t use the probe!
- A giant David Zinczenko (Honey, I Blew Up the Kids style) read my blog and is coming to eat me. Eat this! Not that!
- I’m about to be possessed by a demon. Maybe those hot Supernatural brothers will save me.
- Maybe it’s just an angry ghost. I’ll still need those hot Supernatural brothers.
Next is my high point of coherency.
- Did we just have an earthquake? What do I do? Duck and cover? Stop, drop, and roll? Nah…We don’t have earthquakes in Maryland.
Then sleep starts to take over again.
- Maybe it was just vibrations of my neighbor’s surround sound.
- A redneck just drove by in his stupid and loud truck.
- My cat Esme jumped up on the bed and caused the bed to shake for 10-15 seconds. Maybe it’s time to put her on a diet.
The earthquake was a 3.6. To some of you more experienced earthquakeans in California, you’re probably thinking, “3.6? That’s nothing.”
But in Maryland, we don’t have earthquakes, so it’s something.
I think the LA Times covered the story just to laugh at all of us here on the East Coast.
Just you wait, California. One day you’ll get a few inches of snow, and the East Coast will just sit back and chuckle.
Thoughts Appear 
July 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Ha! A great post to start the morning. I think I fall in the middle of the spectrum of Disoriented Fully Alert when awoken suddenly. There are mornings when I don’t remember getting out of bed, and yet there I am brushing my teeth.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I’ve done that when I’m driving. It’s scary to think “Whoa, I’m home already.” Thanks for stopping by!
July 16th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Yes! It’s happened to me as well when driving. There are certain portions of my commute back home from work where I have no memory of having driven myself from the first leg to the second leg of the trip.
July 18th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
That actually happens to me a lot too. You drive the same route moste of the time, so from time to time you don’t even realize ho far you’ve gone. It’s crazy!
July 19th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
It’s the opposite of learning how to play a song or the
choreography of a dance. Once it’s been memorized and second nature, the moment you think about the next step, you’re likely to forget what to do.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Maryland is right there by the ocean, and I think Godzilla is a more legit answer for the vibrations you felt this morning. But, let us know here in West Virginia if you see that massive monstrosity coming our way.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:43 am
I’d kind of like to see Godzilla. As long as its not aliens, I’ll be happy. I’ll be sure to warn you if I see Godzilla.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Great, funny post! I laughed reading it…thanks!
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July 16th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Haha, Godzilla would have definitely been my first thought too. I’m from the south, we hardly ever get earthquakes around here, either. We did have one several years ago… it was tiny, barely even noticeable, but it was a big deal around here. Kind of a freaky feeling, and I’m sure it wasn’t anywhere near a 3.6.
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July 16th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
At least I’m not alone! Good luck with your Insanity workouts!
July 16th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Well I remember a few years ago can’t remember the time or year it was early in the morning and here in Georgia we had an earthquake, it sounded like thunder. I think it was centered in Alabama. Another oh well its thunder, so i can understand the confusion. We don’t have earth rattlers like they do elsewhere we are smack dab in the middle of the North American plate.
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July 16th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Unfortunately, right in the middle of the North American Plate is one of the biggest earthquake faults in the world (the New Madrid fault system), and when, not if, that sucker goes off again, not only will you be able to kiss everything from New Orleans to Memphis goodbye, but you’ll be feeling some of the vibrations in good old Maryland.
Pleasant dreams. 🙂
July 16th, 2010 at 9:53 am
That would be a wild time, eh? To see SNOW on the Hollywood sign or on the Stars on the sidewalk. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened someday.
With Love and Gratitude,
The Intentional Sage
July 16th, 2010 at 11:05 am
That would be crazy. Thanks for stopping by my blog!
July 16th, 2010 at 10:11 am
I remember the time Godzilla just showed up and caused all sorts of destruction. Luckily, that moth Mothra and those two miniature Japanese girls who were Mothra’s special helpers saved the city from going completely to waste.
The Codger
http://thecodger.wordpress.com/
July 16th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Hahaha. I was an East Coast girl living in Los Angeles. They made fun of me when I didn’t know what to do when I went through my first earthquake, but I got the last laugh. It did snow. It snowed in Malibu (no joke). In the news they were covering it as the worst snowstorm ever. Meanwhile the East Coast was getting one of they seen in years. One brilliant newscaster commented on this and asked “I wonder if the East Coast is covering our bad weather as well?”
July 16th, 2010 at 11:06 am
You just made my day with this comment. Dreams do come true….
July 16th, 2010 at 10:49 am
South Florida would laugh at you both, what with your snow and silly quakes, but er, we don’t like to jinx ourselves around hurricane season.
That oil spill is over though, right? Riiiight…
Lorraine.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
We get some of those hurricane effects up here when they are really bad.
You can laugh at me complaining about how hot it’s been up here. I’m sure you’d think I’m a big baby.
July 16th, 2010 at 10:50 am
You’re Freshly Pressed! Congrats!
Never been through an earthquake, but the North Georgia area has been due for a large one for some time now. I wouldn’t know what to do, either!
July 16th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Whoa…i was wondering what was going on. Thanks!
July 16th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I’m clearly sleep deprived and didn’t wake up at all. Would it be uncitizen-like of me to say “do it again”?
July 16th, 2010 at 11:17 am
A lot of people are saying they didn’t wake up. I guess I’m a really light sleeper. I think asking for it to happen again is ok since it wasn’t bad.
July 16th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Hey!! everyone in my classroom is looking at me because i laugh louder…i didn’t know that there are not earhquakes- relevants, of course-, in Maryland…
well, here, in Peru, there aren’t many, either.
Good post, and funny!!! (Y)
July 16th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I’m glad you liked the post. Maybe make some funny faces at the people looking at you. Might as well play it up for all its worth!
July 16th, 2010 at 11:43 am
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at a blog posting; excellent musings! haha ;-D
July 16th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I’m glad I made you laugh! Thanks!
July 16th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Ahhahaha. Great post. Most definitely made my morning! As I read the LA TImes article, to my standards a 3.6-isn’t much, LOL. But I guess to people who’ve never experienced an earthquake before its pretty substantial. 🙂 We had an earthquake out here Tues/Wed (Cali) It was fairly “shaking”.
Congrats on being freshly pressed!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
It was definitely just enough shaking to realize something was wrong, but not enough to throw me out of bed. I can’t imagine having them frequently or stronger.
Thanks for the congrats!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Don’t let anyone laugh at you! That’s exactly how I woke up from my first earthquake…. “Oh, some lunatic just drove into the building, oh well…” and back to sleep I went!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I’m surrounded by people who thought the same thing. Thanks for stopping by my blog!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I was already awake and I didn’t feel squat. I was living in LA in 2008 when we had a 5.6 earthquake. Got pretty sick after that but this morning? NADA.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Maybe you’ve built up an earthquake tolerance? I just stopped by your blog…It’s great! And I’m with you on the pumpkin pie…eww. I think as long as we like another form of pie we can still be Americans.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
That wasn’t an earthquake! That was me falling out of bed…..2,000 miles away!…..sorry….
July 16th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
My sister-in-law lives in TN and she had a 3. something or other a month ago. Now you in Maryland! Good grief it’s coming to get us in Massachusetts! I’ll be sleeping with my helmet on tonight!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Earthquakes appear to be happening everywhere lately. Big ones and small ones.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Woo-hoo! You’re ok despite your birthday-hospital experience! I was beginning to wonder.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Great post – definitely reminded me of a comedy show here that mocked our own west coast when it got snow: “OOOOH, the great God Birkinstock is angry with us.”
And I love to hear that I’m not the only one who wouldn’t mind having some supernatural help. *wink, wink*
July 16th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Those Winchester boys are always welcome at my home!
July 16th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
My husband shot out of bed and woke everyone up screaming “WHAT WAS THAT?!”
I was too tired to tell him and just emailed him the WTOP news story at 9:00.
Hey, I thought it was a pretty impressive quake. My California friends just laughed and kept drinking their wheatgrass shakes.
July 16th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Ewww…wheatgrass.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Awesome post. I like that Godzilla is the first thing you thought of!
And it wouldn’t take inches of snow to make California freak out. Just a chance of snow would send them into a panic. They can barely drive when it only rains!
July 16th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
I don’t think any one any where can drive when it rains…except for me…and maybe you.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I was busy with Sam and Dean.
Sorry.
July 16th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Please share Sam and Dean. Or at least let me have one.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Right on! I agree wholeheartedly. Just wait, when Cali becomes a key, we’ll get the last laugh.
July 16th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I’m laughing already! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
July 16th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
AHahahaa ^o^
I see where your coming from when you say that Maryland dosn’t have earthquakes. I’m from New York and one day my father was like ” did you here, we had an earthquake” I must of slept through it ( mind you I’m the lightess sleeper I know) >.>
The day California gets snow will be a happy one for me ahah. No one will want to take a tan on the snow-covered sand ( not that people need the sun for that)
July 16th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I thought I won the award for lightest sleeper. Let’s have a sleep off to decide!
July 16th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I grew up in Maryland, but I had to leave in case this happened.
July 16th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
You are very wise.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
lol, Godzilla rules forever!!
July 16th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Great post… love the part about the cat.
While I think I know what you mean about laughing at us Californians and snow, just remember that California is a big state (800 miles from Mexico to Oregon) and it covers a lot of terrain where 40 feet of snow is not uncommon in the winter. A lot of easterners don’t realize that fact.
I live right in the middle of the state some 50 miles east of the San Andreas Fault and haven’t felt an earthquake since moving here more than 10 years ago.
July 16th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Hey congrats Thoughts Appear! I realized you were on the login page of wordpress so congrats!!!
(haha, if it were not friday, i would not have noticed as I read your posts during the week via rss feeds in the office without logging into wordpress)…
Keep up the great posts…!!
July 16th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
I didn’t realize it either at first. I figured a lot of people were searching for “Godzilla” posts. Hope you’re enjoying your trip!
July 16th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
So I’m not the only blogger who uses toy Godzillas for my pics?
July 16th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
You mean Godzilla isn’t real?
July 17th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
He is, but he’s got a big hang up about being photographed. Plus, my neighbors complain when he comes around.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
It sounds so Horrible.Sennheiser Microphone
July 16th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Ha ha.It’s funny post.
July 17th, 2010 at 6:43 am
Thanks!
July 16th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
[…] At 5:04 AM my shaking, rattling, and rolling bed woke me up. When I first wake up, I'm always extremely disoriented. You know when some people are awakened unexpectedly, they sit straight up in bed fully alert. Yeah, that's not me. When I first wake up, I'm generally like, "Waaaaait…what…the…hell…." So when an earthquake struck (Is struck the right word here? Quaked? Shook?) Maryland at 5:04 this morning, and here's what I thought: Godzil … Read More […]
July 16th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Nice.
But, do ya’ll really have rednecks in Maryland?
You should come to Alabama…we will show you real rednecks!
ha
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July 17th, 2010 at 6:47 am
I think so, but I’ve never been to Alabama. The city of Frederick is often called “Fredneck.”
July 17th, 2010 at 12:17 am
Nice post.
Thats really funny..
ha..
July 17th, 2010 at 2:11 am
I grew up in Vermont and we had a couple temblors too. But nothing could’ve beaten the Nisqually Earthquake of February 2001–where it hit the area with a 6.8.
I was stuck on the toilet when the quake happened and I told my brother: “EARTHQUAKE!”
And he’s like: “Where ar you?!”
“I’M ON THE TOILET!!!”
“Get off!”
“I…can’t!”
(So I can sympathize with you on this one–being caught in bed and all.)
July 17th, 2010 at 7:10 am
The worst place to be during an earthquake ever award goes to you!
July 17th, 2010 at 2:50 am
Godzilla scary.
July 17th, 2010 at 3:17 am
Godzilla funny!!!
July 17th, 2010 at 3:18 am
[…] At 5:04 AM my shaking, rattling, and rolling bed woke me up. When I first wake up, I'm always extremely disoriented. You know when some people are awakened unexpectedly, they sit straight up in bed fully alert. Yeah, that's not me. When I first wake up, I'm generally like, "Waaaaait…what…the…hell…." So when an earthquake struck (Is struck the right word here? Quaked? Shook?) Maryland at 5:04 this morning, and here's what I thought: Godzil … Read More […]
July 17th, 2010 at 4:09 am
Wow! It sound very terrible!
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July 17th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Reminds me of this one time when i was living in Auckland, New Zealand and I was sitting in my room. I felt my house start to shake and I ignored it! After it happened, I went out to my dad and said “Why were you stomping around the house?” Apparently they also thought I’d been stomping around! That was my first earthquake experience and I was completely confused…I can’t imagine what it’d be like if I was half asleep!
July 17th, 2010 at 5:23 am
I can. I’ve experienced two earthquakes in my life while I was living in San Francisco (both about 4.0), and both of them happened when I was in bed. Interestingly, I dreamed about being in an earthquake both times – BEFORE the earthquakes happened. I woke up – and THEN, after a few seconds, the earthquakes began. 🙂
New Zealand, given where it is, is primary earthquake country potentially. I’m surprised we don’t hear more about them.
July 17th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Wow…Maybe they should fire the psychic octopus and make you predict things instead ;P
Yeah, New Zealand should be a hotspot for earthquakes, yet we hardly had any while I was living there. 14 years and that was my first ever earthquake, and it wasn’t even a quake as so much a shudder 😛
July 17th, 2010 at 6:56 am
I was already awake and in the middle of WaPo’s Style section, the daily Real Housewives of DC update to be exact. My first thought was, hmmm, earthquake? Cool.
Then I moved on to Carolyn Hax, because that was the only reasonable response.
Lesson learned from the whole thing: my clocks are slow. It was 5:02 at my house.
Great post, great blog, and I too am a big fan of the serial comma, chocolate, and something else that would require two serials in one sentence!
July 17th, 2010 at 7:22 am
Its funny that you mention that your clock is 2 minutes slow. I actually found out that mine is 2 minutes fast.
Always nice to meet another serial comma and chocolate fan! Thanks for stopping by!
July 17th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Gozilla never die.
July 17th, 2010 at 7:14 am
Ham Yoy gave my “abs” a workout. I laughed so much while reading this and then showed it to my cousin who laughed even harder. Then we ended up unable to stop laughing because she snorted in her laugh. Besides that, extremely well written.
-Noor
http://noor724.wordpress.com/
🙂
July 17th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I live within walking distance of the epicenter…it scared the heck out of me and woke my husband who literally can sleep thru anything! We thought it was a plane crash or bomb. Thanks for the laughs 🙂
July 17th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Plane crash and bomb…I should have thought of those.
Feel free to laugh at me any time!
July 17th, 2010 at 9:21 am
hahaha
funny post
😀
July 17th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Thank you! Thanks for stopping by!
July 17th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Damn, yet again, featured on the main page. You must be a popular one. After all, that’s where I first found you. It wasn’t an earthquake, it was definitely Godzilla. What’s even better is that my iPhone will auto-correct/predict the name Godzilla.
July 17th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I need an iPhone now that I know that!
July 18th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Oh yes. So far that’s the best auto-prediction so far.
July 17th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Scary and hilariously funny too…
July 17th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Reading the comments- may I add- you have a great sense of humor…..
Congratulations..!!
😀
July 17th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Thank you! I try =)
July 17th, 2010 at 11:59 am
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July 17th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
– HAHAHAHA I LOVE THIS POST!
July 17th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I’m from California and this just cracked me up. Problem is, my biggest fear is earthquakes and I have lived here my entire life! How can you just brush it off like that? ESPECIALLY being waken up by one! I could never…
So Maryland is now off of my list of safe places to live…
Can California please exchange snow for earthquakes?? I promise we won’t gripe too much 😀
P.S. — the BIG ONE is coming!! AHHHH!!!!
July 17th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I think because it wasn’t very bad. Plus I seriously didn’t believe that’s actually what it was when I woke up. I was convinced my neighbor had an extremely late night gaming party or something that was reverberating my walls.
Maryland is safe and a great place to live. More people who hurt in the snowstorms than this earthquake.
I’ve also never been to California though. Maybe CA is much cooler.
July 18th, 2010 at 12:33 am
Oh yeah, well here a 3.5 is nothing. Here, we usually don’t feel them because even if we do, we figure it is no big deal. Start getting into a 4.0 and then we start putting on the news. But when you never get them, I can imagine people would be like, “wtf is the earth moving?”
I like California except for the earthquakes, but I think Maryland looks beautiful!
July 17th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Girl, GREAT! Yay You! FP! Glad you weren’t injured; bet that was way weird. Happy Day!
July 17th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Who knew? Me on FP? And I only had to survive an earthquake.
Woo-hoo! You’re back. Don’t take any more trips! I’ve been going through Izzie withdraw.
July 17th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Hilarious. Loved it.
July 17th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
In my part of the country I would certainly believe it simply a redneck driving by with his big loud redneck truck. LOL Cute post!
July 17th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
I’m pretty sure Godzilla was attacking!
July 17th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Cute post. We were supposed to wake up at 5 that morning but my husband had the clock set on Greek time (Don’t ask). The earthquake got us up at 5:05. Lucky for us.
July 18th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Trying…not…to…ask…What is Greek time?
July 17th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Hey, congrats on making Freshly Pressed! It’s a fun ride.
I slept right through the earthquake and thought my husband had to be kidding when he told me about it.
It was pretty crazy to see “earthquake survivors” being interviewed on the news….(I lived in Southern CA for 10 years.)
July 18th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Thank you! I’m surprised at the number of people who slept through it. Since you lived in CA, maybe you’ve been conditioned.
July 17th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
LOL!!! funny post!!!! i didnt even feel the earthquake!!! and im in randallstown area, smh. I must be a hard sleeper!
July 18th, 2010 at 1:29 am
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July 18th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Headed there now! Hope you enjoy my posts!
July 18th, 2010 at 2:59 am
hahaha awesome post. You are so funny! Will definitely stop by here more often.
July 18th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Woo-hoo! I’m funny! And not just funny looking!
July 18th, 2010 at 3:09 am
[…] At 5:04 AM my shaking, rattling, and rolling bed woke me up. When I first wake up, I'm always extremely disoriented. You know when some people are awakened unexpectedly, they sit straight up in bed fully alert. Yeah, that's not me. When I first wake up, I'm generally like, "Waaaaait…what…the…hell…." So when an earthquake struck (Is struck the right word here? Quaked? Shook?) Maryland at 5:04 this morning, and here's what I thought: Godzil … Read More […]
July 18th, 2010 at 5:00 am
i’m still laughing .. nice read.. thanks for posting..
July 18th, 2010 at 6:10 am
great read, thanks! I think the Supernatural bros would be handy in any emergency (heck, even non-emergency) sitch. Run, its godzilla!!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:43 am
You’re totally right…the Supernatural Brothers would be handy any time. I could use one right now.
July 18th, 2010 at 7:24 am
Haha! Nice guesses on the shaking thing in the morning. Why not, Godzilla.
July 18th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Hahah great post! I slept through it -_-.
But I hear ya on the snow part. Congrats on getting Freshly Pressed!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:55 am
I think more people slept through it than it woke up!
July 18th, 2010 at 9:03 am
This the best article I have never seen before….I like this post
July 18th, 2010 at 10:02 am
That is pretty funny… I was born and raised in California and your post is dead on… 3.6? What the heck is that? haha… but then, you brought up a very startling point.. Snow in California where we have never woke up to white on the ground? What would we do? Ummm.. first our attire wouldn’t allow for snow AND our mindset of leaving for work at the last minute only to race down the freeway at 90 miles per hour wouldnt work either. We just might have to call for a SNOW DAY and take the day, maybe even week, off from work… WORKS FOR ME!!!
April
July 19th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Snow Days are the best!
July 18th, 2010 at 10:07 am
“Please dont use the probe!” hahahaha!! Great post.
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July 19th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Thank you!
July 18th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Yeah, 3.6 in LA is like a door being shut too hard. If we got one inch of snow, they’d probably start looting with the excuse they are looking for snow shovels.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Very good point for those chuckling angelinos (I used to be one) and I have indeed woken up to an earthquake and even though I know we had them- my first thought was was on a train… as that’s what it felt like- like being jolted in your bed on the train. There was a funny time when i was disciplining my cat and the earthquake hit at exactly the time I clapped my hands (to make a loud noise to stop him chewing on something) and he must’ve thought I had superpowers to make the whole house shake….
July 19th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Does you cat still chew on stuff? Because if he doesn’t, I’ll need to stage something similar.
July 18th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Ha ha.Funny Post.
July 18th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
2012 is not too far away… the world is going through some major changes. Quite scary if you think about the fact that the east coast has to add earthquakes to the list of natural disasters to worry about!
loved the post though 🙂
July 18th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
I’ve been woken up by a couple of earthquakes, both of them in Greece. The first time I couldn’t understand why the people upstairs were moving furniture about at 6am…
July 19th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
In Greece? Guess I’m not going there.
July 18th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
That’s great! I thought a truck drove by with a ton of trash and dumped it right on our street.
July 18th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Awesome post
July 18th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Can’t. Stop. LMAO.
July 18th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
What a great post! Sorry to hear that the hot Supernatural brothers aren’t on their way to save you…hey a girl can dream right. We had an earthquake in Michigan a while ago and went through the same thing. I can only hope that the west coast gets a wonderful winter blizzard one day, although it might not be so satisfying when everything there is shut down and they can sit at home while we have 3 feet of snow and still have to huff it to work. Oh well, I guess the world just isn’t fair.
July 18th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Great post. My brother is living there as well though he didn’t mention anything about it so probably he just continued sleeping. (–,)
July 18th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
im also a “Marylander” and when i HEARD about it i was like what? 3.6 yea not serious… and given that im hispanic my family got phone calls all day … and i never heard the end of 2012 and the apocolypse and bla bla bla!!! im like shut up… we live on a planet what can happen on one end of the earth it can happen on the other…. we’ve had tornados, several “almost flood” situations, a earthquake in 2008 and 1973, and the blizzards, and rediculous heat waves, all we never had was a hurricane, but we did have an after effects of one… everything happens in maryland lol we’re pretty much gangster cuz we tuff thru it all
July 18th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
I’ve been to LA…people freaked over some “mist” that they called “heavy rain”. I went for a walk in a tank top and they all had coats and umbrellas. Hah.
July 19th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Enjoyed your post … great sense of humour …
I woke up around the same time in Sydney Australia when I was a little girl, and ran into my sister’s room to watch the leaves all being shaken off the trees.
Then my mum of all people, appeared in the room. This was a big surprise because she couldn’t walk … well only with difficulty leaning on sticks … but the fear of her children being squashed by a collapsing building galvanised every remaining muscle and nerve and she got to our rooms in record time …
Australia’s very stable earthquake-wise … very ancient land, and very flat … so that quake was a rarity …
Keep blogging!
July 19th, 2010 at 3:46 am
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July 19th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Hey, good post.
Looks like MANY “thoughts appear” in your head in a flash when you either –
a) wake up
-OR-
b) experience earthquake.
It’s natural as far as it’s (b).
But if (a) is also the case, then your blog will never seem to run out of ideas.. ever!
Keep blogging, great writing! 🙂
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July 23rd, 2010 at 7:44 am
Yeah, my mind is constantly in overdrive. I’ll always have something to blog about. And since i tend to be a quiet person, I’ll blog about stuff that I’m too shy to say. The possibilities are endless.
July 19th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
great post,,,,
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:44 pm
I’ve only been awakened by an earthquake once, and I really did think at first that it was my 15-pound cat jumping on my bed and grooming himself vigorously.
Next time, though, you should adopt the LA custom of stepping outside your front door, approaching your nearest neighbor (who will, of course, be doing the same), and asking “was that an earthquake?”.
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:42 am
But then my neighbors would know I sleep in Care Bear pajamas. We don’t have that kind of relationship. =)
Now I’m really interested to know how much my cat weighs.
Thanks for reading!