March 2, 2008
in other news, I’ve been cooking
I was going to write a nice post about all the COOKING I’ve been doing and about how Danielle has totally inspired me to to do more, but the tornado sirens are going off which always freaks me out. I need to go wipe up the bathroom, in case we have to take shelter, and find some shoes that are not flip flops, in case we have to scramble out of the wreckage of our house.
And also have one more drink because the tornado sirens scare the holy living hell out of me.
Chris has been waiting for me to liveblog a tornado; tonight may be her lucky night.
(25 more minutes of tornado warning to go; wind, rain, and sirens here, but all the “gustnadoes” are south of us.)
Posted by Susan @ 8:06 pm • home sweet home, fretful and worrisome
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March 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm, Jenn @ Juggling Life Says:
Maybe we’re lucky we don’t get any warning with earthquakes?
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm, Stephanie Says:
Holy hell woman! Drink up and get in the bathtub. This is why I stay in the Pacific Northwest, you know, so the mountains can slide off and the trees can skewer our houses.
But at least we have no squealing sirens, that is something I would not handle well.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm, Mark Says:
Hide? here in OKC, a tornado siren is a chance to get to meet the neighbors!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm, gorillabuns Says:
May is the time to liveblog tornadoes. SERIOUSLY!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm, chris Says:
Make sure you bring the laptop into the bathroom with you.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm, slynnro Says:
This is why I liked growing up in the middle of nowhere- no tornado sirens. You just had to guess. They use them in Dallas all the damn time. They make it hard to watch tv.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm, All Adither Says:
I have nightmares about Tornadoes. And I live in Seattle. Silly me.
Hope the wailing doesn’t cramp your style too must tonight.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm, standing still Says:
Another reason I prefer living in Minnesota than Tornado Alley. Kansas was all too much “whoooooooooooo” for me.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm, Katie Says:
How funny! I live in OKC as well. I was just surfing around on the internet and went to one of my favorite blogs, Suburban Turmoil. I then linked to Busy Mom through her and then out of sheer boredom, clicked on your website through Busy Mom and here you are talking about the tornado sirens! The very same tornado sirens that made me force my husband and son to put sneakers on (not sure what the logic is there), drag the cat box out of the hall closet and replace it with my son’s carseat, a flashlight and a stack of couch cushions.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm, Busy Mom Says:
Wait, Katie clicked to you out of “sheer boredom” from my site?
Now I’m distracted from what I was going to say, and, that was, “Dammit, now we’re going to get that shizzle here tomorrow night.”
I need sedatives.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm, Katie Says:
GOOD GOD. I knew that would bring up red flags the MINUTE I read it after it was posted.
What I meant to say, is that I obviously have not a shred of a life and nothing to do (the boredom) but also am the hugest loser in the world who alleviates her boredom by clicking around aimlessly on stranger’s blogs instead of like reading or writing a novel, or doing some sort of crafy project or working mathematical equations.
This blog is obviously one of the most interesting in the whole entire world and I am lucky to have found it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm, Katie Says:
And everyone knows that Busy Mom is like the paradigm of interesting blog. It’s like the CNN.COM of blogs. There’s alway something going on.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 am, Busy Mom Says:
Heh, I just realized Katie doesn’t know me. I am so totally kidding.
Very glad you visited, and, I’m hope you’ll return.
I’ll be the one in the corner in the closet waiting for the storms to get here.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am, Susie Says:
“also am the hugest loser in the world who alleviates her boredom by clicking around aimlessly on stranger’s blogs instead of like reading or writing a novel, or doing some sort of crafy project or working mathematical equations.”
Dude you just pretty much described anyone who reads or writes a blog. Myself included.
Suz - Glad you are ok!
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm, She Likes Purple Says:
I grew up in San Francisco–was there during the 89 earthquake. But nothing–NOTHING!–scares me more than tornadoes.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm, cce Says:
What a strange and amazing country we all share. While you hide from violent tornadoes I weep quietly watching yet another three inches of snow accumulate on the f-ing driveway. Such geography, such weather. I’ve heard Hawaii is nice, tornado and snow free. But I guess they’ve got the occasional volcano to think about.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm, Reluctant Housewife Says:
Yikes!
And I was just saying that I’m afraid of falling icicles… I am such a wimp.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am, mamalang Says:
I hate tornadoes. I grew up in a very active tornado area and they freaked me the heck out. Now I live in the Mid-Atlantic. We get hurricanes that we can prepare for. But we occassionally get tornadoes, and high winds freak me out. Our fire stations are volunteer, and they sound the alarm every time there’s a fire. They went off this weekend, and it was windy, so I went searching for any tornado warnings. There weren’t any, but I still kept looking out at the sky. I know…but it is what it is.