Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?
Wow.. didn’t expect that one. I’d always thought I’d be Griffindor
LMAO:
Got to bed late on Friday night. Watching TV and playing online. I’d probably slept for only 1 hour before the shaking started. Shook hubby’s arm, “KH, earthquake!” He was already awake and alert like me. At first I figured I’d just wait for the shaking to stop then go back to sleep. My usual quake MO. About 30 seconds into it when the smaller ones usually stop this one kept going and got stronger. It was like someone hit the turbo or something. Both of us realized at this point it was a big one.
We were rolling and bouncing around on the bed like someone put marbles in a box and shook it. The wall behind us starts making cracking sounds and bits of the wall stuff fall on us while we hear something crash. Later we discovered this was our bookcase in the bedroom. Once the shaking stopped we sat stunned. It was so eerie. It was dead quiet. No cars driving by. Nothing. We checked that each other was okay and I ventured off the bed to promptly step on a fallen picture frame and break the glass. After we getting our wits about us and our shoes on we got the flashlight and checked around the apartment. Miraculously the bookcase was the only thing that fell over and the picture frame I stepped on the only thing that broke.
After a few minutes of wandering around KH suggested we go downstairs to the lobby to check with other people. I wasn’t too happy about this but agreed. I was always taught that it was safer indoors after a quake provided your building was relatively sound. About half the building was out front or in the lobby. No cell phone or land line service. Everyone was worried about family and friends elsewhere. Our building has a generator (as do most in the neighborhood where I live.) Finally after waiting a few hours in the lobby we were given the okay to go back up. Sleep was elusive and aftershocks constant.
Being from So Cal I’m fairly accustomed to earthquakes. All things considered I’m somewhat surprised that I wasn’t at all scared during this whole event. Registering 8.3 where we are and seeming to go on for ages, I think I’m going to be able to face any earthquake without blinking an eye now.
Quick summary:
It’s actually Wednesday, March 3rd today. I’m going to brush the dust of the blog and chronicle some of my quake thoughts and such. I’ll be backdating the posts. Watching the news and talking to people have really started to get to me the past couple of days. I hope that by writing some of this down I can purge and somehow make some sense of things.
Here is something that makes my internal geek all sorts of happy:
If you want to Trek-a-fy yourself head over here. The widget will actually animate you and say what you want it to say.
I think I spend a lot of time lamenting the things I don’t have access to living here. I thought it was high time I used some blog space talking about some of the positives about living down here. So with no further ado…
5 Cool Things About Chile
convince their SOs to go shopping with them stateside if malls had beer.
Good lord.. you must watch this if you play WoW
Thanks to Jin and Scott for sharing. ^__^
Hello everyone! So I’ve been MIA because I took a 1 month trip to Los Angeles to be the Maid of Honor at my best friend’s wedding and visit family. I will blog about that another day. In the meanwhile it’s suddenly gone from late summer directly to early winter here in Santiago. I swear this country has only 2 seasons… (1) Warm, (2) Cold and smoggy >__<;;
Here are some photos from this weekend:
hmmm I'm looking a little flushed >_<
These were taken at Lamu Lounge.
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! Éirinn go Brách!
As my friend Kent would say. 
A happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you~
Photo credit: Blazingstar
