Hello world! What's shakin'?

So, for some odd reason when I'm not sitting in a cubicle all day, I spend a bit less time on-line. Strange, that. I've also set up my laptop in the kitchen, so I'm only looking at it in passing and not plopping down on the couch and losing hours of time. That helps. But it means I don't do much but quickie facebook posts.

I'm also reading Dance With Dragons right now. Totally sucked in.

So... OMGEARTHQUAKE! It was awesome. And there wasn't major damage and there weren't major injuries, so I can just be excited that I actually experienced one in my lifetime.

The boys and I were out on a nature walk doing a scavenger hunt at a nearby state park, and were bent down over some spiders on the ground. Suddenly it seemed as if the sun dappling on the ground was shifting oddly, and I was having trouble focusing on it. I stood up, thinking I wasn't feeling well, and the ground swayed back and forth. Since we were in a heavy forest, everything moved in relation to everything else, and it didn't *look* like things were trembling. It was gentle. Rocking. Weird.

Right before the earthquake, we'd seen a fawn, and wrote "fawn" and crossed it out on our lists, so (after posting to facebook, natch') we wrote "earthquake" and crossed it off our lists too, and continued on our walk.

I was too distracted, though. I kept trying to call Jeff, and wasn't getting through. Reports kept coming in on facebook, and I felt stupid walking through the woods staring at my phone. Once I saw that people felt it from the Carolinas to New York, and not being able to call Jeff, I decided that we'd better head back to the car and the real world.

We traded stories with the ranger, who said that the cars were rocking wildly. It just didn't feel that bad in the woods. Yeah, I'm sure if trees had come crashing down I'd have said otherwise. We hit the playground, then came home to see if there was damage.

Nothing, really. The pendulum on our cuckoo clock had started. That was a little creepy.

I have to say, it's extremely disconcerting to stand on solid ground, real ground, not even in a building, and have it move on you. If the ground is not solid, what is?

In other news, I've been staying busy. I've been spending a couple of hours weeding and doing yardwork every morning. I've been sewing, cooking, baking, taking care of the boys and the house. It still doesn't feel like enough time. Maybe it will be when I'm done with my book. :-)