my life is a series of blonde moments
This morning as I arrived to work I walked past the lobby television airing CNN, as it usually does. I noticed, walking out, the bottom of the screen, read: Earthquake in California. When I got to my computer, my homepage is CNN, which i barely glance at, skimming headlines/top stories and if something quickly grabs me, I'll click, otherwise, I "plug in" my daily website staples, like gmail and read fluff. The California Earthquake thing was on the screen along with a subtitle about tsunami's. This unnerved me, especially since my Mom just had a dream the night before that I was drowning and no one could find me...Not that her dreams have ever been pyschic, as far as we know thus far, but anxiety jiggling nonetheless. I click and very briefly skim the article enough to notice, tsunami people/those in danger have only minutes to issue a warning then the people have something like 5-15 to evacuate.... I need to get my dog out of the house and bring her with me to work...or go, um further East, I've got to go and do something. The anxiety quickly creeps from my palpitating heart down to my near shaken hand to grab the phone to find out how far out the tsunami goes/ will reach us if we are 2 miles from shore, my friend tells me "no, we're up too high, but will get the Getty Villa on the PCH." I panic, still, and calmly say, refreshing the CNN tsunami page that promises within minutes they will issue a warning if there is one to be made, I closed my conversation with said work friend with nervous giggle, "I'm going to have to borrow someone's car to get my baby (Baby = Cleopatra, the puppy) once a warning is issued." He kind of laughs, we both hang up. I skim once more and begin to actually read the article and discover, this was in reference to an earthquake the other day, not the one today in central California, we have nothing known to worry about right now and the 5-15 minutes was in reference to giving a warning for tsunami not evacuation before tsunami.
woops.

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