Hope everyone is doing ok and has power - we're good here. We managed to sleep through most of the interesting part of Irene, but did wake up in time to be outside to watch the neighbor's tree crack in the middle and gently fold in half, hitting nothing and staying out of the street. How cool is that? The fact that we didn't lose power is nothing short of a miracle, and we are soooo thankful because right now half the state is in the dark and may be for up to a week. That's a super bummer! So besides our yard being now a collection of leaves and sticks, no harm done. I had a nice easy drive to work as apparently most people decided not to bother. There clearly HAD been trees blocking several main streets but had already been cut up and moved to the side of the road.
In other exciting news, we also (as obviously many of you did too) had an earthquake last week. Josh said he didn't feel it, but it was very obvious in my 5th floor office at work. I was on a conference call, staring at the phone, and suddenly wondered if I was having vertigo or started drinking at work without knowing it. I turned my head to the side and noted that my monitor was shaking. I muted the phone and shouted to my staff, "is this building moving?" Not used to earthquakes, I guess many buildings in Hartford evacuated, which even I know is the about dumbest thing you can do in an earthquake. But at good ol' Aetna, they didn't even send out a note or anything. We like to not panic :)
The kids are still scheduled to start school on Wednesday, so tonight I did the annual "freak out and make sure everyone has the proper school supplies in their backpack" dance. Not a particularly fun dance, and even after all this time I'm still really bad at it. Somehow I missed the fact that Jocelyn was supposed to do an "all about me" poster, so Josh will be helping her do that tomorrow. Morgan's bus picks him up at 7:16am this year! Josh ought to have fun with that!
So to summarize - earthquake, hurricane, school-supply-freak-out. Hope everyone else is having fun too!
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