One of those nights.....

I am writing this feeling absolutely exhausted. Last night Jimmy and I went to bed as usual. Around 1am we awoke to a horrible thunderstorm with very large hail and lots of lightening. I went to the computer to pull up the weather channel hoping the storm was moving out of our area only to find out that it had just started and a huge band of storms were headed our way. I headed back to bed trying to ignore what was outside. Then around 2:15, an ear piercing alarm went off. My first reaction is what is that noise, then my worst fear....a tornado....what do we do??? RUN for the basement!! We grabbed some stuff. I know you aren't suppose to grab anything in these events but I did so very quickly..glasses so I can see, wedding ring, purse, flip flops and a rain coat. When we started down the hallway we got too see all of our neighbors and their pets headed down the stairwell. Everyone looked lovely. Hair matted, sleep wrinkles, glasses, very disoriented.

Well, it actually wasn't a tornado. It was a fire alarm. Glad I had my raincoat. Not sure why I grabbed it in the first place. I guess in my slumber state I figured since it was raining I needed a raincoat. Jimmy grabbed his too. So, now instead of the basement we are all forced to stand in the horrible storm outside. We looked like the news anchors as they forecast a hurricane trying to be brave and weather out the storm to get a good story.

Glad I had my purse equipped with car keys.

Turns out that the roof was leaking and set off a fire alarm on the 3rd floor of our building. We all headed back upstairs and went to sleep. An hour goes by and what do you know the alarm goes off again. Now I feel my college days coming back. In Gardner Hall there was about a week or so that the fire alarm went off every morning somewhere around 2-4am. It got so repetitive that I had shoes, coat and AppCard sitting by my bed so all I needed to do was pick them up and head down seven flights of steps. It was always funny to see everyone in the dorm that early in the morning. (Brings back memories, 7th Floor Girls!!....if your reading this)

Finally, we get to bed around 4am. With all of the excitement I couldn't go back to sleep.

Lesson learned: keep purse and shoes under bed so you can grab them and run, wear wedding ring to sleep