March 29, 2007

• Tornados & Birthday Party

  This should be an interesting birthday party.  Today is Annamarie’s 7th birthday and we were expecting repeated heavy downpours of thunderstorms.  I got everything done earlier in the week so we wouldn’t have to be out in the rain today.

  BUT . . . Oklahoma, the beautiful state of ever changing weather, has suddenly produced tornados.  Stephanie called me a while ago and was shopping at a Wal-Mart near her neighborhood.  Guess where an out-of-the-blue tornado was first sighted?   Yep, a few blocks from Wal-Mart.  Civil Defense sirens went off everywhere.  I tried and tried to call her cell phone but all lines were jammed.  My last attempt was to text message her.  The next news report was cars dumped into the ditch on the turnpike right by that same Wal-Mart.  Again, no luck trying to call her.  Land lines were also tied up because my friend, Tangi, and I were trying to call each other. 

  Here’s an interesting piece of information should anyone find themselves in an emergency situation.  When cell phone lines jam, text messaging is the next hope.  I called T-Mobile to be sure.  They said as long as I don’t get a return message (after pressing the send text button) stating the call didn’t go through – my text message is assured of going through.  Good thing to know with our tornado season approaching.

  Jesse had already picked up Annamarie’s b-day cake and now we only have to get Luci from daycare.  Skies have lightened up a bit and we are back to a steady drizzle instead of blinding, torrential downpours.

  Annamarie chose decorations from the movie “Happy Feet” and the cake is also decorated as ”Happy Feet” – very cute.  I bought a Beanie Baby Penguin for a centerpiece.  She decided she wanted pigs in a blanket (turkey hotdogs wrapped with crescent rolls), potato chips, apple sauce,  vanilla cake, and strawberry ice cream. 

  We are resurrecting games from my childhood, namely:  Pin the Tail on the Donkey (an almost impossible game to find these days), Musical Chairs, and a balloon race.  The balloon race is a race to see who can keep their balloon in the air the longest.  I even bought little prizes!

  Sooooooooooooo, we’ll see what becomes of tonight.

   

   

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