This morning at around 7 am eastern standard time, I woke to here the sound of the Tornado siren. The siren is seven short blasts followed by one blast that maintains for one minute long. What does all this mean you might be asking? Being a resident director in the largest dorm on campus, that means I have 5 minutes to get all 196 of my residence to the basement of a three story building. Mind you, no one wakes around a college campus until at least 8 am at the earliest.
Out my door I ran in my sweats with my emergency whistle. (Even though the siren went off, many of the residence never herd it.) I run to each of the doors of the residence assistance that live on each hall, with a fist pounding knock, I do my job in getting them up to alert all the girls on the halls. All while running from hall to hall in the 3 story building, I am still blowing my whistle as loud as I can.
After I have checked all the halls for dwindling students half asleep and aimlessly wandering, I am the last one to the basement. Now imagine for a moment a basement, in most homes it is one large room underground. Well in our building it is only two rooms and I have 196 girls to pack in. Needless to say we all snuggled in and waited for the "all clear" so I could let the girls out. We waited for almost 20 minutes, then freedom! Majority of the girls went back to bed.
My one saving grace this morning was GUM. As I ran out the door to get all the girls up, I grabbed a piece of gum and popped it in. Now no one would need to be face to face with a fire breathing dragon wile trying to listen to emergency directions.
We are expecting more thunder and lightening storms as well as some flash flooding in our area today. What a morning it has been!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Mac & Cheese
So my friend Hilary and I decided to get crazy on Super Bowl Sunday and have some fun. Fun you ask, we scrubbed her kitchen from top to bottom until it sparkled. Following that, we painted the walls a orange/yellow color that was perfectly names Mac & Cheese! We took all the knobs off her cabinets and painted them red to match the chandelier and doorway closure that are also the same red color. Here are the before and after pics. We had a great time just spending the day together! (Next, the bedroom!)
Before
After
Before
