Leave it to the Pacific Northwest to be completely clouded over and fogged in on the one night we might otherwise have been able to see one of the coolest celestial events of a generation. Between the rainclouds and the fog, we didn't even get a glimpse of the moon here until almost 11pm and then only for a few minutes before it was completely fogged over again. In fact, it was almost five minutes - I know this because I was able to take one 60 second exposure on my camera (which also takes 60 seconds to process) and find out that was way too long of an exposure, then had enough time to take one at 15 seconds (with 15 seconds processing) which still didn't turn out, then took two at 7 second exposure. The first one turned out, second didn't because of the fog. Never ceases to amaze me how little we get to see the sun OR the stars here. You would think after 33 years of this, I would be used to it, but I'm not. I hate it. I want sun. And stars.
Had a talk with a lady the other day about the lack of sunshine. Not only do I think that's why we have such a grave drug, alcohol, and depression problem here, but I also believe that's why people here are sick and angry so much of the time. We get absolutely no natural vitamin D for about 10 months a year. That's got to do something terrible to your body. They say to get vitamins naturally is much better for your health than to take artificial ones, but I think that in places like this they should mandate that everyone gets a supplement for vitamin D. I think the people here would be a heck of a lot healthier - and generally in a better mood. Can't make seratonin without vitamin D, and no seratonin = not happy.
They are telling us now, also, that there is an increased risk of a major earthquake somewhere on the west coast of the US in the next week or so. Evidently, all the stars have aligned, and they can now predict this thing they've been telling us for a million years that they can't predict. Something to do with the moon, and the tide, and the "ground tide" (I never heard about that in Science class...) and dead fish. Also evidently, the dead fish that washed up on Redondo Beach had nothing to do with the tsunami on the other side of the Pacific ocean, and how it wreaked havoc on the sealife between here and there, but they are instead harbingers of our imminent demise. It has to be true, right? I saw a geologist talking about it on the news!
I'm not taking the threat of a great earthquake and tsunami here lightly, don't get me wrong. I understand that it can, and probably will, happen. I just don't know if I believe that they can pinpoint it down to a week's timeframe. If that were true, don't you think they could have warned Haiti? Or New Zealand? Or Japan? Or were they just perfecting their prediction, and now that those three have happened, they've felt they finally have it right and should warn us?
I read something great today. It was a comment left on a video that I watched about the earthquake predictions. It said, "My Mother in law works with a lot of the Mayan Shamans in Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala. I asked her to ask them what they thought of it [the current situations with the earthquakes and general unrest of the earth], most had no idea people in the world were worried since they live completely isolated. They replied two things, First, what does it mean the end of the world? He said.."It simply means a new phase of this world, the sky changes and power shifts,we welcome a new age." Second, what does it mean when the Mayan calendar ends. He said, "Get a new one.""
Trevor asked me yesterday if I had thought about explaining what we should do in case of an earthquake to Rowen. To tell you the truth, I hadn't given it even one thought. And I'm not even sure how I would go about that. She just turned three, and although she can remember that I said I would get her a sucker for six months if I forget to do it, she can't remember what I asked her to get from the bedroom after she gets halfway down the hall. So I have mixed emotions about that. I could sit her down and explain it to her, probably scare her into never wanting to be alone in a room again, and trying to figure out what to actually tell her to do, being three. Or I could wait and show her what to do when it actually happens so that I can keep her calm and not expect her to remember what she's supposed to do when the whole house is shaking and in chaos...
Maybe I should just get a big dining room table. I think it would be a lot easier to tell her that if something starts happening in the house, she should dive right under the table rather than trying to get her to stand still in a doorway. Diving under a table would probably sound like more fun... Knowing Rowen, the house will finally stop shaking and she'll just say "Can we do that again?!?"
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