On Thursday evening we had the Orem drill where we prepare for the earthquake. Everyone honks their horns at 6pm and gathers at the neighborhood meeting place. My mom is in charge of emergency preparedness, so she was very involved in our neighborhood drill.
I failed to go outside because I was inside baking cookies and prepping a peach cobbler. I didn’t get the cobbler made in time for the work party Abe and I went to, but I did get the cookies made.
We could not find any available sitters so we just put the kids to bed and left after that. Well, Clarissa was stubbornly staying awake so my mom played with her until she got sleepy. My mom reported that Clarissa is perfecting her blood curdling screams. When my mom took her bottle away to refill it, Clarissa issued her blood-curdling screams until my mom returned, at which point she immediately quieted down and went to sleep.
The party was at Abe’s boss’s house in American Fork. I told Abe on the way there that he needs to change professions so that our work parties can involve people that are not so scary for me to get along with–for example, maybe he could become a librarian!
In the meantime, I survived the party and even enjoyed the people there. Afterward I decided I need to start watching The Bachelor so I have some way to relate to this new group of Qualtrics wives. But even though I was totally clueless when it came to certain pop culture topics and I found them all to be, as usual, intimidatingly pretty and bafflingly hip, these women were, at the end of the day, very nice people. I liked them. I will make sure to watch some trashy TV before the next party, though.
Then Abe and I came home and pretended we didn’t have to get up early for the girls’ music lessons. We watched two episodes of The Good Wife. If only Qualtrics wives were watching that…