User blog:MDGeistMD02/How to freak out at 1:13am

Yeah, so I'm on the chat here last night at a little past 1am (CST). Suddenly, there's this odd creaking sound a room and a half away and then immediately thereafter lots of noise, a few crashes, and finally REALLY loud thuds.

I rush over to the dining room and find utter chaos. Dust is billowing everywhere and I see PART OF THE FRIGGIN' CEILING of the dining room um... IN the dining room.

My house-mate's bedroom is right above the dining room and I honestly thought she and her bed fell through. I was calling out to her and HOPING she was okay. I sorted through the mess, trying to fan the dust and floating debris, only to realize (with much relief) that the floor above hadn't broken, just the plaster beneath it.

So she comes downstairs, wide-eyed thinking someone attacked me. When she sees the mess she freaks out, but compared to one of my friends being uninjured, the mess meant nothing to me.

My dogs freaked out and were cowerinfg in the corners of the frontroom... and my younger sister... um, yeah. My sister, who also shares the house, SLEPT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING!

Anyway, now I get to clean this up for the next two days or so...

At least the good part was that I made an agreement with my house-mate to not say anything and let my little sister find the mess in the morning and then be all "Um yeah that's been like that for a while, where've you been all this time?"

I mean, hey, what are big brothers for, right?.....;)

Update, Incident +1 Day: A lot of the heavy, big pieces are gone. The table's clean. But unfortunately my house-mate and I work a lot, so clean-up is going to slow down now...:(