I saw Uptown Girls. It was great, much better than I was expecting it to be. One of those "I laughed, I cried" movies when I had been expecting some high school teenie booper movie. I thought it would just be fun but it was a lot better than just fun.
I was going to write but I think I'd rather play a game until I have to go to bed. Working in the morning and Mom wants to make a big Sunday breakfast.
I sucked up a cricket tonight. It was chirping madly all night last night, it resisted all my efforts to trap it in a coffee cup and then let it free outside. So, tonight out of desperation I have sucked it up with the vacuum. Poor cricket, but it was in the wrong place and had used up all his lives. Do crickets get more than one?
They seem to be calling it that. The only place I've had news so far was from the battery operated radio and just now from the AOL site as I logged in. But, I've been living it. We just got power back after 24 hours without electricity, water or phones. Everything was gone. I washed my face this morning in water I scooped out of the pool in the backyard. My car is very low on gas but the lines are still very long at the stations so I'm afraid to wait in them and run out while I'm waiting my turn.
It's been hard doing without flushable toilets, communication and running water. I've missed those three things the most.
We still don't know how long the power will last. It might go off any second and not come on again until Monday. So, this will be a shortish entry. I also, agreed to babysit for my sister tonight and I have to leave soon.
I'm so glad for the pool here today. I went in for a refreshing swim as soon as I came back here from trying to find a bank machine and checking on the rest of the family living around here. We had no radio at the house, no batteries that were working. I heard my radio in the car while driving or during the time I was at my sister's house.
Anyway, it's been interesting. I've heard a lot of stories from other people. Some were at a funeral when it went off. Some were on the highway running out of gas. I was fixing a man's watch at work. I had to fumble around in the dark to find all the pieces and then put them in a little bag so he could take them home. He didn't want to wait. But, we had no clue the power was off for so many others or for such a great distance. At first we thought it was the fault of construction for the new Home Depot they have been building next door. It was a huge surprise to find out it wasn't just our store, or our block or our town.
Hope everyone is doing ok. Take care and enjoy the power while you have it.
I'm back. The power is still on. We seemed to be the last area to get power back today. Some had it before morning even. But for us it went off around 4 in the afternoon and came back shortly before 4 the next afternoon.
No doubt there are more dramatic and riveting accounts than mine. We were ok. No dead fish in the aquarium (no aquarium here). No washing machine stopped mid-load and left full of mouldering clothes. No freezer full of $1,000 of meat, going bad. I have heard others talking about each of those situations. For me it was not being able to wash or use the computer to communicate. Of course I missed playing games too but mostly I kept thinking of how I'd like to check all this out on the Internet and find out what was happening and when it would be fixed. Here I am now and I'm just doddering around really. Funny how that seems to work.
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digitalzen
Sheesh! I was wondering if I knew anyone on BW who was affected by the blackout, and I completely forgot about you and Joots. Can we expect a column?
Glad you've again seen the light.
I'm happy to have hair on the back of my neck again. Not growing out of my neck but caressing my neck and the nape of my neck as one's crowning glory should.
My hair is finally growing out of the really bad short hair cut that everyone else on the planet likes, but me. I will be so glad when it's long enough to stick back off my face again. I miss using all my little hair clippie things and they miss me too!
Oh, get over it. Hair clippies are cute!