No, I'm not cheating. Really. And if my post below can't count so be it but I'm sticking this NaBloPoMo out. Of course I make it to the final week only to have it ruined by that stupid snow. Naturally.
We lost power last night just in the middle of my trying to publish. 5 minutes later the poltergeists started getting mad and our lights and tv started flickering and the volume went up and down and the kids started crying and I yelled "Caroline! Stay away from the light!" until Joe told me to cut it out because now I was freaking him out a little. Then it went black.
2 houses down the street they had power.
We did not.
We did not have power until about an hour ago.
It was very cold this morning in my house.
Very.
Very.
Cold.
All we had that worked was the gas fireplace and it's simply not enough to heat up the whole house.
There was talk (from Joe) of staying at my MIL's house tonight (for his nuts) which was quickly vetoed (by my gagging, sputtering and choking which he took to mean "hell to the no!". And it did mean that, thank you very much).
I took the kids to lunch and then we were going to go to the library but Hurricane fell asleep and by then the power was back, thank you PUD!!
Anyway, really, I love electricity. I spent a good 20 minutes turning on every light in the house and running the vacuum for the sheer joy of being able to. And it was probably a good idea as even though we had only been without power for 19 hours, it looks as though our home is residence to squatters. Toys, blankets, pillows, socks everywhere.
We are so very good at the panic thing.
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I have been following your blog for a long time - I am a "lurker" I quess. I am not sure why today I chose to respond , except that I lived on a well and septic and I got cranky really fast about power outages - and the house always got dirty/messy really fast when ever the power went out. We moved to town - last year ( after 53 yrs of country) city water works when there is no power!!! totally rocks!
So now that I have come out - whatever happened with the PG test?
a fan of your blog
Well, I am very glad that you did respond! We lose power several times through the year for one reason or another. Normally it comes back on at about 2 am waking every one up from a dead sleep.
-pg test- big thumbs down.
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