Not Dark Anymore

So, yeah, Saturday afternoon at 4:30, everything winked off. It had been raining off and on for hours, but never hard -- that came later -- but it was really, really windy. It wasn't dark yet, so the Hubs took off down the street to see what he could see, and just around the corner from our block, a big tree had come down on the power lines. It affected our street and the one in front of us, so it was particularly frustrating all night to look out my back window and see the houses behind us, their yards touching ours, all lit up.

I'm guessing that if it had happened at 4:40 on a Sunday afternoon, they would have gotten to it right away, because the tree that fell was next to a driveway that separates the elementary school from the middle school, so it would have needed to be cleaned up before Monday morning. As it is, they're buzz-sawing the tree now (12:15), but the power came back around 9:30 this morning, literally minutes after K and I had cleaned out the fridge.

*sigh*

The good news is that now I have room in my freezer for two boxes of Weight Watchers English Toffee Bars. The bad news is that I had about a week's worth of frozen lunch foods, and that's gone, and some good frozen fish from Costco, and so on. Anyway, the kid and I went to the supermarket with a long list, but couldn't get it all. We normally have a few supermarkets that we go to for different things, so it's going to take some time until we're back up to speed. And it looks like I'll be spending next Sunday afternoon making a million little chicken nuggets.

My plan for today was to empty out my closet completely and re-organize, but I just don't have -- as my sister and I would say -- the sauce. (I don't know where that came from, but I suppose it means "the energy and/or ambition to do that.") I slept oddly; well, but I woke up a lot of times. I thought the house would get cold, but it only went down to about 66, which is a pretty good sleeping temperature.

What K and I thought we were going to have to do after the supermarket was go someplace to get car chargers for our phones, but fortunately we can put that off for another day. The closest person we could impose on for an electric outlet is my sister, who warned me yesterday not to come near her because she has a terrible cold. R is next closest, but pretty out of the way. Anyway, crisis averted.

Anyway, all I want to do now is eat something and lie down. I think a cheese sandwich will do nicely. And as the Hubs said, even though we had Chinese food last night -- by the light of an itty-bitty-book-lamp -- we might want to go out tonight, or get pizza. Sounds good to me.

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