Hello everyone!

I woke up last night, on the couch, at around 3am. I was on the couch because Ben and I had fallen asleep, and Dave had come to take Ben upstairs and asked me to wash the dishes. I said, “yeah, yeah” and promptly fell back asleep.

I woke up at around 3am, and thought, “OK, I’ll wash the dishes now”, and lay there for a couple seconds. Then I heard a big “pop!” outside and then all lights went off in the house. I went into panic mode (because I REALLY afraid of the dark) but luckily my eyes adjusted to the darkness, and the lights from outside gave me a little light to see with. I ran upstairs, fumbled around in the closet to change out of my jeans and jumped into bed, waiting for the power to go back on so I could wash the dishes.

Turns out it was a long wait, since the power STILL isn’t back on. This morning I had to help Dave manually open the garage door so he could leave for work. Then I had a 7:30am conference call which my uncharged phone battery only lasted for 45 minutes on, and that was plugged into my laptop for power. I realized that all the phones in the house are cordless and don’t work if there’s no power. I couldn’t find just a regular phone to plug in.

So here I am, sitting at the White Hen (like a 7-11) across the street, keeping vigil on what’s going on with the power guys working on the streets in front of the house. The “free internet” sign on the store always intrigued me, and here I am, using it. However, there aren’t any power outlets handy, so I’m going to head over to the in-laws to work today.

Argh!

Today is NOT a good day.

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