spoke too soon
Sep. 20th, 2003 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonRemember my last post where I said that Isabel had passed us over? Well, it HAD - I swear!
Sometime Thursday night we lost power and didn't get it back until about 15 minutes ago. I think it speaks volumes about my attachment to technology that the first thing that occurred to me was to crank up my computer and check email :P
It really was inconvenient - no electricity to spark the gas-powered stove, so we had to light candles even to cook. Everything in the fridge (and probably freezer) has gone bad, but there was no point in grocery shopping until it came back on. Even taking a shower was problematic, because we didn't want to use up all the hot water!
I did take a couple of walks yesterday. Believe me when I say that it was NOT as bad as portrayed in the news, at least in our neck of the woods. There were a lot of leaves blown around, but no felled trees or damaged property; even the dumpsters managed to hang on so there wasn't garbage strewn everywhere. The last couple of days have actually been very pretty, with cooler temperatures and a nice breeze.
I did do one hell of a lot of reading! For the first time in recent memory I finished every single book I checked out of the library. Given that I've got 2 more being transferred from elsewhere, this is something of a record because I'm very bad about biting off more than I can chew at the checkout desk!
I did also dye my hair - Deep Purple with a drop of Blue Velvet. It's hard to tell I've done anything because it's so dark, but my experience in the past says that it will fade to a bright blue-violet before I refresh it.
So, checking up on a couple days email and suchlike.
Sometime Thursday night we lost power and didn't get it back until about 15 minutes ago. I think it speaks volumes about my attachment to technology that the first thing that occurred to me was to crank up my computer and check email :P
It really was inconvenient - no electricity to spark the gas-powered stove, so we had to light candles even to cook. Everything in the fridge (and probably freezer) has gone bad, but there was no point in grocery shopping until it came back on. Even taking a shower was problematic, because we didn't want to use up all the hot water!
I did take a couple of walks yesterday. Believe me when I say that it was NOT as bad as portrayed in the news, at least in our neck of the woods. There were a lot of leaves blown around, but no felled trees or damaged property; even the dumpsters managed to hang on so there wasn't garbage strewn everywhere. The last couple of days have actually been very pretty, with cooler temperatures and a nice breeze.
I did do one hell of a lot of reading! For the first time in recent memory I finished every single book I checked out of the library. Given that I've got 2 more being transferred from elsewhere, this is something of a record because I'm very bad about biting off more than I can chew at the checkout desk!
I did also dye my hair - Deep Purple with a drop of Blue Velvet. It's hard to tell I've done anything because it's so dark, but my experience in the past says that it will fade to a bright blue-violet before I refresh it.
So, checking up on a couple days email and suchlike.
