Just when you thought the worst was over..

So I woke up yesterday all ready to at least get started on my list of twenty things to do... (See previous post) I head to the bathroom, flick the light switch- no light. Now we have weird electrical stuff in our house that causes strange things to happen with light bulbs, so at first I was just irritated about having to replace light bulbs.... As I g through the rest of the house I notice everything is off- no time in the microwave, no kids at the Xbox, no tv droning. At first, I wasn't too upset- usually we may be without for an hour or so, I hoped this would be one of those situations. When I realized that meant I had no internet I was a little more upset, but I pulled it together. That is what grown folks do.

Hours passed. No electricity. I buried our frozen food in plastic bags in the backyard snow. Being stocked with food isn't so helpful when you can't use the oven, the microwave or a burner. No information about why there was no power or when we would get some. It got dark. We read Harry Potter 7 by the fire light. We were bored, cold and only slightly full from PB & J, the only logical thing left to do was to bundle up, fall asleep, and hope that waking in the morning would usher in a new day with electricity.

The plan failed.
First off Ekela and I woke up only to realize it was merely 11pm and even colder since we had let the fire die out so it wouldn't be going while we slept. We restarted the fire to warm up and read more Harry Potter to each other. Altogether we read 100pp of the book yesterday during both of our stints. On the plus side I can at least say that we read scary stories. The Deathly Hallows is pretty grim. At about 2am we let the fire die down and went back to sleep, cause we knew we had to get up early for our dentist appointments today. Apparently snow doesn't deter the mailman, or our dentist.

Secondly we wake up at 7am and there is still no power! I am pretty sure it was colder in our house that it was outside. We layered our clothes and made the trek to the bus stop to get to the dentists as close to 8:30 as we could muster with the buses being inconsistent. I figured that since we saw PGE crews in our neighborhood, we would come home to power, and life would resume in a fairly normal way for our family of four suffering from varying degrees of cabin fever. We get home and our block looks as unlit as it did when we left.

No updates, no new info on the power outage. I have officially cancelled Christmas at my house. (I am not a big holiday person anyway, so I have been trying to avoid the added consumerism of the season for years, and now I finally get my wish I guess.) Please let the power return so that I can boil water and eat a cup o noodle. These are the things I wish for, the simple pleasures. I have enjoyed the tv and screens being off throughout the house though, yay for quality family time, but once it gets dark there is only so much you can really do by candlelight without being a fire hazard.