Vida Loca

If you haven’t heard, we had a huge ice storm last week. Last Thursday to be precise. We lost power at 4:00 am Friday morning. Which hello, I live with Mr. Grizzly Doomsday Ready for Everything, means I don’t really have to worry about it. We have water under all the sinks in all the bathrooms for flushing toilets, light sticks for all the children to amuse them, plenty of canned goods to cook on the wood stove, and a generator. Now, on a side note, when we first got the generator I giggled quietly to myself thinking why on earth would we ever need one? Oh we need one. Ohhh we live in Maine so oh yeah baby we need one. Since we have gotten it a little over two years ago we have had to use it three times for outages lasting over 24 hours. And honestly? It’s awesome. TK knows how to use that sucker. He will get it going so it does the tv, the refrigerator and lights in the living room, kitchen and dining room. Then he can switch some doohickeys and get the well going so we can flush toilets and take baths. I would much rather have to deal with that inconvenience rather then have to do it all by candle light. Heat for us isn’t a problem because we have a wood stove. And if worse came to worse and it was so cold we could just all sleep downstairs where it is. But wow not having electricity stinks. I am so used to just walking into a room and flipping a switch. It sucks when you can’t. We didn’t go without for long. We got it back on Saturday morning. There are people here in Maine that still haven’t gotten it back on. Ugh. What is interesting though is that we didn’t get our cable/internet/phone back on until eight thirty this morning. We have TW for that, and it’s a package deal so if one goes out they all go out. Holy smokes you would have thought the kids were dying. Especially the older ones. You can distract the nine and under crowd with play dough, coloring, and craftsy stuff. Over that age and you would think we had cut a limb off because they hadn’t been able to play XB0X since last Thursday. Seriously, the whining!! Heck the little bits were happy to watch, W@ll-E for the 12 time. But the big ones? If I have to hear, “I AM SO BORED!!!” one more time I am going to staple a book to their face! Twerps. TK seems to be in his element when things like this happen, and me? I just go with the flow. As long as we have the generator and I can take baths and go to the bathroom. A girl has to have her priorities dontcha know. =)

I have so much fun watching the survival shows. You know the ones, where they drop off some dude in the middle of nowhere and he has to survive long enough to get rescued. TK can do that stuff hands down. In fact he is the type that might like it so much he wouldn’t want to be rescued. I love hearing him say, “That is NOT the way to use the flint you moron!” or “Use your damn knife, kill the snake and have dinner!”. I know that if we ever got lost in the woods, I would be just fine. I ask him all the time, “Gee Honey what would you do if we got lost taking a hike?” His reply, “I wouldn’t be an idiot and forget my damn compass, my knife or my damn lighter.” Heh.