No More Sickness and No Power

Well - I started to feel like myself again on Friday. I woke up and the headache was gone and I didn't feel nearly as tired. I must have had some weird bug. Whatever it was - I am glad it has left.

This morning we woke up to no power. I looked outside. There was no rain. No snow. No wind. It didn't seem like any major catastrophe had occurred while we slept. So why did we not have any power? I called National Grid and they said that it would be back on by 9 AM. It was 7:30 when I called. Phew. Okay. I can deal with less than two hours. Sure enough, at 8:55 AM - the power clicked back on. Maddie and I gave each other a high-five.

What's the big deal, you ask? Why was I getting so nervous? Well - this minor lack of power brought back the bad memories of last year's ice storm. You know - the one on 12/12? The one that happened while I was giving birth to Aidan? The nightmare of all nightmares where it caused us to not return to our house after we were released from the hospital. That one. That horrible, horrible time in my life where I cried and cried and cried. Of course - chalk it up to hormones for all the crying I did. But - it was still awful.

As for the fact that the power was out this morning - I was trying not to envision all the bad stuff that can happen while the power is out. For instance,I tried not to envision the food going bad in the refrigerator. I tried not to think about the 17 pound turkey for Thanksgiving that is in the refrigerator. I wouldn't go there. Nope. I didn't want to think about Tom Turkey going bad. I wasn't going to do it.

And what about the fact that we have no water when we lose power? Let's not dwell on that. And then - there is the icky fact that the toliet doesn't flush either when our power is out. Ugh. I didn't dwell too much. I realized that National Grid was working hard. But - it was hard not to let my mind go "there." You know. Go to that awful place where bad things happen. I tried not to let it wander too much. I just sat back and rode the wave.

And then I sighed a huge sigh of relief when the lights clicked back on. Life was good again. We could flush the toliet. We could drink water. The turkey will be fine. Ahhh. Thank you National Grid.