Dreaming.In.Reality

not my idea of a fun time.. THANKS BLACKOUT OF 2003! So, yesterday around 4pm, we had a dip in power, k & i cussed and cursed a bit, things went back to normal.. then a short ten minutes later, PZZZZZZHHHHHOOOOOOOOOU! no powah.. -insert UPS back up battery alarms going crazy here- So after shutting down things, we kind of puttered around, wondering what to do.. phone rings, it’s my mother in the Detroit area.. telling us what has happened.. well what they knew had happened at least at 430pm. So hanging up, k took a nap, i read my book.. when the daylight reached that point where reading by it is uncomfortable, i got dressed and decided to go for a walk-lol- i have NEVER seen that many people wandering around in my building, and outside my building.. was crazy.

So i headed up the street a bit, stopped to chat with this lady with this most amazing dog*L* Jessie is a 130 pound Bouvier.. So we walked together, because it was getting dark out, and with us girls and this dog we should be ok.. We passed the local stripmall with the convienence store, which normally has a bunch of teens etc.. hanging out there.. well being no power all was closed and there were about 30-40 younger people there.. and they were all up in each other’s shit, pushing and shoving, throwing a few punches.. calling names, cussing.. we finished our walk and stood on the other side watching for a bit, and decided to head back to our buildings…

After a few phone calls with Marc and Bev, k & i headed over to marc’s for some entertainment. It was so bizzare to stand on the roof of our parking garage, and see the stars.. you NEVER can see the stars where our building is.. too much light.. you could see the haze of the Milky Way.. So we stayed at marc’s for a couple of hours, and then as we were leaving, the power came back on at marc’s house.. so we rushed home thinking we’d be able to cook dinner.. but no.. south of hunt had no power still.. so we went to bed..

5am or so this morning, all the power came rushing back on… we should have gotten up and made food.. but no.. k turned on the computers thinking it’d be settled.. but OH NO.. 10am.. UPS battery alarms all over again.. 1030 phone call from my dad asking if we had power, no we had power it went away about 20 minutes ago.. talked for a few, hang up.. 3 minutes later, phone rings again.. it’s dad again.. did you unplug your computers and appliances and that.. and iw as like yeh.. did you unplug your fridge? no.. it might get toasted when power comes on.. i say good.. that means they have to give us a new one.. ours is shit.let it fry! so we hang up.. and move to the living room.. hang ou t there.. had some fruit salad.. phone rings, it’s k’s mom.. she’s got power, inviting us over for food.. we say, we will wait a bit and head over.. and TADA.. low and behold the power comes on…

Running to the kitchen to make a mad dash lunch before we lost the ability to have hot food, k threw together a rather tasty lunch (unfortunately for me, my guts thought other wise.. you know you have issues when your gut sounds like a bathtub draining when it gurgles).. we watched several episodes of Transformers.. and the phone rings.. it’s k’s mom.. she has no power so she can’t feed us*L* which was fine cuz we got to feed ourselves..

SO.. everything has been working here -knock on wood- since about 1pm. No food was lost (i’m a bit leery of some stuff in the fridge though)…. we’ve been fed… and we’ve been entertained for the past few hours.. which has been nice*L* My dad asked me this AM how we were holding up without the computers.. and it’s like well, that part is fine.. the thing that is driving us nuts is no electricity period.. because we had NO forms of entertainment.. no movies, no PS2, no tv.. no radio.. we can live without these heatboxes.. and for me well, there is only so much Queen Mary i can handle in one go…