Heat-addled

Yesterday the power went out just as Daniel was getting off the bus.

I don't know about the rest of your children, but my child needs electricity like fish need water. So it was a bit um, stressful? around here yesterday.

Luckily you can still watch (a few) Spongebob cartoons on a laptop even when there is no power.

And you can play with a Gameboy of DS.

And you can eat all the popsicles in the freezer.

And that's about it.

I am woefully ill-prepared for power-outages right now. I don't know where our flashlights are, and while I was scrambling around looking for them my husband said, "but we have plenty of candles - we can just light those."

"Do you know where the matches are?"

"No. But we have a gas stove. We can just light them from that."

"Sorry. The pilot light on the stove is electric. No power, no flame."

He didn't believe me. It's cute when they go check something for themselves and find out that you're right... how they don't come back and say "you were right", they do this sort of half head bob of acknowledgeable.

So we ended up our evening playing Monopoly, which as it turns out, is not made more enjoyable by being branded with Spongebob characters.

I'm not sure how people dealt with the heat before air conditioning. Which is weird, because I grew up without air conditioning. All I remember is being sprawled out on the floor in front of a fan. I guess that how people used to deal with the heat then.

And then the power came back. But the house was so hot that we ended up sleeping in the basement on the floor. Which was actually really nice if you could get past all the basement smells and the cement floor.

At least it was cool.

So cool and comfortable, that we all slept late. Waking up just in time to run to the bus... which we chose not to do.

I'm keeping Daniel home today.

Wish us luck.

Comments

[Maddy]

We favour the Spiderman version of Monopoly at the moment for some unfathomable reason.

I have very mixed feeling about air conditioning. Whilst I'm only too happy to put the heat on in the winter after adding a few layers of sweaters, it pains me greatly to spend money on 'cold air.' Cold air should be free.

Off to the land of free cold air very shortly. Better remember to pack a sweater and some matches.
Cheers

[Christina Shaver]

Whoa. Couldn't imagine what I would do with Evan were it not for voltage. I remember when I worked full-time that when our power went out, we'd just leave work. No phone, no computer, no go.

[Christina Shaver]

Whoa. Couldn't imagine what I would do with Evan were it not for voltage. I remember when I worked full-time that when our power went out, we'd just leave work. No phone, no computer, no go.