He conquered some parts, certainly. I feel so lucky and keep saying that the worst of it for me is not being able to read at night and the freezing cold showers. But at least we have water so I have nothing to complain about. I saw the Katrina devastation up close and personal. I do not have 5 feet of fucking water in my house and everyone I know is fine and healthy. Today I am back at work (Job #1) and finally have access to my very own outlets so I can charge up flashlights and my cell phone. And at home I'm washing my hair at night only, then the next morning I'm getting in and washing only my pits and my [CENSORED] so that the cold water does not make me too depressed! But I even shaved my legs yesterday and that was great.
I went and patrolled on Monday and Tuesday. A lot of thefts were occurring. I ate 2 wonderful hot meals on Tuesday: lunch at a Mexican restaurant (my partner and I had the cheese enchiladas b/c we were skeptical of the meat situation) and then dinner at Hooter's with S and Mudflap. Hooters even let me charge my cell phone while I ate.
See, I lived through Hurricane Alicia and even though that was 25 years ago I still remember vividly how hot and miserable that was. We are doing MUCH better now than then. The cold front came through Houston on Sunday night and even though Saturday night was absolutely miserable, on Sunday night we needed our blankets! So we have all been so blessed. On Sunday S and I went to the store and stocked up on more water, bread, and snacks. Then we went to Borders where it was air conditioned and you could charge up your stuff and they even had laid out all their pastries free on a table for anyone to take!
I cannot stand to hear people complain and bitch and moan just b/c they don't have power. You know, humans lived without power for thousands of years just fine! But young people like S seemingly cannot survive without their tv to watch or video games to play. At Borders I let him buy some comedy CD's so we could have that as entertainment at night. Then he went back to work on Tuesday. Since I patrolled on Monday and Tuesday I let myself take Wednesday off as a day of rest before coming back to work today and I had plenty to occupy my time. First I tidied upstairs. Then I swept the downstairs. Then I experimented with solar cooking on the car dash. Then I read. Then I dragged out my guitar (my skin is real dry due to the weather and so my nails are all broken) and played a few songs. I read my diaries from when I was in my debaucherous twenties (holy SHIT are those hilarious! I can't believe I lived that crazy ass life of drinking and going out every night and hobnobbing and playing grabass and running to and fro. I laughed out loud at my various escapades many times. For example: I was mad at a guy and went to eat at the House of Pies and he called me on my cell and I said I couldn't talk because my carrot cake was on its way! Hilarious!!! I also can't believe how many friends I had back then. I'm reading all these names in my diaries and can't even remember who half these fuckers are...) Then I read some more and listened to the radio, etc. etc. Next thing I knew S was home from work and we went to the movies with Mudflap to see Burn After Reading which was fun. We even drove through Whataburger, so you see, I AM NOT SUFFERING AND HAVE NO REASON TO COMPLAIN. And neither do most people around here! (Now, I confess I am jealous of the 6 other people here in my department b/c they all have power and I'm the only one that doesn't!!! [So frankly, they can cut me some slack today, ha ha.] But as long as I stay away from them I'm fine.)
Now, we are scheduled to pick up the baby tomorrow and I don't know what we're going to do with her at night. I told S she is just going to have to rough it like I did 25 years ago, and I don't want her getting on my nerves. On Saturday I'm going to take her to visit L. so we'll be entertained doing that all day long. This is assuming S is at work b/c they sent him home early today, unfortunately (damn, we need the $) b/c there is not enough work there right now. But he came here to see me at work and we went out and had a lovely lunch. I can even go have a hot shower at Mudflap's if I want to since he does have hot water. We will definitely have to take him up on that offer this weekend when we have the baby.
I suppose I better do some real work today while I'm here! I was supposed to work this coming Sunday but we are going to be closed for the weekend, yay.
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oh mang, don't even talk to me about life with no power - we have this wonderful thing in southern africa called "load shedding" where AT LEAST once a week we get chopped off the grid, in an orderly rotating cycle. Sometimes it's a day, sometimes it's an hour. And 'round these parts you can't even flush your toilet or get a glass of water from the tap because all our water is pumped from boreholes. Anyway I've got a million tricks of the trade to keep DH busy up my sleeve, for the next one. ;-)
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