Random Thoughts

Okay, this is an explanation on how I think.. I usually type what I am thinking even it doesn't make sense cause this is what I do at work. I type what I hear.. I don't have room on my screen to write a story. I need the facts. G always gets on me cause I don't finish a sentence but this is what goes through my head. In my line of work I think, think and think. I have to think about 4 different things at once, How many did they say were injured, which squad went where and what channel are the helicopters on again and do I answer the radio, the phone or 911 first. Actually we usually try to do it all at once but what comes first is the question. Well it's not really a question to me it's just doing it. Anywho.,,
I started out tonight to talk about G and the electric and the new little pringles I bought and this is how it went when I started to type..

G and I ran into Wal-Mart today to get some pool chemicals since no electricity =equals= green mossy pool.. I am terrible at remembering stories, jokes, and quotes, I always get it half right..but one I do remember is the line in the movie "You've Got Mail" Meg Ryan was talking to the male that worked in her store and he had a date that night. Does anyone remember what he said? Anyone???? He was going to to buy some eucalyptus candles so his apartment smelled mooossey.

Wow I wasn't too far off - here is the quote :

George Pappas: I'm going to get eucalyptus candles cuz it makes my apartment smell Moss-a.

Anyways, I have always remembered that quote.. I don't know why cause I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but anywho.. Back to my story..

G and I went to Wal-Mart, they didn't have any chemicals but I did find these new little Pringles- Pringle Minis.. They are the cutest things, they are shaped just like regular Pringles but smaller and they seem to be a little thicker, not so flaky. So next time your out grab a bag. I say they are OK....

The next thing I want to cover are men and their toys, addictions, comfy blankie, pacifiers-(I call the tv remote in the bedroom G's pacifier)

On our way home from Wal-mart we called the house to see if the electric was on.. I have been doing this every few hours for the past 4 days. G just happened to call and OMG there it was - the answering machine.. yahoooo, yippeee we have electric. So we went home and he turns on the TV... Oh NOOOOOOO.. the dish on the roof must have been moved during the storm and nothing would come on. He couldn't even check the signal.. I can see a very painful weekend coming. It's one thing to have no electric but you can't give the boy a car and then tell him he can't drive it... I could see the hurt in his eyes although he tried to blow it off as no big deal but I could see the tv addiction withdrawal coming. So I went up to get ready for work and he went out the front door in front of me mumbling something about the laptop that he had put in my car.. well it's really his car but I have been driving it. He has been driving the other car and the poor big ass land yacht has been parked since 1- it's needs gas and 2- I'm not paying $4.15 a gallon when I have another car to drive. Anywho, as I walked out the walk all I could see what his silhouette and this headphone thing on his head. I thought for a minute cause he's not a gadget man at all and couldn't figure why he would have a phone headset on and then I saw it.. He was wearing his XBox head set and in one hand his laptop and the other an Xbox controller.. I just shook my head and went on. Maybe he is a gadget geek.. he'd never admint it.
I then left for work and left him to mourn and destress with his Halo..

Peaceful Wednesday

I found that having no electricity is quite calming and peaceful. I know I will never get G and the kids to go along with this but I think sometimes we just need to shut everything off and breathe. I enjoyed cleaning everything out of the frig and knowing that sometime this week I can start over. I always complained that we needed a bigger frig and now I am thinking maybe I should just get rid of some stuff. I did at one point think of running the sweeper and then I remembered- - oh yeah, we don't have electric. I wonder if I ran it across the carpet and let wheel marks if it would have made me feel better. Maybe tomorrow I will try it just to see. So maybe one day when your life is feeling a little hectic turn everything off and breathe.

Although, if a saw an electric crew truck I would make them dinner if I could, but I can't. Maybe I'll get them some snacks and drinks.. (Crews have come from North and South Carolina to help get us back to normal.)

Ike VaCA

Well I am forced to take a vacation this week due to the fact that Ike decided to visit Ohio and throw off all from living a normal life. Our electric went out Sunday around noon or 1pm.. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time cause usually it's a temporary thing. Then we woke up this morning to find the electric was still off and the damn sump pump battery back was STILL chirping it's agonizing sound of a wild animal dying a slow death. The first report advised electric would be back on at 9 am.. yeah.. then after realizing we had misunderstood the recording stating that it was 9 am tomorrow morning we stepped back and said "SHit" Oh, but there's more.. Now the recording says Sept 20th.. OMG. We were not ready for this but we are thankful that it didn't rain buckets to cause flooding basements and that it's not freezing cold out with no heat. So let me just say. Although Ike you have disrupted our lives for a few days we will be okay.

But for all my peeps that read or don't read this blog.. I will return with pictures of storm damage as soon as I can download my camera.. I am at work right now and just wanted to check it and say: "I'll be back"