When I heard the news.

...You probably won't remember this in themorning BUT Obama won!...

I've had a headache since Halloween. I haven't been feeling well, and I try to go to bed early so that I can suffer through my long days at work. On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 I kissed my boyfriend goodnight, and did my final nighttime preparations. I got into my pajamas, turned on the heater, to just the right heat, and turned on the fan for circulation.

I pulled back the covers and got into bed. The sheets were freezing, but they wouldn't be for long. I lay there for a minute and realized that my wonderful circulating fan was turning me into an icicle. I got up and promptly turned it of and resumed my place in bed.

I checked my alarms, to make sure they were set. After several minutes of getting comfortable, I drifted off in a peaceful sleep, full of the Vicodin and Ibuprofen I had taken about a half and hour before. My headache was dulled and I was asleep.

Sometime later, while still dark, my boyfriend climbed into bed beside me, and gently shook me awake to utter, "You probably won't remember this in the morning but, he won, Obama won!. By a landslide! 333 to 140-something." (at that time, not all the votes had been tallied yet, but there was a clear winner.)

I raised my hand, smiled and said, "Yay Obama!!" and promptly went back to sleep.

Where were you when you heard the news?

The Zombie Threat

...I totally agree with Bush on thisone...
Zombies are a threat!

Power outage?

...in her mad rush attempt to escape the police ...subsequently wrapping her stolen taxiaround a telephone pole
- literally...

Friday nights we go to my boyfriend's brothers house for him to play role-playing games. This last friday night (last night) we went and all was normal till we came home. When we got back to our apartment the power was out. Weird. It was about 2 in the morning, when we pulled in some street lights were on, but we couldn't figure out if it was the entire neighborhood or just our apartment complex. If it was just our complex that would have been really odd.

We pulled out a flashlight and lit some candles to get ready for bed. The power didn't come back on for 20 minutes and we started to worry that it wasn't coming back on soon enough. On Saturday's my daughter goes to gymnastics, and this particular Saturday she had that and a birthday party because her birthday was just this past Thursday. What all that meant of course, is that we had to get up in time, we were also concerned about the food in the fridge.

We finally decided to call the power company to see if they knew about the power outage. The regular customer support line was supposed to have closed at 5pm on Friday so we didn't bother to call that one. The emergency line didn't answer. So we called the regular maintenance line instead. That one didn't answer either! So just to make sure, we called the normal electric company number. It had a recording on it that they knew about the power outage and were working on fixing it. The estimated time of fix was supposed to be in 60 minutes.


After waking up to the power being back on we didn't think much else of it. Until about 20 minutes ago, that is. We were watching the news, because it happened to be on, and found out that a girl had stolen a taxi cab... O.J. Simpson style. So, this girl, in her mad rush attempt to escape the police, decided to travel down a street in Glenwood, subsequently wrapping her newly stolen taxi around a telephone pole.... literally. This caused the utility pole to fall over, bringing with it several power lines in the process. Luckily, or possibly unluckily, the girl lived so far. She's currently in intensive care in our Sacred Heart medical center. Though if she makes it through this alive, she'll be brought up on many felony charges which will most likely end with her in jail for a long time.


Anyway, so that's why the power was out. Total Hollywood movie material, eh?