Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

No Irish luck for me!!

No big deal to the rest of the world, but yesterday we had thunderstorms and high winds. Since we live in the "Evergreen State" you might be interested to know that Evergreen tree limbs fly around quite nicely in high winds. Tree limbs flying around like to land on power lines and cause power outages.... And so my afternoon was a little more adventurous then I had the time for! So, skipped lunch to get out of work early and get to my nails done. Made it to the mall, walking through the mall the lights flicker....hmmm....Hope we don't lose power..... Next - total darkness. *Sigh* Lovely. So a call to the hubby lets me know that he is stuck at the ice rink with a bunch of 8 year olds on skates who think skating in the dark is COOL and a bunch of parents that don't. So off I go with still stubby nails to get the girl-child stuck at the dance studio. The normal 30 minute drive turns into 2 1/2 hrs. Had to turn around and detour 4 times to get around the fallen trees and the sit thru the traffic lights that are now 4 way stops. Or, 12 way stop in some cases, and boy is that fun to figure out!!

And so at 9:00pm I arrive home (mind you my adventures began at 4:00pm) to find a certain 8 year old boy so charged up you could have lit the neighborhood with the energy. Between the ice rink experience, driving home through the "devastation" and helping dad find the flashlights and candles his "amp factor" was pretty much the equivalent of an entire package of pixie sticks with a Red Bull chaser! Needless to say getting to sleep was not happening anytime soon. Eventually we all settled down to sleep to the sounds of sirens from the fire trucks and police cars and the blue flashes from exploding transformers.....

Lights are on today, and we were awoken to the lovely sound of Meems Goofy alarm clock (ours of course didn't work) We had found the Goofy alarm clock shoved in the back of Meems' closet. When I asked her why it was back there and she wasn't using it, she said she tried to once and when it went off it scared her. Well after this morning, I can totally understand. I will shove it back into the black hole in her closet myself!

And so I will try again today, going to skip lunch and try and get things done. Only 13 more days 'till Vegas and I don't appreciate everyone trying to sabotage my carefully laid out plans!!

Have a good "hump day" everyone!

As told by moi8:11 AM ...