Thought for the day

Modern Life[tm] without power is interesting. However, it is NOT up to Wash's definition of "interesting", which, for the Serenity-impaired, is: "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die."

Reminding myself of this can be proportion-making.

What we've lost: ( Read more... )

...I was writing up the stuff still at risk and my plan for getting my emotional equilibrium back to around "normal" when two things happened:

1. dustin_00 IMd that our outside lights are ON, , and
   
   
   
2. My company's HR specialist offered to put us up in the Sheraton until our power is restored. (Which, um, I declined, as it has been restored. But still.)

I feel really really good right now.

Home home home home home...

I had decided that what I most needed to reset my emotional equilibrium would be to improve my home environment, aka exerting control over what I could. At minimum:

• Get garbage and recycling out to the curb, including fridge contents (side-by-side freezer is already empty).
• Clean off & put away at least 1/2 the stuff on the kitchen table & library coffee table.
• Do dishes - if I didn't have enough light to trust hand washing, at least get the dirty ones scraped and into the dishwasher.
• Get at least one load of laundry done (hollyking & hollyqueen were the closest of those who'd offered, so I was going to send Jesse over with at least one load of carefully picked items).
• General pick up and put away.

If I could borrow a friend's generator, I also planned to reinforce the freezer's chilliness, run the furnace fan, and vacuum.

As we do have power on,

• Garbage and recycling are out at the curb. Our fridge is rather empty at the moment.
• Kitchen table and coffee table are muchly decluttered.
• Dishwasher just finished; a few large items were hand-washed.
• Jesse folded and put away all the afghans & extra blankets that have been lying around downstairs.
• I vacuumed.
• Jesse's and my first laundry loads are done, skydancer has some clothing in the dryer, and I just put some towels & such in the washer.
• I have been testing things for work.
• I just put water on for some tea.

....and I feel much better.

Of course, the perverse tester part of my brain is wishing the power hadn't come back on until 11pmish, just so I could know how much of the "feeling better" is getting things more organized vs the power being back on. But overall I think I don't need to feed that particular perversion right now.