"Goodness! How Terrible for you!"

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Posted by: Sam707 Original: 6/29/2009 4:17 PM Views: 4 Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

Monday, June 29, 2009

"Goodness! How Terrible for you!"

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
By Steve Martin
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It would appear that not having power does two very different things to my mother and me. She complains and I enjoy it. But I shall back track.

This entire month of June has just been full of ugly ugly days punctured by a nice day, in the month of June there have been 5 days without rain. And finally we had more then just a few drops. Though for someone who live in New England thunderstorms are not uncommon. You can usually smell them coming, just like you can smell snow. The air is thick, the sky is green and their is the eeirie silence coating the ground. What happened on Friday was odd. The sky was grey without a pigment different, the air was heavy with a laden fog and the air tasted... almost too sweet. And that's when at that exact moment a blanket of hail collapsed from the sky. I didn't know if you knew that tornadoes and hail go hand in hand. I did not. And luckily while I was not driving into a tornado and unlike many around me my car windshield did not break, it was still rather frightening. And then a gust of wind literally blew my car into the other lane. I survived only to come home to a hail covered yard, and no power.

But with no power I played cards with my parents. Wrote in my journal by oil lamp and watched a movie with my mother on my charged lap top. The next morning came and all my mother did was complain. To me her inability to fix the situations in life is something that drives me crazy. When there is a problem in my life I want a solution. So while she complained about no shower I went and got my eyebrows waxed and paid for a professional shampoo job at the salon. I read two books. (all be it they were short and had rather big print). Ate lunch at Panera bread and ran some errands. All in all a lovely twenty four hours.

Not saying it didn't have its setbacks. I had wanted to talk to Jaimie and my phone wasn't charged. Not taking a shower isn't that fun, but all in all the absolute stillness of the weekend. Being forced to do something different then I might have, was nice. I welcomed a break. And finishing off the weekend with a Harry's Hamburger and onion rings was fabulous.

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