That title just about sums up the last 12 hours of my life. We had some friends over for dinner Saturday night. We weren't sure what to make, and tossed around the idea of doing some mid-winter grilling. Turns out it's a good thing we made other plans - it was freezing cold and snowing at dinner prep time. Luckily I had the fabulous idea of frying a turkey earlier in the week so that's what we did. This time I got a reasonably sized turkey (only 12 pounds) instead of the 22 pound super turkey we had for Thanksgiving. In about 30 minutes, we had a yummy fully cooked bird ready to be carved. We didn't burn the outside quite as bad this time, either. The Thanksgiving turkey would probably have been perfect if we'd cooked it about 10 minutes less than we did. Some of the meat close to the surface was a little tough. This time, the skin was still burned a little, but the meat inside was fine. We'll fine tune this thing just in time for the holidays to be over, I guess.
So we ate (a lot!) and had a soak in the hot tub, hung out for a while after that, and went to bed. The weather man said the already bone chilling cold weather was going to take a downward turn, with more wind, snow, and ice. We listened to the wind ripping past the house all night and finally it happened. The power went out. The first time was at a convenient 2 am. It came right back on but the problem is now that the kids' sound machines, on which they heavily rely to sleep, we set to a cheery, morning "woodland forest" instead of the sleep inducing "white noise." They were screaming, so I got up, fixed the machines, found the cell phone, reset the bedroom alarm clock, and lightly dozed off to sleep (again). About the time I got comfortable and just about asleep, it went off again. Brian took on the sound machine resetting duties this time. The darn power went off probably 3 or 4 more times before it was really time to get up. It only went off for a few seconds - you know - just long enough to screw everything up. REMC owes me a babysitter, a quiet house, and at least 4 hours of pure uninterrupted sleep. I imagine the problems are coming from the fact that the power lines have like 200 pounds of ice on them and the wind's blowing at about 100 miles an hour...
The power went out, in fact, as I was typing this...
How do they expect anyone to get any work done around here?
Sunday, December 21, 2008
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"So we ate (a lot!) and had a soak in the hot tub, hung out for a while after that, and went to bed."
It sounds like we all went to bed together. HAHA
well, just be glad your power came back on Jen...we were headed to my parent on Friday and their power went out that afternoon, so we stayed with my grandma Fri and Sat night and then Sun morn. her power went out! So then we went over to my parents b/c at least they had a gas fireplace for heat. Finally about 4 hours later it came back on...just in time to get ready for the viewing, we were a little worried since the funeral home and church were both without power for a while too! Ah, lovely ICE!
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