Amy Lu's View

We don’t have power. 

I should probably not be using up my phone’s battery life to blog. 

But what else can I do without power, besides worrying about how long it will be before the groceries I just bought today go bad?

I do feel very lucky that my food status is my biggest concern and that we’re safe–no tornadoes or storm damage to contend with. 

I also feel lucky that I made supper before we lost power. 

But I just realized that if we don’t have power by the morning I can’t make coffee!! No, I can’t go there…

We did entertain ourselves by listening to an episode of our beloved Too Beautiful Too Live podcast on Chad’s phone. But it was hard to concentrate…how could I just sit and listen?! (So I also drank booze and ate snacks. Needed to keep my hands busy but need way more light to latch hook by).

We also attempted to talk…but it was tricky not to end up fighting about the difference between a tornado WATCH vs WARNING (or more accurately that I should be respected for knowing the difference–as someone who’s scared of storms, I feel I’ve earned this area of expertise).

So we’re giving up–going to bed early and hoping to get some sleep without any white noise. Hoping that StanLee won’t need to go out and pee in two hours after my disastrous attempt to take him outside that only succeeded in us crouching in a puddle and getting soaked.

One of the catch phrases of TBTL is “Power Out”–as in that’s a cool and awesome way to end something. I don’t feel awesome right now, and as the temperature rises and we don’t have fans, I’ll be less and less cool. But I can say I have literally used the phrase accurately (it’s a bit of a pet peeve for me when people misuse “literally” to just mean “really.”

And I literally need to wrap this post up so I have enough power to keep checking Facebook for a while.