But I am.
I mean, 6 hour battery life – you can’t blame a girl, right?
Staying up watching movies….piles of blankets, movies with my brothers, candle flames…
I know pretty much every parent in the world (as well as every internet-geek in the world) hates it when the power goes out, but I kind of like it.
Granted, the branches creaking and crashing down around my house every 10 minutes isn’t the most comforting feeling in the world, nor is the fact that I can’t sleep in my own bedroom due to a Very Large Tree just outside my bedroom window.
For those of you who don’t live within a 50 mile radius, allow me to explain:
The snow mentioned in the previous post 
actually all melted within a day, forcing me to attend school on Tuesday. However, it soon reappeared – much to my thrill and delight, in time for them to cancel school on Wednesday. It did the same thing again on Thursday, where I proceeded to have many sledding adventures with Very Awesome Neighbors.
However, it then froze over, rained, froze over, snowed, and any growing bit of nature is now 20 feet closer to the ground than its natural state due to the heaviness of the aforementioned frozen rain/snow/ice/rain/snow.
The power, sadly, could not hold up against all of the falling bits of nature, and I am now forced to use my battery life and walk around with my cell phone light so that I don’t trip and kill myself.
I’ve gotta say though – nothing is more fun than getting to talk on a phone that has a cord on it. Okay, maybe I’m young and techy but it’s COOL! Also, so is sleeping with lots of blankets, crunching through ice, and watching movies because you really can’t do anything else with the lights all off.
Yep. So of course you won’t read this until the power comes back ON and I have wifi again.
Living without power is kinda fun. I’m sure I’ll be tired of it at some point, but hey – life is an adventure and I might as well live it, right?
Day 2 of the ice storm!
Well. Living without power sure is freezing COLD. Praise the Lord for gas powered water heaters and stoves!
Also for neighbors with power. Who let me dry my hair and charge my laptop at their house. :)
It's kind of fun to wear 10 layers of clothing. Plus warmer outdoor temperatures have manifested themselves today, so it's not so bad.
Everything is melting all over the place now, a gigantic branch fell off our tree, and everything is drip drip dripping, with snow lopping off of all of the trees with a crunch as it hits the ice. It’s like Narnia when spring was coming!
24 hour power outage...it's good to have lights and heat again. But it's also really, really nice to not have it. I know that sounds strange, but it's nice to take a break from the internet and just let my world quietly revolve around my neighborhood. I got to hangout with my neighbor a lot this week, and we don't get to do that often.
To not have electricity makes me really grateful for it, but there's something quietly...peaceful about not having electrical wires radiating their....electricity....all around me. It's not all busy busy.
When all of the electric-things are gone, and all I'm surrounded with is the power of nature, the beauty of a storm, and the cold nipping at my nose, it leaves me in awe of the strength and might of God. I can just sit in quiet wonder of his beauty.
It was a good week.
