quickie update

[amedia]

Still no power. *grumpygrumpy*

And I realize I have no right to be grumpy when my family and I are safe and my house is undamaged and I have water and I have a job and I have a car full of gas and...

But I'm still grumpy. I think I'm coming down with a cold.

Comments

[akite.livejournal.com]

If I had no power, I'd be really grumpy. And coming down with a cold too? OMG! Run away fast! :g: :hugs:

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Definitely a cold - hubby says, between his own sniffles, that my voice sounds like Suzanne Pleshette's. (It tends to drop an octave when I have a sore throat.)

Thanks for the hugs - good thing cyberhugs are not contagious!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of you. I'm glad you're okay.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie! That means a lot. {{ckr}}

[maubast.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

You have a right to be grumpy. You have no power. That sucks. If you constantly went around comparing your condition to everyone else's before determining if you were allowed to have an emotion or not, that'd pretty much be a disaster. And really depressing. And then you'd be depressed even though you'd just determined you had no right to be depressed ...

[amedia.livejournal.com]

If you constantly went around comparing your condition to everyone else's before determining if you were allowed to have an emotion or not, that'd pretty much be a disaster. And really depressing. And then you'd be depressed even though you'd just determined you had no right to be depressed ...

Thank you - that makes a great deal of sense. It would be like a vicious circle, wouldn't it?

My in-laws called us up to offer sympathy, or so we thought, and spent a lot of time talking about how there WAS no air conditioning when THEY grew up, and summers in Wisconsin do get VERY hot, but they survived. Sigh. But then they gave the hubby a blow-by-blow account of how the Evil U of Michigan was ignominiously defeated by the Great Cheesehead Empire, and that was much with the happy.

The worst part is trying to sleep when it's hot. It's hard to fall asleep, hard to stay asleep, and I keep having nightmares.

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure your in-laws survived just fine. But you know what? I bet they were pretty grumpy when it got really hot.

I didn't have air conditioning in the house where I grew up, and I always had a terrible time sleeping on hot nights, so I definitely sympathize.

Emily sometimes has nightmares, and some of our friends recommended getting a dream catcher, they swear by them - not the commercial, factory-made kind, but one from an actual Cherokee tribe - and we did, and she hasn't had one since.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

*nods* You know, until I read your response, I had quite forgotten - for the first six years that we lived in Pennsylvania, we didn't have A/C either. We had window units - one in the living room, one in the den (computers throw off a lot of heat), but we never bothered to put them in the bedrooms. The house was built in the 1920's, when people didn't have A/C, and it did a good job of funneling the heat away and channeling fresh air in.

The house we have now, while we love it to pieces, was built in the 1970's on the assumption that the inhabitants would always have air conditioning. Not nearly as - what would you call it - thermodynamic? [g] - as the old one.

And thank you for the dream catcher suggestion! I may try that. I didn't exactly have bad dreams last night - I just cleaned out the refrigerator over and over. Eventually my subconscious decided to make it more fun and brought in contractors who looked sorta like the Rat Patrol. :-)