Or FINALLY…
We had a good dousing last night, it started while I had the kids at the Texas Pool, and then came and went throughout the night. We lost power a couple of three times during the night, and that is always exciting. But Angie always has the candles ready for the possibility of a power loss, so our house was soon festive in the dark.
The loss of power always brings back memories of running Engineering drills on the ship, and the loss of power, and the total quiet that comes with it, no air-conditioning, no fans, no TV. Usually on the ship, that total blackness would prompt me to jump up and head to the main switchboards to make sure that power was restored as quickly as possible. In our house, there is nothing you can really do, but light a candle and shushh the kids, letting them know that it will be Oh-Kay.
I got a new breathing mask on Friday, the new insurance covered it 100%, so I now have a full face mask, and a new humidifier. The full face mask, (it isn’t FULL, just covers my nose and mouth) is much quieter than the previous one, and since my mouth flaps open no matter how many chin-straps I wear, it helps me breath through the night without having Angie elbow me to shut my mouth. I do need to call the place again, since they didn’t give me the right hose for my Bi-pap (it is missing the pressure feedback that the two-pressure Bi-pap needs to gauge when I exhale and dial back the pressure a bit).
We had a fun weekend. A full on blitz of the house, first thing Saturday. Then I took the kids to the pool while Angie hosted some floopy-doop home decor party thing. While I roasted and slow-boiled in the pool, Angie entertained about 8 of her friends. Then we came home, and later in the evening hosted a game-night with the Speers (of Blogospeer fame) and the Clarks (Mike and Natalie). We ate pizza and played Contract/Shanghai Rummy for a few hours, while the kids … er… I dunno… they did something though, and boy was it fun!
Sunday was another full day, after church (I helped in Children’s Church, which was fun to help with, and see the kids respond to worship much differently than just wriggling in the pew…) I again ventured to the pool to help chaperone the middle-school youth (I am the parent of a ‘youth’?!?? when did this happen?!?) I took the non-youthers and some of their friends along as well. About 20 minutes before we were going to leave, the thunder BOOMED, and emptied the pool (rule if thunder is heard the pool is vacated for 15 minutes, or until 15 minutes after the last sound of thunder). So I packed all the soggy bodies in van and treked home.
If I did this right, we’re back the beginning of the post. 🙂