Fortunately... Unfortunately...

[kerravonsen]

Good: yesterday I wore two shoes for the first time in months. Yes, The Toe looks like it's really getting better this time!
Bad: We had the worst storm on record last night.
Bad: I woke up at 4:30am when my power went off and my CPAP machine stopped.
Good: I woke up.
Bad: I dozed for about an hour until I gave up and got up.
Good: I managed to fumble into the kitchen where I knew I had a torch on the fridge.
Good: The torch worked long enough for me to find and put batteries into my CD/Tape/Radio machine and listen to the news.
Bad: the torch died
Good: but I lit a candle
Bad: but my power was still off
Good: but I like cereal and milk for breakfast and the milk was still cold
Good: I did manage to get all dressed showered and fed by about 7:30
Bad: I tried ringing my parents but no answer
Good: but I did get through to my aunt
Good: and I decided to just go to work early, so I caught the 7:45 bus and got to work by 8:45, which was before anybody else.
Good: so I got to leave early

Bad: I discovered on the weekend that all of my winter-weight pants don't fit
Good: so this evening I took advantage of my early leaving to go shopping
Good: and bought four pairs of pants! (Three sets of jeans and one trousers)
Bad: which are all too long in the legs of course
Good: but one can always roll up jeans
Good: and when I got home, the power was back on.

Comments

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

I like the format of this report and its matter-of-fact way of going through the day. :)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Saw the storm on the news (we got the cold and rain but not the wild weather, crossing fingers). You have my sympathy - looked bad...

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the toe. You may yet be able to walk to the golf course when you visit!

[kerravonsen]

(groans at the thought)
You will probably be amused at the thought of the back exersizes I am supposed to be doing 2-3 times a day (sigh). I am lucky if I can manage to do them once a day (sigh).

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Glad it turned out okay. Hey, and at least you got a bath; when our power goes out, there's no water and sometimes no phone as well.

[kerravonsen]

No water, or no hot water? I have a gas water heater, so my water was still hot.
And my parents had no phone, because cordless phones don't work when there's no power. I therefore tried to persuade them that they needed to have at least one normal phone in reserve.