So Sorry

So sorry…I broke one of the cardinal rules of my blog. I haven’t posted for four days. The rule is to never let more than two days go by without posting. It bothers me when I follow other people’s blogs and they don’t post for days or weeks (or months) at a time. When they do post it is interesting and I enjoy reading it. But it is disappointing to keep checking someone’s blog and seeing nothing new posted.

When I started this blog I made it a cardinal rule that I would never let more than two days pass without posting something. Now, for the first time ever, I have broken my cardinal rule.

I could give all kinds of reasons why I haven’t posted. A couple of days ago it was because I was having problems thinking of something to write and I was too busy to even give it much thought. All day Friday I was on the computer doing three power points for church and my brain was rather fried after that to even give my blog a single thought.

Yesterday I had a church thing in the morning and then, in the afternoon, I was getting ready for the big storm that was coming. Made sure I had plenty of batteries on hand and that my vehicle was ready to be dug out come Sunday morning (this morning) among all kinds of other little tasks that needed to handled. Once again, the blog was pushed to the far back burner of my mind and I didn’t get anything written.

Earlier today I would have loved to sit down and write. I had the time. It was nice and quiet in my apartment. It would have been wonderful to just sit and let something fascinating leave my mind, go through my fingers and land in my blog.

But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Why? My power was out.

It started snowing last night around 7:00. My pastor had decided to cancel our first service and Sunday School in the morning and I took care of getting the word out via the TV stations, website and e-mail. It didn’t seem that bad at first but it was pretty much guaranteed that the storm would get worse.

Sure enough, the heavy wet snow weighed everything down and at 1:10 am, the power went out. I got up out of bed, shut my UPS for my computer down and found my flashlight. Then I went back to bed. At 3:30, I realized I really just wasn’t sleeping. It was too quiet. So I got up and went and sat in the living room and turned the radio on for a while. Eventually I feel back asleep but woke up again an hour or so later. Needless to say, not a great night of sleep.

The second service at my church still took place this morning so I got took a quick shower (hot water was still available) and headed down. There were a lot of trees down, branches everywhere and general snow destruction wherever I looked. But I made it to church in one piece, the service was great (although not many people made it to church) and I arrived back home again safe and sound. Still no power though.

It wasn’t too bad being without power. I had my radio (battery operated) set for the classical music station, I had a very warm “lambs wool” blanket over me, a good book to read and was all cozy and comfortable.

After 17 hours of the electricity being off, it all of a sudden came back on. I had just lit all kinds of candles in the bathroom, kitchen and living room and was debating about going out to get something to eat when everything clicked and lights came on. I was so overjoyed!!!!

I still am overjoyed and its been a couple of hours. Nothing like having no power to appreciate having power. Actually it isn’t so much not having lights or the computer or the TV but it was the lack of heat. It was getting really nippy in here! Even with the blanket, which kept me warm, my face was still cold. I was not looking forward to having a night of no heat especially with the temperature dropping to 26 outside.

Anyway, my power is back, heat has come back on, and I have something to write in my blog. So all is well in the Julie World.

I am going to reinstate my cardinal rule. I will not let two days go by without posting. I will post as often as possible but especially stick to my two day rule.

After all I would hate to lose any of my loyal readers. Especially all of you out there who seem intent on selling me Viagra. Not that I think any of you would get discouraged. You seem persistent in trying to sell those little blue pills to someone who has never shown any interest in purchasing what, I am sure, is a quality project but also is clearly a woman and thus has no need for a drug made for men who have erection problems.

Hope everyone is safe and well and, if you are still digging out and you are in a house that is dark and cold, you have my complete sympathy. Let’s hope and pray that this is not a preview of the winter to come but rather just a fluky October storm.