The Things We Take For Granted  

I do that too sometimes... LOL

?ou know what they say... great minds think alike

Oh my goodness..how long were you without electricity? Sounds like awhile.. I was doing that too, forgetting the electricity was off and would switch the light on, but no light of course!

I think they probably have to come back again..when, I have no idea :(
And yup I'm back---yipeee..now if I could just get my answering machine switched on right..can't find the darn manuel!! Glad to be back--gee you think I had been gone a month...felt like it..hehe..drat my ice cream got melty though..everything else was okay in the freezer--mm..maybe make an ice cream soda..LOL

It only felt like a month because you do a month's worth of posting in a day! ;o)
And, poor you, your ice cream is melty... guess there's nothing you can do but eat it... :ob

I love icecream soda so of course I think thats a wonderful idea.LOL How was your chicken?

Hehe--I guess I do, do a month's worth of posting in one day...LOL

My chicken was fine...hehee...still nice and frozen, same with my veggies and hamburger...Hey want to come over for an ice cream soda Terry??

I guess you do.hehehehe some people have a nerve.LOL Oh sure what time can you pick me up? I would love to have an ice cream soda.

I didn't even have a battery powered radio...well actually I do have one but you can only listen to it with headphones on..That was me a few years ago,...we here in NY had one of our "famous" black outs for three days...lets put it this way, I had to use a lot of candles, but it was kind of nice..but what wasn't so nice it happened during August during a heat wave..so it was like an oven in the apartment...blagh..

So you get a hazy hot and humid summer too? I thought New York would be a little cooler than here in Virginia.Thank G-d it is over.

Summertime here in NYC is the pits...LOL

I sometimes have to go without a proper bath too for a few days until the plumber comes, as it gets clogged up and can't take a bath...I do a make-shift bath thing, but its just not the same...I like my baths!! LOL

Hey, Pye.. a hint for ya.. whenever I am in an apartment, I always try to buddy up to the plumber first chance I get. Let him know that as soon as you get water, you'll fix him something good to eat.
Once i was iced in at an apt. We had no water for three days. Three girls and a dog who just had to have her THIRTEEN pups during the storm. On the third day I went and found the maintenance crew and discovered that they were starting each day back at the building nearest the office. SO i told them that we'd go to the grocery (walking distance) and as soon as we got water we'd fix breakfast and coffee for the crew. AMAZING!! Two hours later, we had water. And one of the guys came to check our building every morning until all of them got fixed. He let us know right quick that we were now number 1 on their list no matter what the manager said lol.
I used this trick during the Fran thing i talked about too. An electric pole fell across my driveway. I went down two blocks and there was the power crew. I offerred to make breakfast for them IF and WHEN my pole got moved. They practically raced me back to my house lol. Less than an hour, it was done. They ate, then they left all the other poles down and went back to where they had been before I found them lol. Boy, were my neighbors pissed!!

Thanks Transdisc..glad to be back..I really felt I was in some kind of limbo without electricity..okay it wasn't for that long, but it was like my whole routine of what I normally do was shot to hell....

should move over here to england it's colder but not as much 'bad' weather ie lightening and hurricaines

Oh that's terrible--what's wrong with the dryer? I can just picture your laundry all over the place to get it to dry...not a nice thing to have happen to you. Absence of TV never bothers me as I don't watch much...I used to have cable, but no more, but when I did, it was terrible when the cable system be down--

I can just picture those clothes everywhere, what a pain. as for cable, no I don't miss the tv but now our cable and internet are bundled, so when the cable goes my internet goes, and I go.. crazy lol.

Yuk, that's terrible!!!...did you at least get bottled water??...after all couldn't have your kitties die of thirst..LOL--oh, and that meant no "loo" facilities either right? Yikes! Yes, I can imagine how happy you were when you finally did get the water back on--I bet you felt like taking a bath/shower for a week to make up for everything

I've never had air conditioning in the apartment, but when we have power outages and it's hot it sucks too, as you can't even have a fan going..It was hot here today, and since I was without electricity for most of the day, I was sweating like crazy..yuk

It sucks when you break a sweat just going to the bathroom because its so hot. (#1 people not sweating because its #2, gross.)

The only radio I have is a tiny one and you have to listen to it with headphones..which I really don't like to do...LOL
I remember years ago, when NY had one of its famous blackouts we were without electricity for three days...I had a lot of candles which made it kind of nice, and I would spend my evenings drawing and painting by candlelight..kind of fun really..this was before I had my computer anyway, so it didn't matter...but now...yeesh...it's horrible to be without a computer even for a little while..I do a LOT of my work on it

I am not much of an artist but that does sound like fun. I don't like ear phones either. I do a few things on the net but even though I am not always on it I don't like being without it