I lost my cool a little this week and had some words with God. But He and I are ok now ... he understands that was the crazy Evelyn and not the calm one. It's hard sometimes when everything seems to be piling up on your head. This was my time.
When I came home Wednesday afternoon, it seemed that we had lost power in some parts of the house, and power was flickering off and on in parts of the house that had lost power. Wasn't too concerned because we still had power and the fans were going and we were still fairly cool in spite of the 90-degree heat we've been having.
Called Woodfin to have an electrician come between 2 - 4 pm to take a look. Monica drove me and Sarah to my infusion because my cowardly child could not do it herself, and John was at a conference in Jacksonville. The infusion went quickly. I had a new nurse ... Ann and I liked her. I thought my blood pressure would be sky high because of everything going on but it was surprisingly good ... 112/63. My absolute neuts was 1.1 ... normal finally! Took the girls for lunch at Capital Ale House as a "thank you".
Of course the Woodfin electrician was way late and he didn't bring us good news ... he told us that crimping on the wires in the Dominion box outside the house had melted and hence power to some parts of the house and not to other parts. I called Dominion Power and they arrived within the hour just after the Woodfin electrician left. The electrician redeemed himself by turning back and trying to find a way to give us temporary electricity to at least run the air-conditioning, but alas it was not to be, and Dominion Power cut off power to the entire house. Which meant that I lost my fan in the bedroom.
Thank goodness for having a good neighbor ... we took our frozen meats to Miss June's house and she asked me to spend the night but I didn't feel like leaving the cats all by themselves. Sarah had no such qualms ... she took herself off to her apartment ... I really can't blame her.
I survived the night with no air-conditioning and a dying cable box that screeched for hours until I thought I would go stark raving mad. Thank goodness I was able to take myself off to work and worked till 5 pm. John came home and we went to Marriott's Residence Inn where we have been in blessed air-conditioning for the last three days. We are keeping our fingers crossed that everything will be fixed tomorrow ... I need to have my kitchen back so I can cook food to prepare me for Thursday's TCH. And to exercise!
Yesterday was our 23rd anniversary and we chose to just have lunch with Sarah and David to celebrate. We didn't need anything else. OK chocolate makes everything better ... we are sharing a box of yummy chocolates.
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