Pajama Day
Jan. 6th, 2019 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisAt 2:30 am my phone rang. I don't put it on silent but it rings maybe 3 times a month and last night was the first time I ever remember it ringing in the middle of the night. It was the power company telling me the power was out. Which it was not. I went right back to sleep.
Turns out, however, it was out in many many places all over the city. Including the gym/pool. When I got up, the outage map said that the pool would not be restored until 9 am. So no swimming. Over the course of the next hour, I got fine with that. Weekend swimming is not my favorite anyway. I can just stay inside here with no reason to even get dressed.
And then I checked the outage map just now (7 am) and, it appears the power is back on at the pool. So I had a little debate and decided to go with Plan A. I'm going to stay here and do laundry and watch TV and make little stuff and crochet and read more of the new book I started last night, which so far, is pretty darned engaging. (The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda)
While my brother is here, swimming will be a day to day adventure. Then, after he goes, I can get back into the rhythm. Back into the swim swing.
Turns out, however, it was out in many many places all over the city. Including the gym/pool. When I got up, the outage map said that the pool would not be restored until 9 am. So no swimming. Over the course of the next hour, I got fine with that. Weekend swimming is not my favorite anyway. I can just stay inside here with no reason to even get dressed.
And then I checked the outage map just now (7 am) and, it appears the power is back on at the pool. So I had a little debate and decided to go with Plan A. I'm going to stay here and do laundry and watch TV and make little stuff and crochet and read more of the new book I started last night, which so far, is pretty darned engaging. (The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda)
While my brother is here, swimming will be a day to day adventure. Then, after he goes, I can get back into the rhythm. Back into the swim swing.
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Date: 2019-01-07 06:48 am (UTC)Of course, I got woken up at 2:30 this morning too (and a bit weird that it was almost exactly 2:30) by our doorbell ringing! Gotta tell you, that's a really creepy thing to have happen... and I was groggy enough that I wasn't sure at first that it had really rung (wondering if maybe I'd dreamt about it ringing and woke up because of that). Then I started hearing odd thumping noises that sounded like they were coming from the other room... and when I peeked my head around the corner, the motion sensing nightlight in the hallway was already on. Yeah, it definitely got my heart racing a bit... but thankfully even my groggy brain was able to notice that my husband's alarm clock was blinking 12:00 (it's one of the most power sensitive things we have in the house) and then it sank in that there was a low steady roar going on out side, with occasional thumps and loud whistles. Turns out we'd *very* briefly lost power, just enough to reset the one clock and to trigger the doorbell when it came back on (and to reset the new nightlight in the hallway). it happened one more time a few minutes later, which just confirmed everything... but still! Not a fun way to wake up.
It seriously sounded like there was a freight train speeding right past the house outside... we apparently had sustained winds around 25 mph, with gusts up to 55 mph. I can't remember anything quite like it since we've moved to this house.