Last night, just before 2:30, I heard the power go out. One might wonder how I "heard" it...I have a fan that runs all night to drown out the noises of our house. I'm a very light sleeper and I really need the white noise to sleep at night. I heard the fan stutter and then stop working. I realized there was no light anywhere. I immediately got up and managed my way down the hall to get a flashlight. I then grabbed my cell phone so that I could set an alarm for the morning. I also unplugged all the TV's and the computer so that when the electricity came back on, there wouldn't be any damage from a possible surge. Then I went back to bed. Of course, without the fan, I had an extremely difficult time sleeping. In addition, every time Andrew moved I would be wide awake because I didn't want him to panic when he saw the power was out. I was also trying to think of what everyone could eat for breakfast and how we could all get ready without light. I eventually fell asleep, but sure enough, when Andrew realized I heard him exclaim, and I immediately assured him I had set my phone alarm. The power ended up being out a little over 90 minutes total.
I'll be honest, I had already stayed up later last night than I should've, and I was tired even before that. I am DRAGGING today. I am just dog-tired. I am working again today, and as usually happens when I sub at the high school, the class has desk work and there really isn't much for me to do (especially when I don't speak a word of French). At one point I was pretty terrified that I was going to fall asleep. About 45 minutes ago, I found myself not only counting down until the end of the school day (although I'm going to my second job at the church directly from here so that doesn't really matter) I am even counting down until I can go to bed. I hate wishing away an entire day, but last night's lack of sleep is making today tough! Thank goodness today is Friday and we can sleep in tomorrow!
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