Like a chicken with its head cut off.

List for Today:

1. Run all over like a chicken with its head cut off cleaning and getting ready for party and NC company.

2. Day of party: Keep finding things that MUST BE DONE.

3. Power goes out. What?

4. Sheepish stranger found lurking in my yard admits that he turned the power off because the bill wasn't paid. What??

5. Protest, because I've only been in this house a month or so and I haven't even got a bill to not pay yet. Man leaves.

6. Phone doesn't work because the power is out.

7. Cell phone battery dies midcall with Mom (on the road) while I ask what the account number is since it's not in my name.

8. Get sent to local bill paying station. Their system is down.

9. Get sent to local grocery store. They can't do it because I don't know my parents SS#.

10. Go to sister's house to use her phone.

11. Power company tells me they can't do anything without SS#s.

12. Mom has called them too. They say they can't turn it back until Wednesday. She yells at them. They change to Monday. She tells me that.

13. Faced with a house full of guests sitting in the dark with no a/c while the food goes bad, and all my work come to naught, I snap like a twig.

14. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Weep bitter, hysterical tears all over sister.

15.Plans B, C, and D are presented. I slowly get a grip.

16. Decide to have party and guests elsewhere. Go home to get address book to call them all and tell them.

17. POWER IS BACK ON WHEN I GET HOME.

18. Sink briefly into madness. Resurface.

19. NC guests cancel until tomorrow. Headdesk twice.

20. Party time!

The party really did go well. I got to see friends and relatives and I think they all had a good time. And! I got free stuff! Pretty stuff.


So, as crazy as I was, it all turned out ok, and I think I'm going to sleep GOOD tonight. I don't know why I was so bonkers. I guess the moral is that it only takes a little while with no air conditioning to send me screaming off the deep end. Good to know.