Caffeinated Randomness......Make that a double, please

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So it just so happened that for my blog-o-versary, I decided to get a massage...

....not because it was my blog-o-versary, it just happened that's how it all worked out, and was a fitting "gift" to myself.

So I leave the house at 5:20pm...and go to the "Land where cell phones go to die" and at 6:30 as my massage was wrapping up, my phone text message goes off...

"The Power's Out", rec'd at 5:45, Jesse.

Are you kidding me?!? I've been gone for like 5 minutes!

Oh yeah, and we were having friends over for the evening....lubbly...just lubbly.

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So I get home from a lovely massage. Sure enough, it's dark with 9 candles glowing, a few flashlights and friends at our house.

I tell you what, when you don't even have the glow of the digital clocks....it is dark.

So instead of ordering pizza as originally planned, we decided to go out so we didn't have to sit by candlelight.

Did I mention that I had a haircut scheduled for 7:30pm?

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I ordered my salad at the restaurant and hoped that it would come before I had to leave at 7:28.....it didn't. But at least it wouldn't get cold ........ ;)

So, I get to my hair place and she's running a little behind.....

"....drat....I could've eaten my salad!"

Oh well....

It was supposed to be a trim....

But according to Jesse, I'm like, bald.

Okay, not even close to bald, and in his defense, Jesse never said that....I needed the "dead ends" cut off, and she did cut off the dead ends...there was quite a bit of nasty ends in there. So she did exactly what I asked.

Thank you, once again,  to my Post-Partum Hair Exodus.

On the plus side of things, my hair is a lovely shade of brunette and that pesky ONE gray hair is gone-zo.

9:05pm, the phone rings at the hair salon.

"Is Katie Johnston there?"

"HEY are you about done? Your left your cellphone here, I left my debit card at home and have no way to pay for our dinner and you're our ride home."

 **babies melting down in the background**

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On my way back to the restaurant, I drive by our house....still dark, along with 4 other houses on our block --out of 40 houses. We are not so much high priority.

BUT their are trucks a half block away. Sweet.

I explain to Jesse that we still don't have power, but we have HOPE.....TRUCKS!

My salad is in a to-go wrap. AND I got my Pepsi in a to-go cup. *grin*

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We drive by our house.

Dark.

Trucks are gone.

Awesome........

Start thinking about what we needed to get around to sleep elsewhere for the night.

I stay in the van with 1 crying baby and 2 sleeping babies.

5 minutes later, Jesse comes back and says there are people out front who think we'll have power in a few minutes.

Bless America!!

15 minutes later....we are LIVE and the wires are HOT, praise the LORD we have power!

And my Cobb Salad is safe in the fridge for lunch today.

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I need a nap. And a big fat cuppa Joe.

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