Hurricane Humor.
It’s been an interesting week, I can say that. Learning to live without power has been fun. Lucky for me, the office is up and running and I’ve got power and my beloved internet. Oh, internet. How I missed you so!
Honestly- it hasn’t been that bad. The weather is beautiful and cool so living with no AC is no biggie. The lack of light isn’t even all that bad. I like the dark and think candlelight gives the house some ambiance. What is driving me batshit crazy is that I have no refrigerator. I’m also missing my shows, but I’m sure I can download most of them later.
We have hot water, a gas stove and entertainment from the neighbors. So, really, we aren’t suffering.
By entertainment, I mean shit like this:
Honestly, you just have to find the humor in everything right now and see the positives. Like I finally got my backyard cleaned up. We hired two guys looking for some extra money this morning and they cleared out all of the debris AND all of the crap my landlord has been storing back there. Really nice guys just trying to make some money while they can’t work. My upstairs neighbor even paid half. Bonus.
I’m also going to get my fence fixed (for real) if I have to beat my landlord over the head. I’m sure it won’t come to that, we just have to exist on Bert time which isn’t always on the same time-table I have. Whatever- as long as its done by the time Mike’s parents come over so we can sit outside and grill- I’m a happy girl.
I, however, do not have my power back. The rest of my street does save about 10 houses. So God is mocking me a bit, but I’m ok with that. As long as it stays cool.
Also, I have read some ridiculous shit on The Chronicle’s website. They post stories and allow people to comment on them. People talking about us “whining” because ice is scarce- what do we need ice for? Well, genius, let me ‘splain. See, food like meat and dairy need to stay cold in order to not spoil. I know this might be news to you and all, but it’s also hot as fiery assholes here in Texas. Right now, it’s cool. When I say cool, I mean lows in the 60′s and highs in the 80′s. That’s summer for lots of you there Northern fellers. So, we need ice, like, pronto.
Also, stop comparing this to Katrina. Hurricanes and their fallout suck, no matter what. We are Houstonians. We are the ones who gave Katrina victims shelter and care when the feds dropped the ball. We are the ones who carved out a much smoother evacuation plan for this time around when the last failed. We are the ones who survived drowning from tropical storm Allison and bounced right back. We are the ones taking care of ourselves (mostly) with little help from that joke called FEMA. We are the ones who will help rebuild Galveston and all the coastal region once we are back in fully functioning mode. WE will be just fine. Excuse us for taking a moment to ask for help and reel from this catastrophe.
Don’t you worry your pretty lil’ heads about nothin’. We WON’T become victims. We WILL become survivors. Fuck you, very much.
A letter from our Mayor says it all. Thank you for clueing me into that, Dr. Ding!
Playing Scrabble by moonlight-
Ali
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