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Sep. 27th, 2024 09:51 pmHelene has been rougher than I think any of us were expecting. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. But there are about 1.2mil people wihout power with my utility company alone, nearly 100,000 in my county.
COVID is also kicking my butt much more than I was prepared to admit, even to myself. Physically I think the first round back in 2021 was worse, but combined with the storm I just am not able to cope so well. Plus it's 2024, so now it feels like a personal ailing I caught it again. I know, that's not true, but in my head it is. Had my mini (ish) breakdown, cried more than the situation required, pet Bilbo, then moved out to my balcony where at least I could feel a bit less like the walls were caving in around me. So there's that. Not only are we still without power, we don't even have an estimate of when it will be fixed, and I think that lack of information more than anything else is a big part of what's so hard
I'll probably try to go find a Starbucks tomorrow and charge my devices. It will mean walking back up three flights out, plus spreading my germs around (which I really didn't want to do), but I think my need to get out for a bit trumps that. That is, if we don't have an estimate on when the power will be back. I need to be better at being a bit selfish, I think.
One cute story: I have a mini-lantern that you turn on by pulling the top and base apart and twisting a bit. I thought I was struggling with it. Turns out I was struggling with a jar of peanut butter. Twisted too hard, cracked the lid, and peanut butter went everywhere. Bilbo was very much in favor. I just had to lay back and laugh at it all.
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shirebound no I moved down to NC last October and am not in NY anymore. I thought I was a champion for braving the ice and snow, but summer storms down south really are something else!
PPS- one major bit of coping with such little internet, I'm starting to read the Unfinished Tales Celeborn & Galadriel section. I've no gotten far because of COVID headaches, but I'd forgotten there was a version where Celeborn was native to Lorien or at least met Galadriel there, rather than being a Sindarin elf out of Doriath. I think I've enjoyed so much of how that version of events sets up a nice confrontation between him and Celebrimbor, affects how he feels about Galadriel getting a Ring of Power, all that, I sort of blocked the more Silvan (??) version of his character out of my imagination. So it's an interesting thought to rediscover it a bit.
COVID is also kicking my butt much more than I was prepared to admit, even to myself. Physically I think the first round back in 2021 was worse, but combined with the storm I just am not able to cope so well. Plus it's 2024, so now it feels like a personal ailing I caught it again. I know, that's not true, but in my head it is. Had my mini (ish) breakdown, cried more than the situation required, pet Bilbo, then moved out to my balcony where at least I could feel a bit less like the walls were caving in around me. So there's that. Not only are we still without power, we don't even have an estimate of when it will be fixed, and I think that lack of information more than anything else is a big part of what's so hard
I'll probably try to go find a Starbucks tomorrow and charge my devices. It will mean walking back up three flights out, plus spreading my germs around (which I really didn't want to do), but I think my need to get out for a bit trumps that. That is, if we don't have an estimate on when the power will be back. I need to be better at being a bit selfish, I think.
One cute story: I have a mini-lantern that you turn on by pulling the top and base apart and twisting a bit. I thought I was struggling with it. Turns out I was struggling with a jar of peanut butter. Twisted too hard, cracked the lid, and peanut butter went everywhere. Bilbo was very much in favor. I just had to lay back and laugh at it all.
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shirebound no I moved down to NC last October and am not in NY anymore. I thought I was a champion for braving the ice and snow, but summer storms down south really are something else!PPS- one major bit of coping with such little internet, I'm starting to read the Unfinished Tales Celeborn & Galadriel section. I've no gotten far because of COVID headaches, but I'd forgotten there was a version where Celeborn was native to Lorien or at least met Galadriel there, rather than being a Sindarin elf out of Doriath. I think I've enjoyed so much of how that version of events sets up a nice confrontation between him and Celebrimbor, affects how he feels about Galadriel getting a Ring of Power, all that, I sort of blocked the more Silvan (??) version of his character out of my imagination. So it's an interesting thought to rediscover it a bit.
