Living in a Ghost Town

It is very weird here in Houston. Still very quiet. It sort of freaks me out to think I can't go to the grocery store, book store or even the bank if I need to. At least the post office was opened today (we got mail - yea!). We didn't get a newspaper for several days, then we got three at once. My husband's bank was still closed today. The cable and my internet connection went out last night for hours and there was no one to call... spooky.

Normally none of these things would disturb me after a hurricane, except we never got any rain. There's not even any wind damage. It's all very Twilight Zone, I hope I don't break my glasses...

I'm still using up the food in the freezer, but Sparky's not using the ice quickly enough, we've still got way too much. Next hurricane I'll have to stock up on TV dinners, I bought a bunch of soup this time, but I'm saving it for the next one. It's hard to be in the mood for soup when it's 100 degrees outside.

We've been on a home improvement kick this year, a friend of the family is a certified electrician and also a plumber, carpenter and painter and my parents and I have been alternately employing his services. He just installed a new light fixture over my desk to replace the hideous original chandelier (which had 2 of it's 5 lights left working besides being grotesquely ugly), and was supposed to come over last weekend to replace the plumbing hardware in my bathtub, but we've rescheduled because the Home Depot needs to be open when he comes to get parts. We've been getting vintage 50's & 60's light shades to replace the cheapie stuff the previous owners slapped up to sell the house. And to replace the ceiling fan over our bed, besides being shiny, tacky brass with glaring tulip lights, I don't like to sleep under a fan, and just having it hovering over my feet all day is bad Feng Shui.

We also ordered a new range hood from Lowe's a few weeks ago that should have been here by now, the knob snapped off our old noisy one we're getting a pretty new black one that should suck the cooking smells out a lot better and be quiet enough I can hear the TV when I'm cooking. Sparky's going to have him add shelves to the closet where he stores his 16mm projectors and films, getting everything off the floor in anticipation of a flooded house prompted him into putting that project at the top of the list. I had my dream closet shelving installed a few months ago in my office and my Ebay closet, I still haven't figured out what to do with the bedroom closet. Someday my dream is to knock out the master bathroom and closet and add on to that part of the house, but that's way in the future (along with Sparky's movie screening room).

Just rambling tonight... going to bed now, it's past 6 am (oops).

Posted by Morticia at September 27, 2005 06:10 AM | TrackBack