Power was out! And I have a headach.
Anyways. The power was out here in Federal Way for about 4 days. We spent the days out at my mothers work. Where the power was out there for a couple days. By the second day that the power was out at her work, my mother adoned her safe-ty vest and went out to talk to the power people and they had the power up in a few hours! So when we were at my mothers work, we were allowed to stay upstairs and watch TV for about 8 hours a day. It was still torture, atleast it was warm torture.
When we would come home, after my mother and her boyfriend chopped up palets at work for them to burn at home, we would rush to the fireplace to try our best to heat up our freezing apartment. As hard as we tried, the apartment was still pretty freezing.
I wouldn't have mind the cold as much if it wasn't for my beautiful iguana who was cold all four days. Try as I might, she was still cold. The only times that she was warm enough for me was when I had her on the dash of the car with the heater running at full blast, even then I felt an emence saddness that I couldn't make her any warmer.
Lets not even delve in to the food situation, because that was just sad. I don't think I can even count how many times I almost started crying. I don't know why I was so emotional... I guess the feeling of helplessness was a little to overwhelming for me to handle. It felt like nobody was there for me to fall back on. I found inner strength in myself that I didn't think I had. It was up to me to keep everyones spirits up. It was up to me to make sure that things were done in a timely maner. It was up to me to make sure the family was as comfertable as possible. Even when my hands had spent one and a half hours in fridged ice water, just to make sure that the family ate off of clean dishes and didn't get sick, I was still smiling and trying my hardest to keep them happy.
Don't get me wrong, I expected all of the responsiblity to be on my shoulders, but in the end it just hurt. I used the dry humor of the people who worked at Grey Line to fule my drive for their happiness.
Alright.. I'm just gunna go now. I'm gunna watch some T.V. and relax.. my head hurts so much I want to cry really bad..x.x;;
 Gothic Alice · Wed Dec 20, 2006 @ 04:10am · 2 Comments |
