NotMeredith

Return of the OLJ
2020-08-27 01:44:09 (UTC)

Well this certainly hasn't ..

Well this certainly hasn't been consistent. It's Wednesday and the kids have been at my parents' since Saturday afternoon. At the moment, we await the edges of Hurricane Laura, which has thankfully for us and the kids, decided to make landfall exactly in the middle between us and them. We'll both get wind, and they'll get more rain, but Lake Charles is going to bear the brunt of this Cat 4 hurricane and its "unsurvivable storm surges." It's 8:45 and not windy the last time I looked out the window.

A little more than a day ago we were concerned that it could make a direct hit on us, making it similar to Hurricane Ike that hit in 2008 when I was pregnant with T. We were told to compare our potential power outages with that storm. During Ike, we lost power for only 45 minutes, but some of the townhouses in our neighborhood were out for many days. People ran extension cords across the streets to power refrigerators. Where we live now, the power was out for over two weeks!

Since the kids have been away, I've been cooking nicer meals and things that the kids wouldn't be crazy about. I continued that theme today, cooking short ribs all day in the slow cooker. I'm trying not to have too much perishable food in the fridge and freezer, but I didn't plan my shopping well this week. I also wanted to cook because we can easily, as long as we have power. I'd rather not let the food go to waste. The summer after I graduated from high school I worked at Burger King, and was working the drive through the night before Hurricane Andrew hit Louisiana. We were slammed with people grabbing dinner and I did not understand it. Why not cook when you still have power. Our power was out for several days after too!

One note about my cooking. I'm a little bummed that R hasn't once said anything about anything I've made. Not even one "this is good." I don't expect compliments all the time, but I thought maybe having put in a little effort. Oh well. It's not like it would do me any good to make a comment about it. I don't want forced compliments.




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