I listened most of the night to the wind howling outside. I woke up from time to time and i heard the restless nature. I also had bad dreams just before i woke up. The electricity was already gone for two hours before i woke up as grandma said. Then i dressed up and went down to take breakfast but i realized with horror that i can’t make tea or warm milk or make toast. Because all the devices worked with electricity. I got some white bread out of the fridge; it was already melted (remember…no electricity, fridge is not working either). There were some Christmas candles on the table. So i took two slices of bread and started patiently to fry them using the candles. Almost there…smelled a bit of toast. I took some cheese and fish and ate them. And some leftovers of chocolate cake.
My books are digital, the laptop battery does not last too long. But i have some paper editions. So for the rest of 3 hours i managed to read a book, on the couch listening to the parrots’ blabbering.
It’s so unsual for me now. It almost jammed all my daily activities since i’m used to a new style of life. And i used to live in the countryside where we had no electric cooker or any kitchen devices working with electricity. My memories back then started to come back. Grandma cooked eveything on a stove warmed up with wood, no washing machine and in winter food could be also kept outside, no fridge was needed. Me and my sister had plenty of activities usually outside the house. If there was snow, and there was a lot, we bild castles, we dug ditches, we fought, we built a snowman or we just took the sledge and went down the hill countless of times. Now there is no snow. And the electricity came back. Now i don’t have a paper journal so i’m writing on my blog, i check my mail, i play Wii and i chat. I read ebooks. Everything is E.
