Feeling Frazzled

We woke up to some challenges this morning.

First, we got up over an hour late because the power went off during the night and scrambled our alarm’s brains. I wish sometimes I could ‘reboot’ my own brain as easily as I rebooted the clock. It’s fixed and working fine, now. Mine, not so much. The biggest concern on our getting up late today was getting poor Amber outside to pee. She was fine, thank goodness.

Second, we pass our office on the way to the kitchen. Everything was off in the office – no Internet – nothing. Also, our heat and air system for the house was off. Our UPS in the office was screaming LOUDLY – driving me nuts in a matter of seconds. My husband couldn’t HEAR it! We decided to TRY to ignore it and handle our morning chores and then figure out what we needed to do.

We finally figured out that there was no problem with our heat and air. We were on the generator for power. That runs everything EXCEPT the heat and air. My husband got frustrated with me because I was climbing the wall over the UPS still shrieking. I was threatening to rip all the electrical cords out of the wall to make the shrieking stop. I left the office figuring I would try to find some ear plugs, if nothing else.

By the time we finished the morning chores and had gathered the trash, I noticed immediately on coming back in that it was QUIET. The generator had gone off and the regular public power was back on. THAT meant the a/c was functioning again – thank goodness! AND the UPS was happy and quiet again.

My husband is still working with the TV to get it functioning again, but that seems to be going okay.

SO – UPS is quiet, a/c is ON, Internet is working, TV is in good hands. HOORAY!

Kind of strenuous way to begin a Monday, but it’s all good now – AND I found some ear plugs! :0)