In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

Alright, I know I don’t post regularly, but today is an exception. It’s Father’s Day (Happy Father’s Day Jake!!!!!) first of all, but also the end to the weekend of eternity.

What’s the weekend of eternity you might ask?

Well let me tell you what it isn’t. It isn’t a weekend where you can do whatever you want, it isn’t a weekend to cook that gourmet meal, and it definitely isn’t the weekend to invite friends over to your house.

No, it’s none of those. Now let me get to what it is.

The weekend of eternity is deceptive, it lulls you into thinking that this weekend will be the best one ever. It usually starts this at the time you leave work to come home. Everything so far seems perfect, get home, kiss the wife, kick the dog, and drink a brew. Well, the misses and I gotta a paper to finish and turn in, so we’re putting the final touches on it, then WHAMMO!!!!!

The Weekend of Eternity!!!!!!!! (said in an echo chamber, LOUDLY!)

What happens next is unfathomable. It’s so tragic that you’ll wish your weekend was a morphine-filled haze.

You hear distant thunder and the smattering of a few rain drops hitting the ground, then the thunder gets closer and brings its friend lightning, then both gang up the wind and rain, then the entire group unleashes hell on our little subdivision. Before we could put the finishing touches on our papers the power goes out. Yep, stuck in the basement with no lights. The only way we made it up on the main floor safely was from the lightning flashes (thanks mother nature for your generosity). Well, I decide to see who around us still had power. Our neighbors across the way had the juice, but our next door neighbor was in the same boat as us.

Margaret lays down to read a book and I decide to make some phone calls. Well, the Weekend of Eternity doesn’t like it when people are calling family to complain about it, so when I tried calling my sister all she could hear were squeaks from our dog’s play toy.

DAMN YOU WEEKEND OF ETERNITY!!!!!
*shakes fists*

So far, Friday is shaping up quite eternal. The misses and I break out the deck of cards and play 500 rummy. It was a good game and the dog slept. The weekend of eternity was gracious enough for me to pipe in Pandora on my phone so we could have some tunes, so that was nice.

Then comes Saturday. Oh, oh man, this is where the Weekend of Eternity shined it’s brightest. It knew it had us in its clutches when we fell asleep on Friday and made it to Saturday. I think it was toying with us really. So we wake and realize that there was still no power.

Huh, no power, what ever could that mean? Well let me tell you what that means.

It means a full day with no electricity and the outside temperature is 81 degrees with 100% humidity. I thought I was back in Tennessee for crying out loud. But see, that’s what the Weekend of Eternity does. It brings back all the things you don’t like and magnifies it by 100. Notice I said 100% humidity?

Anyway

The day was hot and muggy. Walking the dog was a treat. Not only was I miserable having to be outside, but the dog was miserable for me making him go outside. The evening came and you’d think we’d get the benefit of having cool air blow through the windows to cool us down, but noooooooooooooo. Instead it was just as hot and friggin muggy, the only relief we got was no sunlight beating down on us. That was a chink in the Weekend of Eternity’s armor. When it can master the sun, then everyone needs to watch out.

On to Sunday. Wake up and ahhhhh, still no power. Now we were able to outsmart the Weekend of Eternity by borrowing our neighbors power generator for our fridge and let me tell you, the Weekend of Eternity didn’t like that one bit. It prolonged what it had started Friday evening: no power.

Then the cavalry arrived, it seems that the Weekend of Eternity broke a power line up the street in 3 different places. Well, they fixed it and we got electricity again, but it wasn’t until after 1 o’clock!!!!!

So with the windows shut, the AC on, and our phones finally getting recharged, we did a dance and celebrated that the Weekend of Eternity’s reign was finally over. Now we are able to make our house comfortable again, use hot water, get on the computer to tell this tale, and overall live again.

In summation, this weekend really sucked.

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