I shoulda stayed in bed.

Do you ever have one of those day's when you think you'd been better off just staying in bed? Well, today was that for me! I got up at my usual 5am. ( No, I don't set an alarm. My body clock gets me up every day at the same time). And I'm on the puter catching up on e-mails and such. Then for no apparent reason, the power goes out! Then, it comes back on, then out again! Then stays out! I say to myself, well, I'll go clean the Salon, and hope it will be back on when I'm done. So I feel my way in the dark, to the kitchen, find the matches in a drawer, and light one of our scented candles on the counter. Then find the flashlight, get dressed, and go to the Salon.
Get there, park, and gather the stuff I'd brought from home and head for the front door. I realize I don't have my truck keys. Where are they? I turn and go back to the truck. The motor's running, and the doors are locked. I LOCKED THE KEYS IN THE TRUCK?
Of course, I try the doors, the windows, thinking all of a sudden, it'll be okay. NOT! So I go inside the Salon, and think................................I can't call Craig at 6:30 in the morning, he's still sleeping. I know, I'll call a towing service. I call a local service and ask how much to unlock a vehicle. He says $45.00. I think a bit........Hmmmmm. I say, $45.00 or call and wake up the wife. I think I'll take my chances with the wife. I hear him chuckle in the background. He then says, Have a good day! I think, yea, right. Sooooo, I decide to let the truck run. Can't use that much gas idling, can it? And I go to work cleaning the Salon. An hour and a half later, I decide it's okay to call Craig. It's almost 8am. Of course, I wake him up!(I swear! he could sleep all day if you let him!) He answers the phone, says the power is still out. (damn!)
But comes to rescue me. And when I unlocked the truck, I'd only used less than a quarter tank of gas! We did some shopping, and when we returned home, the power was still out! It was down to 64 degrees. The automated answering service said power should be restored by 9pm. It was currently 11am. So we gathered some refreshments and fired up the motor home and went out there, where the mo-ho furnace kept us nice and toasty. Craig did bookwork, and I played on my lap-top.
The power finally came on, later in the afternoon. You don't realize how much you miss what you take for granted. So glad we had the mo-ho to fall back on.