I have a little bit of gumbo that I need to eat up, then even the stuff that thawed in my small freezer will be gone. I'm not the least bit worried about the deep freeze, because even the bags of ice I'd made in my ice machine didn't start to thaw, and they were on the very top.
The only down side to that is, I'd bought some breaded fish sticks and had put them into the deep freeze on the very bottom. And now I want breaded fish sticks...but they're on the very bottom of the deep freeze. Oh well...I'll dig them out eventually. I just hope I don't forget they're there and let them get freezer burned.
I'll be honest with you, though. I was prepared for the storm, for the power outages and the cold, but I was not prepared at all for how this whole thing would affect me mentally and emotionally. I think that's something that comes with age, because when I was younger, I'd have seen this as a great adventure -- a chance to live out my childhood dream of being Laura Ingalls. But then, when I was younger, I'd have also had family around during the whole mess.
The last time an ice storm this bad happened was in 1998. Cody was five, and we went and stayed with my cousin and her husband. Then their younger son and his family came and we had a whole house full of people and it was like a big family vacation.
This time, it was just me. Honestly, at one point I was seriously considering driving down to Jackson and staying with Cody and Brennan, and if I could have been sure the roads were good, I'd have done so. But all I was hearing was, "Don't drive if you don't have to!" and even some of the roads here in town were a bit iffy. I had no idea what the highways looked like, so I didn't want to risk it.
All that to say, I can definitely understand how snowbound people back in the old days would go stir crazy. I couldn't imagine going through something without TV, or radio, or my phone. But once my cousin drove all the way from Texas to bring me a generator, things got a bit better. Of course, the exact same day he brought it and hooked it up, my power came back on. Ain't that just my luck?
And I just realized I hadn't yet mentioned that part on the blog. Ummmm, my cousin drove all the way from Texas to bring me a generator, so now I have one for the next time. Which I hope I don't need to use it for a long, long time.
Now for a bit of good news, Entergy has restored power to all 87,000 customers who lost power during the ice storm. I can't speak for Tallahatchie Valley or Delta Electric, though. I'm hearing there are still some 15, 000 without power, but they aren't on Entergy.
In other news, all that stuff I'd said I was going to get done today didn't get done. I woke up this morning feeling...not exactly sick, just a little off, so I decided to take it easy. I did a little bit of house work, but spent most of the day watching the Olympics and knitting.
And running to the bathroom every five minutes. I won't go into all the gory details, but let's just say I was not vomiting, and leave it at that. There's been a bug going around the plant --one of the other brazers was sick all week, and I think maybe I caught something from her.
Shortly after noon, things...um...dried up in the bathroom department and I began to feel better. I felt well enough to eat some of the gumbo Cody had made back in 2024 that I had been in my freezer. He made the roux with bacon grease instead of shortening or lard, and I don't know...He said that was the traditional way, but I'd never had gumbo that tasted like that. I didn't want to hurt his feelings, but I didn't really like it. That's part of the reason I didn't ask him to make me any more this past Christmas. I've got a little bit of it left, and we don't waste food, but I really don't want to eat it...
Anyway, in the midst of all the other stuff that was going on, I finished another hat.
I'll watch this.
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