I'm baaack!

And you thought you got rid of me for at least awhile, huh? Fat chance!!

Ice Update:
Well, our power finally came back on at 3:30pm on Saturday. My parents got their power back at 6:30pm on Sunday. We stayed at home every night, but Mom and Dad had been staying at my aunt's (they had a generator). My grandparents STILL don't have power as of the time I'm writing this (their entire neighborhood is nothing but senior citizens, so you'd think they'd be on the high priority list above any of us).

Trees falling were INSANE around here. I never witnessed a tree falling, and I'm glad, b/c I might have run off the road out of fear. One huge tree actually fell on someone's truck while he was driving down a main road. I didn't hear if they were hurt or not.

The reason why my grandparents are the last to have power in the family is probably b/c they literally had a tree down every 10 feet. Mom said she and my uncle had a difficult time getting past all the debris to get to their house.

Duke Power, our power company, called it the worst ice storm in Greenville history.

Apparently, we got hit the worst as far as power outages are concerned. We had a storm similar to this about 4 or so years ago, and I was still living at Mom and Dad's. We never lost power, if that tells you anything. About 1/4 to 1/3 of Greenville did, though. This time, it seemed like 3/4 of the city did. It had to be like that, b/c I only know of two people at work who never lost power at all over the past five days.

We went to Danielle's on Friday, got showered and refreshed, thank goodness. :) LONG OVERDUE, let me tell you. I am a camper, and am used to having times where you can't always be totally clean, but I'm not a winter camper!!

I was supposed to have dinner with Mom and a friend, but considering the circumstances, we cancelled, so Josh and I stayed and partied with Danielle for our co-workers divorce party LOL. Josh got sh**-faced and I had to drag his butt back home. He woke up with a HUGE hangover (barely slept, actually), and I made him get up and go to the mall to help finish Christmas shopping with my parents LOL!! Which, by the way, we are almost done with... if the ice storm hadn't stopped us, we'd have been done last week. Now we only have 2 more people to buy for and we're finished. Later than I'd hoped, but considering everything... not too bad.

I got sick from sleeping in the cold air, too. By the time we got back from the mall on Saturday, I was running a fever. It got up as far as 103, so I was feeling quite crummy. I had a band concert on Sunday night, where I mainly played piccolo, but I sucked it up long enough to get through the concert. I'm feeling a lot better today. Non-drowsy cold meds work wonders!

We lost everything in our freezer except for Butterscotch Schnapps and frozen orange juice - thank goodness we already ate our cake! Most of the stuff in the frig was ok; it was mainly condiments that we leave out all the time anyway... ketchup, butter, etc.

Pid pics coming up tonight!
Kathryn - thanks for the well wishes!!