My Week in Haiku- week 11
Power outage: friend or foe?
This week much of the country got the shit kicked out of it by a winter storm. By Friday night, suburban Detroit, where I live, was covered in a crystallized coating of wet snow. And there was lots of wind.
While minding my own business, the lights in my house quickly flashed off and came back on. That’s how it always starts — the quick flash of darkness soon to be followed by a lengthy power outage.
Three minutes later, I saw a big flash of light in the sky. Orange, followed by blue, and then white light. That was it — no more power.
My lamps with special lightbulbs that come on in power outages turned on, and the rest of the house stayed dark. I reported the outage and then sat back to wait until there was power again. Hopefully, it wouldn’t be too long.
After a while, the cats were asleep. My husband was asleep. And I settled in for some “me time.”
I put on my Apple AirPod Pro big-ass headphones, put Three Doors Down on repeat, and started eating a Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate bar while rocking out in my chair and lip-syncing to the music. After I was done eating chocolate, I began writing to-do lists and organizing some of the more than 4,400 Notes on my phone.
