Comments on The Fifty Factor: Weather Or Not?

Oh my goodness. This is too funny for words : ) I ...

2010-02-14T13:19:34.037-08:00

Oh my goodness. This is too funny for words : ) I love to wake up Gary with my cold feet. He does not love it as much as I do : )

Aaaaah-ha-ha-ha! Can't believe you LET him sle...

2010-02-13T13:11:39.534-08:00

Aaaaah-ha-ha-ha! Can't believe you LET him sleep through it. I might have pulled out the fireplace poker and given him a few jabs. :)

What a night for you!

I realize this was a traumatic experience for you ...

2010-02-13T12:03:54.258-08:00

I realize this was a traumatic experience for you and I probably shouldn't allow myself to be indulging in hearty gales of laughter but I just couldn't help it. You wrote it up so beautiful, in great descriptive detail, it was as though I was there with you. I'm glad I wasn't however. I wouldn't have been so kind as to have allowed hubby to sleep for even a minute. Or to forget it the next day.

LMAO Great post!! Thanks, I needed a laugh...

2010-02-12T19:52:21.309-08:00

LMAO Great post!! Thanks, I needed a laugh...

HOW darn funny!!! I can just picture you dressed ...

2010-02-12T11:16:05.291-08:00

HOW darn funny!!! I can just picture you dressed as you described! You'd make a good Yooper woman!!! Amazing that Beloved slept through the whole thing! Hopefully he would wake up in case of a REAL emergency...you've got to learn to scream like hell! Or at least louder than your alarm system "talks"!

HOW darn funny!!! I can just picture you dressed ...

2010-02-12T11:15:40.244-08:00

Isn't it pathetic how helpless we are without ...

2010-02-12T07:37:56.518-08:00

Isn't it pathetic how helpless we are without electricity? My place is totally electric, so when the power goes out, nothing works. So much for self-sufficiency!

That sounds like one fun night! It's almost t...

2010-02-11T20:18:04.595-08:00

That sounds like one fun night! It's almost the exact opposite of what happened here when during the big east coast blackout of 2003. Instead of being cold, we were miserably hot. Temps were in the 90's with high humidity. We thought about going for a ride in the SUV just to cool off in the air, but of course we were low on gas and the gas stations were closed because they had no power. We listened to the news on the radio and they kept telling us to use the bare minimum amount of electricity once power was restored to prevent a rebound blackout.

When we finally got our power back in the middle of the night some 50+ hours later, I practically ran to the thermostat and kicked on the air. Everything in the refrigerator was already spoiled, so I unplugged that as a trade off. Seemed logical to me!

Thank God my husband is a light sleeper. I would h...

2010-02-11T18:56:00.494-08:00

Thank God my husband is a light sleeper. I would have slept through the whole thing. You must be an angel to have gone outside with a strange man by yourself at night with out waking up your husband!!

I would have been really leery of opening that doo...

2010-02-11T18:36:02.599-08:00

I would have been really leery of opening that door. And I would have for sure woken Beloved up to go to the room with the spiders. I hope it comes back on soon.

Holy smokes, Joanna, this is epic! Glad it's ...

2010-02-11T17:02:42.832-08:00

Holy smokes, Joanna, this is epic! Glad it's over. So, I'm just going to throw this out there. I could be totally wrong. But I'm going to say your hubby might have been somewhat aware of the sitch and just decided that there was nothing getting him out of bed. Just a guess. :)

Cheers,

SLC

What a great story! Thank you - I needed a laugh r...

2010-02-11T13:38:40.076-08:00

What a great story! Thank you - I needed a laugh right now. Your beloved sounds a lot like mine - conveniently sleeping through everything! I think you were very gracious by only putting your freezing feet on him and letting him go back to sleep!

What a great story! Thank you - I needed a laugh r...

2010-02-11T13:37:50.211-08:00

What an adventure! You must be exhausted. Glad it ...

2010-02-11T13:27:01.868-08:00

What an adventure! You must be exhausted. Glad it all worked out in the end.

sounds awful!! it's rainy (big surprise) and ...

2010-02-11T08:59:49.719-08:00

sounds awful!!

it's rainy (big surprise) and 50-ish here. So, not too bad.

ALways love your stories and the way you can spin ...

2010-02-11T06:26:52.843-08:00

ALways love your stories and the way you can spin the negative into something funny and good :-)

But right now, hey, I'd take 57 degrees! I start riding my mountain bike when it's above 50 here in Michigan, and 57 degrees in February would have us all out in the streets in our T-shirts! :-)

Is it sadistic that you made me chuckle reading th...

2010-02-11T04:54:11.858-08:00

Is it sadistic that you made me chuckle reading that story?! And what a welcome chuckle that was believe me :)
And if you want a glow in the dark torch I think you need to ask Ben Stiller - his character invented one in Night at the Museum 2! Just thought I'd give you a heads up!

You spin a great yarn, JJ! I'm not a fan of c...

2010-02-11T04:37:53.868-08:00

You spin a great yarn, JJ! I'm not a fan of cold and damp either. It doesn't go well with my bones or my demeanor.

The weather in my neck of the wood is....there is no road once again. It's an unbroken, crisp clean white for as far as the eye can see. Oy.

Great story JJ. I also use my freezing cold toes a...

2010-02-10T19:57:43.878-08:00

Great story JJ. I also use my freezing cold toes as weapons. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

Totally LOVED this post. It made me laugh. Vision...

2010-02-10T19:47:58.057-08:00

Totally LOVED this post. It made me laugh.
Visions of you, standing in your doorway with the torchlight shining up on your face.. no doubt made you look demonic to that poor guy!
And spiders in your basement.. ikkk.
And your cold feet.. on ya husband... PERFECT ENDING.

BIG, ROMATIC CANDLES AROUND THE BATH would have been nice. Go buy some!

hilarious!! So nice of you not to wake the hubste...

2010-02-10T16:46:01.290-08:00

hilarious!! So nice of you not to wake the hubster - nicer than me!
Lu

That story is too much, Joanna!! Honestly, it sou...

2010-02-10T14:08:03.850-08:00

That story is too much, Joanna!! Honestly, it sounds a bit too much like my own husband...sleeping through the events that happen at night. I swear you and I are in trouble should an actual burglar ever cross our paths. We'd have to fend for ourselves. :)

Oh, I am definitely a west coast wimp too. It is the middle of the afternoon here and I have my heater cranked because it is about 50 degrees outside.

I think I'd have woken up hubby and told him t...

2010-02-10T13:53:21.159-08:00

I think I'd have woken up hubby and told him to go out with the big burley stranger down those cold dark stairs filled with spiders. Well, that's what I thought having a husband was for - to do all those things a woman could do but finds good excuses not to when there is a man around who could do it instead. Am I being sexist. Yes, but ... I'm on your side Joanna.

We've been dealing with the same weather and o...

2010-02-10T13:27:00.895-08:00

We've been dealing with the same weather and outages in Northern CA, too. I totally would've woken up my husband to deal with the security stuff. Of course, he probably wouldn't have gotten up...

Oh but no - I wouldn't have waken Greg up in a...

2010-02-10T11:48:17.350-08:00

Oh but no - I wouldn't have waken Greg up in a heartbeat!!! Your blog post had me scared just thinking about it. I can't stand a dark house. My mind starts dreaming up all sorts of nightmares!!