What thanksgiving???

Ok, this thanksgiving royally sucked! Let me illuminate the situation which led to the suckiness of thanksgiving 2005. Twas' the nite before thanksgiving, daughter and I enjoyed a quiet evening with Inuyasha 3 (read my review in next posting). Hubby came home and everyone had the "thank goodness it's a 4 day weekend" look. Not too long after, hubby was muttering something about "S**T! The water is running!" What happened next was a nightmare and what a friend would say "Sue them!". It turned out that the lawn faucet was left running for 6 hrs after the lawn service guy winterized our sprinkler system. Hubby checked our basement and another "S**T!" came out. Part of our basement was flooded with at least 1" of water. Although he was pissed as hell, he calmly called Modernistic and help was on its way in 1 hr. Then he went into the other room which I am sure he left a very unpleasant voicemail with the lawn service company. Next, the insurance confirmed that we are covered for any damage. I was thinking to myself, "Now, about that new house.....". Modernistic was great and fast! Within an hour of their arrival, our basement was drying with 6 blowers. Thank you, Modernistic!!!!!!
Next morning, felt a hug from hubby with a whisper, "we lost power". Still half asleep, my mind muttered "S**T. " The next thing that came to my mind was - did the blowers trip the fuse? Checked the neighborhood street and no lights. Great! We took out the entire neighborhood power grid. Oh S**T! We spoiled thanksgiving for the entire neighborhood!!! Luckily, that was not the case but the entire neighborhood did lose power. Called consumer again and the ETR is 6am Nov 25th! Crap! (Sidenote: the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again, expecting a different result.). Thanksgiving does not mean as much as to us except it's a day to eat loads of turkey and veg out. On top of that, we had a winter storm warning and this lake effect crap was really getting nasty. I looked at hubby and gave him the "I'm not roughing it, let's get into a hotel or something." Ok, I publicly admit it, I am not a rough it out gal. I like my TIVOs, wireless Internet and DSL. Without them, it's roughing it. I can laugh now but it sure wasn't funny this morning. So, we packed an overnight bag with our dyson and went to my sis-in-laws apartment. Why the dyson? Don't get me wrong. I love dogs, I just don't love their DNA everywhere.
6 hrs later, we called home and the answering machine picked up. Yippeeee.... power's back on. We packed our bag, daughter and her bears and the dyson (never leave home without it) and headed home. Turkey anyone? Nah, will save it for tomorrow. What did I learn from the past 24 hours? While we may not have turkey on thanksgiving day, we are ever thankful for having each other and the warmth of our home (and all its high techie amenities) in this cold blastery winter in Nov. Safe travels to all travelling during this thanksgiving. I will be at home warming up with hubby and daughter. I hope your turkey tasted great coz ours is still raw in the fridge.