The Sayer and the Namer

Sad. Again.

OK, I've got a serious case of the grumpies. Or maybe a serious case of the feel-sorry-for-yoursef-ies. Maybe even a case of worst-case-scenario-thinking-ies. Whatever my prognosis, I'm glum. I am usually not a gloomy person, so when I am feeling gloomy, it's worse than the average case of grumpiness, I think. Please allow me to share my gloominess with my bloggy friends.

While I'm up here in Ohio with my sick Grandpa AND Grandma, the news of Ike keeps going from bad to worse. My parents can't hear anything from anyone, but they know that there is no power in all of Humble. Not good. They know that there is no flooding. Good. They know that there are trees down everywhere. Not good. They know that they have a huge Live Oak in their back yard. Not good. They know that the eye of the hurricane passed directly over Humble/Atascocita. Not good. That's quite an imbalance of good/not good, yes?

Without going into too much detail and further boring you with my gloominess, there's quite an imbalance of good/not good here in Ohio as well. I feel pretty awful for my poor grandparents. Life is hard in the country, and harder when you don't feel well. I will say, it's been quite the experience having to cook with bottled water, burn your trash (bad, I know, but you've gotta do what you've gotta do!) hand wash everything you dirty, etc. I've given my grandma props all week for doing this her whole life while raising 6 kids! You go, Grandma! The lack of communication with the "outside world" is also getting me down a little bit. We have no cell phones (gasp), no high speed Internet (double gasp), and so on and so forth. I know that life is going on without me in this little vortex that I've lived in this week, but it sure doesn't feel like it.

OK, I'm done. As I'm re-reading this post, it's already annoying me. Down-in-the-dumps, blah blah blah. Complain-about-everything, blah blah blah. Nobody wants to be around Erin when she's in a funk - maybe it's a good thing that I'm in a vortex away from everyone but family - they have to love me! haha!

I'm saying prayers for my hometown that they will come together and work to repair the damage that stinkin Ike did. I'm saying prayers for my family that we will work to repair the damage of illness and hurt. I'm saying prayers for my hubby that I MISS a lot! I'm saying prayers for my yuckiness to go AWAY! God is bigger than the hurts of this world!

posted by Erin @ 1:40 PM