Hubby and I are lying in bed around 5:00 this morning. I’m in that half awake, half asleep mode and he's sitting up in bed watching the news when the power goes out.

My first thought was that the bill didn’t get paid so I turn to Hubby and ask him just that. He wasn’t pleased that I asked him that but I did find out that the bill wasn’t even due yet so that wasn’t the issue. The next thought was that maybe someone hit a pole somewhere and knocked the power out.

Since my day wasn’t starting off at the very best, I rolled over and went back to sleep. When I woke up, the power still wasn’t on. Lovely.....No shower, no fixing the hair, had to put makeup on sitting beside the window and I had to hunt down a bottle of water so I could brush my teeth and get my mouth rinsed out.

This is a great way to start out the day……….NOT.

I started my day with an instant attitude. I shouldn’t have had one since there isn’t a damn thing I can do about the power being out but there it was anyway but what can one do. Ride the wave of irritation.

The day didn’t get any better when my daughter called about 8:30 and said the power still wasn’t back on. I called the power company to report it being out and within a few minutes a repairman called wanting to know if anyone was at home. He would need to get them to check something. Since my daughter was home, she would be able to help him over the phone.

This told me that it was something about OUR house and not a widespread issue.

Great….just lovely…

Anyway….the repair guy ends up having to go out to the house to see what’s going on. He gets the power back on but tells my daughter that the main box on the outside of the house is bad and needs to be replaced and that this is something that the power company doesn’t do, we would need to call an electrician.

The guy left and everything seemed to be going good for a few minutes….until my daughter called Hubby and told him that it smelled like wires burning. He had her shut off all power to the house and leave it off.

It’s now 2:30pm.................No power……No money………No electrician…….PLENTY of frustration!!!!!

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!!! I'm not sure what I have done in my life to deserve such shit but it never fails. Just when things start to turn around, SOMETHING pops up out of the blue and knocks it all back down again

It's getting really hard to keep my sense of humor about such things even though I know deep down, it's beyond my control. All I can do is deal with it but damn......I get tired of dealing sometimes.

We just forked out a small fortune to reserve a house at the beach for vacation, now this will probably cost an a arm and a leg to get fixed and right now, I'm already down one arm and an ankle. I don't have many more body parts left but I sure will be glad when I can sink my toes in some sand. Right now, hitting the beach is the only thing that keeps me going