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Wow…this has been an interesting couple of days. As if I needed more stress right now. Southeast Kansas has been hit by a sort of surprise ice storm the past two days. Pittsburg itself looks nearly like a war zone. Trees are down absolutely everywhere. Twice yesterday I was out shoveling the walk and took off running when trees fell and hit houses across the street. Luckily, no damage or anyone hurt. But it’s a crazy weird sound to stand outside and you can just hear that *snapcrackchshhhhh* sound every few seconds around the neighborhood.

Where our luck went bad was with power. We’ve been facing constant random power outages. Fortunately, the last one wasn’t long, and was fixed before it got down to 53 degrees like it did in the afternoon. We had been planning to stay with Steve and Cassie to stay warm after that one, but the power came back before it got to that. Then it went again, and this time took Steve’s place with it, so by then, it was blanket time. That was fixed fairly fast though, and we have been good since. Where our luck also went bad was when I nearly lost the front of the house. We have a big tree in the front yard. It’s one I knew I’d need to get rid of soon, I just hadn’t planned on an ice storm in early December. Well, yesterday campus closed, so I went home early and found this tree, and several tons of it’s branches and ice, split right down the middle. It was happily ready to fall right on the house.

I have no clue what was holding it together, given the trees around town that had broken under lesser circumstances. Spit and willpower on my part, I think (well, maybe not spit, but definitely willpower. Lots and lots of willpower). Luck went good when it turned out A-1 Tree Service made me a priority and got it chained back to the good part of the tree and trimmed a bunch of weight from the top. Let us not discuss the cost this has dropped on me, aside from saying goodbye to Christmas, but hello to an insurance claim.

So right now, I’m pretty on edge. The tree, while less of a threat, is still a concern until we get it gone completely. And there’s more storm on the way. The money is probably going to come from a credit card, just when I was nearly out of credit card debt. All and all my stress level, which has been on the decline, has now spiked in impressive fashion. I really need to work on my meditation. But, it could have been much worse, and we are probably totally in the clear now, so, let’s call it Epic Luck.