Lady Sybil is behaving like a frightened mouse! I really must make a plan to set up the small bedroom for her during the day! I just don't know what mippies problem is with her ...
I keep forgetting to buy electricity ... it's getting pretty low ... I meant to buy on Tuesday, then on Wednesday ...
Went to bed in time for load shedding ... played with Sybil for quite a while. She LOVES the dangly fishy! Around nine, I went to sleep ...
Woke up around eleven. Power still off! Crap! I need the fan to start wooshing the blerry mosquitoes away from me! Not gonna happen, though ... so, I get up, douse myself in Eau de Buzz-off, turned on the Wifi Router, reported the power outage, then turned on my desk air con - just for a short while. Just enough to cool me down enough to be able to go back to sleep ...
I woke up to the alarm, followed by the new neighbour turning on their generator. I had just enough coffee left for my morning and for work. Cold, by now, of course. Sigh ...
On the way to work, I saw a fleet of police coming the opposite way ... crime is seriously getting out of control. Completely! Law-abiding is purely a personal choice ... there is no visible policing to prevent crime, and the police don't have the resources to successfully investigate crime. So 99% of criminals have nothing to fear ... even if they are caught, they mostly get off ... or simply escape, if they don't have enough money to pay for a 'get off free' bribe.
Gauteng has just spent Billions to recruit and train 4000 crime prevention wardens. Most of that money was spent on their luxury vehicles, I gather - they will be driving brand new BMWs! I just don't know anymore ... my neck is sore from all the head shaking in disbelief!
Well, it's Thursday, and that means grocery shopping. I finished my spaghetti last night - but I don't feel like more of the same tonight. I haven't taken anything out of the freezer ... so ... what's for dinner tonight? Well, that also depends on whether I have electricity tonight!
Okay, I'll get two packets of chicken drum sticks - I can eat dinner, and add any left overs to the next batch of cat food. And in case I don't have electricity, I'll also get a packet of processed sausages, aka viennas. I'll have a look at Spar, whether they have a sauce I feel like adding ...
I also need cheese and chicken hearts. And I've decided to make chicken broth this weekend. I'll get some chicken feet to add. My biggest problem with that will be storage. I think the snack bags I use for seeds could work - they should hold 1 cup's worth?
Well, I've spent a tad more than I had planned. No regrets, though. I bought a strainer - I couldn't find mine, last time I wanted to use it. And, anyway, I inherited it from my mum - so it's about two decades old, and I remember it had started a bit of rust. Toilet paper was on special, as was long life milk. Although, today's 'special' price exceeds anything I could ever have imagined paying for milk! It's almost criminal!
I also got toothpicks, so I can maybe grow some avos - I 'planted' the pits without the tooth picks, and they're not sprouting. I got ziplock bags for the flour - those are expensive! They didn't have any 'sandwich' sized ziplock bags, only the snack sized ones, which I already have. At the butchery, the only change of plan was, that I bought Sinha's rolls (spiced mince wrapped in a thin slice of beef) instead of viennas.
No news on the power outage, yet. Load shedding at 12 ... power has been off since eight last night!
By the way, I tried the 'toast frozen slices of bread' thing last night. Works perfectly! Yes, the bread is a bit soggy - but only because I eat it only the next day. At the time, it was perfectly standard toast!
Still no power ... it's just almost four! On a positive note, though: apparently my landlord is already planning on installing solar panels! So far, we've been without electricity for 20 hours!
I'll update the total hours in the heading tomorrow morning, IF power comes on at all tonight ... though I sincerely hope it does! Frankly, load shedding is bad enough, but the power outages on top of that? Getting a bit much now ...
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