Lights Out!

So...

I was laying in bed around 8:30 p.m. last night, watching television and crocheting. I have no idea what I was watching, and I should not have been laying down crocheting (because I REALLY mucked it all up and kept having to throw away squares)

When all of a sudden I hear

***BOOM***

A HUGE explosion occurred down the street.

A split second later, all power went dead.

*a moment of silence*

*Lee laying stark still on the bed, eyes shifting left and right*

When the lights didn't come back on in a few seconds-

The.
Drama.
Began.

LadyLee: *leaping from bed like she'd been bit by something*

"Yooooooo!! Nooooooooooooo!" I yelled. Uh, I have no idea why I was yelling. I walked into the kitchen, kept hollering. Then, I figured that wasn't the best idea.

LadyLee: "Kentuuuuuuckkkkkkky" [my sister].
Kentucky: "Yes, Lisa?"

I swear. That girl is soooo doggone calm. This irked me to no end.

LadyLee: "The lights is off!!!!! *I hurl my crochet needle at that cat Kramer. He scrambled for cover.* "UGGGGGGGGGGGH! AAAAAAARRRRGH"
Kentucky: *silence*

LadyLee: "I can't believe this! AAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!! I have stuff to do!!!"
Kentucky: "It's alright, Lisa."

I was glad that she wasn't standing there next to me. She was upstairs in her room. I would've pushed her if she was near me. She is soooo doggone calm.

I headed for the cordless phone in the kitchen. couldn't use them. Got even madder when I remembered that I'd thrown away my bootleg wall phone.

LadyLee: "Kentucky, dial up my cell phone. I don't know where it is!"

She dials it. There is no answer.

LadyLee: *wails out of control*

LadyLee: "Gimme your phone, girl!"

Kentucky came downstairs and gave me her phone. I sat down on the sofa and called Georgia Power. I couldn't get a human, only a machine. They said that the power would be back on by 11:30 p.m.

I screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Kentucky came back downstairs with a stylish tote bag.

LadyLee: "Where are you going?"
Kentucky: "Nowhere." She sat down at the dining room table and pulled her laptop out of her tote. "I have homework to do, and it's too dark upstairs."

That was the right answer. She would've gotten tackled if she tried to leave me sitting there in the dark.

I peaked through the window blinds. There were people out in the street. I don't like going outside, because I am not the most neighborly chick, but I got real nosy. Of course my wonderful neighbors Paul and Stan were outside. I decided to talk to them.

Lee: "Yo, what happened!?"
Stan: "Hiya LadyLee!!"

*I kicked the hard eyeroll. I did NOT feel like talking to these dudes!*

Stan: "A tree limb fell and hit the wires. It blew up the transformer. There was a fire, LadyLee. Imagine if that would've happened in the middle of the night! Some houses would've burned down, and-"

I didn't hear anything else he said. I walked back in the house.

LadyLee: "Got dog. That Stan talk too much. I asked dude a simple question, he gotta come up with more!"

Kentucky: "You know, they've probably been calling Geo.rgia Power. Those light's will be on in no time."

She was probably right. But I didn't want to hear it.

I peaked through the blinds again. Every negro in the world was down on the corner. This is the usual deal, as the prostitutes and drug dealers, and the "police lookout people" hang out down there. So naturally I thought some mess went down.

A year ago, a dude named Bird was shot on that corner. I heard later from the Mayor of my neighborhood Snake that Bird was part of a check fraud scheme and wasn't splitting up the money right. (Snake proceeded to lecture me on the need for honesty between conspirators when running schemes. *crickets*). I remember when my neighbor Tiny came to get me so we could go be nosy about that situation. I grabbed my camera (because you KNOW I was going to get a picture), and we walked down there. By that time, the body was gone, and all the Law and Order looking detectives were swarming around. We split after that.

But I decided not to walk down to the corner. It was getting dark.

And I was still walking around the house... hollering.

The sun had already set, and it was around 9:00, which means it was dark. I had no idea where the candles were, and wasn't about to look for any.

I remembered a box of tealight candles my Auntie Joyce had given to me a couple of Christmas' ago. I lit all 12 of them and sat them around the kitchen, dining room and living room (all one big great room in my little house, lol). My place looks REALLY cool in the candlelight.

Kentucky pecked away on her laptop. I stretched out on the couch. I was all hollered out.

Kentucky and I talked for awhile. We discussed a couple of issues. And you know me, I ask a BUNCH of questions just to see where your head is at.

We were loooong overdo for a "Big sista to little sista" talk. That was quite nice.

So out of darkness....

Came the marvelous light.

I closed my eyes for a moment. I heard my sister say

"Lisa, the lights are back on!"

"No they are not!", I yelled.

"Yes they are."

I heard the air conditioner kick back on. A faint glow of light peeked out of my bedroom.

I jumped up so fast that I scared the cats, lol.

"We got light!!!" I yelled. "Let there be light!!! Wooooo-hooooooo!"

Kentucky went back up upstairs. I headed back into my room.

The.
Drama.
Ended.

We need more light "drama", though.

So my baby sister and I can bond once again.