Posted by: Alex
I am not blonde. I’m sort of a reddish brown with some orange streaks at the moment, but underneath all that I’m still not blonde. But I was last night.
Seems like any change in weather round here prompts Eskom (electricity provider) to start load-shedding. A few days of rain and off they go again. Our power at home went off at around 6PM yesterday. I was still at work when Hunny sms’d me to let me know, and hint that I should pick up some take-aways. Not great for the healthy eating story, especially seeing as we’d had Nandos (minus the chips / wedgies, adding some veggies) the night before, and that’s the only healthy fast food I could think of. Then I had a brainwave: Woolies!
I stopped at Woolworths and got two ready cooked meals and some prepared veggies. I was a few blocks from home, smiling happily to myself for having pulled off another ready-made and still healthy meal when I noticed the traffic lights were out. “Ah yes” I think to myself “the power is out, Hunny told me, that’s why I stopped for take-aways”. But I didn’t get take-aways did I? I got Woolies prepared meals. Meals that require microwaving to finish them off and heat them up. Microwaves that work off electricity, electricity that we don’t have right now!
Suddenly I wasn’t feeling to bright anymore. Seems I dissociated the meals we needed from the reason we needed them, and cold Prawn Masala with raw spinach & butternut didn’t sound to appetizing.
Lucky for me, while pulling into my garage and trying to think of some way to tell Hunny about this that didn’t make me out to be a total idiot, the power came back on. A few microwave minutes later, dinner was served 
January 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Hi! I stumbled across your blog, and had to leave a comment about the load shedding, – (I live in SA too) why is it that as soon as the power goes out everyone wants coffee, or food. Have you noticed that? And some people actually get up to put the kettle on.
You have a fantastic blog.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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