What Next?

So here I am caterwauling about not having hot water, thinking how tough my life is and then the Gods decided to throw a Lightning Fireball my way and blow some stuff up..just for kicks!

Well… I awoke with such a fright I literally jumped out of bed with my heart racing in my chest and my panties bunched between my butt cheeks. The room was lit up like a christmas tree followed by a cracking sound that seemed to last forever.. complete darkness and silence……then the alarm suddenly came to life and went on to scream at us incessantly with no way to turn it off it would seem and we were left fumbling in the dark trying to rip the battery out.

This is bad.. Very Very Bad..My heart hangs heavy as I realise what has happened.. I do a head count and the kids are fine.. SexyG holds me tight and tells me he loves me.. I feel better and hold onto him as tightly as I can.

There was no storm.. there was no rain.. it was just a stray bolt of lightning…a stray bolt of lightning???..is that scary or what??!?!?!?

It is 3.45am…We need to assess the damage and check everything. We can smell something has burnt.. we need to check things quickly. We go to the office and as we walk in we are met by the most godawful smell and the shattered remains of our wall clock lying all over the floor in different directions. All the telephone lines are melted, the jackpoints fried and the office pc’s no longer looking alive… I sigh.. hang my shoulders low and proceed to make sure there is nothing detrimentally dangerous lying about..

The landlady rings at this point.. she is frantically upset.. she can’t turn her alarm off either.. and we go and see what we can do to help. And what we saw amazed and humbled us even further..

Her main-en-suite would appear to be Ground Zero with the roof blown off above the shower and her window and lights shattered. The silver behind her bathroom window was also melted off. There were a few other windows smashed in the house and some appliances dead to the world..

She is lucky to be alive.. her bed is right next the the bathroom!

Afterwards I return to the office to lock up and get the kids up and ready for school and she comes down and asks me what the time is.. I told her the clock was obviously hit by the force of the lightning and is broken on the floor and point to some of its parts.. she then says oh good now we will know exactly what time it happened..??!?!?!?!?! I point to a few of the pieces and say ja.. it mustve happened at 10 past the tile ?!?!?!?!?! I don’t think she heard me though.. cos she went on to talk about something else at this point..

After this experience I am truly humbled.. and I am now looking at things in a different light. Having a cold shower.. not so nice.. getting hit by a freak lightning bolt.. devastating.

I will get through this.. I am abit unsettled by things but I have put on my Big Girl panties and getting on with things for now.. I will have plenty time later to overthink things.. plenty time, I am sure…