All I want for Christmas...

It is a reality check on that phrase when you realize that rather than the latest gizmo or the greatest desert, you more desperately need one of lifes neccessities. Like electricity. When they flipped the switch and lifted the crane to the huge transformer outside our gate Andrew asked when we would get power. (this was on the 23rd of December) They assured us that we would have it by 5. Steph and I got home from our practices at 7 - to candlelight. We called and lodged a complaint then went out for dinner - noting that all our neighbors had light. After dinner there was still no power. So we called again. And again. And again. And assured them that the man was not here working on it, and no he was not in the neighborhood. Finally we went to bed...hoping for the best. Christmas eve dawned without the familiar hum of the refrigerator or the smell of breakfast cooking. So we called again. then we went to town and hunted down the electrician and brought him here to fix the problem. Were we ever glad when the expert finally arrived. He studied the situation astutely, picked up a stick and whacked the box with the connection to our house. Ta-da, there was light! So now the smells of chrismas baking are filling the house once again, we can play our christmas music and we are generally light hearted. (get it? I know, I know)