No Light

Packing.  Honestly I really hate it.  I never know what I am going to want to wear and I never feel like I have everything I need.  I tell myself that I can always pick something up in a pinch, but that never seems to decrease the feeling that something is missing.

My family took a little road trip down to Kanab, UT to get a better viewing for the annular eclipse that took place a few months ago.  I began throwing together all of those necessities, clothes, hair stuff, phone charger, etc.  I became overwhelmed with this feeling to take my matches and candle sitting on my desk.

I thought I was going CRAZY!  Matches and a candle when I was going to be staying in a house?!! Really? I just couldn't get over it.  I put my matches in my backpack, but refused to bring a candle.  I then promptly forgot the entire insane episode.

We drove and drove and arrived in the middle of the night at our destination.  After unloading and getting set for some before bed internet playing I got so far as opening my laptop and with that slight popping noise everything went black.

There was absolutely zero light and in a strange house that is very disconcerting.

After confirming, via cell phone light, that the entire house and surrounding neighborhood was definitely powerless we went back to bed with unease.  Of course the things that ran through my mind were those most intensely scary episodes of Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer.  When I was finally able to drown out my thoughts slightly with my iPod I despairingly thought of that box of matches in my backpack with no candle.

Lesson learned.

My family takes eclipses very seriously. Since this was the first one visible from this part of the world in my life time this was news to me.

You see when I pictured driving clear to Kanab to stare at the sun for a couple of hours, one I thought we all must be a bit crazy and two all five of us sitting in the deseret next to a cactus wearing funny glasses.  As you can tell I wasn't far off.

Love y'all!