Electricity

Is a good thing. It makes laundering easy and effortless, it enables you to play music and have light in the house even if it's dark outside, and it keeps your food cold and your shower warm (though not hot, let's not get carried away here).

So not having it for two days was a bit bum. Apparently some trees fell over the lines up by the reserve and that took a while to fix. After all, it was raining (which apparently it does a lot here, who'd thunk) so the repairmen preferred to sit in the truck and wait it out.

After it was fixed it only took me a half hour to lose it again though. And then it stayed off for two days until I finally figured out what was wrong; someone didn't pay the electricity bill even though that someone said she'd done so... That felt a little foolish. Now the bill's paid so hopefully it'll be back on once I get back from town today. Keep your fingers crossed!