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I know you must all think I fell off the planet, and in a way I did. Where I live was one of the worst hit areas of the ice storm earlier this month. My whole town looks like a bomb went off…trees down everywhere, houses damaged, the whole town without electricity or water, most without heat and no place to go (at least the first few days because the roads and highways were blocked with trees and power lines). The whole county was without electric for nearly a week…gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, Walmart…everything. It was absolute hell!

I had two trees fall on my house and seven more just explode into splinters in my back yard. When the trees fell on my house they ripped the electrical service off and planted my air conditioner into the ground. I was without electricity for nearly three weeks because I had to have the trees removed from the roof and get on a list to have an electrician come and rebuild my electrical service. The town cut the water service because the water plant was without electricity to filter the water, so we were all without water for two weeks. With no electricity, I also had no heat…many days and nights were spent in this house wrapped up in 2 pairs of pants, 3 shirts, a coat, hat and in a sleeping bag because it was 45 degrees indoors.

I just got my electricity back at the end of last week, so as you can imagine I am very behind with my emails and postings. The updates have been preloaded (thank goodness), so there was no interruption in the content.

I would love to hear if any of you had any problems with the weather. We can bond over horror stories… I have a friend in town that I went to visit and she cooked me pancakes on her floor furnace. It’s amazing how imaginative people get when they have to.

I’m back now and even though I’m getting over being sick, I’m happy. I have heat, power, water and all the other modern conveniences.

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I just got home a couple of days ago from traveling and am already making plans to hit the road again.  This is going to be a busy 2009!  AVN attendance was down this year and a lot of people that I hook up with to shoot cancelled out so I ended up not going either.  Instead of spending a week in Vegas where it was 65-70 degrees, I spent a week in Chicago where it was 20 below.  Yikes!  It was a good week and I had a lot of fun, but damn it was frickin’ cold!

I got back and my poor dogs were so depressed. I guess they thought I was never going to come home.  This was a particularly long trip, I was gone for over 10 days and I was ready to be home too.  I’ll get to chill out with them and spend some quality time before hitting the road again the first week of February.  No rest for the weary girl…lol.

Tomorrow I plan to be in front of the TV to participate in the Inauguration events. I’m ready for this to be official.  This whole transition has seemed to take a long time.  I guess I’m just ready for Bush to be out the door and for Obama and his team to officially be able to start making some changes.  I know it’s going to take a long time to right the ship, but it’s definitely time for a change.  Are you guys going to watch?  Any fellow Obama supporters out there?

This morning me and the boys (my dogs) are headed over to the animal shelter to do a little volunteer work.  The doggies over there need a little attention and my dogs love to go play with their friends.  It’s really very cute.

I hope you all are staying warm, having fun, and enjoying the new year.  Keep your heads up…things are going to change for the better!

erin My Travels, Politics