I thought the fireworks were over?

Since Sky was at a sleepover Saturday night, we went to see Sicko with FunkyB & Doug. Some creative accounting is how we managed to “afford” it. I think it was his best film yet. It wasn’t full of the usual antics that got him so loved/hated over the years. I sure want to move to France now but being I am not an EU national, it would be next to impossible to get work permits :P Sky also opposes this idea because he says “I know German Mom, not French!”.

Sunday FunkyB took Sky to see the newest Harry Potter film while we tried to finish the floor. This has become a tradition between them so he takes Sky to see all of the movies in that series now. A huge thanks to “Uncle FunkyB” for paying for everything. Sky really enjoyed it and I overheard him playing outside yelling spells at invisible enemies. Come on, he’s 10 after all!

We haven’t had a thunderstorm in a long time that caused problems but one rolled through rather quickly on Sunday. Sorry Inga, I know you wanted to experience one. I was researching some stuff on the internet and it got really dark. The lightning got closer and closer until it was over the top of us. The first big strike knocked off my computer, the second huge boom/flash I could feel through the cell phone I was on so I quickly hung up. I realized the dog was outside and it was pouring so I tried to get her to brave it and come out of the shelter she’d found under the stairs. She finally ran in right as another gigantic flash came that made me scream and slam the door shut. Everyone knows I am not scared of thunder and lightning so you should know it was HUGE. That one knocked out our cable, fried Skylar’s TV and set off my battery operated alarm clock which was not set to go off (had to remove the batteries to get it to stop). Apparently it hit the next door neighbors’ wires. They lost a computer and the neighbors on the other side lost 2 TVs.

Luckily my APC just needed to have the breaker tripped then my computer worked again (I was really worried about that of course) but it fried our cable modem so we had to swap it out and had no internet until the following day. We currently have no network because it fried our Linksys router and Mau’s computer took a hit so it is disabled. I am awaiting a call from our insurance company to see if we have a claim and can be reimbursed for what we will need to replace. You can be sure that the next time there’s lightning in the area, I will be unplugging all electronics!