Things You Learn From Losing Power In An Ice Storm

1) Your fish may die, or just freeze to the point that they're listless and you think they're dead.
2) Don't throw your fish out until you're sure they're dead. They don't like to be flushed when they're still alive.
3) Don't go grocery shopping the day before a storm, or leave the groceries in the yard so they don't go bad.
4) Grocery shop when the power comes back on or you'll starve since all your food went bad.
4) Two cats and a dog in the car are a bad combination if you have a headache.
5) Disconnect you're alarm or it will go off at weird hours when the power finally comes back.
6) You're house gets cold.
7) Putting a robe on, then donning a blanket doesn't make you move any faster when you're freezing.
8) When it's cold, you have to pee more.
9) Even though you use heating oil, that doesn't mean your furnace works.
10) Carbon monoxide detectors make a hideous sound when the battery is low.
11) An emergency flashlight that goes on when the power goes out will not last the night.
12) Don't pack in the dark.
13) You will forget to reset your timed lights.
14) Two cats and a dog with you at your parents house doesn't make for on time departures for work.
15) Two cats and a dog like to play games in the morning when you're running late for work.
16) An anti-social, highly neurotic cat will not come to you when you try to put them in their box.
17) That strange, guttural cry for "Mom" is your cat being in a strange place wanting to go home.
18) A twin bed is smaller that you remember it.
19) When the dog has the foot of the bed, and the cats have the pillow, the only part of a twin bed that's yours is the edge.
20) It's easy to fall out of a bed.
21) A hot house and an old dog who's bladder has shrunk is a bad, bad thing.
22) No matter how anyone else feels, if your dad is cold, then the heat will be turned up to 90.
23) When you finally get back home, nothing feels as good as being in your own bed and crowded out by two cats and a dog who want to get under the covers with you.