Tulsa, OK

So, I’m watching tv last night with my husband (yay! electricity!), and while we’re watching “A Holiday Celebration at Ford’s Theatre” I notice that every couple of minutes the camera cuts to the audience. Now I know they are trying to impress us with all the rich, famous, and powerful that they’ve managed to put in the seats. My problem is, that I can NEVER afford tickets to an event like that. So stop making me watch the spoiled rich people who CAN afford tickets instead of the show. I want to watch the talented people onstage, not the over-indulged socialites in the audience.

So please, please, please - stop cutting to the audience during performances on shows like this. It’s annoying at best.

Okay, that’s my rant for today. Now to get back to cleaning up from the storm. The inside of our house is pretty much back to normal, but the roof needs repaired and the front yard is still covered in tree debris.

It’s going to be ages before Tulsa has it all cleaned up. I get sad every time I have to drive anywhere lately. There isn’t a street in town that isn’t full of shattered trees and devastated limbs scattered on the ground.

My kids have taken to saying, “Have a Merry tree and power killing Christmas this year”. I heard that so many times last week, that I just had to tell them to “stop it, it just isn’t funny anymore”. Of course, on your fifth or sixth day without power, not much is funny.