Eat Your Tea And Stop Acting Like It's January 18th

Silk Road has some pretty weird teas. We ordered this one green tea. It has rice in the tea leaves. RICE.

At first I didn't know this. Dad told me he was "eating his tea" and I'm pretty sure his painkillers for his tooth infection were just kicking in and he was rather confused. At the time I had also guessed it was part of some joke. 

But it got weird when he said it again a few days later. 

"I'm eating my tea."

And then I was like, "I'm not following." And he was like, "It has rice in it. You eat it. Obvie." And then I'm like, "STOP SAYING 'OBVIE.' IT'S INCREDIBLY IRRITATING."

The power plant had scheduled a power outage from 4am to 4pm. Last night, we grabbed flashlights, charged the battery pack, and set out candles. We were scared. Dad called Grandpa and told him to prepare the generator--Dad put fresh fuel in ours. Mom saved her projects and work on the computer. 

Because a while ago, I recieved a call from a robot lady explaining the power outage to me. And she mentioned January 17th and 18th. On the 17th, we have an outage only when we're asleep. On the 18th, we have an outage 4am to 4pm. Of course, when I recieved the call, I didn't even know the date. 

Then, when I woke up this morning, I expected the power to be out. But of course, it wasn't. I thought they had secretly postponed or even canceled the outage, but when Dad recieved an email, he told us that it was the 17th and the 18th. 

Today is the 11th. 

Holy crap. 

I blame the rice tea.