The Evening..the Night and the Morning that I do not want to forget!! (Post 2)

I wanted to be at home by 6 00 PM and I reached at 7 30 PM. Good thing was there was food at home, and I simply had to heat it and eat it. I tried all the beauty products on my face, hair products on my hair, took a warm relaxing bath (nothing like it at the end of the day) and checked the social networking sites and it was 8 50 PM, Sowshee had already posted second blog for the day. Her enthusiasm was showing in... 

Usually I have a habit of eating very early, around 7 30 - 8 00 PM. But I wasn't so hungry yesterday and my house was also a little messy (not by regular cleaning standards, but then I do not follow them, I have my own, when it comes to cleaning the house!!), so, I started cleaning the house and washed utensils and finally, at 9 15 PM, I started feeling hungry. It was unusually dark for that time. In USA, it becomes a dark night only after 10 00 PM, at 9 30 PM, you still have sun out... may be you can say that it is the sunset twilight...

It was cloudy, so I figured that it was going to rain pretty hard.. the wind (which was hot, 3 hours ago), was chilly now. But I did not have any presumptions about what actually happened. Elkhart (which is about 40 - 45 miles away from us, that is only 1.5 hours of time), was going to be hit by a Tornado at 9 30 PM, which will pass the outskirts of Warsaw too.. (which, by the way, is the place, I live in). It did not bother me so much, because I did not know about it all...It was only when I wanted to heat my food in the microwave, the lights started flickering... on.. off..on..off...and just when I thought it stabilized, it totally went off... I immediately ran towards the glass door that we have to see if it my house or entire apartment, it was pitch dark. Tall trees were mindlessly oscillating right and left and making the hissing noise that I never heard before. Loud wind outside and dead drop silence inside, was scaring for a moment, but there was some light from the computer and therefore, I was not totally scared. It rained like crazy. The lightening and thunderstorms were maddening. I never saw anything like that before. I have to admit, I had no courage to look outside doors.. my blinds were draped. The food was there on the plate, with no means to heat it (the cooking range we have in house is also electric). I tried swallowing cold, slightly hard tortillas with refried beans (which I made a day before) but was very tough to eat cold. Hunger actually died with the darkness and rain that scared the daylights off me. The rain did not stop, the thunders were growing louder and louder and the trees (which added a lot of beauty to my porch in normal times) were crackling against each other and making wild destructive gestures. I wasn't scared of darkness anymore because of the continuous and blinding lightening. 

The only thing I could think of at that time was playing Shri Hanuman Chalisa at loudest volume so that I can stop thinking about the noises outside, which I did successfully. I did not eat the cold food. Kept it back in fridge. I have candles all over in my house, which look pleasant and smell heavenly. Yesterday night, I had all of them (6, I mean) lighted at the same time, with different fragrances from each. House smelled like some perfume shop or some candle shop with nauseatingly strong smell of too many things. I spoke to friends for some time, the electricity did not come, so, I had to stop doing that, or else my phone would be totally discharged. So, I decided to sleep, finally at 10 30 PM (which I had to work hard to get into!!). 

One last thing I had to do before sleeping was to call my mom, she had her US tourist Visa interview from Delhi Consulate today (24th June). I was a little guilty that I did not help her a lot in preparation. Therefore, the only thing was I could pray hard for her. I called her at the right time, she was leaving in 2 minutes. I told my father to message me as soon as she is done with her interview, if he won't message me, I will conclude that she did not get it. I wished her good luck and was in a mixed state of feeling hungry, sleepy, irritated, frightened and may be more, which I cannot remember now. The rain seemed to have slowed down, but lightening and thunders did not. Slowly, I sank in to sleep. 

All of a sudden there was a loud noise and a very very bright light right on my face. The power came, I checked the time - it was 12 00 AM. I totally woke up then, and worked hard on getting in to sleep again. I do not know when I slept, but a totally disturbed sleep that it was, I woke again at 4 00 AM and could not sleep thereafter till dawn. I checked the cell phone and there was no message from him regarding my mom's interview, so I knew the result and that upset me so much that it was very difficult for me to close my eyes. Finally, the alarm rang and I started feeling sleepy, so sleepy, that I had to get up like that and the sleepiness is still there, even as I write this.  With a heavy heart I called up my father to ask what happened and why did she lost the interview, at 7 15 AM. He picked and told me that "she got it" and he simply forgot to message me. I was not sure if the happiness about her visa or my irritation (that since there was no message, I could not even sleep properly) dominated me. 

So, that was an evening, a night and a morning that left me hungry, scared and sleepless. But my mom got the visa, and so as some one rightly said, alls well that ends well!! 

Love,
Raji