Troubled!!

For days I have been telling my husband that the electricity was running low, and from my side he didn’t seem too perturbed if at all. Last night before we went to bed it was down to 2 units and I told him, but he managed to curl up in bed and seems like he slept well…well so did I, but then I woke up this morning.

At first, I didn’t know if it was just the Loadshedding or if we had in fact run out of electricity.

Load shedding is an energy utility’s method of reducing demand on the energy generation system by temporarily switching off the distribution of energy to certain geographical areas.

This all started in about 2007 and over the years it has only gotten worse. There are days when some areas in the country don’t have electricity for 10 – 12 hours of the day. Now humans are smart so many have capitalized on this and so many have found a way to live through times of darkness.

Now I live in a flat so Solar Panel or generator is not possible, and since I am basically the only one keeping a roof over our heads, I haven’t been able to budget for the other forms of electricity. I keep looking at renting an Inverter, and it is affordable, but I can’t include that in the budget right now…

So, after looking at the schedule, I realized that we weren’t experiencing any load shedding…

So, the electricity has run out. Now I know I can purchase electricity and make everything better…and the fact that all the food that I recently purchased will be going off and just the pure discomfort of not having that luxury really made me want to give in and buy electricity this morning, but I have been holding strong.

If he can purchase a Mercedes Benz 2 door car, yes, he purchased it on credit so he is paying monthly for it, and if she can smoke a few cigarettes a day, then they can budget to purchase a few hundred rands of electricity a month.

He told me last night about how his sister has not been eating for 2 days. What the Fuck must I do? I never said that she mustn’t eat…

Last night when he saw the courier box and I told him it was his bday gift, he asked if I could return it and use that money to buy electricity…well I can return it, but they would give me credit and besides that why should I sacrifice a gift that I want to give him just to make life easier.

Part of me suspects that he just assumed I would sort this out like I always do…not this time!!