yanked!

So, yesterday morning, as Kela was quietly watching her "playhouse disney" cartoons while I slept soundly...I was rudely woken up by a loud ripping sound. After looking outside (and the snowstorm on the T.V, along with the sad expression on my daughter's face) I realized that a large tree-cutting truck (with those ladder buckets on top) had driven by and yanked out the cable cord from my house! And then kept on driving away as though nothing had happened! I was quite upset...but wasn't about to run out after the truck in my pj's, so I called the cable company and told them my sad tale and they promised they'd fix it by that afternoon. The price we pay for living in a small (in every way, but in this instance, height) house on a private road with low hanging wires everywhere...not pretty.

The cable cord that's supposed to be attached to my house...

Needless to say, I wasn't about to stick around in my tiny little house on a beautiful day watching Dora and Wiggles DVD's so we decided to drive out to my sister's in Hau'ula (which is about an hour's drive away...here in Hawaii, that's the other side of the island) and we spent the day out there. And when we came home 6 hours later, voilla! Our internet and cable were back on. Surprising...especially for Hawaii. Things here tend to take waaay longer than people say because, we'll, I shouldn't go into details as to why, they just do.