Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dear Mother Earth,

I know I dissed you a few posts back, refusing to comply with Earth Hour.  However, I think your revenge has gone far enough.  First you shut off all my electricity for 24 hours and now you have stomped your big high-heeled foot all over the UK and northern Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/dhtml_slides/10/iceland_volcano/img/4iceland_volcano466.jpg

 I have waited eight, yes eight, long years to travel back to England.  I have packed and re-packed, checked and re-checked travel information, advised everyone who needed to be advised (and a few who didn't), papered my home with Post-It notes, had nightmares about plane crashes, basically I have worked through every possible worst-case scenario...except this one.  Who could have imagined that a volcano in Iceland could shut down miles and miles and miles of airspace?  And why this week?  And here I was worried about an impending strike by fuel-pump persons at YVR.  

I'm sorry, Mother.  I will never do it again.  Next year I will turn off all my stuff for two hours.  Just please blow all that crap out of my way by Monday, ok? 

2 comments:

kate said...

Go plant something, quick!

Oiyi said...

Wow, it sounded like so much fun!