frozen in time

It's as if time is standing still until the power goes back on... I'm not sure why, since we have the previously mentioned big ass generator still running and keeping us powered up, but the whole situation with so many people being powerless, combined with the gas crisis and the lack of perishable items in the grocery stores is just causing an eerie sense that time standing still.  I have literally not left the house in a week, except to go for a run, and today I went for a 5 mile walk to CVS and actually ran into several people I knew along the way.  But I have not gotten into a VEHICLE to go anywhere since last Sunday!  With Tom around and always itching to go somewhere, he has done the grocery runs and I am the homebody.  There is something rather calming about it all.  I cannot really tell you where the days are going.  I had thought I would get so much done with so much time around the house, but it's like the days are a blur and nothing gets done other than making meals for everyone and checking my neighbors who are an older couple with no power at all - I've been helping keep the husband's laptop charged so he can play solitaire - a big priority!   Our laundry room is getting some extra activity from the neighbors in need of throwing a load in - it's the least we can do and I wish more of them would take advantage of the offer.  We keep watching the news over and over and it's hard to process the level of devastation.  I know we are so lucky only to have been 'inconvenienced' by the storm and I am trying hard to figure out exactly why I'm actually in a holding pattern, but I guess maybe deep down I just needed a break from the rat race.  Oh and we get an extra hour to do nothing because the clocks go back tonight!