flipping the switch

AHHHHH, nothing starts your morning better than your house being plunged into total darkness (scaring the bejesus out of your two small kids) and then a brisk walk in your pajama's out to the breaker box located in the wall out front of our house (because of course it wasn't the switch IN the house that flipped).  These are just one of the little "hitches/glitches" of life in Italy.  Apparently, I can't run the tv, coffee maker and dryer at the same time!!!!