(How's that for a clever title?) Sheesh, it feels like I haven't seen all y'all since last year. (har har.) In my defense, I have a handful of unfinished posts sitting on my computer, so it's not like I wasn't thinking of you. Really.
So it's a brand spanking shiny new year and we spent the whole day without flushing the toilet. About 6:00am, Greg was up and enthusiastically gearing up for his first day back at work after a long vacation when he realized we had no water. I don't know for certain that he was enthusiastically gearing up for his day at work because I was sound asleep, but I assume he was enthusiastic because the first thing he did when he realized there was no water was to put on a coat and crawl UNDER THE HOUSE in 20 degree weather. Yeah.
After finding apparently nothing under the house, he came shivering back into the bedroom and announced that, well, we had no water, which wouldn't really matter to me for a couple more hours, but I guess I should just be happy to be kept in the loop. Still trying to stay asleep, I mumbled that he should call the water company, which he did and lo! there was a water main break on the main road outside our neighborhood. Yay. I bet Greg wishes he'd called them before crawling around in the frozen skunk poo under the house.
At around noon, a call to the water company indicated it would be at least 4:00pm before our water was back on. Greg gave up waiting and went to the gym to shower and then on to work. The rest of us were not so lucky. By the time our water was turned back on around 7:30pm, we had been through a lot of Purell and I had sworn to myself to never again let a dirty roasting pan "soak" in the sink over night. Ew.
And the year is off with a crack and a whimper.
Yeah, our 2008 started out only slightly better than that.
Frozen skunk poo...
Man, how many times did I wish I could use that phrase?
I've missed you!
Posted by: Alisa | January 03, 2008 at 01:14 PM