Good Afternoon!
Thankfully Miss Kelli has called and woken me up from a nap or I swear I would have slept 'til the New Year...
Am thinking I spoke too soon yesterday. (Hence the title today; to follow up from yesterdays' blog title).
I woke about 2 this morning. Casey was up til after 4~ She put Punk out and says, "Mom, it's snowing!"
(And even in that wee hour I had the sense to grab the camera)...
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Not too sure what to make of it all;
'cept that her paws were a bit cold and she made hasty~waste to get back inside!
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Yes, well you get the picture...
(And I shall never again blog about someone elses snow if we have none)!
And what a day yesterday was...
Still fuming mad about how it began.
On these colder days, I always leave my dishes 'til the next morning because doing said dishes then always warms me up. I have been dumping my kitchen sink water because the darned drain never works right. And have been doing this for a couple weeks now.
Not too sure how it is all connected, but when I dump my sink water there are times that it comes back up through the drain in the back entrance; and gets that laundry room floor all wet.
No biggie, but I was tired of carrying my water either outside, or down the toilet.
The drain was plugged and it was high time to fix it again.
And so I rolled up my sleeves and got busy.
I pulled the drain in the back entrance, poured about 3 gallons of boiling water down it. (If you heat the drains/pipes up, the drain cleaner works much better). I also poured a bunch of boiling water down the kitchen sink drain...
Going to the shelves over the basement stairway to get my magic bottles of drain cleaner, I hear a noise in the basement...
(NOTE: This noise fell under "wtf" when I realized I was hearing water, dripping).
(Knowing full well that I wouldn't like whatever I saw, I went down there anyway). And I had a little puddle of putrid water that I did not want to contend with...
So the heck with my little project. I will deal with it later; (and 'til then I shall carry my stupid dishes water outside).
Just about that time, the oil man came, (leaving me grasping my heart and staggering like Redd Foxx)...
There was a time (in the not too distant past I might add), that I could heat my entire home for less than $500.00 season.
That time has passed. (Thanks GW).
With this heart~attack~bill I realize it is already 30% higher for this first fill alone!
So now I have half my dishes done, and a huge oil bill. (At least my hands were warm).
My plumbers wife was diagnosed with MS and he has little time left over to be putting new pipes in an old house. I hate that it is cold (and that I hate plumbing in the first place).
And I especially hate knowing how messy it will be to pull those pipes apart and to replace them all. (That and the fact that my house was smelling like 'drain' after I had dumped that hot water down).
Give me a damn break already!!! 
And with that, the phone rang...
A perfect breath of fresh air as that call was friend of mine from this wonderful 360~World! Visiting Chicago, and told me she was on her way up here.
But NO!!! My whole house stinks! ...(That ain't gonna work).
YOKES!
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She didn't have the time to get here, visit, and then get back to Chicago; so Casey and I met her halfway!
Whew...
How cool is this???
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We had a grand time visiting, giggling like a bunch of schoolgirls, until she had to get back to Chi~Town.
(Much too short of a visit, but plenty wonderful too)!
She is wonderfully warm and ever so funny!
We even chattered long enough for my Xanax to wear off. And I had a nasty time getting back home, but absolutely worth every second of that too!
Didn't sleep too well last night, but at least got a few hours in. And with Kellis call earlier came a favor to run down there and to check on the water for the horses. Seems her tank heater decided not to work last night and she was trying her level best then to get them water for the day. Casey and I will go check that out shortly for her.
Life. ~Ain't it grand?!? ... (even if your home is a little stinky)...
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XOXO
Anne
Originally posted on yahoo 360, Tuesday November 27, 2007 - 02:27pm (CST)
