Welp, a pipe burst inside my heat/ac unit last night. Had to turn off the water and since my heat is powered by hot water I have no water AND no heat. It's the coldest day of the year and colder than it usually ever gets here. Right now it's 65 inside which really isn't too terrible but if this doesn't get fixed soon. Plus, this is really not what I want to spend money on right before the holidays.
Thank goodness I can work from home while I wait on repair guys.
I slept pretty well last night, I think, except when I woke up this morning my bed was in utter chaos. Clearly I was dreaming about something violent. PF slept all night (thank goodness) and was in the exact same position she was in when I checked on her before I went to bed. I'm convinced she was so out that she never moved a muscle.
Prednisone is still fucking with my sleep. I couldn't fall asleep lady night until after 1am and I'm awake after maybe 5 hours of sleep, probably less. Ugh. Right now I'm leaning over my humidifier breathing in the warm mist.
I am off next week. Therefore, my motivation level is zero today. I anticipate it being zero all week long. I am excited, however, as I am going to a presentation tonight on training for triathlon season. Woot!
Plumber will be here between noon-2pm. I also have the heat guy scheduled to come out this afternoon as well. I'm pretty sure it's a plumbing issue but the water that leaked last night may have also created a heat unit issue as well so I'm not taking any chances.
I'm currently sitting on my couch in flannel pj bottoms, a t-shirt, a big fluffy sweater, and a scarf. Ugg slippers on my feat and a blanket on my lap. I'm pretty toasty.
One of bear's acquaintances (old high school "friend" who we can't seem to shake, every time we think she's gone, she needs something and pops up again) texted last night... they're moving and their next house won't be ready for a month. She needs space to store a dishwasher and a refridgerator and needs someone to watch their two dogs for a month. When are they moving...? They have to be out today.
We agreed to store their dishwasher and refridgerator in the garage. We declined to take the dogs, told her we don't have space or desire to keep the dogs (male, non-neutered pits) since we already have 2 dogs, 3 cats and 4 kids (one of whom (my DS) is still trying to get comfortable with the dogs we have).
The chick and her H came over last night, 3 hours late with no phone call. We hung out in the kitchen and talked for a few minutes, then went outside to unload the appliances. Bear went out first, then chick's H, then the chick and she slammed the door shut on my face. Bear's sons saw and looked at me like "WTF was that about".
So, I get outside and find that they no longer need to store their refridgerator, but they brought the dishwasher, a grill, a bike and 3 MINIVANS FULL OF BOXES AND GARBAGE BAGS. They're lucky bear just cleaned out the garage last week and we had space for all of it. The best part... they had one of the dogs with them. They found someone to keep the one dog, but the second one is untrained (pees in the house), whines 24/7 (no joke, even when he's sleeping) and they can't find anyone to keep him (shocker).
While they were unloading, I pulled bear aside and told him what happened with the door. He was pissed. Just after that, chick pulls him aside and asks if it's really ok that they store stuff there because I seem put out by it. He told her that I'm just pissed off because she slammed the door in my face, called her a bitch and refused to speak with her any more. He dealt only with her H after that.
And now for the dog. Since DS spent the night with my mom, we agreed to keep the dog for one night only. They have to be back by 6 pm take their dog or he'll be dropped off at the local no-kill. They weren't kidding about the dog. He whined all.night.long. The boys came upstairs at 5:30 this morning looking completely exhausted. Not a one of us got any sleep last night. We decided that 6pm cannot come soon enough.
Chirp you guys are so much nicer than I would've been.
That was all bear. He just wants to help people. He grew up somewhat poor and they relied on family and charity. Now that he's an adult, he tries to give back. He knew that the chick was being a bitch, but her H had no idea. He thought this was all consented to and planned... not a last minute, treat people like shit as we take advantage of your kindness kind of thing. Bear was nice for the H's sake, not for hers.
She did something similar to him last year and realized that she played him. Once they pick up their stuff next month, that'll be the last of them. He hates being disrespected and made to look like a fool.
Me... I was ready to tell them to leave the property when that see-you-next-tuesday slammed the door in my face.
How it warms up soon kaneen. The worst possible thing that could have happened!
Chirp I have no idea how you stayed so civil. Why are you doing these people any favors!?
I, ah, might have looked up the price of Nickleback concert tickets.
I have no idea. I think the chick's mom helped his mom when he was a kid. Free babysitting ersumshit. So he felt like he needed to help, to pay back the favor. But, she's now played him too many times. He'll tolerate behavior like that once. The second time, he torches the bridge.
Sorry to hear your still sick tiramisu. The only thing I want to do when I'm sick is sleep. I hope you can get some good rest soon!
kaneen that really sucks, but I'm glad you were able to get people out so quickly. We had an issue with our power last year during the coldest part of winter and had to survive without heat for three days before the power company came out.
Holy cow, Chirp, you're a better woman than I am to not have thrown her out the door! (edited to tag Chirp correctly)
I overslept this morning, Then, I got to work and couldn't get the room that I needed to work in unlocked for 30 min because the deadbolt was stuck. Not a great start to the day. I'm looking forward to leftover pad thai for lunch...hopefully that will cheer me up!
There's a person over on CE&P who is complaining about not being able to make pork dishes during their family vacation because she has one sister who doesn't eat pork.
I am DYING to post a gif of the Pulp Fiction pork conversation, but I can't find one. "Pork chops are good! Bacon is good!"
The month of December will be hell at work. We don't yet have a benefit plan in place that meets the ACA. We are supposed to have an LMS set up for certain employees and I have heard from the coordinator once in the last 4 months.
I hate having to wait on people to get shit done. So I am going away from the coordinator and setting up the LMS my damn self. They are no help, despite being about 3 times larger than us and more organized in their implementation process.
Holy cow, Chirp, you're a better woman than I am to not have thrown her out the door! (edited to tag Chirp correctly)
I overslept this morning, Then, I got to work and couldn't get the room that I needed to work in unlocked for 30 min because the deadbolt was stuck. Not a great start to the day. I'm looking forward to leftover pad thai for lunch...hopefully that will cheer me up!
My gate was frozen shut this morning. Must be a theme, lol. It took me 20 minutes to get it open.
So my heat/water issue is one or the other....or maybe both. It's hard to say and even without seeing anything I'm getting hemming and hawing for the plumber saying it's an HVAC issue and HVAC guy hinting its a plumbing issue. I have both coming and lo and behold, they are randomly going to be here at the same time. The heat/water gods are smiling on me today!!!!
SwimDeep thank you. I'll get better, it always gets worse first. Also, I'll probably be able to get some sleep once I'm no longer on prednisone. That stuff is messing up my sleep big time.