..I know I posted the weekend from hell..but really that is what it's like here most of the time. Chaotic crap-tacular (there's that word again;-) ) shit just seems to follow me. And I don't fight it. I like change, just not always so in-your-face. I hate routine and hum drum..things the same day after day..echhh.
But really. After that weekend, Monday was a nice quiet 'normal' day. Except hubby brought me a long-stemmed red rose. Apparently he thought he said something to me he felt he shouldn't have the night before, and I deserved a rose. I didn't thing it was a big deal, but he did, so I took the rose and accepted his apology. He's been known to bring me a rose for no reason – he's like that. Probably why I survive all this chaos.
But then we have Tuesday. It starts snowing right after we wake up. A lite dusting they say. Ok. When I leave an hour later, everything is already white. shit. and it keeps snowing. By 2 pm it's ridiculous, but not deep – the problem is the temperature is dropping where I live (I work at the beach). I cut out and go home. How nice. An early quiet nite in my warm home. But it snows like hell. Till 9 pm. Not alot, but frozen now. But it's all good.
Till midnight, when we are woken up…."Mom, Dad, the power is half out". Half?? Yes, half.
Every other fuse in the box has no power coming into it from outside. 3 lights on in the house, and one outside. No fridge, no water, no garage, no phone, no computer or TV. But the coffee-maker works. Crap-tacular.
Now hubby and I know enough about electricity; I studied it in physics and he can rewire a car from the ground up. But this baffled us. So we got a volt meter, and lo and behold, power was actually only coming into half the fuse box. **&^%^
So we looked outside, and the incoming does split, 120 to each of the two sides. And it was not coming in one. So, call the power company, and they say it will be fixed by 3 am. shit. up half the night. but it was fixed by 3. It was the transformer on the street…they call it partial power. who knew. I learned something about home electricity.
Forward to today……and I'm saying to hubby, hope it's subdued tonight, no surprises, so shit. he stares at me. I forget. we're in a parking lot, watching him try to get his keys out of his truck. he locked them in. I say, but you do this all the time, this is normal. Oh yeah, he says. Like running out of gas…that's normal for him too.
For me it's electrical breakdowns or fires. they follow me. I've had two house fires, my truck engine cought fire twice, and appliances just burst into flames….. multiple times. We now own more fire extinguishers than the average family. I have one strapped onto the front floor of my truck now. that's a funny story in itself. next time.
Smoke detectors you say? forget it, our last fire melted them before they could go off.
Chaos? I live with it. I'll tell these stories in time. They're actually funny and some have real silver linings. See, ya never know. what you thought was a bad, turned out to do more good.
And me, I just laugh through it.
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