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I'm Back--Sorta...
Jan. 18th, 2007 12:12 amCan I please just go crawl in a hole somewhere and die now?
This has so not been my week. As if the hacker-mess over the weekend wasn't enough, the fun continued here yesterday. I decided that it was so cold that stew sounded good for dinner. Now I had errands to run in the afternoon, so I decided to use my slow cooker. No biggie, I've done it hundreds of times over the years. So I got up yesterday morning and got to work on chopping veggies and beef. Had almost everything finished and was thinking ahead to getting the dog out and taking a shower, so I could get the errands out of the way and get home before the temperatures dropped too far, as they were predicted to do over the course of the day. Unfortunately, that meant my mind was not on what I was doing. Soooo...guess what I did?
::sigh::
If you guessed slicing my index finger from first to second knuckle on the diagonal, you're right. No stitches, but (a)it still hurt like hell and (b)even with the band-aid, every time I bent my finger the cut pulled open. So if I owe you a reply, it's liable to be a little delayed. :(
(It feels better today, btw, as long as I don't bend it too much. Though typing without bending one of my index fingers has been...interesting. And time-consuming. *g*)
Now comes mistake number two. I figured that I deserved a nice quiet day after the madness of the past week or so, right? So I was very much looking forward to getting up, getting the dog out, then showering, and settling in for breakfast to read email before watching Sunday. (Which had taken most of the previous day and all night to download...grrr.)
I didn't get it. I was awakened by the hammering and banging noises in the boiler room downstairs, but wasn't too upset at that point. (Hey, something was obviously wrong and they were fixing it. And, um, did I ever mention that the boiler room is located directly underneath my bedroom?) So I get up and use the bathroom. Everything is fine, no problems. So I get undressed to take my shower. Climb in and turn the faucet on.
::headdesk::
Nope, nothing happens. Apparently the problem required that they shut off the water to fix it. Fine, but FCOL, could you at least have given some warning first? (Hubs, son, & daughter all got ready and off for work/school with no problems, thank goodness.) So no shower for me and no water to wash the dishes from last night that I left sitting because of my finger. I really lucked out when I first got up, because after finding the shower not working, the toilet didn't work anymore either. So yeah, fun day. They didn't get the water back on until almost 4:30pm.
And Sunday? Gah, talk about feeling totally gutted afterward. The character development bits were great, but man. I keep tearing up just thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm here, though it may take me a bit to answer everyone for another day or two. :)
This has so not been my week. As if the hacker-mess over the weekend wasn't enough, the fun continued here yesterday. I decided that it was so cold that stew sounded good for dinner. Now I had errands to run in the afternoon, so I decided to use my slow cooker. No biggie, I've done it hundreds of times over the years. So I got up yesterday morning and got to work on chopping veggies and beef. Had almost everything finished and was thinking ahead to getting the dog out and taking a shower, so I could get the errands out of the way and get home before the temperatures dropped too far, as they were predicted to do over the course of the day. Unfortunately, that meant my mind was not on what I was doing. Soooo...guess what I did?
::sigh::
If you guessed slicing my index finger from first to second knuckle on the diagonal, you're right. No stitches, but (a)it still hurt like hell and (b)even with the band-aid, every time I bent my finger the cut pulled open. So if I owe you a reply, it's liable to be a little delayed. :(
(It feels better today, btw, as long as I don't bend it too much. Though typing without bending one of my index fingers has been...interesting. And time-consuming. *g*)
Now comes mistake number two. I figured that I deserved a nice quiet day after the madness of the past week or so, right? So I was very much looking forward to getting up, getting the dog out, then showering, and settling in for breakfast to read email before watching Sunday. (Which had taken most of the previous day and all night to download...grrr.)
I didn't get it. I was awakened by the hammering and banging noises in the boiler room downstairs, but wasn't too upset at that point. (Hey, something was obviously wrong and they were fixing it. And, um, did I ever mention that the boiler room is located directly underneath my bedroom?) So I get up and use the bathroom. Everything is fine, no problems. So I get undressed to take my shower. Climb in and turn the faucet on.
::headdesk::
Nope, nothing happens. Apparently the problem required that they shut off the water to fix it. Fine, but FCOL, could you at least have given some warning first? (Hubs, son, & daughter all got ready and off for work/school with no problems, thank goodness.) So no shower for me and no water to wash the dishes from last night that I left sitting because of my finger. I really lucked out when I first got up, because after finding the shower not working, the toilet didn't work anymore either. So yeah, fun day. They didn't get the water back on until almost 4:30pm.
And Sunday? Gah, talk about feeling totally gutted afterward. The character development bits were great, but man. I keep tearing up just thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm here, though it may take me a bit to answer everyone for another day or two. :)
