I'm Back--Sorta...
Jan. 18th, 2007 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katstalesCan 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. :)
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Date: 2007-01-18 01:35 pm (UTC)And that you have a better day today!
I've got to take the car in today...hopefully nothing majorly wrong!
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Date: 2007-01-19 04:56 am (UTC)My finger is now more aggravating than painful--will be glad in a couple of days when it's time to get rid of the band-aid.
Today was better until this evening. I literally was just sitting down to dinner when my daughter called. The bus she had planned to take home from school only went to the local transit center, so she couldn't take it home after all. ::sigh:: So off I go to pick her up, but between traffic and stopping off for her to pick up something to eat for dinner, I missed the first twenty minutes of Supernatural. Thankfully, I'd had a feeling it might be close, so I set it up to record before I left. Then all I had to do was call hubs and tell him to go into the living room and press the rec button on the remote. (He is clueless when it comes to programing, plus I don't have the clock set after that latest power outtage last weekend.
Hope you had good luck with the car! ::crosses fingers::
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Date: 2007-01-18 08:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-19 05:12 am (UTC)LOL, what a coincidence. Our heat and water is included with the rent, so I don't mind so much having to open a window because it's too warm in here. (which happens quite often) I'm not as lucky with the laundry, tho. I have to lug the clothes across to the next building and hope there's an open washer and dryer when I get there.
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Date: 2007-01-18 09:34 pm (UTC)BTW: A boiler room is where the heat and hot water heater is in the basement???? Like on movies? I honestly didn't think people had boiler rooms any more. Are they common up there? I noticed another person mentioned having one on your post too... Sorry... More of a curiosity than anything.
Well hope things get better. Ouch on the finger. No fun at all.
See ya!
meli
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Date: 2007-01-19 05:55 am (UTC)Re: the boiler room--don't be sorry; it's a good question. Yes, I do mean boiler room where the heat and hot water are generated for the building and yes, it's in the basement. I think they're fairly common, though mostly found in older buildings.
Thanks again for the well wishes. :)
--kat