WHAT a day......

Thursday, January 23, 2014

When Ron got up to leave for work this morning, he came in and told me, "The front door is frozen shut.  I'm leaving through the back door."  Well.  Okay.  A little weird, but at these temps, possible.

When I got up, I checked the door.  Still won't open.  Hmmmm.  I've heard of screen doors freezing shut, but not house doors.  Very weird.  The house is warm, this just doesn't make sense.  I can't think of anything else to do, so I ask my friends on Facebook, and one suggested a hair dryer.  I don't own a hair dryer, but that makes sense.  Heat.  What do I have that would heat around the front door?  Ha!  The griddle!  I get it out, hook it up on a TV tray, and plug it in.  I leave it there for a couple, three hours while I start some laundry, and not just laundry, but to wash our quilts and to change the sheets on the bed.  I also get to work on my projects for the day.  I go through my big basket of pictures and choose 21 for my collage, and fight the little twist-things on the back, then undo all the guts.  I taped the pictures I had chosen into place, get it put back together and then, deciding not to wait on Ron, went ahead and hung it myself.  Who cares if it's not quite straight?  It's straight enough for me!

As I am washing Ron's quilt, the washer quits.  Just stops.  Right in the middle of the spin cycle.  It did that unbalanced thunka-thunka-thunka thing and just stopped.  Nothing.  I put it back around to 'rinse' and it filled up, and stopped.  OH, GREAT!  Now is it not only dead, but full of water.
Now what?  I text him that the washer is dead, and he calls me.  He says it's probably that switch in/under the lid (you know, where that little point pushes it down).  I think he's nuts, because what would that have to do with the spin cycle?  But I went in and checked that, and it worked!  It really worked!  I couldn't believe it.  He said not only is that switch the 'go' thing, it's a safety switch, and it being unbalanced threw it off.  OK, I can believe that.  As the quilt went through the spin cycle, it went off twice more, and I just pushed that switch and it worked every time.  What a pain.  Something else to put on our list for "one of these days."

I go check the front door later that afternoon, and still nothing.  Now, this is really weird.  It's already around 70 degrees here in the house, and I've had the griddle going right under the knob for hours.  If it WERE frozen, it should definitely be thawed by now.  I watch very carefully as I'm trying to turn the knob, and the little thingy inside the door is not pulling out of the doorjamb when the knob turns.  OK, the door is not frozen, but the knob is broken.  Great!  I guess I will be going out tomorrow for a whole new doorknob.  Or maybe Ron will get one Saturday morning.  Who knows?  I'll see how I feel in the morning.  Or how cold it still is. They are saying another snowstorm is coming in....and going in and out the back door isn't gonna be buckets of fun.

While I was working on the collage, I had to take breaks - that was quite a job, choosing those pictures, then taping them all - I got on the pute and I also had my lunch.  I had peanut butter PopTarts and milk.  I also just played on the pute when done with the collage, before checking on the door, but I was also half-assedly going through the stacks of crap sitting there on my desk.  I got the papers sorted and put away where they should have been from the beginning, and now my desk looks like a desk again.
When Ron got home, we went to Felicity to the FeedMill to have supper.  We haven't been over there in forever, and that sounded so good for a little break for us!  Something different, that's for sure.  We enjoyed it very much.  We sat over there for about an hour.  He had the southern fried chicken dinner, and I had a fried cod dinner.  He chose mashed potatoes and peas & carrots for his sides, and I chose steak fries and green beans.  They also brought him cole slaw!  Those are the largest meals we've eaten in a long, long time.

So, today was kinda sucky.  I felt as though things - everything I touched (when you get in those moods, that's how you feel) - was breaking or quitting or stopping or whatever.  But that wasn't true, I did put my collage together with no incidences.  AND I got my desk cleared off just fine.  And, with getting out for a real meal, I felt much better when we got home for the long, boring evening.

I didn't put my food into MFP.  I just didn't feel like searching for the items, so I just didn't do it.  I had already put my lunch in, but I won't bother to go back and close out my day.

So, even with things 'breaking,' today was not all bad, since I did get my projects done, and that gives me a sense of accomplishment, and I really needed that.   But, it was still a very rough day, and I'm glad it's over.