Yeah, the last few weeks have been pretty exhausting. I know I’m not the busiest person in the world or the poorest, but a lot has happened at once.
My water heater failed a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday morning. It began dripping water out of the drain pan and down inside a wall. (My water heater is in my attic.) This is not a huge deal, as it’s an interior wall, but moisture in a wall is no good. So I sopped and mopped and pried off moulding that day, and called plumbers. I got a ridiculously hgh estimate from one plumber and a high but fair estimate from another. They couldn’t come replace the water heater until Saturday though. So I spent Thursday night tossing and turning, getting up every couple of hours to check the drip, and worrying that the trees were gonna blow over onto my house or car, as this was the night that Ernesto blew through. On Saturday morning they replaced it and I wrote him a check. There were a lot of zeroes on it. I felt like I should have been handing over one of those oversized Publisher’s Clearing House checks.
I went to the beach with Justin and Mandy from Sunday morning through Wednesday. We ate a lot and went to the beach a lot. I guess that doesn’t sound too exciting, but we had a really good time. There were certian times that I nearly passed out from laughing. There were other times that I nearly passed out from food overload. It was a great time.
Went to work for two days last week, then Ben arrived and this past Saturday was spent at the horrible football game. I wasn’t much of a host on Sunday either, since I had work to do. And I wanted to wash my car, mow the lawn, trim the hedges, and get groceries, none of which I did. Sigh.
I cancelled my trip to the ATL this coming weekend. I wasn’t feeling it. I have been looking forward to visiting the Weidget for a long time, but in my current state, they’d just be stuck listening to four days of me sighing. The silver lining is that I will be able to take the money I would have spent on that trip to see them anyway, in a roundabout way, since it costs ninety-seven American dollars to get a passport nowadays.
Oh, here’s the part that is not exciting to you but is very exciting to me: new animals around my house! The night of TS Ernesto, a Spring Peeper stuck himself to my back door. Pics are in the Gallery. Then, two days later, my brother Reid found that a baby anole was on the flowers near one of the gates to my back yard! It was very nice and let us pick it up. I got some photos of him too, but they’re not online yet. Very cute. Right near it was a tiny little baby mantis. I guess the anole didn’t see that mantis or it would have been lunch.
And then! On Friday, before work, I was getting into my car when I noticed a tiny frog jumping around in my driveway. He did not want to be picked up, but I was able to usher him away from the crushing power of the Volvo wagon.
My gardenias started blooming again, too. That was weird, they hadn’t been blooming since June, and yet here they are, perfuming my front yard like a Bath and Body Works. That’s gonna keep me from trimming them, I reckon.
See what I mean? This is not THAT noteworthy, but it makes me happy.
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