Today I just had one of those days. I woke up with a good start, actually was showered, dressed and ready before 10:00 am.. for me that's good. Then boom!! Our electric was turned off! I knew we were past due , but I was hoping my hubby would get his unemployment check (he was temp. laid off during the holidays) before it was shut off, but it didn't work out like that. So I called the electric company and they stated that we needed $336 before they would turn it on. I wanted to cry. I have quit working for 5 months now and were losing our butts. Just not fair .... I don't want to leave the baby yet. I had to go up to the college today to get a book for one of the classes I am starting this week, but the college store had more students lined up then there was in front of Toys R us on Black Friday. I backed out of that slowly and knew I had just wasted my gas and time (1 hour) driving there for nothing. So I went ahead and stopped off at the hospital on my way home and submitted an application for housekeeping/night shift and pray they might give me a call. I doubt it but I said a prayer and will wait to hear from them.
So after I drove home from my uneventful trip to the city.. I arrive to the house with NO Electric. Houses with no electric or so weird. You don't hear that normal white noise of the fridge and other electronics humming in the background. I tried to make it normal by nursing the baby in the rocker and singing him a lullaby, fighting the urge to let out tears.
Oh on top of it , I find out that the lumber my husband had bought to replace our sub-floor in our house, is pressure treated and you can not put that in the house because of the chemicals. I about flipped. I did cry after hearing this because I had my hubby buy the supplies to replace the floors and now I find out he bought the wrong kind of lumber and it's not even tongue and groove.
I am still awaiting to hear the quote for the labor and think I may need a drink after that.
So to Sum it up... It was just one of those days..
I think I will go crochet a hat and say the heck with it all.
Spring is in the air, well maybe in my mind. Taxes have been filed, we will be finishing our living room just in time for Memphis to be crawling. We are working on our shed to bring home 25 new baby chickens just in time for the warmer temps here in Florida. I am so excited to get things done around this dump of a home. Little by little though will make me a happier woman. To calm my crazy nerves lately I have been crocheting cute little monkey hats that I see so often on these blogs, I am getting better with each hat too!!