We are eight days
into February and over two weeks since I last wrote anything worthwhile. And
really not much has happened…except we had the flu run through our house and
our furnace stopped working twice in one week. So yea it hasn’t been the best
couple of weeks…or really year!
Furnace problems
So after the Scurry
Flurry, our furnace went out. Thankfully it was warm enough that our house didn’t
get too cold. We called the emergency CenterPoint Energy Home Service Plus line
to get them to come out and fix it hopefully. Well they came out and we had
heat again. Yay! That last 2 days. I woke up Friday morning and it was 60
degrees in our house again. Dammit! After work we called again…and again,
thankfully it was somewhat warm outside so it didn’t get too cold in the house.
This time and older guy came out and did a lot more work on it and bypassed
some switch and presto we have heat. He also did something else ot the furnace
so we aren’t losing heat in the furnace room and it has made a huge difference.
No new furnace required yet. Whew!
Murder at the Prom
Last Saturday we
went down to Mankato for Ethan’s play, Murder at the Prom. It was good. The story
was…different…I’m not sure what part of town this high school was in
considering everybody had hand guns but whatever. Here he is in his Col. Mustard
(from the Clue game) prom outfit:
Super Bowl
The rest of the weekend
we didn’t do much…I had work to do…yes work. I even worked during the Super
Bowl, on my couch. Speaking of the Super Bowl, I’m not much of a fan and didn’t
really care about the game but we watch it anyways on a "delay" so we could fast
forward through the game and watch the commercials. Eric kept saying this game
had to go into overtime. I reassured him it did not. He continued to say that
this game went into overtime and again I would said no. On the third (or tenth) time, I told him the final score was 28-24. I was sick of him saying that it went into OT.
Well that was the worst thing to say…as soon as I said it, Seattle kicked a
field goal and Eric knew who won (and he wasn’t happy). I told him if he just
trusted me when I said it didn’t go into OT instead of badger me…this wouldn’t have happened. But the only way to get him to believe me was tell him the final
score which had a difference of 4 and would confirm it. Oh well.
Tuesday
So on the way to
work on Tuesday Eric says, I don’t feel so good. Hum. At 10am my house calls
me. Yep, Eric is home, sick with the flu. That is fine, I thought, I’ll just
take the bus to the park and ride and he can pick me up. Nope, he is too sick
to pick me up. Well, how the heck am I supposed to get home? There used to be a shuttle that would go from
the park and ride lot into town (the park and ride is 7 miles from the main/old
part of Shakopee, dumb…I know!) Well on 1/1/15, Shakopee Transit was taken over
by MVTA and the shuttle bus no longer exists (I found that out 2 days later…MVTA
has horrible customer service). Thankfully, my director overheard my
conversation with Eric specifically, my comment that “I’m not walking 7 miles
in cold, blowing snow to get home.” She offered to give me a ride home. After
waiting an hour for her bus (it was an hour late!), we rode the bus to her
house in Bloomington (with the snow took almost 2 hours). And then she drove me
home. She lives just on the other side of the river so it wasn’t too far but
Eric better be appreciative!! My commute home was 3 hours.
Fast forward to
Friday.
I thought I was in
the clear. Eric was feeling much better and I didn’t catch it yet. That changed
quickly. I went to work Friday, feeling fine. By 10, I wasn’t feeling the best,
by 11, I was in tears wanting to go home but Eric didn’t respond to my emails
or phone calls. By noon, Eric finally called me and took me home. I slept the
rest of the day and Saturday too. It was a rough week!
But I lost 5 pounds...Thanks Eric!
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