Things that went nuts

Why is it that when the hubs is out of town that's when something around the house goes nuts? I have started a bit of a list. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I suppose a bit of both. Bad that I have enough items to create a list but, good that I have (so far) survived these things.
1. On day one when he was going to be out of town for about a month I decided to practice on my motorcycle. Nothing huge, I was just in the drive way practicing going from neutral into first. I was doing okay and then decided that I should run some errands with the car since I don't have my motorcycle license and everything. I put the motorcycle into the garage and turn off the engine, turn the key...don't get the kick stand down well enough and I fell. Broke me arm. The radial head to be exact. Ow. I'm totally good now but dang.


2. He was out of town when I found out I was pregnant. So I had to go through all the shock and amazement by myself.


3. The septic tank went nuts. It didn't need to be emptied or anything and luckily my parents were in town and I knew a guy that could come out and help.

4. Moving onto colder weather. I couldn't get the pellet burner to cooperate. That's not really anything new though. Just annoying because he's really good at it.

5. But now the furnace wasn't working either?! What the heck. A friend of mine came over and I paid him in beer to sit and wait for a furnace guy to get everything worked out. I have heat now and have had no problems since then - thanks for your concern. This was probably when he was gone in October.

6. December - So my pay check got messed up. I had to call HR and they had to do a big research thing. Luckily all the bills and stuff got paid but, it could have been rough. Of course it got resolved but not until the 2nd paycheck later.

7. Now to this month... January. My garage door opener broke. What the.. so now I'm waiting to see if my dad can get it or what. But it's cold outside every so often and now I have to park outside. Unacceptable. I even had to scrape the ice off the windshield once.

 

8. And I'm still on the bowling league. I will be "kicked off" because the person I am subbing for will be back from the south. But I think I slipped on my pants or something and I sort of fell. I say sort of because my leg just slide from under me but I didn't like fall on my side or stomach just crouched down. It didn't hurt that day but the next day when I was trying to go downstairs the back of my thigh hurt a little. Oops.

9. Then last week I was stranded at work!!! I hang my coat up on the coat rack instead of on the back of my chair. I just get too crowded when it's on the back of my chair. Me and one other person really use the coat rack. She has the exact same coat as me and leaves quite a bit earlier than I do. She thought she had left her coat here once so she put her coat on and grabbed mine also. Not a huge deal but, my car key was in the pocket.... So I had my manager give me a ride. Luckily we have another vehicle that the next day I just ran around in that one since I had the day off. Of course she didn't mean it and one of my friends had to go the same way to work on Wednesday so I just bummed a ride. The gal did get me and my manager a Starbucks gift card and told me to buy my friend a drink to and apologized a ton.

10. What's next?

Bowling

So I'm not that good at bowling to start with but last night was even worse than normal. I don't know if I'm just off balance because of the baby or what. Maybe it was because I felt like I was going to be late because the dang big dog did not want to come inside. It's warmed up and I think she had a bird in a tree that she was trying to get.
Anyway, I didn't even write down my scores they were so bad. =\
Now the bowling alley in town is old but new. Meaning that before we ever moved there it was open. But when we moved to town in 2010 it was closed but then just this fall it re-opened under new owners. It seems pretty nice but daaaaaang lane 3 keeps breaking down. Guess which lane we were on...
Someone would go and lets say hit 7 pins down. They get ready to roll their second ball and 2 pins would just randomly fall down before they even went. Could be good for your score but bad for the whole let keep things right sort of deal. Anyway, we are usually done bowling around 9pm but we weren't done until after 9:30. Everyone on my team and the other team were all getting anxious and in a hurry - I think my team more so but, that made it so we all bowled a little rough. Hope next week is better.

For those wanting to be up to date on baby news --

Baby Schuster is a boy! Things are going along just fine and I'm not getting sick nor do I have much nausea anymore - that is thanks to my Rx Zofran though. Amazing stuff. He moves around quite a bit and lately has been hanging out on my left side which was a little painful but today I think he centered himself up. Maybe he didn't like me pushing on my left side back at him to try and convince him to move?

Sleeping seems to be getting a little better too. I just have a whole cocoon around me of pillows. It's lovely.

Anyway, off to work. Stay safe everybody - I know the snow is melting but watch for the re-freeze.

Michelle