Last night, everything broke

You ever have one of those days, nights and mornings?

Well, you know about the leaky roof. I still haven't gone up there. Too cold and too lazy. Within 24 hours, the DVD in the bedroom broke, the van's check engine light went on and the speedometer stopped working.Then, we noticed that the house's temp never got above 65 degrees yesterday. I thought that Colette was being frugal. TURNS OUT, the furnace is on the fritz! No heat-

We have someone coming at around 10:30. We have sombody else coming by to put a tarp on the top of the house until he can get around to fixing it. I have to tke the car in sometime this week. The furnace for the sun room is still working, so the kids are sleeping there.

Oh yeah, Colette is sick with a cold. Because of Christmas, the house still looks like a bomb went off (stuff laying around everywhere).

Anyway- Bought a new DVD player at Costco. Tried to install it on the TV in the bedroom for about an hour- Gave up becuase the converter we are using on the crappy TV in the bedroon doesnt seem to be working. Installed it on the 20 plus year old beast in sunroom and it worked great.

I am afraid of what else is going to go wrong today. On the plus side, becuase of the Holiday vacation, we are around and able to do the phone calls and wait around for people. On the minus side, its going to cost a lot of money right after the Christmas Holidays.

Bah, Humbug (retro-actively of,course :-)!!

I want a perfect body

Merry Xmas- This is gross, but my tongue is coated with tongue gook. I snuck some pumpkin pie and I can feel the whipped cream hangover- all that and hummus and pretzels right before bed. Last night it was good- this morning, yuck! I need to scrape it against a wall.

Last night I dreamed about interviewing a new person at an company that I started a 16 years ago. In the dream, during interview, outside the office window, a 757 landed down a suburbian street and cut off a bunch of cars as it made a right turn. In the dream it was like normal and my reaction was like- "Huh, look at that. Well, what kind of salary are you looking for Mr. New Person?"

The New Year's LIST OF THINGS to change is already rattling around my subconscious. I can feel the ideas like ball bearings rattling in my brain pan.

Christmas Eve and a Leaky Roof

Well it is here- the day before Christmas- all the baking, shopping, decorating, wishing of good tidings, driving around town like maniacs, traveling through crowded security checkpoints and internal agonizing is nearly at an end- all to be finished off by a flurry of torn wrapping paper with expected smiles of loved ones as a reward.

I promise not to go on a comsummerism rant here- too Grinchy.

Somehow, my "planning brain" woke me at 6am to the thought of taking Spencer tomorrow to the mall parking lot to practice driving. Half asleep I thought to today would be good, then realized that there would still be many people running around like rabid weasels trying to buy the last little shimmery object that would make their loved ones life complete.

Putting a 16 year old into an enviroment like that would be like putting on a headband that had the Japanese Rising Sun and chanting "Tora, Tora, Tora"!

Sometime today, I need to check out the leak in the roof. Came in through the door to tears, I guess a leak in the roof seeped through to the dining room and damaged a clock and a table that had been in the family for years. Not looking forward to trying to get into the crawl space above Ethan's room. "Remember the Christmas Dad broke his (fill in bone of the body here)?"

Let's see if I can leave this blog alone for the rest of the day. I find myself editing this endlessly- I know, Weirdo...