things I’ve learned since yesterday
1. Dried pancake batter is sharp, proving that the kitchen is indeed the gateway to hell, no matter what Cece tells me.
2. If you’ve got 2 Gas/Electric lines feeding into your house, they need to be the exact same voltage, or else bad things can happen to the appliances that are 220 somethingorother and need to work off both lines.
3. The two lines coming into my house are not the same voltage.
4. The day you have the carpeting on your stairs shampooed, the electrician you called last week abotu flickering lights will arrive at the exact same time and will need to go upstairs. Ditto the cable guy.
5. Whever the cable company makes improvements in the speed of their internet, what it really means it, your signal and existing equipment are going to get really, really screwed up.
6. My internet service has been really, really screwed up.
7. The day you decide to be productive before 9am (read: run the dishwasher, do 2 loads of laundry and give the 4 year old a bath) the contractor will discover that there’s a bloackage somewhere from your house out to the main sewer and your garage will be full of suds.
8. When a plumber tells you, try not to use too much water until I get there, all you want to do is use water. Constantly.
9. Men do not care if there is no shade in the bathroom, and that the neighbors can see into said bathroom quite clearly.
10. The muse (or, in my case, Vic) doesn’t care that there are 50 people in and out of the house - the muse dictates that I write today. And so, in between the 50millionpeople today, I wrote. 12 pages. But I still feel the need to run the damned water…
Steph T.
January 24th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Big congratulations on the 12 pages, with everything that happened that’s an amazing accomplishment.
As to the other stuff - wow - at least you kept your sense of humor
January 24th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Oh, yikes, not good at all! But wow, 12 pages–I haven’t written that much all week!
January 24th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
You gotta find another way to entice the muse out. This is too, too terrible! Congrats on the 12 pages.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Uhh, and here I thought my day wasn’t going well! Awesome on the pages though!!:bravo:
January 25th, 2006 at 11:50 am
I’m so with you on the water thing. Two weeks ago we had a blockage to the mainline, and the plumber told me we should flush our toilets as infrequently as possible until he could come back the next day with bigger/longer rodding equipment. Of course then we all had to go to the bathroom like a gazillion times more often. I was absolutely terrified we’d have raw sewage covering the basement floor!
Hope it all gets worked out okay. And if you can write through all of that, you are one tough cookie. I was brain dead for two days.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Ughh…when I first moved into my house I had days like that. Congrats on the production, however. That is awesome
January 25th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
WTG on the 12 pages!!! That’s awesome considering all the other crap going on.
But as for all the other crap, I’m ashamed to say all I kept thinking was “better you than me”.
Feel free to send one of the boys around to chastise me. ;)
January 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Oh, no, Tori. You’re not gettin’ off that easy!
January 26th, 2006 at 10:27 am
12 pages with all that going on??? You’re a better woman than I!!
January 26th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Thanks, Eve! And yes, it was either laugh or cry. Or drink, which helped at the end of the day.:lol:
Joely - It will probably be my week’s work of writing, if that makes you feel better.
Jean - Seriously. Because it was like a cruel joke. I HAD to get those scenes written - I was walking around with the pad in my hand, writing like a madwoman.
Thanks, Amy! I hope your day got better too!
Lynn - Every time I use the water now, I run down to the garage to check. I’m assuming I’ll get over that fear soon enough, but it’s a terrible feeling.
Rene - I just keep telling myself that it will end at some point…
LMAO @ Tori - I’ll take one for the team this time. And I’m thinking, like Jean said, that sending those SEALs won’t really be much of a punishment at all - naughty girl. Although Saint does like that about you…
Hi Kacey! You know, it was just one of those things. Maybe it was my subconscious way of coping with all the other crap going on - my mind kind of jumped ship…
January 26th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
It bears asking, what exactly were you doing with that dried pancake batter?
January 26th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Darn! Jean’s on to me!
Steph, well, I do adore Saint. *happy sigh*
January 28th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
I wasn’t gonna ask about the pancake batter…:LOL:
January 29th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Yaaay, on the 12 pages!!!!
er, what was that other non-important stuff you were blathering about… 
January 30th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Skating with Celebrities tonight!
January 31st, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Yikes! This sounds like a bad day! Yay on the pages though.
I hope things have improved since then!