20/20 vision

I rolled out of bed this morning, put on my glasses and headed downstairs to make lunches before taking Madsen to Seminary. There was something wrong with my eyes. I could not see well and I was getting a headache. I even joked that maybe it would be safer for Madsen to drive to church then me with my screwy vision. I was worried that my eyes changed over night and I was going to have to get new contacts and glasses. It was really quite frustrating. It felt like a disconnect between my eyes and my brain. I made it safely to and from the church, walked in the door and looked at a newspaper sitting on the floor. I thought to myself, "I think I can see better without my glasses than with them!" I took the glasses off and miracle of miracles! I could see better without them. Hmmm... something fishy is going on here! I went upstairs and there on the bathroom counter sat my EMPTY contact case. Duh! I somehow forgot to take my lenses out last night so wearing my glasses doubled my prescription causing blurred vision and headache. I decided to take out the contacts to rest my poor eyes and wear glasses for a while today. I am glad that it was just a dumb thing not over night change in my vision.

Days and Years

 

 

 

Several years ago an older, wiser, more experienced mother told me that days are long but years fly by. At that time in my life, I did not fully understand what she meant by that. Now I do. I get it.

I should not have titled that post Murphy's Law

My water heater adventure was a disaster yesterday. My 4 hour window was 12-4. He showed up at 4:45 with the wrong sized heater. Awesome. My options became he could go try and get the right one and be back in about an hour and do the install then or I could reschedule. I was frustrated and irritated and had been scrambling all afternoon trying to get kids taken rides to races, my brain was fried. I called Matt to ask what he thought I should do but he never answers his phone when I actually need him. I wanted to get to Madsen's race so I said fine reschedule. No hot water this morning so no one showered. I bet we are a hot smelly group! In retrospect, should have had the guy come back last night while Matt was home. So, every single thing that could have gone wrong with yesterday, did.

My time window today is 2-6, kid pick up time again. Only today he called to ask if it was ok if he came early! Yahoo! He should be here in a few minutes and hopefully it will be completed before I need to go get kids.

The first thing I will do is take a shower! Then dishes, then laundry, then all my stinky people can bathe.

Murphy's Law

I feel like Murphy has moved in and I am ready for him to move along. Just yesterday I had the thought that it had been an entire month or so since we had something break that we had to pay a few hundred dollars to repair. Last night just as we were putting the kids to bed, Matt decided to look at the water heater and discovered that it is leaking and on the verge of disaster. Great. At least he found it before we did have a flood that caused damage to the house that we would also have to fix. A new water heater is on its way and I get to spend the day waiting for it and I get to write a check for the $800 for all this fun. We decided to buy the cheapest one since we are hoping to be out of this house before the warranty is up. And, when we do list the house we can add brand new water heater to the list of good things!

It is only a little irritating to see how much easier it is to empty a savings account than fill it. I am very grateful that the money is there and I can write a check and it won't impact our life beyond that.

Here's hoping nothing else breaks, but if it does, I hope it is the fridge. I will buy a stainless steel one to go in my new house...

15 years to go!

Seminary started this morning. It is so early. One day down, 15 years to go!

A Grateful Bummer

I have decided I should be grateful that the hurricane was such a bummer. The sky had lots of cool looking dark clouds Friday and Saturday. It rained a very little bit. The wind blew, sometimes pretty hard. One of our patio chairs fell over. Yep, the extent of the damage! We did not lose power or have any trees fall or our yard even pretend to flood. There were people around us that lost power for a while and some trees fell, but the Triangle was not in trouble. I have not watched the news to see what happened on the coast, but I know there was some actual damage out there. Some piers were toppled, some business and houses damaged, some power out. But, as the storm was downgraded to a category 1 from a category 4, the damage was much less than anticipated and for that we are grateful. Even though I was really looking forward to a good storm!

Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene is on the way to hit the coast of Carolina. It is a huge sized storm that will pack a pretty heavy punch on the coast. The Outer Banks and other coastal towns have been evacuated. We are supposed to get about an inch of rain with winds in the 30-50 mile per hour range. I hope it rains a lot! I love a good storm when I feel nice and safe. It smells really good outside right now! Currently, it is 5:00 on Friday night, there are lots of very dark clouds, some wind and some rain.

Soccer games for tomorrow have been canceled.

I am actually kind of excited to see what the storm brings. Hopefully, I will still be excited when it is all over.