Hurricane Deck

This post has been sitting for a while - mostly because I was more annoyed than I should have been that Blogger ate most of my post, and I didn't feel like re-doing it! Anyway, this post should have been posted on November 14th. I discovered on Wednesday evening when I came home from Bible study (the topic of which was gratitude, natch) to discover that my tub faucet running at full blast. Thankfully I am intimately familiar with the location of the water shut off valve to the house, so I shut off the water. My next thought went to my hot water heater - should I shut it off as well? A quick Yahoo search revealed that YES, I should shut off Bliss lest I burn him up. With that done, I went to bed, not feeling very grateful. The next morning, I cracked open my Home Depot book about faucets and ta-da! I figured out what it probably was, so I took apart the faucet to confirm what the book said. And I, dear readers, fixed that sucker. After a work meeting. In a dress and heels no

that make a house more like home. It is the big things - like from my last post a fully functioning hot water heater and a fully functioning range. Today I am thankful for a screaming deal on a used washer and dryer. The washer is a Maytag and the dryer is an Amana, but I could care less - they are fairly new and I got a screaming deal on them. Thanks be to Craig and his list! Now I just need to get a door built around the washer and dryer because that washer is pretty damn loud in this little house!

There is nothing like a long, hot shower curtesy of one of these babies: My new hot water heater. His name is Bliss. A fully functioning one of these makes my heart happy: The stove with a fully functioning oven. He doesn't have a name yet. And yes, that is a coffee pot on one of the burners - I am woefully short on outlets in the kitchen, so it is catch where catch can so there is the coffee pot. Not terribly convient, but nothing in a house this old really is! And my office is pretty much set up, even though I have YET to paint the trim in it. Or any of the house - it has had to wait. At least I have some pictures up. I haven't put up my law school diploma yet because I actually dropped the damn thing and broke the glass in the frame. Nothing like dropping a piece of paper that cost more than the house I just bought to make you think about the direction your life is going! I am still playing the doggie shuffle due to Rodear being in heat. Sniper is on my "you'

I've gotten myself most of the way moved into the Jackalope house. What does that mean? It means that some of my clothes, all of my artwork and all of my dogs are here. That really is about it. I think today I am going to go out to the house on Irvine and get the rest of my clothing, my Oliver kitteh, my printers, my massage table and my shampoo and spendy conditioner. And the fish - I might bring the fish over today as well depending on how adventurous I feel. Not that the shampoo and conditioner matters - I still don't have hot water here because the hot water heater is busted. Or an oven that works for that matter - but I will count my blessings that the stovetop works and that I have several leads on a new to me gas range. It showed for the first time this fall season yesterday. It is supposed to warm up tomorrow and Friday - it will be good for a muddy mess everywhere! The dogs are enjoying brief stints in the snow. We are playing the doggie shuffle here due to Rodear b