Telling Winter to Suck It

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Why Winter Blows

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Winter Really Needs to Go Take A Powder

Cold. Snow. 45 mph winds. Etc. Etc. Most of you are feeling the same pain. And I live in Montana, so I kinda had it coming. However, the house tried to eat me again today. I woke up at 8am, heard on the radio that the road from me to work (aka, THE road) was closed. So I cancelled my clients for the day, and snuggled with the dogs and my text books. About an hour later I had to add another blanket. 30 minutes later I threw on a second sweater. Another 45 minutes and the tight butt I inherited from my dad decided to up the heat.

What's this? It's up to 70... but where's the heat? Nothing coming out of the vents. Downstairs I can hear a fan running. The thermostat reads 54 degrees, and falling. Stephan is at work. Gary, our other "guy friend" is also working. I call our "couple" friends and ask for help. With 4 layers of clothing on I answer the door as they bring in a huge electric fireplace. Sweet! But they couldn't fix the heater either.

So I called Verke Refrigeration, and Mr. Verke showed up 30 minutes later (this is about 2pm). After some messing around (which included discovering that we hadn't changed our furnace filter in about 9 months- bad idea with 2 dogs and 2 cats) he found that the little sensor meant to tell the heater when the pilot light is lit was bustacated, technically.

By 3:30 the heater was back on, and I was able to change out of my pajamas, Stephan's pajamas, my work-clothes, and Stephan's sweats, jeans, shirts, sweaters and socks. I'm so lucky that Stephan's clothes fit perfectly over my own.

So- me vs the house and once again, I win.

As my mom would say, "na na na na na na".

In Like a Lion...

Out Like a Lamb??

Moderation

I know, it's been a week. Not to fear, we're still here. Still doing good. Stephan has been working 4-day weeks (which is one more than required), I'm really focusing on school, and have I mentioned my second job?

The second job is going much better than I expected, which is making me busier than I expected. The new laptop is on hold until after tax-season and our summer travel plans have been confirmed.

If you see anything you like from the "second job" website, shoot me an email before you order- there are often discounts they send me that I can pass on to you. I also have a list of "must have's" that I can share if you're interested.

Announcement!

We just found out that two of our cows had their calves yesterday! I sent Stephan over there with the camera, hopefully he'll remember how to use it.

We had one heifer and one bull so far! Exciting!!

No News is.... ???

The laptop (my primary blogging/email/schoolwork tool) is once again sitting idle. The battery is 5+ years old and I just fried the last power cord I had. Apple promises to have one at my doorstep in mere days. Meanwhile, I'm looking into the student discount on the apple.com website so I can get myself one of these beauties.

Speaking of student discounts, I scored 100% on my first week of discussions in class! The class average was 78%, so I was feeling pretty cocky. That was, until I looked at the time and realized it's 10:30pm and I'm just finishing the first drafts of this week's discussion posts. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE school. It's amazing the worlds out there you have no idea about until you dive right in. Did you know that people actually "geek out" about health care policy? Amazing.

What I don't remember about the last time I went to school was having to wake up at 4:30am to drive anyone to work, or the 6 loads of laundry, 4 sets of taxes, client statements & receipts, household budgeting, and general dog-wrangling that takes up so many hours that could be used for thoughtfully chewing on the ends of pencils and highlighters.

Wait- why am I not just going to bed right now?

Fixing that.

Good night!

Abuse of Power

Stephan came home from work with a Shamrock Shake today.

Yes, from McDonalds. Did he go to McDonalds? No. Did anyone we know go to McDonalds? No.

Stephan sent the Fallon County Ambulance Crew to McDonalds for a Shamrock Shake. I think that's taking his position a little too far.


(In all honestly the crew had a transfer to make to Miles City [where McDonalds is] and Stephan asked them to bring the shake back with them. It was melted when they got here, so he says that next time he's going to tell them to use the siren.)

Can't Blog Now...

...Playing with my new toy. Donations to Amazon.com now being accepted to fuel my new electronic book habit.