What a week

I'm done now. Ready for this one to be over with.

This has been the week from HAIL (spoken with the appropriate Southern Televangical Voice)!

OK, so it was a long weekend. Great. Theoretically a good thing; time to veg, time to relax...

But none of the plans I had for the weekend wound up working out. Not a big deal; it wound up being a good weekend, but still. It wasn't the relaxing time I'd expected.

Still, I had Monday off. My kids got dropped off around 8, we actually did some housework, then David and his crew came over midday to hang out and have dinner.

It was at dinner that things began to fall apart. We'd ordered what seemed to be an appropriate amount of food for 6 people: a large pizza, two large salads, two orders of wings (10 wings in each). Plus we had cheesecake for dessert. But somehow, it all went.....FAST. No one went hungry, but I think everyone would've eaten more (or at least eaten less salad!) if it had been there.

THEN, the UNC women played abominably, and got absolutely stomped by UConn. Granted, UConn is the #1 team in the country... But Carolina is #2. We should NOT have been beaten by 30 (THIRTY) points.

I'd had the Maytag guy out to look at my dryer Monday. My dryer hadn't been heating (spinning, yes. heating, no); he said it was an electrical issue, so I scheduled an electrician's visit for Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, when I woke up Tuesday morning there were 3 inches of snow on my deck, and it was still falling.

So, I worked from home Tuesday, the kids got to play in the snow, but the electrician couldn't come. And Peter's Arrow of Light ceremony for Cub Scouts was cancelled.

Then Wednesday, still no school, still WFH, still no electrician. BUT, the roads were clear(ish) so other activities were on. David and I had dinner with my kids and Kathy, then the kids went off with Kathy to get the scoop (Kathy is travelling for Chinese New Year, so Peter is taking care of her kitties and needed to learn the drill), then were picked up by their Dad to go to Peter's basketball game. I went home to grab my car and headed off to my handbell group.

But hit a patch of black ice on the way. Spun one way, corrected, OK, OVER-corrected, spun the ohter way, jumped up on the sidewalk, and finally came to rest, on the sidewalk, facing back the way I came. The good news is there was no damage to me (other than soreness) or the car. But I was scared out of my ever loving mind!

AND Peter's basketball team lost.

Today the kids were back at school, BUT I still had to stay home to meet the electrician. Plus I had to take my car to the shop, just to get it checked out (plus it needed an oil change and inspection). There was no damage from my fun last night, BUT I do need two new tires and an engine belt, to the tune of $500.

Then the electricians got here. Turns out my breaker panel (yeah, that thing in one's garage where all the wires come in....) was fried. Literally. The breaker for the dryer was actually crumbling, it'd been damaged so badly. So, yeah, I avoided a wiring fire, but now have to replace my breaker panel, to the tune of about $800.

So thats, oh, $1300 I wasn't planning on spending this month. Or next month, or the next six months, to be very honest.

The good news is UNC beat Clemson last night, preserving the home win streak (54-0). Hopefully that'll be an omen for my life for a bit!

And, tomorrow's Friday, and weekends are always good....

But dang, I'm pretty much done with this week!