Adoption and other Misc updates

So I'm thinking that we are probably going to go with the other adoption agency. I think we've decided that the wait is too long with FTIA, although they are a great agency. That's one of the problems that you can encounter with new programs...

So we have to have our dossier submitted by the end of next month, otherwise I would have to redo all of our documents. Although the agency has referrals ready, we would not be able to travel at the required time.

If we submit our dossier sometime in the middle of March, it would potentially put us at a May/June travel time. But that's just an estimate. Could be later. Don't know how long the stay will end up being either. Should know more later.

I'm going to have one more conversation with a lady who is adopting through this agency right now before we make our final choice, but this is probably what we will do.

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So I thouught we would have our pipes fixed by this morning. Didn't happen. We did fix everything that we tried to fix, but there was one more leak that we didn't catch. So another day without water.

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Hopefully my car will be free and clear tonight and I can actually get out of the garage.

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I think that's all the updates that I have for now.

Update

Well, the space heater didn't seem to be doing any good in unfreezing the lines, so after I got back from my mom's (taking a shower), I went out there with my hair dryer. I blow dried the pipes for about half an hour, but it didn't seem to do much good. So I left it out there for a little bit and kept checking it, moving it around.

SO FINALLY IT WORKED!!! WE HAD WATER!!!!

Unfortunately the water was spraying all over the place. Yes, our pipes burst. In 4-5 different places. So we are officially without water, no nope of it coming back. Marty is going to come over on Friday and see if we can get the pipes switched out.

I can't remember if I told this to Mark or not (but maybe he'll read it tonight), but when he gets home tomorrow morning, I'll take his car to my mom's, take a shower, then go to work. (Because my car isn't going anywhere anytime soon)

And just so we are clear, I already understand that this is my fault for not making sure that the garage closed all the way, so if you feel the need to keep reminding me, I already know that.

Days of our Lives

Don't know if I mentioned this in a previous post, but our pipes froze a couple of weeks ago and we had no water for a weekend. Luckily once I figured out the problem, I got a space heater and we had water within 20 minutes.

So work has been getting busier and busier, and I am working a lot of hours now. With the snow and ice that came in Monday night/yesterday, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make it to work, although I thought more than likely I would. And I did. But I only worked until about six, as the partners were concerned with everyone getting home before it got dark.

My drive to and from work was fine. The problem was when I pulled into our drive way. I got about 1/4 of the way into it when my car started getting stuck. At this point I had to make a decision as whether to leave it there or attempt to get it into the garage. I wasn't sure what the whether was supposed to be like last night, and the thought of having to deal with a snow/ice covered car didn't appeal to me, so I tried to get it into the garage. I made it without too much trouble, although I took awhile. I had to go forward a little, reverse, go foward, reverse, etc until I got into the garage. But I make it. Actually it's about 5:45 at this point. I forgot to close the garage after grabbing the mail. Mark had to leave for work around 6:30. When he left, he called me to tell me to close the garage. I was in the middle of doing something, so I didn't do it right then. He texted me a little before 9pm to ask me if I did it. I hadn't, so I got up right then and went and closed it.

Then when Mark got home at 8am this morning, he informs me that I didn't close the garage. Well, I know for a fact that I went out there and did it, so the only thing I can think of is that snow had drifted into the garage, and it must have hit it at the bottom and then came back open.

So we have no water today. Last time it unfroze with the space heater in about 20 minutes, this time its been on there since 815 or so, and as of right now, no such luck. Plus, I am stuck in the garage, and Mark is stuck at the end of the driveway. So I can't go to work. Actually, I can't do a lot of things...brush my teeth, take a shower, wash the dishes, feed the dogs, etc.

But at least I have the day off I suppose...

A Long Time Coming...

So it probably doesn't come to a surprise to some of you that sometimes I do things without thinking about it, or without a seemingly logical reason for doing it.

The other day I was talking on my cell phone to a friend of mine. He was driving back from out of town and telling me about his trip. Mark is upstairs in the shower at this time.

To set the scene, I am in my living room. If you've seen our living room since we rearranged the furniture, you know what it looks like. Everything was pretty clean in the room, except for that Rajah had somehow dragged a basketball sized medicine ball out from underneath a chair in the corner.

So I am mindlessly walking around the living room listening and talking on the phone. Here's the part that you might or might not understand. My mind is always at work and sometimes I have a really hard time focusing on one thing. Even when I am paying close attention to something, maybe 5-10% of my brain is subconsciously focused on something else. While I am completely aware of the thoughts going on, I don't really pay much attention. Kind of like sometimes when you drive the same route everyday, you realize you at work and just kind of drove auto-pilot.

So anyway, back to my phone conversation. I am talking on the phone and something catches my attention on the ceiling. Honestly, I think it was just that we have textured ceilings, and I that the pattern was interesting. So while I am on the phone, I step up on the coffee table and look closely at the pattern. Again at this time, 95% of my mind was focused on my conversation. So now I am pacing back and forth on the table. Engaging in a conversation. To the point that David didn't know that there was anything distracting me. Suddenly, midsentence, he hears me scream at the top of my lungs and the phone eventually goes dead!!! I keep trying to call him back, but it keeps going to his voicemail. Finally a couple minutes later I get a hold of him, and he makes sure everything is ok. Only half jokingly, he says that he didn't know whether he should call the police or something!!!

So what happened, you ask???

Well. As I was talking, my subconsious brain must have thought that it would be cool if I could jump off of the table and land on the medicine ball all on one foot. Now this all happened so fast, but that's exactly what I tried to do. I hopped off the table with one foot and tried to land on the medicine ball. Only the ball was round and of course when I landed on it, it immediately went rolling, causing me to let out a scream, and fly off of it landing on my face! If you can picture my living room, I jumped towards the step in the dining room. I was VERY lucky because I had put my hand out to catch my fall, and had I not landed on my hips first, I would totally have a broken wrist right now.

Now somehow during this fall, I had hit the mute button on my phone, a function that I didn't even know existed, so I didn't know how to turn it off. So I hear David calling my name, but there's nothing I can do about it. So I imagine it must have been pretty scary to him to hear me scream like that, and then have the phone go dead. And since I was trying to call him when he was calling me, the phone was going straight to my voicemail, so it was like my phone had gotten cut off.

Luckily, all I ended up with was a very sore wrist and I strained a tricep muscle. And before anyone says anything, I don't know what possessed me to do that...its not something I would have ever done intentionally. Really, it was quite a weird experience....

Teaser

So I've done some stupid things in the past. Things where afterwards you kind of wonder what possessed you to do it in the first place. I had one of those moments last night. And I definitely suffered the consequences from it. I'm probably lucky that I didn't end up in the emergency room!

Tune in later to find out what...

And no fair anybody asking Mark about it...That's cheating!