Welcome to my Weird World!

Good (freezing cold) morning! It's 11 degrees here this morning! So yesterday I was thinking about how I would not have anything to talk about on here today. WRONG! Yesterday evening, I. Was in. The Twilight Zone.

So I was lazy most of the day yesterday...I'll admit it. But hey, stay-at-home moms work 24/7, 365...So I'm entitled to a day off sometimes, too, right? So I spent most of the day making up this site and then reading. I was just sitting here be-boppin to some music from some of my favorite musicals. (That's not nerdy, right?) My kids get home from school around 3:45, so I was thinking I would go into the kitchen around 3:30 to start dinner. I was going to make spaghetti. Well, 3:30 rolls around and I drag my butt to the kitchen to start cooking. I have a 'chore chart' in place here for my kids. They have a chore for each day of the week and they take turns feeding our pets and checking the mail. They get an allowance at the end of the week for them. Well, yesterday my son had dishes (we have a dishwasher) and my daughter had laundry. So I'm in the kitchen looking at the dirty dishes laying there thinking "I'll go ahead and rinse some of these for him since there is bacon grease on a few things." I reach over to turn the water on...and nothing. Our water is off and I'm thinking "WHAT THE HECK?!" Then I was going over bills in my head....nope....I KNOW we paid this freaking water bill. So I pick up the phone and call City Hall, because I'm gonna demand they come turn my water back on! The lady there picks up the phone and mentally I think ("Be nice...in case its a mistake...then freak out if they try and say its YOUR fault" haha).

The lady tells me there has been a water mane bust near my house and that's why my water is off. Oh. Well. Okay then...that's ok...I'll just wait. Then I'm thinking "Well, how am I gonna cook now?!" As we all know, you need water to make spaghetti! Now my kids are walking through the door and my daughter is all "Move outta the way, I gotta pee!!" So I'm like "No! You can't! We don't have any water!" And she has to go...like bad. I send my neighbor a message and their water is NOT off...just has low pressure. So she zooms over there to go to the bathroom. In the meantime I'm telling the neighbor what a bummer it is that I can't make dinner now. She tells me she can send some water over so that I can. Awesome! A few minutes later, I look out the door to see them coming over with some water in a container. (It was a little discolored, as it usually is during this sort of thing. I'll boil it and it'll be all good). Then....BOOM....the power goes off!! (WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING HERE??!!) Well crap. Now what?

Next, I did what everyone does when they need to know what's going on in their town. I got on Facebook. Haha! Then I wished I hadn't. The first thing I saw was people talking about no power. The WHOLE TOWN and at least one neighboring town, had no power! Businesses were closing, and no one knew what happened (still haven't found out what happened). Then I saw a post that had me raging. A friend had called the electric company and they informed them that it would be nearly 8:00 before they could be in our area! What?! It's 4:00. I'm freaking out now. We have NO water, NO electricity, and our heater runs on gas, but has an electric igniter. It's 30 degrees outside and by 8 o'clock it will nearly be in the teens. We are going to freeze to death! I'm just stark raving mad at this point. Later, I go to check the water again. It's back on! Only...it's very angry. It's viciously spitting water out! I thinking I know what to do...you have to let it run for a bit. Then BLACK water spits out! What in the world??

Then, the power comes back on! YES! Well, I need to go check the faucets in the bathroom now, to check if that water is black. (Because I'm still not using this water to cook with!) The sink is spitting out like the kitchen one, but not black. Okay, let's check the tub. Nope, no black water there either. I moved my hand and accidentally bumped the thing that turns the shower on. Then I decide, I'll let it run, see if it's working. I look up and....MY SHOWER HEAD IS LIGHTING UP!! The holes where the water comes out...looked like there was BLUE Christmas lights flashing in them! Okay, THAT'S freaky!! Are we living in the Twilight Zone?! It finally stopped doing that after the 3rd time, and just as suddenly, everything was back to normal. (as normal as it ever is around here) I still couldn't bring myself to use the water, so we had chicken sandwiches instead, hahaha! We are all still utterly baffled, but we can totally laugh about it, because actually, it was pretty freakin hilarious! Bahaha! Stay weird, friends! (I know I will)