A comfortable environment and electricity are two of the most needed "necessities" in the modern time since the Dark Ages...some may not find that to be a fact but I find that to be my new motto. THEY always say you never really knew how much you loved someone until they are gone, but I realize how true that really is and it isn't even about a particular being!
How much I appreciate you, O' Heating and Electricity! Today seemed like something out of a book where you get attacked by appliances and a tornado comes..but my adventure was less exciting. Since about the middle of December we had been dealing with heating problems and were fine up until the moment we decided to put our entire trust in a particular heating and air company which I will choose to remain unnamed.
We had noticed our heat only got up to about 62 degrees and remained there and due to my overprotectiveness of being a new mother and all, I pestered the crap out of my dear husband until we called someone out. Now, I will take the blame and say I got too impatient and jumped the gun and just called someone without really checking up on recommendations and everything because I just HAD to get some warmer air for my little "shwee-shwee" as I have now decided to nick-name her..(poor child).
After about 3 visits, a home about to burn down, and air that now only stayed to the temperature of about 49 degrees, I had about enough- so we got some good recommendations from my in-laws about a reliable company and I had decided to hurry up and get ready about 3 hours in advance and look somewhat presentable before the baby cried at the perfect timing when they came...she is good at that!
So I decided to make myself useful before they came and to clean up around the house while the child was asleep and actually got to a good start BUT... (don't you love that word?) I noticed the light over the stove and everything else around it stopped working as I was boiling some noodles. Not only in the kitchen, but apparently the livingroom and the baby's room. So, no space heaters to work and no present heat at that moment...yikes. I figured it was the breaker- since everything in our home is rigged up from the previous tenant and it seems like you can't have more than three things going at the same time.
It would have been no problem at all and really an easy fix for a simple chick like me but go figure it looked like the breaker wasn't tripped! What the ?? And go figure the fridge wasn't on!
So, like the ever so non-stressed woman that I am (don't laugh) I call my husband at work, explain and he gets his wondetful dad to come and help me diagnose this particular issue that decided to pile up on top of the other 88 million things that are wrong with this mill home.
Go figure at that time the baby wakes up and is crying her head off, the heating guy shows up and I'm in the middle of my breast feeding..uggh!
So..the heating guy is patient, listens to my story (of course I finished feeding before I opened the door! What kind of girl do you think I am?) and goes to look at the hunk of junk I have officially decided to name our a/c unit.
My father-in law shows up at the perfect time, and begins to check it all out and come to find out the breaker had tripped but due to it being a.. (guess) rigged up breaker it didn't look like it was tripped from the outside, you had to open up the panel to force it back into place.
But no worries, the whole right side of my kitchen comes back to life along with my handy space heaters and the smile on my face I thought had long disappeared.
The heating guy shows up to inform us it is a part that our previous heating guys said we DIDN'T need (thanks guys!) and it ends up being a whole heck of a lot cheaper than I think.
If there wasn't a god and great family and friends out there, I think I would be bald and gnawing on my arm by now..but whose not to say I haven't considered it?
I can officially say I appreciate heating and electricity as of this moment!
-Daph
Monday, February 1, 2010
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Because there are just so many facets of me..
Monday, February 1, 2010
We Don't Realize What We Take Advantage Of Until We Are Grateful When It is Back
A comfortable environment and electricity are two of the most needed "necessities" in the modern time since the Dark Ages...some may not find that to be a fact but I find that to be my new motto. THEY always say you never really knew how much you loved someone until they are gone, but I realize how true that really is and it isn't even about a particular being!
How much I appreciate you, O' Heating and Electricity! Today seemed like something out of a book where you get attacked by appliances and a tornado comes..but my adventure was less exciting. Since about the middle of December we had been dealing with heating problems and were fine up until the moment we decided to put our entire trust in a particular heating and air company which I will choose to remain unnamed.
We had noticed our heat only got up to about 62 degrees and remained there and due to my overprotectiveness of being a new mother and all, I pestered the crap out of my dear husband until we called someone out. Now, I will take the blame and say I got too impatient and jumped the gun and just called someone without really checking up on recommendations and everything because I just HAD to get some warmer air for my little "shwee-shwee" as I have now decided to nick-name her..(poor child).
After about 3 visits, a home about to burn down, and air that now only stayed to the temperature of about 49 degrees, I had about enough- so we got some good recommendations from my in-laws about a reliable company and I had decided to hurry up and get ready about 3 hours in advance and look somewhat presentable before the baby cried at the perfect timing when they came...she is good at that!
So I decided to make myself useful before they came and to clean up around the house while the child was asleep and actually got to a good start BUT... (don't you love that word?) I noticed the light over the stove and everything else around it stopped working as I was boiling some noodles. Not only in the kitchen, but apparently the livingroom and the baby's room. So, no space heaters to work and no present heat at that moment...yikes. I figured it was the breaker- since everything in our home is rigged up from the previous tenant and it seems like you can't have more than three things going at the same time.
It would have been no problem at all and really an easy fix for a simple chick like me but go figure it looked like the breaker wasn't tripped! What the ?? And go figure the fridge wasn't on!
So, like the ever so non-stressed woman that I am (don't laugh) I call my husband at work, explain and he gets his wondetful dad to come and help me diagnose this particular issue that decided to pile up on top of the other 88 million things that are wrong with this mill home.
Go figure at that time the baby wakes up and is crying her head off, the heating guy shows up and I'm in the middle of my breast feeding..uggh!
So..the heating guy is patient, listens to my story (of course I finished feeding before I opened the door! What kind of girl do you think I am?) and goes to look at the hunk of junk I have officially decided to name our a/c unit.
My father-in law shows up at the perfect time, and begins to check it all out and come to find out the breaker had tripped but due to it being a.. (guess) rigged up breaker it didn't look like it was tripped from the outside, you had to open up the panel to force it back into place.
But no worries, the whole right side of my kitchen comes back to life along with my handy space heaters and the smile on my face I thought had long disappeared.
The heating guy shows up to inform us it is a part that our previous heating guys said we DIDN'T need (thanks guys!) and it ends up being a whole heck of a lot cheaper than I think.
If there wasn't a god and great family and friends out there, I think I would be bald and gnawing on my arm by now..but whose not to say I haven't considered it?
I can officially say I appreciate heating and electricity as of this moment!
-Daph
How much I appreciate you, O' Heating and Electricity! Today seemed like something out of a book where you get attacked by appliances and a tornado comes..but my adventure was less exciting. Since about the middle of December we had been dealing with heating problems and were fine up until the moment we decided to put our entire trust in a particular heating and air company which I will choose to remain unnamed.
We had noticed our heat only got up to about 62 degrees and remained there and due to my overprotectiveness of being a new mother and all, I pestered the crap out of my dear husband until we called someone out. Now, I will take the blame and say I got too impatient and jumped the gun and just called someone without really checking up on recommendations and everything because I just HAD to get some warmer air for my little "shwee-shwee" as I have now decided to nick-name her..(poor child).
After about 3 visits, a home about to burn down, and air that now only stayed to the temperature of about 49 degrees, I had about enough- so we got some good recommendations from my in-laws about a reliable company and I had decided to hurry up and get ready about 3 hours in advance and look somewhat presentable before the baby cried at the perfect timing when they came...she is good at that!
So I decided to make myself useful before they came and to clean up around the house while the child was asleep and actually got to a good start BUT... (don't you love that word?) I noticed the light over the stove and everything else around it stopped working as I was boiling some noodles. Not only in the kitchen, but apparently the livingroom and the baby's room. So, no space heaters to work and no present heat at that moment...yikes. I figured it was the breaker- since everything in our home is rigged up from the previous tenant and it seems like you can't have more than three things going at the same time.
It would have been no problem at all and really an easy fix for a simple chick like me but go figure it looked like the breaker wasn't tripped! What the ?? And go figure the fridge wasn't on!
So, like the ever so non-stressed woman that I am (don't laugh) I call my husband at work, explain and he gets his wondetful dad to come and help me diagnose this particular issue that decided to pile up on top of the other 88 million things that are wrong with this mill home.
Go figure at that time the baby wakes up and is crying her head off, the heating guy shows up and I'm in the middle of my breast feeding..uggh!
So..the heating guy is patient, listens to my story (of course I finished feeding before I opened the door! What kind of girl do you think I am?) and goes to look at the hunk of junk I have officially decided to name our a/c unit.
My father-in law shows up at the perfect time, and begins to check it all out and come to find out the breaker had tripped but due to it being a.. (guess) rigged up breaker it didn't look like it was tripped from the outside, you had to open up the panel to force it back into place.
But no worries, the whole right side of my kitchen comes back to life along with my handy space heaters and the smile on my face I thought had long disappeared.
The heating guy shows up to inform us it is a part that our previous heating guys said we DIDN'T need (thanks guys!) and it ends up being a whole heck of a lot cheaper than I think.
If there wasn't a god and great family and friends out there, I think I would be bald and gnawing on my arm by now..but whose not to say I haven't considered it?
I can officially say I appreciate heating and electricity as of this moment!
-Daph
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