I’ve been online for a total of about three hours today, and not once have I made any efforts to begin work on a new theme. :P I’ve been meaning to get around to it for days now, but I just can’t bring myself to get started. 1.) I have no inspiration for anything new and 2.) I’m just a lazy ass. Eventually though, as with all constant procrastinators, I will complete the task…just not right now…or tomorrow…just eventually.
We have yet to get our furnace fixed, but it’s all good because the next few days are supposed to be unseasonably warm. Today I even opened the windows to let some fresh air into the house, it was that warm. I know that next week it’s supposed to get cold again, but hopefully by then someone will have fixed things. I’m not in any hurry.
During my three productive hours online today, while avoiding my website and PSP altogether, I managed to dig up some compelling information. I had a certain song stuck in my head that came out of nowhere, and for the life of me I couldn’t think of the title. So, I Googled some of the lyrics from the chorus resounding through my head like a broken record, and came up with “Never Ever” - All Saints. I used to love this song back when it was big, and why I thought of it now I have no idea. This made me want to search for some more of the top songs of that era (1997, btw), and ended up with a list of songs that I had long forgotten about but used to “rock out” to (and I use that term very loosely…what nine or 10 year old rocks out to pop music?) Here is a list of my favorites from the year 1997.
- Jewel - ‘Foolish Games’
- R-Kelly - ‘I Believe I Can Fly’
- Spice Girls - ‘Wannabe’
- Backstreet Boys - ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’
- Hanson - ‘MMMBop’
- Monica - ‘For You I Will’
- Meredith Brooks - ‘Bitch’
- Third Eye Blind - ‘Semi-Charmed Life’
- Mariah Carey - ‘Honey’
- FreakNasty - ‘Da Dip’
- Shawn Colvin - ‘Sunny Came Home’
- Sheryl Crow - ‘Every Day is a Winding Road’
- Ginuwine - ‘Pony’
- Sarah McLachlin - ‘Building a Mystery’
- Chumbawamba - ‘Tubthumping’
- Aqua - ‘Barbie Girl’
Any of these 1997 jingles ring a bell? :)
I swear, if it’s not one thing, it’s a-fucking-nother. First, it was our car breaking down and costing a boat load of cash to fix just a couple of weeks before Christmas. Then, a strange leak sprung up from somewhere in the bathroom, resulting in mysteriously soaked rugs and slippery tiles, even though there wasn’t a leak in sight - from the bathtub, under the sink, the toilet, etc. Now something else fucks up, yet again. This time it’s the furnace. Despite switching it to the ‘off’ position, the damn thing keeps running. Not that I’m bitching about having heat during the winter, but when it warms up to the set temperature on the thermostat, I expect it to switch off. The only way to switch it off as of right now is to flip the switches in the breaker box. And to me, that doesn’t sound very safe. Josh was late for work this morning trying to figure out what the problem was, but to no avail. So, now it looks as though I’m going to have to leave for work at 3:30 this afternoon, leaving the heat switched off of course so it won’t burn the damned house down while I’m gone, and wait for Josh to try to fix it when he gets home. Which, by the way, by the time he picks up Dylan and comes home tonight around 7:30, it will probably be down to - oh, I don’t know - 30 or 40°F in here. Marvelous! I could just crap my pants, that’s how happy I am.
UGH! It’s times like this when I just wish I could throw my hands up and say fuck it. Fuck owning our own home and car, just to hell with it all. At least if we rented a house or apartment somewhere we wouldn’t have to pour out hundreds upon hundreds of dollars down the drain to fix piddly little shit like a mysterious leaky…something, or an old ass furnace. Let’s start making predictions…what do you think will fuck up next? Will the washing machine start leaking? Will the refrigerator break down? How about the water heater, do you think it will explode in our faces and kill us, the dog, the neighbors, and possibly the paper boy? We can only hope!
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Alright. I feel better now. I think it would a good thing if I wrapped up this rant-y post with a list of positive things going on in our lives. Bitching and moaning about this isn’t helping matters at all, but I think I just needed to get it out. If there’s one thing to remember, it’s that it can always be worse. There will always be someone out there less fortunate than you!
- We have each other. We’re alive and breathing.
- We have a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, and food in the fridge.
- At least we consider our heat not turning off a ‘problem’. Some would consider it a miracle.
- Our car has definitely seen better days, but it runs. And it’s not ugly. It gets us where we need to go.
- Josh and I both have jobs, that we work really hard at to support our family.
- Dylan is healthy and happy, and has more toys than a kid could ask for. Again, some children would consider that a miracle.
*Sigh* I feel better now.
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