Title refers to the fact that I left my engagement ring at home this morning and my finger is very very naked and its just a sample of how my day has been going since 10:30 last night.
OK: Good news! I (finally) met with Penny at the youth theatre wednesday night. I work 9-5:30 and most school offices are closed by then but we worked it out and it went really well. I start teaching the Drama Company class on wednesday from 5-6:30. I'm so excited!! I have six girls and two boys ages 9, 10, and 11. We meet once a week for ten weeks (twelve if you count the two weeks we have off for spring breaks) and at the end put on a performance. I'm so ready to get in and meet my students! I'm making them all Black and Silver Star Name tags. I'm stoked but at the same time I had written the start date down wrong so I thought I had more time...not a big deal just bit of stress. Also today is friday which means jeans day and I'm wearing my skinny-jeans. I feel kind of chubby in them but I can sit and breathe comfortably So yay.
Now the "since 10:30 last night" story: I was sitting in bed, had the TV on, and was about to start working on my lesson plan for wednesday's class when I heard dripping coming from the little closet in my room with the furnace and water heater. I opened the door to find a rain forest: the hot water expansion tank (high pressure) had sprung a leak and was spraying everywhere-it was dripping from the walls and ceiling, there was a 1/4 inch of standing water on the floor and it was still spraying fast enough that it soak through a super heavy shop paper towel in less than 5 seconds. I started picking clothes up and putting them away (I just did laundry and hadn't stored them yet) and when I hung something up in my closet I felt a little moisture. I though it was just melted snow from my boot...but soon found that the water at soaked through the walls and was pooling under my carpet. It had entirely soaked several items of clothing and was so saturated that when you stepped on the carpet it would shoot water out. We had to turn our hot water off to stop it form spraying. I got most of the stuff up off the ground, did a load of laundry with the wet stuff and went to bed very stressed and tired. In the hurry to get out this morning before our Landlord's father came to fix it...I left my beautiful ring in its box on my nightstand, on the way in to work I hit every single red light, and it was snowy and gross so I clocked on a minute late. And then we were ridiculously crazy slit-your-wrists busy, which in my state of mind only pissed me off.
Chelsie got to work around 2 and gave me tho official report: we now have hot water again, they put a new tank on (sans holes) and have begun the clean-up process. Unfortunately the water had so entirely saturated the carpet that the padding was practically disintegrating. So that means they have to replace the carpet in my room, when they do so I will be room-less. Much like tonight. They have fans and stuff going, they've ripped up part of the carpet, and will be working in my room until late tonight which means for the next couple days I'm sleeping on the couch or at someone else's house. And I still have projects due at work including recognition committee birthday board, the behavior standard bulletin board (ownership focus), and a unique valentines box. I also still have not done my lesson plan or made the kids nametags. Nor have I done anything wedding related, other than look at resorts for our honeymoon. but nothing has been accomplished. And here I am blogging away---no wonder I failed out of school!
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Well, if it helps, in ring-related business: we finally saved enough to put my ring on layaway (I'm getting a new engagement ring that is part of a wedding set) and the company where I found it no longer has any of that setting left. They're looking into custom-making it for me, but if they do that I can't put it on layaway, which means I need to save even more since it'll be even more expensive... ugh!
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