Monday, January 21, 2008

Jack Frost Nipping At Our Nose...

I got home from work this morning at the lovely hour of 3:45am, toddler in arm, and what do you suppose I found when I opened the front door? My house was ice cold inside. At some point in the day the furnace gave out and I didn't realize something was wrong when it started to get cold in the afternoon...I just figured it was really cold outside so I turned up the heat. All day long my furnace was blowing out ice cold air and it couldn't shut off because it was less than 40 degrees in my house! So now, it's fully 4am and I'm WIDE AWAKE wondering what the heck is going on. I ran right down to the basement to have a look...(like I know squat about the inner workings of a furnace and as mine runs on gas, I'm not at all willing to tinker with it myself).
I had put Lucas back to sleep in my bed thinking we could share body heat...I know...that sounds so dramatic, but HELLO!? 40 degrees inside! I was afraid he would freeze to death in his own bed alone.

Then my wide awake self started to panic about frozen pipes and gas line leaks and so I didn't actually fall asleep until 6am...and then guess what? Up again for then day at 7:30am! My life is so glamorous, isn't it? Lucky for me he's a little heat engine as soon as he falls asleep so I curled myself right around him. I called the property manager first thing this morning and he came and fixed it in just minutes...but still! I obviously need to learn how to fix it myself in just minutes.

3 comments:

Kellan said...

Oh, that is no fun - especially at that time of morning when all you want to do is walk into a nice cozy home! I'm glad you had that sweet, warm boy to cuddle with until the furnace was fixed! Hope you had a good day Anna - see you soon. Kellan

Anonymous said...

OOh, Anna...I just read about your cold house and it makes me shiver for you. Grateful Lucas has the R-family 'heater' (I'm in short sleeves all winter) and could help comfort his mom. First day of a new semester started off super terrific-maybe because I'm just so glad to be here!
LYx2-AM

pmd said...

This wins "That Sucks the Most" award. I'm so glad your pipes didn't freeze.