so, after i finished watching human target, i realized that i was C O L D! and that i hadn't heard the heat kick on in awhile. i wondered if maybe bret had turned it down for some reason. i went over to the thermostat & it was on the normal 67. i bumped it up to 70, thinking we just needed a little burst of warm air.
nada.
the furnace did not kick on. suddenly, i realized something was wrong, and apparently had been for awhile! then, i couldn't remember the last time i'd heard the heat on, or felt it. was it unusually cold when i got up? i do not know. i do know i wanted to stay snuggly in my bed, but was hungry - but that's normal for a weekend. (okay, truth, normal for any day. LOL) anyway, i immediately called phil. then bret texted from his planned parenthood protest (yes, i live with someone who protests planned parenthood. the horror!) (i'm sure i've told you the story of how i am all for planned parenthood?) (but not the abortion services. not a supporter of any abortion services, am a supporter of women being informed and having choices.) ... i've lost the whole thread of the original sentence i was typing, drats!
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oh! right. so, i'm waiting to hear back from phil & bret texts to ask if two friends can come over to watch a movie. i say sure, but the heat's out & idk when it's getting fixed & if it does get fixed, leyton's spending the night, remember? heh. phil came over & looked over the fuse box, the heating unit, etc. didn't see anything wrong, but thought maybe it was just the thermostat. that would be nice - a $20 fix! : ) he went to menard's to get a new one.
i decided even if that didn't work & leyton couldn't spend the night, i'd pick him up for dinner. so i did! he decided he wanted steak n shake, even tho we were just there on thursday. they didn't have any booths, so we sat at a table, which i wasn't sure about, but worked okay. we played w/ pinky & truck truck while waiting for our food. phil called to say the new thermostat hadn't made the heat come on, so he wasn't sure what the problem was. he has a friend who could come look at it, but not til later as he was currently at work. d'oh! so phil called mom to see if leyton could stay the night there, and then mom called me & said she would call the HVAC guy who installed her new furnace to see if he could come out.
leyton played the claw game a couple of times & then i dropped him at mom's & borrowed her space heaters. i got home to bret & his friends watching The Island. seems like a weird movie, from the little i saw! i had just plugged in the space heaters & gotten them going when glenn arrived. he was in & out in 15 minutes - apparently, there'd been some sort of energy surge which fried a couple wires! :( thank God no fires!! also, thank God glenn had the exact replacement wire in his truck. and he only charged me $120! he'd told mom it would be $125 just to come look at it, plus the fixing... so, i feel like i got a discount! *laugh* idk if $120 on a saturday night is normal, high, low, what? anyone know? honestly it doesn't matter if it's high, because i'm so grateful to have the heat back on!!
anywhoo, i took the heaters back over to mom's & picked up leyton, who was SO EXCITED to come over here! : ) so was mom, because she really had been looking forward to a quiet weekend. lol
when we got home, leyton & i played cars for awhile, leyton played food w/ bret, jumped on the couch, and then we watched Robots. : ) then it was time for bed & we called phil & jen to say goodnight. and now i think i'll be going to bed because oh my goodness i'm tired!! *laugh* i'll leave you with some pictures from tonight... leyton wanted to have some fun w/ the camera... (the first couple i took, the rest are all his!)
is it just me, or does angel look stoned here?
okay, i took that last one. ; )
goodnight & ttfn! : )
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