Weekend ramblings...

[agt_spooky]

Happy Superbowl Sunday, everyone!

At this moment, my Bears are freaking LOSING after having scored in the first seven SECONDS of the game. Grrr... Freaking Grossman. I really can't stand him. The defense is what has carried this team all season and they're trying their hardest tonight, too. But throwing for touchdowns helps, too, Rex!

Anyway, the house hunting went well on Saturday. We totally fell in love with the place I had only seen the outside of and hubby is going to pick up the credit check application, etc. tomorrow from the realtor. Please keep your fingers crossed for us!

We also went and saw a few other homes as well, but the first place is definitely the one we want.

Spent the rest of the day on Saturday with my buddy, charityflint, for her birthday and we ate good food and watched one good movie (Wedding Wars) and one not so good movie (The Wedding Banquet) and just enjoyed hanging around together.

Waking up this morning, I stumbled into the bathroom and turned on the faucet...and got nothing. That's right, our pipes were frozen solid. No wonder with the -30 wind chill we've had for DAYS! So I'm like, great, it's Sunday, who am I going to get a hold of to fix this? To my utmost surprise, our Public Works department was actually working! Two very nice young guys showed up in less than an hour with blowtorches and had the water flowing again in less than 15 minutes! Yay!

Other than that, it's been a pretty quiet day. Caught up on some fanfic reading and packed a few more boxes, went grocery shopping and now here I am watching the Superbowl.

So how was YOUR weekend? And is it Thursday yet?? Hee!

Comments

[midwest-sky.livejournal.com]

I freaking can't believe we're losing! Dammit! :(

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

...and now we've lost. [sigh] Guess we'll have to wait another 21 years, eh? :-(

[midwest-sky.livejournal.com]

guess so.. *sadface*

[khek.livejournal.com]

Wow. Your Public Works will actually come and do something in a home? On a Sunday? Wow.

I've had my pipes freeze three or four times in the time I've lived here...and every time I had to call a plumber and pay through the nose. (Well, the museum had to pay through the nose, anyway.) Expecially the time when the pipes burst and gallons of water flooded the basement...

Our Public Works Dept. doesn't do private homes (or museums). I don't even think they do public buildings, because when the library's pipes froze, I think we had to call a plumber too.

Anyway, I'm glad you had guys to come over and fix it! I guess your weather is headed this way for the next week. Brrr. Hmm. Perhaps I should set the sink faucets to dripping tonight.

Congrats on the house hunting! I hope it works out!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I know! I was totally shocked when someone actually answered the phone and then the guys arrived so quickly. They told me and my husband that that's all they'd been doing all morning, was unfreezing people's pipes.

Man, that totally sucks that your P.W. dept. doesn't do homes! And if they don't even do public buildings, what do they actually DO?

Yes, get ready for some unbelievably cold weather. The news people said this morning that if you didn't absolutely have to go outside, stay in. Gee, I didn't get a call from my company to stay home, so here I am. Hmph. The wind chill is still around -30 and the air temperature when I left for work this morning was -9. The only upside to this is that it's too cold to snow!

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

I won't mention that WE WON, but I will say that Mom's freaking pipes froze (first time in 26 years) and are STILL frozen! No store in town has any heat tape left, and Casey spent four freaking hours at her house today with heat lamps aimed at the pipes and STILL no water! ARRGH!

It is presently -3 degrees, I have no idea what the wind chill is.

Our calendar is totally out of whack with the seasons! This should be January weather!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love your new icon here! LOL!!

Holy cow, please tell me that your mom's pipes have finally thawed out!

It snowed all freaking day today, but luckily they were small, fluffy flakes and only added up to about 3-4 inches. Get any snow by you?

And yeah, with it being so freaking cold, I didn't think it *could* snow! What's up with this crazy ass weather??

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love your new icon here! LOL!!

Thanks! The words are from an interview with Jensen, it just cracks me up that he calls Jared "little guy"!

Holy cow, please tell me that your mom's pipes have finally thawed out!

Nope, Mom's pipes are still frozen, and I'm very worried that they've cracked somewhere already. Her house sits right on a slab, no basement, so no insulation.

We got some more snow today, I'm not sure how much, enough to have to shovel our walk again.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

it just cracks me up that he calls Jared "little guy"!

Those two are just too cute for words. :-)

Any luck with your mom's pipes yet? Gosh, what's she been doing without water for so long??

Thankfully no more snow today!

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

They are. You really couldn't make up their kind of chamistry.

Mom's pipes - still frozen. We have her living in OH with little sister right now, thank God, cause she can't really handle our stairs.

[renka54.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, what didn't you like about The Wedding Banquet? 'cause I found it totally charming and enjoyed it quite a lot.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

You know, neither Chris or I could really get into it. The guys were cute, but I just wasn't feeling them as a couple for some reason. I also didn't know that most of the movie was subtitled, and that's just a nitpick on my part, since I usually don't care for having to "read" a movie. Then it was just so bizarre, at the end, when the three of them decide to raise the baby together. Just too strange for me! And the fact that everyone was still lying to each other to varying degrees.

I enjoyed Ang's "Brokeback" much more! :-)