Who turned off the lights ?

This month started in the pretty much the same way it always does but instead of working myself to death I was able to take a few days off before started back again. Well after my first day back at work I picked up Planners job for the day. During the day I had to go on a mission of mercy due the fact that someone's car wouldn't start.

So off I went to my daughter's house in order to take her to drop her sick kitty in so the vet can get a urine sample, I keep invisioning the lab techs following her around the facility with a zip lock baggie to catch the urine before it hits the floor and becomes forever contaminated. Well I know that isn't exactly what they do but just couldn't shake that image out. So after dropping of the sick kitty I took my daughter back home and tried to jump start their car which I did but unfortunately I found out later that it went dead again. Which meant I needed to make another trip to go pick up Pixie from the Vet.

And through it all the day still had one more thing for us to do and that was our weekly Target Tuesday run in which we both enjoy shopping, lingering around and all the general sillyness that is usually involved in the day. After the shopping adventure there is always one more stop before going home and that is a trip for food at Fantastic's Cafe where my daughter gets her usual Bacon Cheeseburger and fries and diet coke, Chicken dinner for mom and undecided dad changes it up every week. Then home to scarf all the yummy food before I had to make the trip back home for the night.

Well being it was tuesday I left some lights on at the house so I would be coming home to a totally dark house. Well that was the plan but needless to say that isn't exactly what I came home and saw. All the light fixtures in my house were all off except for my bedroom which is strange in itself but also all the outlets where still working. So lucky for me I do have some lamps in my house it still isn't enough for all the rooms. Obviously this makes it a little bit doing some of the normal routine but I went back to work the next day and got off early to check the power again but unfortunately with the same results.

Well an electrician was needed to come out and check out the problem to determine the cost and if it would be a simple fix or a major overhaul. Well I wish I could say it was the easy fix but unfortunately it was determined it would be a new fuse box and total re-wire job that will take around 3 or 4 days maybe more. So as much as I enjoyed my last exodus from work this time it will be a bit more painful in that I will not be making money for being off this time and depending on how long it takes I might not see a check at all the coming week.

I guess the flip side to this whole sad story is that I will be able to catch up on some reading and my suduko books as I will not have any power to watch tv or listen to music well I do have batteries to listen to music and my Ipad & Ipod too. I better make sure my laptop is fully charged so I can at least do some busy work. I will have to take time off cause I don't like the idea of not being home when there is someone working in my house.

I am also going to have to get ready for my next car maintenance visit and this will be one of the bigger ones cause of it being the 75,000 mile check. Well I can only hope for the best for the rest of this week although I am still up in the air on whether I will be working at all this week or taking the whole week off. Well only time will tell so I guess I have already gone on and on forever now.