Water and other tragedies.

Who needs water anyway? Our town shut off our water on Wednesday night to flush the lines. Not totally sure why you would have to shut off all the water in town in order to run more water through the lines but whatever. Now normally this would not be a big thing except that they called some people to tell them about it and not others. I think if you are going to call one person you should then call them all. It was off from 10 until 6 in the morning. Wednesday this wasn't a problem as we were on our way to bed when it went off anyways. I was just more miffed that I didn't make the "phone call" list. I know that sounds a lot like the I wanna be a cool kid but it really isn't. Anyways Thursday night I run a hot bath and sit and soak for a bit and then Colin is going to have a shower before bed. Lets just say its a good thing I tried to add hot water to my bath because I discovered that there was in fact NO water again. So I get out of my bath, which I didn't even get to actually "bath" in, and let Colin have it. Let me tell you he needed it way more than I did lol. So OK not a huge problem again right? Right. Well last night we were having a BBQ/birthday party with about 20 people, 10 of which were children, and yep you guessed it no water again. So poor Colin had to carry pails of water from our rain barrel to use for toilet flushing purposes, there was no washing of the hands (thank goodness I have wipes) no wiping of counters and no washing of the dishes. Needless to say my house is a total sty this morning because of this lack of water, so what am I doing today? yep that's right people I am cleaning and Washing and you can be damn sure that at 9:30 I will be filling my tub up with water since the rain barrel is empty now.

Yesterday also was a very sad day in the house. A very dear, faithful old friend died yesterday.My washing machine. *pausing for moment of silence while taps plays in my head* I went down to wash a load of diapers and lifted the lid and a piece flew out and that was it. She was a faithful old girl. Always there when I needed her. We have been through mud, grass, poop, grease, dirt, and food together without so much as a complaint. Its stupid but I did feel a little sad, now whether or not that was because I was standing there holding a bag of poop diapers or not we will never know. So either Colin will try to jimmy rig it to work for now until a suitable replacement can be found or we will just be looking for a new one. I do have to thank Bonnie though for washing my diapers at her house and watching my baby so I could go to the city and retrieve the Tonie. Thanks bunches Bonnie, Issy's butt and I both thank you.

The party last night was awesome. We stayed up until 5 this morning singing karaoke thanks to my wonderful brother in law and sister in law. I even sang and damn if I didn't actually enjoy myself. The kids ran around like little banshees but had a blast and supper was super tasty even if I do say so myself.

Well today I am going out. Colin is watching the girls for a few hours and I am going out. I don't know where I am going to go but dammit I am gonna go somewhere. I am off to have some me time. I love my husband so much what a nice guy to parent his kids whilst I have a zen moment.