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The Bumble of a weekend...
Feb. 7th, 2011 07:41 amThe title is taken from one of Richard's beers called Old Bumble. Its really strong, really good and will knock you on your kiester. I kinda feel like that is what the weekend did to me and I'm sure its just a phase but man did that suck. Now, there were some very, very good things about the weekend. 1) We got rid of lots of old SCA stuff to some good fooks and are left with a very small box of things. 2)We managed to get one meal prepped and packaged and in the freezer. 3)Mel finished spinning the plies for the yarn for podling and 4)I got the land mapped out for my household for camping. 5) got a good ways to finishing my 2nd A&S project for Estrella. 6) I got the stroller put together and its awesome..but all of that took way too long and I had lots of just *flail* on things.
Things I learned Friday are that I am no longer allowed to go late night shopping with out and escort. 1) they need to push the cart for me and 2) they need to heft things in the car for me. I'm not weak even though I'm pregnant its just by then end of the day and the fact I really need a chiro adjustment that I was not in the best of shape to brave costco late on THE friday before the super bowl. I came home and curled up on the futon in front of the fire and just kinda made sure I didn't fall off of the world for a while. Food, finally a hot shower and going to bed early made things better but when we had to go get stuff on Saturday Mel came with and pushed the cart for me.
The odd for Saturday is we found out that Jocy,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
argent_lupin's mom fell on ice in SoDak and broke her right arm just below the shoulder. She was getting out of her friends car and fell at the curb. Her neighbor also fell trying to help her and the ambulance crew also had issues with the ice. She is all okay, with pins and plates and a hospital stay. She's a tough midwestern gal for such a little thing but it sure sucks.
Had a lovely time hanging with Joanney, Lennore (WHO IS HOME FOR 2 YEARS!!!) and Morgan. The helped cook up veggies for the stroganoff and make the afternoon pleasant. I felt pretty accomplished by the time that Saturday night finished up but I was tired. I was in bed at 10pm. The water heater was still acting funny though. Friday while mel was off of work due to no potable water at his plant site he replaced the thermocouple and ignition assembly on the water heater with a free kit from whirlpool. Now that should say something. Yeah, the thing has issues and from doing some reading we were lucky to have 6 years of good service before things went south. But even after the replacement its not keeping the pilot lit. First we thought it was decreased gas pressure due to the issues with the El Paso Gas line but further research here shows that you have to tweak the replacement parts to get things going properly and to keep things lit.
This is further reinforcing my plan to get a tankless system. When we have the HVAC assessment for the addition, I'm going to look into that replacement because 1)they are way efficient now, 2), it will take up less space which means we can probably get a proper furnace that isn't the crappy and annoying Forced Air Gas system and 3)its just a better thing in my engineering opinion...less parts to go breaky and no tank to deal with leaks.
By sunday we really couldn't keep the darn thing lit but mel will be tweaking it when he gets home tonight. Now that really brings us to Sunday, which I thought started out okay. I got grocerys (just a few more carrots and some eggs, nothing heavy) and came home to have Ashley and Billy over to work on projects. Billy needed armour mods. Ashley was "living in the library" and just being a big general help to me in the kitchen with cleaning things up. I then managed to get my A&S project to a good head and got some flannel bits for scrap burp cloths cut out. And the stroganoff got fully finished. In the interim I ate too many donuts, we all spilled our drinks on the carpet and things were kinda just funny. Richard came over and went through the brewery to get things bottled up. 1) he realized he bought the small bottles, 2) he had to wait for the dishwasher to finish dishes before he sanitized bottles, 3) he and mel were drinking old bumble, 4)I was distracting them by watching Hot Fuzz while working on A&S and land stuff and valentines cards and 5)probably 2 gallons of mead went all over the kitchen floor and under the cabinets due to the bottling bucket valve being open and none of us realized cause we were distracted. The boys moved the dishwasher and cleaned the floor. Things just got late and mel got dinner for us and by that point I was tired, very grump (I'm blaming the massive amounts of donuts I had and the guilt associated with it) and I got my laundry put away and mel was kind enough to package up the huge amount of stroganoff for me and we headed to bed.
Yeah, there is no point in crying over spilled mead but I guess the bright side is I have a very clean kitchen floor. Sighs. Plus the podling has decided that big rough movements and pushing me in painful places is the things to be. That is also making me slightly grumpy we shall see how today goes. I again blame the high amount of sugar. I have no idea what possessed me but I had a craving and I was indulging too too much. Plus I'm sure I'm just weary from the podling and well there we go.
To that end, even though I dropped a cast iron trivet on my foot things morning I'm saying this week will be good, I shall accomplish good things and life will be better. Estrella prep will be done and I can move on with going to estrella, having a good time and then get ready for finishing up a few weeks of work and then podling's arrival. So, there.
Things I learned Friday are that I am no longer allowed to go late night shopping with out and escort. 1) they need to push the cart for me and 2) they need to heft things in the car for me. I'm not weak even though I'm pregnant its just by then end of the day and the fact I really need a chiro adjustment that I was not in the best of shape to brave costco late on THE friday before the super bowl. I came home and curled up on the futon in front of the fire and just kinda made sure I didn't fall off of the world for a while. Food, finally a hot shower and going to bed early made things better but when we had to go get stuff on Saturday Mel came with and pushed the cart for me.
The odd for Saturday is we found out that Jocy,
argent_lupin's mom fell on ice in SoDak and broke her right arm just below the shoulder. She was getting out of her friends car and fell at the curb. Her neighbor also fell trying to help her and the ambulance crew also had issues with the ice. She is all okay, with pins and plates and a hospital stay. She's a tough midwestern gal for such a little thing but it sure sucks.Had a lovely time hanging with Joanney, Lennore (WHO IS HOME FOR 2 YEARS!!!) and Morgan. The helped cook up veggies for the stroganoff and make the afternoon pleasant. I felt pretty accomplished by the time that Saturday night finished up but I was tired. I was in bed at 10pm. The water heater was still acting funny though. Friday while mel was off of work due to no potable water at his plant site he replaced the thermocouple and ignition assembly on the water heater with a free kit from whirlpool. Now that should say something. Yeah, the thing has issues and from doing some reading we were lucky to have 6 years of good service before things went south. But even after the replacement its not keeping the pilot lit. First we thought it was decreased gas pressure due to the issues with the El Paso Gas line but further research here shows that you have to tweak the replacement parts to get things going properly and to keep things lit.
This is further reinforcing my plan to get a tankless system. When we have the HVAC assessment for the addition, I'm going to look into that replacement because 1)they are way efficient now, 2), it will take up less space which means we can probably get a proper furnace that isn't the crappy and annoying Forced Air Gas system and 3)its just a better thing in my engineering opinion...less parts to go breaky and no tank to deal with leaks.
By sunday we really couldn't keep the darn thing lit but mel will be tweaking it when he gets home tonight. Now that really brings us to Sunday, which I thought started out okay. I got grocerys (just a few more carrots and some eggs, nothing heavy) and came home to have Ashley and Billy over to work on projects. Billy needed armour mods. Ashley was "living in the library" and just being a big general help to me in the kitchen with cleaning things up. I then managed to get my A&S project to a good head and got some flannel bits for scrap burp cloths cut out. And the stroganoff got fully finished. In the interim I ate too many donuts, we all spilled our drinks on the carpet and things were kinda just funny. Richard came over and went through the brewery to get things bottled up. 1) he realized he bought the small bottles, 2) he had to wait for the dishwasher to finish dishes before he sanitized bottles, 3) he and mel were drinking old bumble, 4)I was distracting them by watching Hot Fuzz while working on A&S and land stuff and valentines cards and 5)probably 2 gallons of mead went all over the kitchen floor and under the cabinets due to the bottling bucket valve being open and none of us realized cause we were distracted. The boys moved the dishwasher and cleaned the floor. Things just got late and mel got dinner for us and by that point I was tired, very grump (I'm blaming the massive amounts of donuts I had and the guilt associated with it) and I got my laundry put away and mel was kind enough to package up the huge amount of stroganoff for me and we headed to bed.
Yeah, there is no point in crying over spilled mead but I guess the bright side is I have a very clean kitchen floor. Sighs. Plus the podling has decided that big rough movements and pushing me in painful places is the things to be. That is also making me slightly grumpy we shall see how today goes. I again blame the high amount of sugar. I have no idea what possessed me but I had a craving and I was indulging too too much. Plus I'm sure I'm just weary from the podling and well there we go.
To that end, even though I dropped a cast iron trivet on my foot things morning I'm saying this week will be good, I shall accomplish good things and life will be better. Estrella prep will be done and I can move on with going to estrella, having a good time and then get ready for finishing up a few weeks of work and then podling's arrival. So, there.
