Two Thursdays in a week is way too many Thursdays

[selenay]

I am definitely going to have to split my left wrist at night. Talk about "not weight bearing". Argh.

Anyway.

We found out what went wrong with the hot water yesterday. Turns out, when the guy was servicing the furnace on Tuesday he made a teeny mistake. Instead of using the Great Big Red Switch on the wall to turn off the furnace he hunted around and found the teeny little switch at the base of the hot water tank and turned that off. Because that makes so much sense!

Apparently he realised his mistake when he put the furnace bits back together and the burner kicked in immediately before he'd even 'turned it back on'.

Please take a moment to admire the fact that my house is still standing.

Then, instead of turning the hot water tank back on when he figured out what had happened, he quietly left and hoped we'd never find out.

Yeah. That was definitely a mistake.

My mother now knows how to turn the hot water tank on and off. On the one hand, this will be a useful thing to know when I go away and want to minimize my bills while the house is empty.

On the other hand, she wants to turn off the hot water tank at any time that we don't need to the hot water. In other words, she wants to have it on for an hour or two in the mornings (when we're showing) only. Please take a moment to admire my mother's dedication to saving 5c a day.

I informed her that we would not be doing this because there is no way in hell that we'll remember to turn it back on before we go to bed and neither of us will be getting up at 5am to get it re-started in time for my shower at 5.45am. I already know that she won't be getting up that early and as I'm the first person to need a shower in the mornings...

If I have some more cold shower rants, you'll know that I failed to persuade her on the path of sanity and reality.


I spent the whole of yesterday entirely convinced that it was Thursday. Completely. To the extent that I confused my pharmacist by ordering my Humira a day early (we have a routine, it's a cool thing, I will apologise when I pick up the Humira) and confused Mum with my reaction to the concept of putting out the recycling.

It took me until fairly late in the day to grasp that it was not, in fact, Thursday. And even then I kept having to remind myself about the not!Thursday thing when I was making mental lists and plans of things that needed doing over the next couple of days.

Worst part? I'm having to do Thursday again today. It's definitely a second Thursday. I will never get the hang of Thursdays *sigh*

I've got a plot bunny nibbling my ankles, but thankfully it needs a bit of fleshing out before I go anywhere with it so I should get the 5+1 Things fic finished before I get tempted towards it :-)

Speaking of...got a fair bit of Thing 3 written and now I'm scrapping it. I left out the funny. And possibly (probably) the hot. And the Natasha. It was, in short, boring and very bad. Thankfully I've figured out what went wrong (no Natasha, Thing 3 needs Natasha) so re-writing it should be much more fun than writing it the first time.

Pro-tip: if you're scowling at the screen, the funny has probably left the fic. Stop, scrap, try again from a different angle.

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[fyrdrakken]

Mind you, if you get a couple of surprise cold showers, I imagine the habit of making sure the hot water heater is turned on will get added to your bedtime routine fairly quickly... (Though, yeah, further aggravation of having your mother as a housemate.)

[elenopa.livejournal.com]

It was having the summer solstice a day early that confused you.