Full Speed Ahead
Wow, what a day... And it started with the night that preceded it.Geoff + Briony + I spent yesterday in Niverville helping with Christmas baking at my parents' house and returned home around 7.30 pm to find that our furnace was dead. The motor was making a terrible noise and it was 16 degrees inside our house. The floors were cold enough that my feet were getting tingly from walking on them. Not good.
I kept Briony in her parka and hat until the one portable heater we own managed to warm up her room. She received a hot water bottle inside a stuffed frog as a baby gift that came in very, very handy to warm up her spot in the crib (THANKS, Rob + Vicky!), I threw her blankets in the dryer to warm them up before bedtime, and she went to sleep totally without incident. Meanwhile, Geoff and I were freezing our asses off in the living room. I made hot chocolate - twice - and burrowed underneath some more dryer-warmed blankets while we waited for the emergency furnace guy to come.
He arrived around 8.30 pm, and our house had dropped another three degrees in that hour we were at home. Before 10.00, we were starting to get warmer - and were almost $600 poorer. It was all so incredibly irritating, but sooo worth $600 :)
That short time in a cold house meant that my arthritis was angry with me, and I didn't end up falling asleep until around 3.00 am - so when my alarm rang at 7.30 am, I wondered why anyone would be so cruel as to set my alarm for the middle of the night. I managed to accomplish NOTHING before Katie arrived around 8.00 am, then scrambled to make myself quasi-presentable and get out the door.
First stop was an opthamology specialist at Misericordia to FINALLY have someone check out the skin tag on my lower eyelid that I've been living with for a while. It doesn't bother me at all except that it's ugly - and I constantly have people asking what's on my eye and pointing it out to me (which I LOVE...). It was just a consultation, but he explained what they'd need to do to remove it, and then offered to do it on the spot. At this point, I wanted to puke. I had just heard the full description - which involved needles and knives and holding my eye open - and it did NOT sound like fun. AT ALL. But I knew that if I delayed it, I'd just worry about it until it happened. So we did it.
And then I headed off to meet two new clients with a gross, swollen eye. I seriously wish I was kidding.
Maybe it was pity, or possibly fear, but they both signed me to contracts for upcoming projects. It was a very good day for my freelance business - a day when I had to pull my car over to the side of the street and just FEEL for a couple of minutes. God has been so good to us, and he keeps on surprising me with how much he cares about our little family. I know beyond a doubt that his plans for me are bigger than the ones I've made for myself. How amazing is that?! I've had some very tough days - and there are more to come, I'm sure - but I feel like there's this umbrella over us, this feeling that we're exactly where he wants us. Yes, I'm in a lot of pain today. Yes, we just got hit with ANOTHER unexpected bill. But we're absolutely okay.
This afternoon, I managed to pick up a few things off my Christmas list, write 2,000 words for a *different* client, finish my last assignment for this course (YAY!), and grab the envelopes we need for our holiday cards. Now it will be a race to see how much I can get done while Briony naps and before Geoff gets home because I've committed myself to another 10-15 hours of work over the weekend.
Oh, and did I mention that today is Geoff's last shift until *next* weekend? I am really looking forward to family time before everything gets really, really crazy over Christmas. November was a long haul for all of us, and it just works so much better when we're a team.
Labels: Going Rogue, House Stuff
posted by Lindsay @ 4:29 PM
4 Comments:
Oh my goodness I feel for you guys! I guess at least you didn't need to replace the furnace because that bill would have been even worse, but still, oh man. NO FUN!
Also, it may be odd to say this now (especially since you had it removed), but I didn't know that was a skin tag. I only first noticed it a couple of visits ago at the play place and figured it was a beauty mark (I have a million all over my body and assume everyone else must too).
Truth be told, I thought it looked exotic. I honestly don't understand people who can't keep their nosy and negative comments to themselves.
Glad you got your eye taken care of! Jared had an eye problem for a year where he kept getting sties and it was often swollen and red. People thought it was pink eye and would constantly ask him about it and offer advice and he got super annoyed. He saw 3 doctors and an eye specialist and the specialist finally figured out he had blepharitis and had to get the sties cut out.
Thanks, Nicole :)
Elleah, that sounds a million times worse, especially because people would be worried about the 'pinkeye' being contagious.
I like the part where the clients felt sorry for you:) Whatever works and glad to hear of God's provision for you. You won't look uniquely Lindsay with the skin tag gone but glad it won't continue to bother you.
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