Celebration!

 Me, squealing.

Austin: Are you all right?

Me: A miracle has happened. I have lost three pounds.

Austin: Let’s celebrate.

Me: Want to get ice cream?

A Sign

 A sign of how tired I am.

I needed a nice long bath. I turned the knob on and went to put my hair up. I worried that the water would burn my foot off, so I dunked my toe in to test the water.

JESUS! That was cold. I darted across the room. 

I emptied the tub, distressed that the water was cold. I turned on the other knob and it too was cold. Why wouldn’t it be?

I went to Austin. He had taken a shower that morning.

Me: The water was fine when you took a shower, right?

Austin: Yeah. Maybe I used up all the hot water.

Me: Our hot water tank is only two years old. 

Austin: And that was several hours ago. It should have refilled.

Time went by. Austin made dinner. I decided to see if the water in the kitchen sink was cold. Nope, it was hot. 

Damn, that meant there was a problem with the upstairs shower. I’d switched the faucet to bath, so maybe something had rusted and broken, cutting off the hot water line. But it was getting late and I had work in the morning. I wouldn’t have time to get into the panelling and look at the plumbing till the weekend.

I sat on the ledge, a strange thought creeping into my brain as I stared at the corroded knobs.

I turned the knob at the left. (I had previously turned the one at the right.)

Jesus, I turned on the wrong knob. After a minute, the water was hot, just like it always is when you turn on the knob with a corroded H on it.

Sunday

 In Ohio, EST, it’s 8:52 a.m. Austin has weekends off and he is enjoying sleeping in. Especially after the adventures we had canoeing yesterday. 

However, in 8 minutes, our cat Guppy is going to start yowling. 

Guppy wants milk froth. Austin has trained her that when he makes his morning cup of coffee, that she should have a little of the milk froth he puts in his mug. She loves it. And Austin starts work at 9:00 each day. So in 8 minutes, when he’s not out of bed, Guppy will remind him that it is time for him to give her milk froth.

And when he grumbles and slouches past me, I will remind him that he trained her to do this.

Because he thought it was cute.

Spaghetti

 Making a good spaghetti sauce takes hours. When I started this morning, I sent Austin this picture, because I thought it looked really good. However, Austin sent me back a scream emoji.

Later, Austin: wow, it smells good in here.

Me: I’m surprised you think so. What with the scream emoji.

Austin: what did you expect? The picture you sent me looked like vegetables and mice chopped up in a blender.

We’ll see if I share.