Wow, what a weird unbalanced weekend!

Ok so, Friday at home was good. I was here doing small things, finishing work work. My oldest didn’t have plans until work at 4 so he and I went out to eat lunch at a place I hadn’t been to since probably 1998. But a friend of mine said she and her husband go as their last stop after having been out because they like their drink prices. Well, obviously we weren’t drinking Friday but we did have a tasty lunch. They had an 8 dollar burger; something unheard of these days. Elliot had wings and he liked them. He went to the gym after so it was just me again. Picked up the younger kids from camp later and my middle was sick. He’d woken up with a sore throat but by then, he had a fever. So we put him on the couch and my daughter and I did the last few cleaning things I’d wanted to accomplish before my husband got back.

I watched her swim for a while then finally, a little after 10, Ash made it back. His conference was in South Florida (in the town I actually grew up in) and it was probably an 8/9 hour drive for them. So he was obviously tired when he returned but it was nice to have him back.

We had planned to do our 55 mile ride Saturday and boy, when that alarm went off at 6? No thank you. But I got up… got ready. But we argued. A friend told us there is a way to ride from our house to the start of the trail. We typically drive 12 miles and park at the start of our rail trail but how awesome would it be to just ride from the house? Problem was that we’d never done it and it does go through neighborhoods and personally, I wasn’t in the mood for an adventure. He really wanted to cut out the drive. In the end, he agreed that we weren’t ready to go finding that circuitous route anyway so it worked out. The ride was fine. As always, I struggled right around miles 30-35 by then got my second wind. The last 10 mile stretch was better than usual, actually.

We were home by one and even though my middle woke up with the fever, it was gone by then, thankfully. Hit the store and made them some lunch, then sat down for some beer and movies! I always feel like we deserve it after. My app (All trails) is inconsistent when it comes to calories burned but his said over 3000. That’s a lot!

We watched 3 movies that day: Little Darlings, one I can’t remember, and The Fog. Little Darlings was actually pretty good! I think it was from 1980 and was about an all-girls camp and well, you’d have to watch it but I found it quite poignant.

I woke up Sunday feeling like I might be getting sick and REALLY not wanting to ride 20 miles. We had agreed we could explore the route our friend told us about but I put my foot down. I got all ready and said I was heading out to do the neighborhood loops. He agreed and was behind me by about 30 mins. It’s such a hilly 20 but I just stuck to my guns and did it. I cheated a little and after 15, rode back towards the house and did 5 laps of a one mile loop. It was slightly less than 20 but hey, it was done! I was so glad to be finished.

Showered and got started on laundry. Ash had a really bad ride and before I knew it, he was asleep on the couch, which is totally unlike him. Turns out he was getting sick. After making lunch for 2 of the kids – oldest was at work – I sat down to read and I too felt like taking a nap, but it was only 12!

As I lay out in the sunroom, I knew it: the AC was doing the same thing as before where the damper didn’t switch floors all the way so when it blows upstairs, it still blows down. And we had a part replaced 2 months ago! I think there are two motors and now it must be the other one. So I literally had to manually manage upstairs and downstairs cycles all day. What a pain. It stressed me out so much but then I got to a point where I was like, why am I worrying? I wasn’t about to call after hours and pay so I had to deal with it until Monday.

In the afternoon, my oldest got home from work and his girlfriend came over. She’d been on vacation so they hadn’t seen each other in a week and I felt bad about the air situation, especially since they can’t go to her house. Her parents don’t even want her dating; it’s a weird situation.

Didn’t do much for dinner since Ash was pretty much not in the mood to eat. I cobbled together things for the kids and I. We did end up watching game 7 of the NBA finals. We were once huge basketball fans. It was something I enjoyed even before I met my husband. Somewhere in my parents’ things may still live my 1995 Rockets championship shirt; that’s how far it goes for me. But between the way Steph Curry changed the game to just being about 3s and how they took woke to a whole new level, I was just felt alienated from it. But I figured, let’s watch it, since the Pacers apparently have a new guy who is amazing. Yeah well, he went down in the first quarter and didn’t come back. Sigh. I was a big Pacers fan in probably ’99 or so, before I hitched my wagon to the Spurs, so I was rooting for them for sure. Without that guy though, they didn’t have much of a chance.

As we neared bedtime, I told Ash I’d take the hit and set an alarm every hour to adjust the AC. It would get to the target temp but not turn off, but if I bumped it by one degree it would shut down. I didn’t want to burn out the unit, after all. So I set myself up on the downstairs couch, set an alarm for every hour on the hour, and read until I started to feel sleepy, which – funny enough – I did not. And I typically fall asleep in my chair early every night! I guess if I have something to be in charge of I can stay awake. Well at one point, I heard it turn off on its own. I waited until it successfully did it twice then went to bed and said a little thank you prayer. God saved me on that one!

So of course now, why call if it’s working? It’s like when your car makes a sound, you take it in, and then of course it can’t be replicated. The same thing happened with the AC motor before; it would work fine, then not, then work again. They tend to rust (newer models are all plastic for that reason) so with humidity, etc, they can stick.

Another thing that happened on Sunday afternoon, because sometimes crazy things happen on my street, was that I looked out and saw a cop and figured he’d pulled somebody over on our road, because people tend to speed. Then I saw a second cop and when I looked down the road there was an ambulance. And it appeared that somebody came around the corner and didn’t take it correctly or something and somehow veered up over the curb and into our neighbor’s house. I don’t think they crashed into the house so much as landed right in front of their porch. Ash and I went out there to look but we couldn’t really see anybody injured. We heard them open the driver side door and it definitely didn’t sound right but they didn’t pull anybody out of there. So in the end I’m not entirely sure what happened. An hour later a tow truck came and took the car. Today, there doesn’t seem to be much damage so I have no idea what happened!

Thanks for hanging in there on this long post. I am procrastinating. Due to the on-going world situations, I’m thinking I’d better put gas in the car and probably fill a couple of our generator jugs. Every hurricane season, we fill 4 five gallon jugs just in case. But if gas prices are fixing to skyrocket, better do it now!