When It Rains, It Pours....

Have you ever noticed that when you need something the most, it seems to break?  We’ve had possibly the coldest week of the winter starting with Sunday and guess what both of the units I use to heat my house are out!  It seems like this type of thing happens to me all the time.  For instance, last year we booked a trip to Mexico in the middle of February.  All we needed was it not to snow the day before or the day we were flying out for the trip.  Guess what happened?  You guessed it, big snowstorm the day before we are supposed to leave that triggers a slew of plane cancellations and my ass driving to North Carolina to get a flight to paradise.

Want another example?  Sure.  My back started hurting about two and a half years ago and I went to get an MRI and see a specialist.  We were tight on money and I really didn’t want the situation to require surgery.  So guess what happened?  Yup, you guessed it, I need surgery and there isn’t any other solution, except of course to deal with the pain and make the situation much worse by delaying the inevitable.  To make matters worse, my company installed a new health plan that year that came complete with a high hospital deductible I was going to have to fulfill before the plan kicked in.  Great!  Work was also at its busiest time and I really couldn’t afford to be out for the desired time of rehab.  The surgery was needed so I had to do grit my teeth and get it done.

So now back to my current “What the Fuck” situation.  On Monday our oil tank pipe decides to freeze because the heating mechanism we had burnt out and good old God decides to dump the temperature down to sub-zero temperatures.  So our pipe freezes which causes us to lose hot water and our secondary way to heat the house.  I say secondary because we have a wood pellet stove that is our primary heating source.  Can you guess what happened next?  Yup, the wood pellet stove goes out and from our discussions with the company; the motor seems to be the problem.  They’ll be out as quick as they can……NEXT MONDAY!  Ok, no problem, we’ll just get our secondary heating source back up and running right?  Sure, whatever you say.  We get the pipe unfrozen and hot water is back.  YES!  Bottom floor has heat.  YES!  Wait, how come the top floor has no heat?  Well, it turns out we have a pipe frozen somewhere cutting off heat getting to the upstairs.  PERFECT!  I guess we’ll just use space heaters to heat our house until we can find out where the pipe is and unthaw that son of a bitch! 

I almost want to put a wager on this new scenario happening.  We have a big snowstorm coming tonight.  What do you think the chances are of us losing power and therefore any way to heat our house at all?  Judging by the above situations I believe the chances are pretty fucking high, don’t you think?  I guess in the end, it’s a bit funny and I’ll look back and laugh at the situation, that is, if I don’t freeze to death tonight when I lose power.  Maybe it’s me but some shit just doesn’t make sense sometimes.

A little question for you guys too.  A little controversial but I think it needs to be asked.  Can I blame God for this?  I’m not a religious man so in the end I guess I can’t but I always see people praise him when something good happens.  But you know what?  No one really blames him when bad shit happens.  I really want to start a new trend but the fear of him taking my power away and freezing me to death is scaring me a little.  I hope you have a great day and I’ll give you an update if I’m not frozen Friday!  Stay tuned!