How the Hot Water Heater Betrayed me and Other Tales of Woe

I just need to say that the hot water has something against me. It really does! First I take a shower with luke warm water and I go out to tell my husband that he is indeed going to need to fix it. We have feared this for about a week as the water temperature was going between scalding hot and barely warm in a very unpredictable fashion. As I get ready for work in the bathroom Jim comes in and tells me how good his day is. What? I have been my normal grumpy morning person that I am so why he should be expressing such joy is beyond me. I walk out of the bathroom and he has that stupid smug smile on his face and is practically jumping up and down. THEN I SEE IT! The dreaded SPOON! It has been hiding in our closet for over a year now. I hung it up on the inside wall and I rarely think about it and that is why the evil hot water heater was able to easily betray my hiding spot.

Jim promised to place it out of reach but in clear view. UGGGGG!!! I will now have to find another hiding spot, because I will be able to reach it even if I have to get the ladder out. Some may ask why I don’t just throw it away. Well I have a few answers to that: 1. as I stated in my last post I have trouble letting things go even things I hate. 2. It is not mine to throw away that would just be mean. 3. What fun would that be?

I was going to discuss my work related tales of woe but that would bore you to death. Let’s just say I wish I would have known about all this saving money crap a couple of years ago then I would have spent, spent, spent so that I could stop now and look like the hero. As it is I have always got the best prices on things and spent sparingly so I now I have nothing to cut. I think maybe I am just tired and cranky and knowing I will be looking at the hideous spoon does not help.

Other than all that the April 2007 China group is supposedly out of review. Although we still could get questions from the CCAA for a few weeks it means that we are finally approved to adopt from China from the Chinese officials. So after 2 years they finally got to our file. Now lets hope that it does not take that long to get to referrals.

No new news on BB. I think we are still waiting to have our documents certified and authenticated and all that. But hopefully soon they will be off to Burundi. I will feel much better when the Burundi government approves us. I worry I am getting to attached to the pictures I have and something will happen and the whole thing will fall through. So I just hope that there is a speedy approval there.