Bummed Out

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I’m kind of bummed this morning.  First, if you haven’t noticed, Everyday Randomness is down.  It has been down since early yesterday morning and will be down until later this evening when we get the server straightened out.

It’d take too long to go into detail about it all, but the server crashed big time.  It was caused by some software that didn’t install quite right, and now everything is all screwed up.  Luckily the entire server backs up every morning at 4am (and I keep my own personal site backups as well), and the crash happened just after the backup.  Everything is being restored back to it’s state at 4am yesterday morning, but it’s taking quite a long time.

The major downside is that I host a few other bloggers.  Luckily they all understand that things like this happen from time to time.  Hopefully it won’t be happening again anytime soon.

Other than that I’ve just been bummed out since last night.  I feel like I have a right to be.  When it comes to my birthday there’s 1 non-family person that I expect should remember my birthday.

That would be my best friend.

It’s not hard for her to remember.  Her son’s birthday is the day after mine, and we talk about that all the time.  She’s mentioned my birthday to me quite a few times this week, so when it rolled around I expected her to be the first person to send me a Happy Birthday note.  She almost always makes a big deal out of it.

She makes such a big deal of it that it worried me when I didn’t hear from her all day.  I even sent her a text wanting to know if she wanted to go out with us for a drink, and I got nothing in return.   So, I finally got to a point where I was so worried I text her at 10pm last night wanting to know if she’s ok.  It’s not like her to not text me at least a gabillion times everyday.

She wrote back around 10:15pm that she was fine, out hanging out with some friends, and pretty drunk off her ass.  I know it shouldn’t piss me off, but it does.  Of all days to up and decide to not speak to me at all.  Yeah, I feel pretty pissy over it all.  After my parents, my sister, and my Hubby I expect my best friend to be the one other person who at least says Happy Birthday.

Thinking About Our Future

Hubby and I spent a lot of time this week hanging out with his friend who lost his dad. We’ve been making sure the family is ok, checking on them daily, and just making sure they know we’re here for them.

Our friend brought up to Hubby how we really need to get a life insurance policy. I’ve mentioned it to Hubby many times, but he seems to always tell me yeah ok then blow me off. Well after seeing how expensive this funeral was and talking to our friend, he’s ready to finally get a life insurance quote.

It’s something we really do need. I think everyone needs life insurance, but I think we especially need it because we both do enjoy hobbies that are some what more dangerous. I mean, we ride motorcycles. That’s enough of a reason right there for me to want life insurance on both of us.

Big Stinky Mess

What a weekend this has been! We spent most of the weekend doing funeral stuff because the father of Hubby’s best friend passed away. It’s definitely a sad time, and we lost a wonderful man. We spent Friday night at the funeral home, then yesterday between the funeral and the family’s home. Both nights it was well into the late night when we finally made it back home, and Friday night we came home to a huge mess.

When it rains really hard our septic line gets backed up. We can thank the old irrigation line style sewer pipes for that. The line backs up, and we can’t flush the toilet without it overflowing. It only happens once every few months, and we’ve learned how to work around it, but not this time.

There’s apparently a slow leak in the toilet’s tank. That explains why I’ve thought I’ve heard the toilet running a few times at night, and why our water bill has been so high. When the toilet got backed up this time we weren’t home using it, but the tank was slowly releasing extra water that had no where to go. We came home to a flood out bathroom.

I was up ’til 3am Friday night cleaning up the mess, and I didn’t get even half the soaking wet towels washed. After we took our showers Saturday morning we tossed them all in the tub because we knew we wouldn’t have time to do anything about it yesterday. In my book a funeral trumps soggy wet towels. I can buy new towels.

Today is D-day for towel washing. I’m just waiting on my coffee to kick in so I have enough energy to finish cleaning this mess up. Right now we’ve got the water turned off on the toilet, and we’re only turning it on when we need it. Later this afternoon we’re going to head to Home Depot to pick up a new toilet, and I think I’ll check out some faucets while we’re there. I’ve been trying to convince Hubby to install a new faucet in the bathroom, and now might be my chance. He’ll get it done if we do it all at once. If not, I’ll be waiting months for him to decide he wants to do it.

Keeping It Pink

You may have noticed my new layout tends to change colors from time to time.  Ok so I set it to change colors every time you refresh the page.  I decided to change that in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  For the rest of the month of October this blog will remain on the pink theme.  Now that doesn’t mean that I won’t be changing the colors up once again when October is over, but I do want to show my pink in any way I can.