The Daily Hailey

Sorry I am not a profane person. But I am today.

This was a large weekend for me. I’ve known it was going to be enormous for quite some time and if I’m being completely honest, the anticipation I held for it wasn’t always positive. A lot of what we had scheduled was good stuff, but there was just so much of it. I worked myself into quite an anxious state gearing up for this very weekend.

I’m realizing that I skipped a big detail of my weekend in my posts. On Friday, after being away all evening listening to a friend play music in a coffee shop, we almost missed our turn off the highway into our town. Everything was black. We had no power. In -30 weather. It was out for a couple of hours, just long enough to really cool our house off. Not my favorite evening.

Now, today was busy as well. I was sleeping by 3am and woke a few times in the night. Church was good but very busy, and I was exhausted afterwards. I brought a few crocheting projects to work on in the afternoon and got one band of one slouchy toque completed. Yup, that is it. I was tired to the point of almost dozing off on the couch, which I never do! We usually stay at my parents place pretty late into the evening and play cards, have dessert, and relax. We packed up and left early so we could put Dekker (and ourselves) to bed early. You know what welcomed us home? Not water, thats for sure! No, I’m not talking about the boil water advisory, thats still on and likely will be for, I dunno, another month or two? I mean there was no water. Not even a sputter. Apparently a water main broke about, oh, 9 hours ago now. We drove by the water plant, and know what we saw? No one. No lights on, no people, nothing.

I emptied out a milk jug, but I can’t rinse it. I can’t flush the toilet. Well, I may have one flush per toilet, but then its over. Worst of all, no bath. At least we have a jug of drinking water!

So today, I am tired, and openly pessimistic. Today, I hate it here. I hate my town, and I hate our house, and I hate winter. I don’t see any silver lining on any stupid clouds.

It has been a long day.