mood: exhausted
music: Climax-Djo
The universe decided to hand me plenty of distractions.
The 17th we had one hell of a storm blow through, serious enough to hunker down in the basement. Tree landed on the house, but thankfully with minimal damage. That tree took out a big branch that hung over the house, that i got to witness in front of my bedroom window before rushing to the basement (That was an adrenaline rush for 24 hours).
Power was out for two days (we don't have the luxury of running water when that happens). Several back and forth trips from home to me mum's place, with a spare fridge and freezer. All while a record breaking early heatwave is also going on.
Tree people came the day after to take the tree off the house and clean up the branches, but we had no idea when they were coming back to take care of another tree that needed to come down
Things sort of settled down and then we got a really good offer on a new fridge. Boyfriend and I went and picked it up with help from me mum. Tree people finally came on the 24th.
On the 25th Boyfriend and i decided that would be a good day we'll replace the fridge. We figured it should take us no longer than 2 hours right? Riiiiight???
It took us over NINE hours.
Between having to search all over the house for the right tools, we had to remove the doors from both fridges to fit through the doorways. It was just...miserable. and it didn't need to take as long as it did, but it did.
So that meant...WE HAD TO GO BACK TO ME MUM's to use the spare fridge and freezer again.
On the 26th we head out to pick up our stuff and another serious storm blew through while we were driving. Boyfriend and i ate our dinner we picked up earlier, waiting for the storm to blow over at me mum's place (she was at work). I'm not gonna complain cause that means i get to see her critters~
9 years ago we had 3 trees come down in our yard. 6 years ago (this was in the winter tho) we had several LARGE branches crash down during an ice storm. 3 years ago our neighbors across the street had several come down, blocking the road. And we still have so many trees in our yard still that need to come down, but you know....$$$$$. Seems to only really be happening in yearly intervals of 3...wonder what 2027 is gonna give us.
June is the rainy/storm season where i'm at, but it's only gotten worse over the years. Hell we had a thunderstorm in February...A Tornado warning in April.
Thank goodness i use my metal straws.
i got my distractions and now i'm ready to try and work on Somnium some more.