Where in the World is Lindy?

ROUGH WEEK, it feels like about 2 weeks have passed since Monday! I haven't run or biked, but at least I made my two PT sessions. Give me a pass, please:

1. Late Sunday night I noticed the fridge temp was kinda high. Sure enough, upon waking Monday morning, it was in the 60's. Just went to the store on Sunday afternoon! Managed to fill a bag with stuff and took it to work to put in the already overcrowded fridge. Schedule appt for Tuesday, will have to take part of day off from work.

2. Monday at about 11am. Hubby calls me to tell me that my car (I was driving his car) is completely dead. We argue b/c I told him, in effect, "I told you so", we should have just gone ahead and had it fixed. For the next 2 hours, we deal with getting it towed and get him to where he needs to be.

3. No fridge, no food. Order pizza from neighborhood Pizza Hut. "It will be ready in 15 minutes, they say." Yeah, heard that onebefore, so I arrive in 25 minutes. No pizza. Um, Um, Um, I think we gave it away. 20 minutes later, they find it in the other "warming" bin. Not warm, but at this point it's 7:30 so I just take it and go.

4. Two blocks from home. Dangit. One Metra train...Two Metra trains. Wait Wait Wait. OK driving again. What's that? Blue lights and a siren? Get pulled over. "Not until you tell me why you're pulling me over" (my response to license and proof of insurance.) "Your license plate tags are expired." Flashback to Joey several times in the past few weeks talking about needing to go buy the tags for his car before the end of the month. Nice.

5. Eat. Hmmm, storm warnings on tv. Ok. Getting darker. More storm warnings. Tornado sirens go off! I don't ever remember hearing them in Chicago. Suburbs, yes. Chicago, no! The sky goes from regular to green to black and the trees start bending all crazy and we "batten down the hatches" and go downstairs. There we sit and watch the weather news on tv for an hour or so. Later, we marvel at the damage in other parts of the city, on the news. Doze off sometime around 10:30.

6. 11:45 Hubby wakes me up with "it's storming again." I look up and BOOM, power goes out. I go upstairs to check on the cherubs and Jada was sitting on the side of her bed whimpering. I get her and Zoe and decide to go lie down in our room. After watching the tree near our window, all I could envision was the story on the news about the mother and her children who died when a tree fell on them as they cuddled in bed. So we went downstairs, just to the 1st floor. At this point, down the block, I'm seeing glowing red, like a fire. I call 911. (Later we saw that it was 1 block down, a huge tree fell and brought down all the power lines and transformers and smashed four cars.)

7. Hubby goes to check on things downstairs. "LIndy! The sewer is backing up AND we're getting water in! So I run down to try and help move a few things, come back up and Lysol my feet. Jada was all upset, and Zoe was STILL sleeping. (Amazing how a creak on the floor as I"m trying to duck out the door for an early morning run will wake her, but all this commotion and she's still in dreamland!)

Anyhoo, to make this long drawn out story a little shorter, our power came back on in the middle of the night Tuesday going into Wednesday. Wednesday we had the refrigerator repair man come out and it was less than $100 to get fixed....AND my car is fixed, AND..... AND......the time has come, and we are the proud new owners of a 2005 Honda Civic hybrid. (This was already in the works when my car first starting acting up.)

Now maybe things can get back to normal. I plan to run tomorrow. I'm still beat down tired, I've only had about 4 or 5 hours sleep each night since Sunday.

So forgive me for not blogging!