Monday, June 16, 2008

Remind me why I'm not in England right now

I don't seem to be having an awful lot of luck lately - at least with respect to dealing with living by myself. Yesterday's false alarm may have permanently scarred my psyche, preventing me from sleeping through the night without being terrified of it going off and worse, confusing me with the "boy who cried wolf" scenario.

Next I woke up this morning to the news that a major water main had broken in MontCo and we were being asked to conserve and boil water. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, whom I get my water from, has offered this helpful map for residents wondering whether they are included in the "boil water" orders:




I live in the little red area north of the gridlines. In fact, I think there are a whole lot of people affected by the "boil water" order who couldn't find themselves on this map. I can't zoom in on my street or anything. Stupidest map ever!

Finally we had more storms roll through today. This isn't a big deal, we've been pretty lucky with respect to trees and whatnot. But today, of course, I forgot to close my upstairs windows (I turned the air off last night in anticipation of the cooler weather this week). Wet carpets everywhere.

This plan of waiting until October to join DH isn't looking too great in the light of day. What was I thinking?

1 comment:

CC said...

Hang in there, the time will fly! You're doing this so you don't have to leave your cats for the next five months. That would be sad cause they'd have no idea what's going on.