tuesday march 16, 2010

day 3 under the pink frilly canopy

Did you know that i have become a contestant on the biggest loser? I hadn't realized I was on the show until i found myself in the middle of a biggest loser challenge when I went to check on my home-sweet-home in war torn teaneck. The water in the sump pump pit has been rising, slowly, but surely, it has reached a point that is a little too close to the top for my liking...so the challenge began....

fill up two quart size containers with water from the pit...run to the laundry room to empty them out in the sink...trip over the laundry bags filled with clothes that ari must have brought downstairs before we lost power, spill the water on the floor, realize there are no lights on, try not to curse because you are on national tv...run back to the pit...fill two containers with water, run up the stairs to the kitchen, do not spill the water, empty the water in the sink...keep doing this until it looks like the water is going down...or, until you trip down the stairs and need to call 911, which you can't do because the only working phone is in your bedroom...

the water has receded...will be back in a few hours to check on it again. the power isn't supposed to be back on until thursday...by then, after living with my parents for that many days, i would have regressed to age 8, which would make me younger than my youngest. lord help me. yes, i am thankful that i don't have flooding, yes, i am thankful that we are all healthy..blah blah blah I NEED POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

went to fairway this morning because kosher for passover cream cheese is only 99 cents. 99 cents...i don't care if i have to walk around with it in a bag of ice for the next two days..that is a sale you can't pass up!! i walked around the aisles, longing to buy things that need to be frozen, but if this power outage goes on much longer, i am going to forget which freezers i have things stored in, so buying more perishable items and storing them in yet another kind person's freezer is just not going to work for me...truly pathetic.

I sent matthew to school with a note today reading "matthew is being picked up by his frazzled mom at 3:20..his brothers will be picked up at 4:30 if we still do not have power, otherwise they should go on the bus." matthew reads this note, looks at me and says "mom, this note is too long...i am not sure they are going to be able to read the whole thing!" oh well....

So now i will continue about my day, trying to complain as much as possible because no one really listens to me anyway, and hope that thursday at 4:30 really means tuesday at 4:30...

Happy Tuesday