I have a cold, so I'm going to try to keep this short, but I had to rant somewhere.

Things have not been going well. I found out the other day that my mom had a heart attack. She's okay now, and at home, but it was pretty scary news to receive and I'm worried about how it will affect her other medical issues. Still, she's doing what her doctors say, and the damage was minimal. I guess if it had to happen, it's good news that it wasn't a lot more major.

That was certainly the worst thing I had to deal with, but it wasn't the only one. Our hot water heater decided to die on us. Of course it did this after a huge thaw which means we had to get the basement pumped out before we could get it replaced. Sigh...

We also got our bathroom repainted. It looks really nice and I'd be thrilled, but, and given the nature of this entry you knew there was a but, they're trying to charge us eight hundred dollars more than the estimate. Which was only nine hundred to eleven hundred dollars to begin with so a significant mark up.

Sometimes I swear the universe is an inately hostile place. Either way, i'm off to drown my cold in some hot chocolate.

Til later, all!