All in a Monday

Our summer got off to a bit of a bumpy start today.  As I mentioned previously, we knew we would be getting an new heating and air conditioning unit for the downstairs of this house.  The house had one unit for both floors, and it was not keeping up, especially upstairs.  As I also mentioned, I had a good pout before moving on and getting up and embracing the day.

I was doing well, ready to stick it out unless naptime was in danger, until the men started rolling up.  They may be the greatest workers ever, but they arrived in a harum scarum mixture of vehicles that closely resembled what the tornado chasers drove in Twister.  Our friend who owns the house had led us to believe that they may need to come inside once or twice; head worker quickly informed me that they would be "cutting our house apart."  Avery and I grabbed the essentials, locked Felix in the office, sent Sammy to Mimi's, and headed to Lolli's.  We had a fun time visiting and playing, and Avery took a good nap.

We headed home and arrived about 5 p.m., the time when the men had said they'd be done.  They were still here, and one told me they would be leaving, while another said they could stay and get it done.  I was hoping for the latter to salvage my day tomorrow.  Since we now have no air downstairs, Avery and I went to change to go out to dinner.  The man who thought they could finish finally yelled up the steps that he would be leaving since all his men had left him.

Oh well.  An hour or two in the morning is certainly worth a nice, cool house this summer.  We can already tell that the air is blowing harder upstairs and will surely be fantastic downstairs.

But it gets worse.

Ned got home and I was deleting some pictures on the camera (because I need to print a zillion) in case we rode by the lot.  I don't know what I did, but I somehow managed to knock my cup of Pepsi from this morning all across our laptop.  It remained on until Ned started trying to shake the Pepsi out.  I very quietly encouraged Ned to take Avery to dinner without me.  She needed to eat, and I needed to clean the carpet and have a good cry.  Patient Ned would have none of it, ready with stories of how the carpet would be fine and tons of ways to fix or replace the computer.  They only made me madder and sadder.  I know exactly why this happened.  We've been holding our breath about that laptop for awhile now.  It was isssued to Ned when he was appointed to city council, and he bought it for $1 when he lost the election.  It was a good laptop but has seen it's better years.  Our talking of it dying and Ned drooling in the Apple store was all that the universe needed.

WE WEREN'T SERIOUS, UNIVERSE.

After a good Mexican meal and a trip by our lot, we returned to survey the damage.  The hardrive is not wet or sticky, but not much is going on with the computer.  The power light is on....but the computer is not.  I can't imagine that's a good sign.  Luckily, we've got my desktop and Ned's college laptop.

I'm going now to watch The Bachelorette in my not-so-cool living room.  More Pepsi is certainly in order as I prepare to try again on Tuesday.