This Southeast Alaskan Life

Oh my god, my life gets more ridiculous with every waking minute. The only reason that I didn’t blog last week was because I couldn’t decide which outrageous event I wanted to write about. At one point I wrote about all of them and then I had like three pages….nobody wants to read about that.

This week I’m not evening going to mention ஸ்கூல், ரெஸ்ட் அச்சுறேத் தட் ஹோவர்ட் வலேண்டினே ஸ்கூல் ரெமைன்ஸ் ரிடிகிலூஸ். No, today I’m going to tell you about a couple of things that happened to me yesterday. First, after I got home from work I decided to take a shower because I was freezing. I locked my front door because மி நெயக்ஹ்போர்ஸ் ஆர் க்னௌன் டு லேட் தேம்செல்வேஸ் இன் அண்ட் இ வாஸ் பீலிங் தி நீட போர் எ லிட்டில் ப்ரிவசி. Whatever. Fast-forward to me being in the shower, I hear somebody calling my name, and I swear this person is in my house. Mind you, my apartment is tiny so this person is right outside the bathroom door, “Emily, Emily, Emily?” My thoughts, “Oh my god, what the f can be so GD important that this person needs to talk to me while I’m f-ing showering, AGHHHHHHHHHH!?!” I pretend like I don’t hear them, get out of the shower and then go into the living room to turn on music, only to find my front door WIDE OPEN. Side note: it’s snowing here. I’m like, hmmmmm, maybe that’s why Chrissy was calling my name. Sure as shit, she came over later on in the evening, and was like, “Why did you have your front door wide open while you were showering?” Okay, so the door blew open, I had no words for her except, “Umm, why didn’t you shut the door when you left?” Apparently she thought that I left my front door wide open on purpose. The temperature in my house literally dropped by 5 degrees. No words, I have no words.

Second ridiculous thing, same night, talking with Chrissy (my neighbor extraordinaire) and she's like, “Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to tell you, we are going to have to run antifreeze through our washing machine and quit using it for the winter.” Me, “Okay, and where exactly are we suppose to wash our clothes!?!” This is a long discussion, apparently she washes her clothes at her Mom’s but she reminded me that the school has a nice washer and dryer that I can use. Our washing machine and dryer are outside in a shed like thing so I guess it’s reasonable that the pipes could freeze. In the same conversation she informed me that pretty soon we are going to need to leave our water running (at least one faucet) for the rest of the winter so that our pipes don’t freeze. She also tells me that we need to constantly remind our landlord to leave his water on because the water for our house actually comes from a garden house on his property and if his pipes freeze we won’t have any water. At this point in the conversation, nothing can surprise me, so I’m like, “…and how often does that happen?” To which she replied, “I don’t know, just a couple of times last winter for 2-3 day at a time.” Awesome. What the hell would I need water for anyways??

In less ridiculous news, Chrissy built this awesome contraption to compost her food so I got her old one. Yeah that’s right, I’ve got my own compost going.

Okay, it’s Thursday, wish me luck.

Quote of the week:

Setting: Thorne Bay headed toward Coffman Cove after basketball practice

Hunter: Miss Moody, if you slow down next time we see a doe, I’ll hit it with the door.

Me: Umm, No you wont, I’m not slowing door for you to door a dear.

Hunter: Come on, why not??

Me: I don’t have to explain to you why we are not going to hit a deer in this vehicle.

Hunter: Whatever.