Rainy Days....Gotta Love 'Em

So as much as I dreaded my alarm this morning at ten to six, I pressed snooze a few to many times and dragged myself out to run by 6:30. I had a nice 6 mile run planned and it was a cooler than normal morning here in the capital city. It was cooler than normal, because last night it rained - HARD! Lightning that lit up our bedroom and thunder that shook the house - J of course slept through it all.

After my run that I happily finished in 70 minutes (and I ran it all happily), I took Bear to the park for our 2 mile morning walk, and now I am happily sitting on the couch, drinking my coffee and playing on the Internet. I might even break out some of the scrap booking things later this morning. I have nothing else to do.

Laundry is done, sheets are new (as of Saturday), floor was mopped on Thursday (although I could vacuum again), I could clean the bathrooms before our trip, but hey, why have all our fun now. I should save some for later. And what makes me happiest of all, is I don't have to make dinner! Maxwell's parents have invited us over for steak and corn (boy Ohio corn is awesome!) as a thank you for babysitting him last week. YEA - happy me!

BTW - the bedroom disaster is not quite over, the new rail split on J yesterday when he went to put on his sneakers. Not happy! It will take 3-4 weeks before the new part (luckily under warranty) will arrive. UGH!

Bedroom crisis averted

So yesterday while Maxwell was over for his day long play date, J sat on our bed to wrestle with the dogs. Then you heard a snap, a crack and then a pop and Joe was now on the bed still, but the bed was on the floor. Oh crap I thought. Not my precious bed! Why can't anything go right? Do we always have to have something broken?

So it was the metal hook on the rails that had somehow snapped off. Upon further inspection, we think that the many moves and the movers doing crappy jobs at putting our bed back together, that might have caused the problem. Needless to say, I was not happy.

So I called Broyhill, the maker of our bed, immediately spoke to a very kind customer service person who explained who I needed to call and what I had to ask for. Then I called Kittle's, they had the part in stock, we could pick it up immediately, and it was less than $100.

So today we picked up the piece, took apart our bed. Re-secured everything, tightened everything down, firmed everything up, put new sheets on and off we went. J laid down on it and loved it. He thought it was better than ever. Crisis averted and fixed...Happy me!

PS - I also got my power tool fix for the day by using the drill to screw the supports into the rails - I love power tools!