I was in the middle of writing a very long blog when my PC crashed!
Do you know how, when you have written something, and you lost it due to your computer hating you, you really don't feel like writing it all again!!!
Oh, well.
Here I go again:
After the kids woke me up this morning I turned the dishwasher on and then considered going back to bed for an hour or so. I decided against it and went to check my email. While I was sitting there, reading and replying to my mails, I wondered what that smell was. Then I remembered: Six months ago my dishwasher was on fire. Electrician came and exchanged the circuit board. Dishwasher has been fine since.
Now this smell was exactly the same. So I dashed into the kitchen and low and behold:
There were flames coming out between the top of the dishwasher and the worktop accompanied by malodorous wads of gray smoke!
So I ran to my fuse box, turned the power of, ran back to the kitchen, opened the dishwasher (carefully) and drenched the whole thing in lots of water. (Thank you for expandable kitchen sink hoses!!!!) After that of course I had to mop up my kitchen before all the water started to seep through to my downstairs neighbors.
And that stench is persistent. Even though I had the windows open all day (which is why I came home to an icy cold flat this evening) what greeted me on my home coming was the rather irritating, eye watering, making your throat scratchy stink of burnt plastic...
So tomorrow I will kick up a stink with the shop I bought it from and the manufacturer as well. No more fixing it this time! I want a new one before my entire flat burns down and we get killed in the process!!!!!
A bit dramatic I know but hey, I work in the Theater and Film Industry!
What do you expect?
Which brings me to the remainder of my day today (and I am now constantly saving this post as a draft - think I am getting paranoid).
Bilbo was early and Beorn was late but my Dwarfs were terrific today and all in all it was pretty stress free.
Next Weekend will be the last two performances. Kind of sad that, saying goodbye to all the people and not having the hustle and bustle anymore. For a little while the stage sort of becomes your home (even if it is just an amateur stage). I never like leaving a set or a stage.
While you are there you kind of "leave earth and go to a different planet". (saved it again...) I sometimes find it difficult, at least for a short while, to cope with the real world again. Oh well, there will always be a next time. :-)
Well, now I am at the point where my computer crashed previously and I am tired!
Writing a blog (you don't really want to re-write) whilst having a skype conversation with three people, isn't the easiest of tasks... :-)
Until we meet again!
I will leave you with my favorite poem (not by me, obviously)
Let me not to the marriage of true mindsSonnet No. 116 by William Shakespeare
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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2 comments:
You had a bad day yesterday, didn't you? Hope today was better!
Courtney: You can say that again! But hey, it's a new day and I am still alive - Eureka! :-)
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