No Trips Were Found & California Cold.

Day three on reserve and at least I can say that I got out of the house. I needed to get some errends done. The usual stuff...pick up the dry cleaning, gas up the car, need new tires and an oil change, etc. But also some not so usual stuff like...find a new place to live.

I didn't have much sucess with my "to do" list. The tires will have to wait until Monday along with the oil change. I did get my dry cleaning and gas. But as for "new place to live..." the hunt is still on.

C'mon Kathy, did you really think you'd find THE place on the first day of looking?

Well, I was hopful. I considered a 2 bed/1 bath apt. in town that I got to look at, but it's just to close to where MB works. I don't want him driving by all the time to check on me. I won't even be there much myself. I'm getting more desperate though, as MB is driving me crazy. Last night he drank again and I didn't realize it until I saw him this afternoon and he could barely walk.

We have an issue going on with the house. The temperature droped last night and our pipes froze. Today people I talk to are asking me..."Why didn't you wrap the pipes yesterday?"

Uh, well...let me see...because this doesn't happen around here all that often and it didn't even occur to me. It's like the first frost of the winter, your late for work, you jump in your car to find a thick layer of ice on your windshield and you can't find your scrapper because back when it was 90 degrees you cleaned out your backseat and figured you weren't going to need an ice scrapper for a long time, but you never got around to putting the thing back. Yeah, it's like that!

So the pipes froze. A short time after I got home, the sprinkler system out front burst and water gushed from the enornmous gapping hole in the pvc pipe that leads to the timer.

I don't do water. I'm pretty handy...but when it comes to plumbing, I suck.

So I went looking for MB. That's when I realized how drunk he was. He did manage to shut off water to the house. Great. Now we have no water and MB left a long time ago to get a part at the hardware store. I know...he shouldn't be driving... but it wasn't like I could stop him. He has no sense when under the influence.

Gotta go. Wish me luck!