The other shoe.

You know how when you get really happy and then you start thinking "Okay, what's the catch? This is too good." Okay, so maybe you don't, but I do. I feel this way about my whole life and I'm pretty sure it's just how my brain is programmed. It's actually pretty comical. Because I feel this way I do everything, (well almost everything) by the book, to a T. I drive people (especially Isaac) crazy because of this.

I can't help it. I feel like I'm always the exception to the rule, and not in the good way. Like let's say I'm driving and I see a cop and I might be going 62 in a 60 and I swear up and down that I'm the one he's going to pull over right then and there. It's so obvious, I'm speeding. I know deep down this is ridiculous but I still feel this way.

Like back in October when the guy that lost control of his car and slammed into me from behind turning out cars into a 360 metal pretzel. He obviously lost control and was going way too fast. I still asked the cop if I did anything wrong. (I'm pretty sure Isaac who came to get me because my car didn't work was shaking his head as I asked this) The answer was an obvious no even before I asked the stupid question. I'm always so sure that even if I'm following the rules and doing every specific (or non-specific which drives me crazy because then I could be doing it wrong) thing it entails I'm doing something wrong. Even. When. I'm. Not. The cop was somewhat taken off guard (I mean come on who wouldn't be? It's a ridiculous question.) and Isaac then had to explain to the cop that this is how I am. Just another day of being Sarah. If you know me you know this, yes it's counter intuitive.

Sigh, just another day in the life.

And randomly pictures of the snow we got. Even though it was so hyped up and nothing really happened.

How a $4 purchase almost turned into a $40 purchase.

So remember when I was freaked out that my downstairs bathroom had no lights? Yeah, apparently it was just a burned out circuit breaker. You have no idea how much better it made me feel to find that out. I figured it out when Isaac told me that the outlets in the front hall weren't working either. And I tried to turn on half the lights in the basement and they didn't work. There's no way all of those circuits just randomly burned out on their own.

So I (smartly) took a picture of the circuit breaker and the panel and then we set off for Lowe's. We knew over all what we needed and so we set out looking for it. We found the aisle that held the circuit breakers (after being steered to the wrong aisle, that should have been my first clue) and found what we believed to be the right circuit breaker. We then asked an employee of Lowe's who was in the aisle if what we had was right. The circuit breaker (okay the word circuit is starting to look like biscuit, maybe I'm just hungry) we thought was right was around $4. The circuit breaker that the employee tried to steer us towards was around $40. There was another guy in the aisle that the employee deemed "must be an electrician" and so he then asked him to weigh in on our purchase. And the "electrician" agreed with us, yay!

So we got home, found a good youtube video (what would we do without the internet?) that made us pros on the subject. Also apparently the guy doing this video is in someone else's home. That's kinda weird to me, is he charging them for making his own youtube video? I know, but it's where my mind goes. Anywho, so we changed the circuit breaker and voila, let there be light!

You too can have this amazing experience by burning out a circuit breaker, taking a week to realize that's what it is, almost being sold the wrong item but quickly correcting to the right one, and struggling with the circuit breaker panel with your husband, all for the low low price of $4 and half of your patience.

Happy Monday all.

It's like the world is taking bets on how much it will take before I go crazy...

So apparently my google latitude has me in Texas this week.

Yup.

Um, I don't live in Texas and I didn't move. And I believe my phone is still mine. This is making me paranoid.

Jilian gave me the heads up because my Google latitude shows me right where I actually am.


We're getting brand new phone numbers at work today and I found out that the name of my extension at work was never changed. So just think of me as your local quality assurance nurse. (I don't even know what that entails. Also, I'm not a nurse.)

Also for some reason the light switch in my downstairs bathroom stopped working. However, the outlets still work. I'm going to worry about my house burning down all day now.

P.S. Telling me that my house could burn down anyways, at anytime doesn't help. It's not going to calm me down but instead I'm just going to worry more.

It's like these posts write themselves. I couldn't even make this crap up.