eyesthatslay's LiveJournal

So, here's the thing. I had a wonderful birthday. Sending out more birthday thanks to sandy_s and rikki_oko for lovely, and generous gifts! I love you girls!

There I was basking in the afterglow of birthday happiness, and my car decides to have a massive breakdown. A very expensive, massive, breakdown involving exhaust manifolds, and catalytic converters. *headdesk* Both Hubby and I nearly had a stroke when we received the repair quote from the dealership. Planning on getting a couple of more quotes from other mechanics tomorrow. So since Tues. afternoon, I've pretty much been a big ball of WAH over my car. I've even scolded it for not warning me with at least some small sign. A check engine light before disaster struck would have been nice, ya know? Bad, naughty, car. Did I mention WAH?

Also, my work place suffered some pretty intense water damage a couple of weeks ago. Enough to soak the carpets in two offices. That's been a barrel of fun. NOT. We had to wait a week for an adjuster to come out. We couldn't clean, or move anything. All of our computers, printers, fax machine, etc. are in that awful humid enviroment! There was condensation on everything! By the time the adjuster showed, both offices were majorly gross and funky smelling. I even saw mold growing on one of my wood file cabinets! Adjuster notifed us that the type of damage we had wasn't covered. The water came through a faulty door, blown ajar during a pouring thunderstorm, and apparently it has to be a leak from a damaged roof or wall. Oh joy. Second adjuster was requested by our insurance salesman. We had to wait another week for him. As you can imagine, we still couldn't clean anything. *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk* So now the offices are unbearable. The walls are warped, and according to the flooring guy - the mold is toxic when the odor becomes sickly sweet. Well, we've reached that stage now. The only good? The second adjuster seemed to think the damage would be covered. Still. I, and my new office assistant, have missed work days because we weren't able to do anything. We worked 3 days last week, trying to stay out of the offices as much as possible. That was before the "sweet" smell started. Now that it has, I've decided that we are not going to work in that building until it's cleaned. Tomorrow we'll be working in another building, and we'll just have to make due without access to our computers, files, or anything we'd generally need. Looks like it will be phone duty only for us. *sigh*

So yeah. Looks like the universe decided to balance out the fabulous-ness of my birthday with car and work drama. *glares at universe*

Other than that...

- I missed the Supernatural finale. I can, however, catch it on Hulu now that I've got broadband. woot!

- I was pleasantly surprised to hear Dollhouse was renewed. Now let's hope FOX will stay out of Joss' way in S2.

- The Lost finale was all kinds of awesome. I love my freaky show!

- Managed to post a set of Supernatural icons, and work on some other graphics projects too.

- Enjoyed gorgeous weather today, which was a nice treat.


Soooo. Here's to hoping that I'll be able to get a more reasonable repair rate, and have some progress made on restoring our offices to an inhabitable state. *prays liek woah*