The worst day ever.....

I may have been known to overreact once or twice, but as days go, this one was pretty bad.

Strike 1: Fleas

Tim has a really stressful day because he's proposing his thesis tomorrow, but I convince him to come look at a rental property with me first, and then I'll take him to school. We're looking for a 3-bedroom house in our neighborhood. The last one we looked at was covered in beer bottles and was pretty dirty, but at least, I thought, it could only go up from there, I was wrong. Me and Oli followed the realtor into probably the filthiest place I've ever seen, the stench was overwhelming and it was soooo gross. To be polite I followed her to the next room, I should have just walked out the door as soon as I stepped inside. Suddenly she yells "get out and take your baby" but it's too late, we're covered in fleas. I am so unbelievably mad I don't know what to do. I try and get them off my feet, poor Oli is wearing flip flops and those little buggers pinch. Tim gets out and tries to help but we don't want to get any on him. We do our best, say goodbye and race home, trying to get as little as possible on our car. We strip down in the back yard and hang our clothes on the fence, I am SO itchy, it's horrid. Shower, change clothes. There's still a few fleas on the car seats, I'm so furious. Drop Tim off at school very late and go to the car vac. Great start to the day.

Strike 2: Power is on the fritz.

Over the weekend some power blowout or something caused all of the power in Lubbock to go down for several hours. For the next few days none of the water in Lubbock was safe to drink and we had to boil it before using it. This also meant a lot of restaurants were without power and not able to serve food/cold drinks. No biggie. Everything seemed to be up and working until yesterday afternoon when everything electrical in our house started tripping out. The dishwasher was going psycho and the fridge kept making weird noises. The lights kept dimming and brightening and the AC kept turning on and off. I unplugged all our electronics and went out to walk around the mall. Of course every single traffic light was out on the way there! A good time at the mall with friends (after a few tantrums from JJ and a dropped ice cream) and we go to pick up Tim.

Strike 3: No AC or Jimmy Johns

When we get home it is HOT. The AC never turned back on and appears to not be working anymore. Of course the guy can't possibly come out to look at it until tomorrow, of course. This would not be that big a deal except that we live in Lubbock, and it's 100 degrees and its July, so it is! I've had it. I'm heading to Jimmy Johns with some friends and the kids whilst Tim tries to figure out the AC. We get to Jimmy Johns "I'm sorry ma'am we're not serving food right now" oh their power is out too, nooooooo! So we head somewhere else. I'm not very good company, today has been awful and I'm feeling sorry for myself.

It's Tuesday morning and I'm at home with the 3 boys waiting for the AC guy. Tim is about to propose his thesis to his committee on campus. If they give him the go ahead he can get it over with and hopefully defend it in 4 weeks and then he'll be done with his masters. He deserves it, he's worked his tail off. I'm hoping today is a better day.