snow(less) day

so there is absolutely zero snow or ice in houston. however, it is VERY cold. like a high of 32. and i know that is nothing for northerners, but let's be honest, we southerners don't know what to do when it gets below 60.

anyway, i woke up this morning to shower, flicked on the bathroom lights, and 30 seconds later, the power went out. so i got to shower by candlelight, which i'm sure is some sort of safety hazard. luckily, by the time i was finished, the power was back.

so i thought that was the end of the day's excitement: FALSE. it took me 55 minutes to get to work (versus the usual 30) - thanks to one flashing traffic light + 3 which were completely out.

then i walk into work only to find out that the pipes are frozen. and that we have to pour water into the toilet's tank everytime we want to flush. but we can't use the sink water because the pipes are frozen. so we have to take 5-gallon jugs outside to the spicket, fill them, drag them inside, fill up the tank, and then flush. which would be fine and dandy if you didn't have to explain to a client every 5 minutes why it might be a few minutes before they could use the bathroom...

eventually i got fed up with the whole situation and volunteered to pick-up lunch for the office so i'd have an excuse to use subway's bathroom. hallelujah for running water!

of course this didn't keep me from having to go in after a client and flush the toilet for them. i have a pretty strong stomach (aka: i've handled smelling gangrene in surgery & not fainted), but even so, i'm not the world's biggest fan of coming face-to-face with unflushed toilets. anyway, i manually flushed it + ran + survived.

HOWEVER, the good news in this whole day is that my boss decided to call a precautionary SNOW DAY (!!!) on friday! so we cancelled all of friday's clients, and i get to stay homeeee! totally worth the toilet flushing.