The Ups and Downs of the Day

Ups:

• I got to sleep in this morning...really sleep in. (Oh, how I love to sleep)


• We were able to successfully install the new digital thermostat we got for Christmas


• I won a game of Nertz


• I got to talk to Andrea who is halfway around the world. What an unbelievable way to end the day!

Zach taking down the old thermostat.

Downs

• The van had a flat tire...a major flat tire that took hours to get off due to really tight lug nuts and not owning the right tools. Zach spent a lot of time in the freezing cold with van rolling off the jack two times before being able to get the spare on. Thank you love! (Did you know that AAA will only come help you with towing, flat tires, batteries, etc 4 times/year and what do you know that this would have been our 4th time. We decided to save it in case we need it in the future and don't have resources and hours of time on our side. Unbelievable that we have already used them 3 times. What does that tell you about our cars?)


• I had to do a lot of painting of window trim today and we are still not sure if it is close enough of a match that we won't have to go back and repaint


• The garage door opener is still not fixed. It is officially beyond our abilities to fix.


• The vent in our bathroom is still not working after Zach spending a long time in the attic working on it. We thought it was do to a lack of ventilation in the attic (which Zach brilliantly fixed), but now we think in addition the fan itself is broken.


• Our oven is crazy and made making sweets very difficult with done to burnt bottoms and uncooked tops of cupcakes and cookies

A broken looking jack that is actually still working surprisingly.