JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Can I tell you how much more fun last night got?
After nibbling on some toast and sipping some tea at 2:00 a.m., I rode that wave of nauseau until 3:00. I was just about to turn off my light and turn in (after taking a Gravol) when my Spidey senses started tingling ....
I felt like Kevin's mom in Home Alone, and leapt from my bed. For some reason, I thought perhaps Son #1 had left the stove on. Turns out he hadn't even cooked.
But from the kitchen, I could hear a weird noise coming from the family room fireplace one floor below. It was a strange hissing noise, like air being released from a high pressure valve.
I get down on my hands and knees and stuck my head up the flue (what I expected to see, I have no idea), but the noise wasn't emanating from there. It seemed to be coming from under the raised hearth ....
So, I do what any good wife, half-stoned on Gravol would do ... I make Hubby get up from a deep sleep.
Long story short (too late), we figure out the noise is coming from the basement - in the furnace room directly beneath the fireplace.
Son of a bee, a pinhole had erupted in one of the copper pipes connected to the water heater. High pressured hot water was spewing everywhere! Hubby drained some of the tank, shut the hot water off, switched the unit to pilot and went back to bed.
Luckily for me, Adopted Son had loads and loads of dirty laundry strewn all over the floor, which actually fortuitously soaked up a couple of gallons of water!
Guess who was doing laundry (cold water only) at 4:00 a.m.?
When I finally crawled back into bed, I woke Hubby up three times to get him to confirm that he had shut the gas to the hot water tank off, and that we weren't going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
And the moral of the story .... Don't take Gravol before bed. It makes you crazy!
After nibbling on some toast and sipping some tea at 2:00 a.m., I rode that wave of nauseau until 3:00. I was just about to turn off my light and turn in (after taking a Gravol) when my Spidey senses started tingling ....
I felt like Kevin's mom in Home Alone, and leapt from my bed. For some reason, I thought perhaps Son #1 had left the stove on. Turns out he hadn't even cooked.
But from the kitchen, I could hear a weird noise coming from the family room fireplace one floor below. It was a strange hissing noise, like air being released from a high pressure valve.
I get down on my hands and knees and stuck my head up the flue (what I expected to see, I have no idea), but the noise wasn't emanating from there. It seemed to be coming from under the raised hearth ....
So, I do what any good wife, half-stoned on Gravol would do ... I make Hubby get up from a deep sleep.
Long story short (too late), we figure out the noise is coming from the basement - in the furnace room directly beneath the fireplace.
Son of a bee, a pinhole had erupted in one of the copper pipes connected to the water heater. High pressured hot water was spewing everywhere! Hubby drained some of the tank, shut the hot water off, switched the unit to pilot and went back to bed.
Luckily for me, Adopted Son had loads and loads of dirty laundry strewn all over the floor, which actually fortuitously soaked up a couple of gallons of water!
Guess who was doing laundry (cold water only) at 4:00 a.m.?
When I finally crawled back into bed, I woke Hubby up three times to get him to confirm that he had shut the gas to the hot water tank off, and that we weren't going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
And the moral of the story .... Don't take Gravol before bed. It makes you crazy!
Well, that and Advil Cold & Sinus.
