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Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
MOXOMUMD said:
That sounds yummy! :hungry:
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My favorite Friday's dish is a linguine noodle with chunks of chicken breast and shrimp with this sauce over it.

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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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JenniferS said:
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. :facepalm:

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.
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Sympathy "like".
Hope it's all fixed, by now.

Several years ago, my folks were outta' town at a wedding anniversary party. Their next door neighbor gave me a call that evening after he walked his dog by mom and pops house and saw sheets of water running out from underneath the garage door and down the driveway. I came over right away. I unlocked and opened the front door, and immediately heard a loud whooshing sound coming from the game room as I stood on the raised entry to turn on the light. The rest of the house was filled with about 2 inches of water. I ran to the utility closet in the game room where the whooshing was coming from, and had to open the door, hold my breath, and dive my face into all the spraying water that was coming out to turn off the valve. I was soaked. One of the rubber washer hoses had burst. The house was a mess for weeks during the cleanup and drying out, but, you'd never know it ever even happened once it was all done.
Braided steel hoses were put on the washer, directly afterwards.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Well, quite a few of us in MA feel like we're living on borrowed time these days. (Over 125 roof collapses SO FAR, and yet a 2nd horse barn caved in yesterday, in a different town from the previous one, just a day before that. Thank goodness all the horses were rescued.)

So, a few hours ago, (after shovelling more snow outside), I walked into a back room and the ceiling was leaking all over from some melting snow and ice on the flat roof of that room (we had the first thaw today and that's what people are worried about with all the ice buildup on the roofs). We called the landlord who's going to tear down the ceiling tomorrow, but this afternoon we had to move everything out of the back room, cover a few other things in plastic, etc. Of course, this all had to happen on the one day a year the Daytona 500 is on tv, and I've missed most of it already. :(

Bye for now, peeps.
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Oh my. Sympathy "like".
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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donaldtoo said:
Had allergy problems through the weekend and didn't go in to the office today. Feeling much better now, so should be fine for tomorrow.
It's still a bit frozen here. I went out earlier (yes, in TSSFF :)) and there was still a bit of ice on the cars, trees, etc..
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Are you guys sure you dont want to come visit me on Mexico? we got plenty of sun!
soaring heat for everyone!
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
donaldtoo said:
Yep, Grease was all the rage, when it came out in the summer of '78.
Although, we wouldn't meet 'til several years later, DWifey and I were both 15 at the time. :)
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I was 11 when it came out, which would explain why some of the racier language went right over my head.
I saw it the first time at an all-girls sleep-over birthday party, a couple of times with my older cousin, a couple of times as the second feature at the drive-in; somehow reaching 7 times that summer/fall.
For Christmas that year, I got the three available posters, one of which I attached to the ceiling above my bed.

I thought I was going to marry John Travolta. :facepalm:
Whewwww, dodged a bullet there. :hilarious:
 

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