Tuesday, December 22, 2009

2009, the year that won't stop giving

So, wow, just as we thought 2009 was getting out of here with all its bad luck, I had a Surprise! Emergency Root Canal! which was my worst dental experience of all time, with a good two weeks healing time needed. Horrible pain and followups were included, with Bonus Tooth Grinding thrown in as well.

Then, during Snowpocalypse 2009, a NYC Sanitation truck hit the utility pole across from our house (at 2 am), tearing the power lines off our house and into the street. Yay FDNY who showed up quickly. And the Con Ed guy who stayed in his truck in the freezing cold until he got the lines back up and power on in our house (sometime after 6am, which was when we finally got to sleep). Boo to the surprise expense of having the power line put back up permanently. (I've already started the process of filing a claim against the city, but I hear it's hard to get your money back no matter how totally at fault they are.)

And a few other glitches, like unpacking and testing the tree lights on the 18th only to discover they didn't work; or looking for the snow shovel and realizing -- we don't have one! How did that happen? We have no idea.

But it hasn't all been bad. I won a giveaway on the really awesome craft/storytelling blog Creative Breathing and got this amazing elf girl peg doll and felt tree ornament:

elf girl!


They will be part of our Xmas decor forever! As will this guy:

yeti in the wild


Yup, a Yeti ornament! I got it from the Cryptozoology Museum as a surprise for yeti fan Evan. So cute.

Hopefully the next few days will keep on being more good than bad. And then...2009 will get out of here!

And we did find replacement lights at the last minute, not easy when you have a white tree! It ended up being for the best, because we all love the multi-colored light strand we had to get!

4 comments:

  1. 2009 was also the year of unwanted illness and procedures for us too. i have my last dental appt. on 12/31. 2010 has got to be better!

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  2. Oh, goodness, honey! What a mess! I *do* LOVE your new holiday decor, and the colorful lights are delightful!
    We didn't get our tree put up until the 23rd, only to discover that the lights were no good (pre-lit tree and all, of course). Adron spent hours pulling/cutting the old lights off, and was able to find exactly enough multicolored light strands to make our tree beautiful :o)
    Have a happy New Year, beautiful! I hope that 2010 is AMAZING for you and your gorgeous family!

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  3. Hey there, my sister told me about your blog a couple weeks ago. and I absolutely love it. I'll be back! Right on!

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