Back in the saddle!

Well, the apartment people weren't quite spot-on when they told us over the weekend that a roofer would be here Monday (yesterday).  Apparently it will be tomorrow.  So, in light of this news and the fact that the forecast showed 30+ degrees today and tomorrow (which, based on events this weekend would mean lots of melting of the stuff on the roof, but unable to escape the ice at the end of the roof, so more leaking in the apartment), I decided to use some time from work to stay home and monitor and take care of the situation (and also because it will be good to be here tomorrow when the roofer is actually here and be able to ask them questions instead of just asking the apartment minions who all feed us contradictory information).  Naturally, since I decided to stay home for this, nothing has happened today (though all the evidence was stacked in pointing towards a disaster area occurring in here today).  I'm also really glad I didn't end up using a half day yesterday as originally planned (again, due to the forecast), since there were no leaks yesterday either.  I believe this may be due to the fact that I FINALLY got through to the maintenance people that what we needed was the snow on the TOP of the roof brushed off each day (not the snow on the side of the building...duh...).  That seems to be helping, though I am still a little worried about potential leaking today since the sun is out and there is a lot of melting going on out there.  The lack of leaking is great, of course, except I would certainly prefer to save my time off for warmer days where I could be doing something other than just sitting around waiting to hear water dripping.


On the upside, I was able to spend the day with the cutest, sweetest little pup ever.  The thing he's bundled in is a sleeping bag.  Saturday night we brought out the sleeping bad preparing to have a slumber party downstairs (so as to more easily get up periodically throughout the night to change over the paper towel ceiling-leak catchers).  Thankfully (for our backs sakes) we didn't end up needing to have the slumber party and were able to sleep in our bed instead.  However, Gizmo is infatuated with the sleeping bag, so we have just left it out for now, using it as kind of a blanket.  

 Also, I have been able to get a lot accomplished today.  I finally scheduled some appointments that I have been needing to do (but never manage to get to, because the places need to be called during business hours).  I finished up our tax return and submitted it online (we're getting a decent chunk of change back! woohoo!).  I finished the project I have been working on the last few days of backing up all my photos from my last 2 cell phones to google drive.  Between both phones there were over 2000 photo files, mostly high def large files (and mostly of this adorable little furry sweetie-pie!).  I had uploaded them to my computer before getting rid of the phones, but then never got them off the computer onto goodle drive, so they've just been sitting on my computer taking up space and majorly slowing my old, tired computer down.  Also, and possibly most importantly, I was able to get back in the swing of things with reading!  I finished up Coraline, which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would!  It's incredibly dark and creepy, but in a good way.  So much story crammed into such a short amount of space, yet nothing felt rushed or underdeveloped.  I highly recommend this short read.

Now I am going to return to Gathering Blue, in hopes that it now being longer since having read The Giver that I will be able to read it more independently, without comparing the two. 

So all in all it's been a good day so far.  Poor Ilya is going to work extra today for overtime, so he won't be home until quite late.  Like a good wife, I will have dinner ready for him, though, so at least he will come home to good things (assuming the walls/ceilings will still be dry). 
 
We'll post a quick update later for our total reading progress today at some point tonight before bed.  We'll just lump all of Ilya's reading from the last couple of days into today because we weren't keeping track the last few days. The sun is shining here, so I think I'll take my little buddy for a walk.  I hope everyone is having a wonderful Tuesday!