When does challenge mutate into frustration

I was faced with a line-up of things to do and had just almost signed off the Internet when the Internet signed off on me last Saturday morning. Only it wasn’t the Internet; it was power to the plug the modem and whatever plugged into. It took us a while to realize this and identify the Switch of Death – one of us at the circuit breaker box and another clear across the garage, house and up the stairs, talking on cell phones. It was Saturday; we didn’t call an electrician; we plugged everything in another plug.

This took awhile. Then a couple of us went to LaGrange and, golly, gee, we found out there was a big leak behind the water heater. The man across the street had mentioned that there were a lot of garter snakes out this year and there is no way I, AmeliaJake, am going to even go down in the basement to investigate. I made it halfway down the stairs and then really leaned to turn the pump off. I thought I heard a rustle; maybe it was my imagination, but I’ll not betting on it.

So, two things to take care of THAT WEREN’T ON MY ORIGINAL LIST!!

I am ready to listen to this mp4 that Pottermom sent me about cricket voices at reduced speed:Crickets Clip.mp4

This may not play, so I will check back and then check with others for help in getting it to do so if it won’t. Well, that was a great sentence.

SEE, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FRUSTRATING – THAT JUST PLAYED A BIT ABOUT A GAS CAN, DIDN’T IT. SIGH. LET ME LIE AND BLEED AWHILE AND I WILL RISE TO FIGHT THIS BATTLE AGAIN.