Flash flood!!!

Well, it happened again! It was kinda' frustrating at first, because I was literally about to walk out the door to go to church...but on the other hand, I consider it a blessing that I had not walked out the door yet! My washer flooded my kitchen! I guess the "stability" of this apartment floor (or the lack thereof) causes the tremendous seizures that my washer sometimes has (even though I have made sure it sits level and that the clothes are in it "evenly"). So apparently the item I had wedged in between the drain hose and the drain pipe (to keep them from coming apart again) worked its way loose...and the drain hose fell out, spewing dirty wash water over my kitchen floor. I heard something (and heard Shadow freak out) and went to investigate. Fortunately it was just about across the kitchen floor and I was able to grab a few towels and stop its trek. Then I hurriedly found more towels (okay, so now ALL the towels in my house are dirty) :-) and finished mopping it up. (Wow...telling the story is sure a lot easier than doing it was!) Well, as much as I have any say, it will not happen again! I took some wire I had and wired that silly drain hose to the adjoining faucet head...so in order to come out of the drain pipe it will have to break the wire. :-p Any way...I was disappointed that I wouldn't make it to church (since church had already started by the time I got it anywhere near cleaned up...good thing I am used to moving overweight patients...washing machines full of wet laundry and half the wash water are pretty heavy!) :-) I found a sermon tape and listened to that while I cleaned up. It was about finding how the Christian's joy is found in the Lord. It was good and encouraging. Well, while I was tempted to be mad at first...because I only get to go to church every other Wednesday b/c of work...I was really grateful that I was home when it happened...as finding it 3 hours later would have been MUCH more tragic! (that happened last time!) And I reminded myself that God allowed it, and knew it was going to happen, so it was okay and there was something else for me to learn/accomplish tonight.

Well, my tummy is a little hungry, so I better go eat something...in just one hour, food is forbidden, as I have my work physical in the morning, and it includes blood tests...that means I will be famished in about 1 hour and 15 minutes...as I have not really been hungry all day...just like you ABSOLUTELY have to sneeze if you are under strict orders not to move or make a sound. :-) Oh well...what shall I eat? nothing I have sounds good...but that is no excuse...I shall just make myself eat something I have. ;-)