baby, it's cold in here!

this past wednesday night, i turned on the water at the house to wash my hands, and despite our really awesome tankless water heater, no hot water came out. so i waited... and i waited... and i yelled to andrew that no hot water was coming out... and he turned on another faucet, and still there was no hot water. so he went to the stove and attempted to light it... and only a meek glow emanated from the burner... and then i checked the temperature, and we were at 67 instead of 70 degrees. we were out of gas. completely.

andrew told me not to panic, that he would contact the gas company in the morning. see our gas tank had been at 30% since we'd bought the house. we took this to mean either 1. we do not use much gas, or 2. the gauge was broken. apparently it was 2. or at least the gauge was stuck, because when i woke up to SNOW on friday morning (when the heat didn't work), the gauge said 0% - yeah, thanks a lot for the warning. (my attempt at capturing a picture of the snow while driving through zebulon... probably not the wisest idea.)

luckily, after much harassment, the gas people showed up and filled our tank, so now i think we owe them 5 billion dollars... or something, i wouldn't know though because the man who came to fill the tank couldn't tell me the price of gas. this seems wrong to me. i think you should KNOW how much you're going to have to pay before you agree to something. but since we were completely out, i didn't have much of a choice.

after the gas fiasco, the rest of the weekend consisted mostly of doing nothing, with some eating and napping in there, the only big thing we did was go to the oberlin christmas party. other than that, it was very relaxed. just what we needed after a crazy week. now it's two days and on to thanksgiving break!