H2No.

Think about what you do every day with water. Drink it. Flush it. Bathe in it. Brush with it. Wash with it. It’s probably the most essential item for human existence (next to air). Now imagine if you didn’t have ready access to that water. What would you do?

Imagine our surprise when after a long, sweaty day we got home to a note on the front door of our condo building. “Water has been turned off due to a leak in Unit 7. Should be turned on sometime Thursday.”

It’s Wednesday evening.

We go upstairs to find drips coming out of our faucets. Jim quickly fills two plastic cups with the remaining water left in our pipes. Jim uses the toilet, flushes, and it goes down. I use the other toilet and nothing happens. Our water is officially gone. With ½ cup of water, we each brushed our teeth (badly) and quickly fell to sleep. I work up early to find that, of course, the water was not turned back on. Jim woke up early to head off to work since his office has a gym with a shower and he planned on showering and shaving. He used the remaining ½ cup of water to brush his teeth. How nice!

We were down to one cup of water. I said goodbye and burned some time before work. I used ½ my cup of water to wash my face and suffered soap in the eyes and a thin filmy residue on my face. I had to resort to using filtered water from our refrigerator to again brush my teeth terribly.

The final step in this madness was my hair. My hair does NOTHING if it is not washed and I’m one of those unfortunate people who have to wash their hair every single day. My only choice was to stick all of it up. Somehow. My hair is still pretty short so this requires two things: bobby pins and hairspray. After carefully getting each hair in place (trust me, it still looked awful), I reached for my hairspray…only to find that it had gone missing. I searched everywhere. The hairspray was not to be found. I smirked to myself and called my lovely husband. Lo and behold, he had taken the hairspray because his “hair has gotten too long, [he] needs a haircut, and [his] hair will not stick up without it.” Needless to say, I was furious and hung up the phone.

I traipsed off to work looking terrible, called said husband again, and said the following, “I’m going to say something out of love and then that will be it. I am very angry right now. Not only did you get to go to work, take a shower, shave, and use water, you also took my hairspray because your ‘hair won’t stand up’ without it. As a result, I look terrible on all fronts because of you! Next time, buy your own hairspray and STOP USING MINE!” I then hung up the phone and went my merry way.

Life lesson: Water is important and hairspray is a close second.

Go Cubs Go!!

Ah, the smell of BBQs and sweet victory!!! Last night was a rousing good time as the Cubs took the White Sox once again for a three-game sweep. Although the game was a bit boring, I was still happy they one and gladly swept a pair of Jim's white sox across our living room floor!

Aldo won our Cubs trivia handily and the Cubs' peanuts were never busted open (perhaps to save for next weekend). We had burgers and dogs, chips, dip, fruit and delectable brownies (if I do say so myself). Delish!!

What a wonderful evening!!! (Apart from the million hours of cleaning we had to endure before that...yikes!)

What's Trendy?

In an effort to keep my public aware of my life, I thought I’d take a minute to talk about some recent trends that people have tried to introduce me to and whether or not those introductions have been successful.

Lost

Aldo told me from the beginning – you’ll love the show. For days into the first season, I had my doubts and thought the show definitely had its negative points (i.e. Hurley, Juliet, bad dialogue, some bad acting, Hurley, surreality and did I mention Hurley and Juliet?) However, I stayed the course and soon realized that the show was also intriguing and since then, I’ve been pretty much hooked. I don’t think I’ll go crazy not getting answers until January, but it’s definitely kept me on the edge of my seat.

As a quick comment, the finale was good, but not quite as “shocking” as I expected it to be. I saw Penny’s Boat coming from a mile away (I predicted it weeks ago to Aldo and Jim at Bakers Square) and the John Locke thing just wasn’t surprising (the group I was with guessed it right away). I’m definitely excited to see what happens in the next two and final seasons.

Webkinz

A few weeks ago, Bethany blessed me with my very own pet/baby: a Webkinz. He’s a cross between a platypus, a duck, and a kiwi bird. However, the website refers to him as a “googles” – whatever the heck that is. I named him Peanut and am already (hehe) having loads of fun dressing him, buying him food and getting him jobs. I have to admit – the game is pretty addicting. Bethany and I thought it would be a great idea for my Webkinz and Parker’s to “meet” in one of the rooms online. We finally found each other in exercise room 2,586, but their little Webkinz just wouldn’t stop to talk!!! Several times, Parker even left the room. I guess it was okay since rather than communicating with standard phrases, Bethany and I then proceeded to actually talk on the phone for 20 minutes!! If you don’t have one already, I strongly recommend jumping on that bandwagon. Does this make me a loser? Yes. Do I care? No.

Twitter

In short, the bane of my existence. We already have Gmail, Google Chat, Blogspots, Facebook, Myspace, AIM, AOL Mail, MSN, Outlook, Yahoo talk, cell phones, and texting. What else could we possibly need? Oh wait, I forgot. We need a way to CONSTANTLY inform the world around us of what we are doing. Why not have a play-by-play of our life? I know why we shouldn’t – because it’s just another thing to check and to plug in a username and password. In an effort to de-username myself, I plan to streamline things. I’m sticking with my blogspot and networking sites (for students from the Crew). I will never Twitter. Not because I don’t want to be trendy, but because I just won’t become a slave to yet another website on this sick little machine. What’s next? The mark of the beast.

Enough rambling. What “trends” can you just not get enough of? And which do you wish you could just turn off?