Our Adventures Last Night

So last night, I got home a little later than usual because I had to stay a few extra minutes at work since I took 1.5 hour lunch to get my driver's license. So I get home, eat dinner (my hubby cooked - yay!), unpacked my suitcases from our trip, and did some laundry. The whole time I'm thinking, hmm, it's cold in here but I just switched the heat on so maybe it takes a little while. So I'm standing in my kitchen putting stuff in the dryer when I reach my hand up to the vent and it feels like cold air is coming out. I've been hearing the heat pumping since I turned it on even though it's on auto and thought that was strange. So I make Austin come over and see if it really is cold air or if it just feels that way from my height. He says it is.....check the indoor thermometer we have in our bedroom and it's 65 degrees in there. A bit chilly for inside! So I turn off the heat because there is no use wasting money trying to heat something that is going to just keep running because it is blowing out cold air and will never reach 70 degrees as set. And I pick up the phone to dial the office which is of course closed by now because by this time it's about 8:30 pm.

Ring, ring, ring forever and I'm about to give up when someone finally answers (answering service I'm sure). I explain the situation, she asks for our apartment number & phone number, and says she'll have the emergency on-call maintenance guy call. He calls back a few minutes later, I explain the situation, how it's going to be really cold tonight and I would prefer not to be without heat, and he says he lives an hour away so he won't be there until 10. Lovely! I agree because staying up late is better than freezing all night long, and we go about watching our movie, Napoleon Dynamite (SIDE NOTE: As many good things about this movie that I had heard, I was a little disappointed - it wasn't bad, just not as outstanding as I'd hoped. And I usually like indie movies. That one just didn't do it for me!).

The doorbell rings at 9:30 (yay, 30 minutes early) and in comes the guy. He is taking the temperature and then heads out onto our porch. Apparently our heat is run by some cyclical thing off the hot water heater....different but whatever. He's out there for about ten minutes or so and finally I feel the heat coming out. Thank goodness!!!! He comes back in and shows us this cool gadget he has that you aim a beam at the vent or wherever you want to take the temperature and it reads what it is there. So it was finally pumping out in the 80s up there when he left and seemed to function well throughout the night. I hope it's still working today since we haven't gotten above 32 degrees the whole day and I'm sure it will drop back down to the 20s tonight.

So that's my story about the adventures of the heater last night. We decided it was especially good to go purchase a carbon monoxide detector since we now know the gas will have to heat the hot water every time the heat comes on too, and we wouldn't want something to happen in our sleep! I'm sending Austin to purchase one of those on his way home from work today.

Hopefully tonight will be less eventful! ;)