oy. Sunroof just fell off. Rassen frassen house. I had to climb up a rusty, rickety ladder to tape it back down. I'm not overly fearful of heights but that was NOT FUN. Plus now I'm pumped up with adrenaline and just want to calm down.

Cripes. Can I tell you how much I Don't Want to Know.

Oh jeez. Good luck.

Sunroof on a house? Where is that located--over the sunroom? I can only think of a car's sunroof.

I hope my maintenance guy has my HVAC unit reassembled and working by the time I get home tonight. When I left for work, he'd already been in my living room for an hour, completely befuddled by the noisy fan that was getting worse with each tweak he made. It was a new noise for him, which is never a good thing to hear from someone with as much experience on those units as he said he had.

He did say he would change the lightbulbs in my kitchen, so I'll have some wattage in there again--yay! I cleaned it up nicely before he showed up, so I'm stopping by the Jewels for some groceries and will do some cooking this week. (Still have to clean out the fridge tonight, though.)

Aren't those the lyrics to "Sadeness"?

Um... yes. What? I only know two songs by them, and I guess I thought I only knew one. Oops.

In re long distance calls - years ago the place I worked would hire the teenage children of staff people to work as, basically, temps over the summer. One, the daughter of a director, seemed to think that her mother's position and the fact that it was the office phone meant she could make unlimited ld calls ... and she did. Ran up several hundred dollars in ld charges ... which, because of her mother's position, they never had to pay back. Instead, the office imposed all kinds of restrictions and reporting requirements on staff making ld calls. sigh ....

Um... yes. What? I only know two songs by them, and I guess I thought I only knew one. Oops.

The two with French lyrics are Sadeness and Mea Culpa.

I use that song to remind myself that Sade is an exception to the "de" rule.


I also may have listened to way too much Enigma when that album came out.

Sunroof on a house? Where is that located--over the sunroom? I can only think of a car's sunroof.

Um, oops. I guess I don't immediately recall what it's actually called. Big hole in the roof covered by a window to let in light. Thought it was called a sun roof but yeah, that's for a car. Sorry, my brain is failing me.

ETA: skylight?

Skylight.

heh, thanks megan. I just remembered it.

Seriously I sometimes scare myself.

In re long distance calls - years ago the place I worked would hire the teenage children of staff people to work as, basically, temps over the summer.

Oh lord -- we had a group of high school kids staying in a hotel last summer and one of them used the room phone for long distance calls. That was a HUGE to-do, as well as being a large bill.