Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Halfway

We are roughly halfway through Kevin's "deployment" to Vancouver.  The exact date of his return has not been confirmed.  He celebrated this milestone by having an emergency root canal today.

The biggest problem we have had at home is with smoke detectors.  The batteries were not changed in the fall when they should have been so that was part of the problem.  I have replaced most of them now and vacuumed them.  Several times the detectors have had full alarms.  This usually occurs in the wee hours of the morning prompting me to walk around the whole house and make sure nothing is really on fire.   One night two separate detectors went within 15 minutes of each other - but there was no fire.  A few of the detectors with new batteries are still chirping occasionally so the whole unit will be replaced when he returns.  Usually it is our carbon monoxide detectors, not our smoke detectors that have problems.  It is scarier with CO because you can't see it.  Anyway I am not complaining.  We haven't had a flood, breakdown, illness or any other crisis.  I have only had to shovel snow 3 or 4 times and it has only been a few inches, not feet as often happens here. 

Things I have observed during his absence:

I run out of socks before I need to do laundry (not that he is dirty, just that 2 of us don't produce enough to fill a front loader).

I am doing very little grocery shopping.  Again, not that he eats a lot, just it is so much easier to feed two - especially when one of them is at work half of the nights.  And I have very few dishes to wash.

It is very boring eating alone so often.

There is nothing worth watching on tv most nights.

Toilet paper lasts way longer.

We are saving a lot of money on gas and vehicle insurance (I took his SUV off the road while he is gone).

I enjoy sleeping on a bed where the mattress is level (remember we had the memory foam folded in half so there was a cliff in the centre of our bed).


6 comments:

Fiddling Granny said...

Life is very different without the big lunk there, eh? Surprising how doing more laundry and grocery shopping is more attractive than you would have thought.

Fiddling Granny said...

By the way, the "big lunk" is a term of endearment! I wonder if he'll see it that way when he reads this! LOL (xo Kevin)

Armin said...

You forgot to mention that you blog a lot more!

Cherylinn said...

If this is at all helpful, we were just advised that not only do smoke detector batteries need to be replaced. But the smoke detectors themselves should be changed every 5 years. With dust and stuff throughout the house, the contacts start to fail.....

Lauras Garden said...

Our newer detectors say to replace in 10 years and the upstairs ones are all less than that. The downstairs ones don't have dates - they may have come with the house and they are the ones slated for replacement.

SusanE said...

When you gets home you'll have to report on the things that you notice.

I like the visual picture of the memory foam.