Yeah, I know. I don't keep up with this thing....

But, seriously, my life REALLY IS THAT BORING! However, there has been some DRAMA in the past 36 hours....... Small re-cap: Russ is living and working on a construction project on Mt Rainier in the National Park (if you are interested, google "Paradise Inn, WA"). He comes home every other weekend. It's works nicely for us. I have adjusted to my independent stamp when I want till 2 AM lifestyle and FULL CONTROL OF THE REMOTE! OK... so 7AM Monday, he calls me and says that if I call the job site and there is no answer, not to worry because they got 7" of rain overnight (I read today that is was more like TEN INCHES) and the power is going off and on and he'll keep me posted. Forward to Monday at noon.... He calls to say that the Park Service has asked that all non-essential employees please leave the mountain due to flooding roadways and they strongly urge that EVERYONE evacuate. So everyone but Russ and four other guys leave. The 5 SuperMen decide to "ride it out" because they have plenty of food and they are safe where they are. Does he listen to me when I say, "But what about WATER?" or "And how will you get out or get supplies in if the road washes out?" ? OF COURSE NOT, for they are *MEN* (insert testosterone induced chest beating) and they can handle it. He promises to keep in touch with any changes. At 9:40PM Monday night, he calls to say the power has gone out again and they are all turning in. This morning I get up and turn on the computer and check the park website and "Live Mountain Cam" is still black meaning their power is still out. Well, I get a call at 9AM saying that the Park Service is sending a "lead vehicle" (read all-terrain-snow-plow sort of thing) up for them and they WILL all follow it out of the park as they have CLOSED the Park (which I already knew because they had posted it on the Park website last night!). He says he called his boss who told him to change his flight for this weekend and just come home today. JUST DUCKY. So now all the cleaning and laundry I had until 9PM (OK, 4 PM cuz I was hoping to play in VSN on SCS) Friday to finish has to be done TODAY. Grrrrrr.... He says not to make any flight changes yet, he'll call me when they are off the mountain (note that this normally takes about 15 to 25 minutes to drive down). I start the flight of the bumblebee cleaning... I finished painting his bathroom last week and haven't put his stuff back or cleaned up everything in there, so that was my first chore while laundry load #1 was going. I didn't hear from him again until 12:30. It took almost THREE HOURS to drive out of the park. They were not able to use the regular roads off the mountain and had to use service roads, driving thru up to a foot of standing water in places (man, we're glad he got that SUV) and they came out on the south side of the park rather than the west side and due to flooding he can't get back around to go to SEATAC so he is going to follow one of the other guys and drive down to Portland and stay at my mom's tonight. So I log into his airline reservations and get him all set up with flights. He'll be home tomorrow around noon (yay! a whole day to finish cleaning!). After that, I finished the yardwork before the rain comes tonight and all I have left is to change the bed in the morning and clear off the guest bed for her Highness the cat, since Daddy will be RUDELY sleeping on the half of the bed SHE now claims. He calls back when he is close to Mom's (mostly for directions to her house) and tells me that he may be home ALL NEXT WEEK and working out of the Bay Area office. JUST SHOOT ME NOW! Now add MASSIVE grocery shopping to my list of things to do tomorrow since all we have in the house is "my food" which brings such happy comments like: "Do you actually EAT this crap?! Don't we have any tater tots? Chips? Dip? EEEEEEEEW! IS THIS LIGHT ICE CREAM????? Where's the good stuff????" BAH! MEN! All I can say is they had better either have a company truck he can use or they better get his happy arse a rental car because if he thinks I'm going to sit around here with no car for a whole week, he's LOST HIS MIND! Don't get me wrong.... I was very worried last night and even called his parents to make them aware of what was going on. But, WHEN IS THAT MAN GONNA LEARN TO LISTEN TO ME, because after these things happen, I *NEVER* have to say I TOLD YOU SO, because he *IS* actually man enough to admit that I was right without me having to say so. I'm sorry, but the person STANDING OUTSIDE THE SITUATION usually has the most logical view of it, no? OK. I feel better now. Now, where is that corkscrew????? now that I'm done with one WHINE it's time for another WINE! LOL!