Bad Moon Rising

Okay, did I walk under a ladder, open an umbrella in the house, or have a black cat cross my path and not know it? It is getting close to Halloween, maybe the cat's the thing? There is one as decoration in the townhouse across the street from us. I say all this because since Sunday we have had something bad luck-wise happen pretty much every day I think. It all started with a terrible dream I had Saturday night. I hardly ever remember my dreams but this one was vivid and very realistic. Sort of threw me for a loop. Then a small rock hit our windshield on Sunday while we were driving. It made a tiny crack, which will only get bigger as the temperature gets lower (supposed to be our last nice day today!), leading to having to get a new windshield. Monday was reasonably normal. Then Tuesday I didn't feel very good, thought I was coming down with Ella's cold. But I must have fought it off.

Tuesday night the hard drive of my computer was fried. And I was just six days PAST the end of my warranty. Luckily they waved that at the Apple Store and fixed it for free. However, I had to get a new hard drive, thereby losing ALL information from my computer. Including applications that were added after the factory install. Andrew called me from the store and asked me how important the stuff was on my computer, and gave me a dollar amount to compare its worth. I told him it wasn't worth it for them to try and recover the info. I've only had this computer for a year. And when I thought about it, most of the information I use these days is internet-based. My email, blogger, photos are pretty much on Shutterfly. I was sad to lose all my internet bookmarks and all those pleasant preloaded things you type into various webpages and they just pop up later on, like you address, etc. (are those called cookies?). I told Andrew it was just hugely annoying but nothing life or death. Thankfully, I had just printed out my christmas card list in August for Ella's birthday thank yous so I have the updated spreadsheet printed out at least.

Oh, you are probably thinking that is it. Nothing else bad/unlucky could happen this week, right? Well, guess again. I got up this morning, went to get Lily some orange juice and the fridge was completely warm. NOT COLD at all!! And the freezer was completely defrosted! And guess what, to top it off, I had just gone to the store yesterday!! So it was stocked full! UGH! We did some troubleshooting and figured out that it has an automatic defrost mode and just runs it every now and then. Well, it must have locked up on the defrost mode and the temperature just never came back on. So we unplugged the fridge and plugged it back in and then we were able to adjust it back to cold. It seems fine again, except that I have to empty the entire fridge and freezer and go buy all those groceries again! There's always a silver lining right? On the bright side, we didn't have to buy a new fridge.

Andrew asked me this morning, "Is it a full moon or something?" And the odd thing, YES, it is!!! When he said that and I thought about all the stuff that happened in the last week, nothing earth-shattering, but yes, very annoying, I couldn't believe it! I never really believe all those superstitions or anything, but now, hmm......might be rethinking that. So here's to hoping all of you did not feel the effects of the full moon in quite the same way.

(Sidenote: I guess I should believe in the power of the full moon because there was a full moon when Lily was born. And I had to wait 2 hours to start my scheduled induction, because so many women were having babies all the rooms were full. And I had to wait a while to be moved to a postpartum room too. They were even putting women on a different floor because they didn't have enough rooms in the maternity wing. One of the nurses told us, it was because of the full moon. They always had more women give birth during the full moon. Lucky for us, we had good luck with the full moon that time around. :-)