so warm...

So our heater has been broken for the last two weeks. It's only really bad when it gets below -10 outside - that's when we start to feel it in the apartment. We kind of ignored it at first, which was probably not the best thing to do, since the apartment is heated with hot water, and last winter, it got so cold outside, the pipes froze, and the apartments on the first floor flooded.

It was negative 12 today, and the apartment was REALLY feeling cold, so we finally bucked up and called the rental office maintenance emergency line. A guy came over about an hour later, wasn't familiar with our apartment building, or our type of heater. He ended up getting in touch with our usual maintenance person, who just started a few weeks ago. They wandered up to the apartment above us, because it is vacant, to see if it was having the same problem. Nope. Came back down, fiddled around, banged on some stuff, then went to get a defroster thinger.

They came back, plugged it in, started defrosting our frozen pipes, and then the fuse in it blew. They ran off to the car parts place to get another one, came back, started it up again, and tripped the breaker twice. We had to turn off all the lights and unplug the big appliances while it was running.

They left the building, said that it needed to run for half an hour, came back an hour later. It was starting to smell, so we turned it off after about 40 minutes.

Now it's nice and toasty warm in the apartment. Almost TOO toasty warm, if you ask me. Guess we don't have to worry about freezing to death in the middle of the night!

We braved the horrible roads and snow yesterday to do some shopping. Looking for a Wii Fit, couldn't find one. Got paper to make our Save the Date cards, as we finally have our wedding venue and date booked. Wandered around a bit until we finally retreated home to safety.

Today, I did laundry, cleaned the apartment, sat around for hours while our heater got fixed, watched Supernatural, and Aaron and I baked cookies. A good winter day, if you ask me!