My Friday

Last night I closed my blog on the note I had homework to do. I did a little of an essay but promptly tired of doing research on why the acids in our stomach are so important. Every week it is the same thing, my instructor posts a new assignment on Sunday, I tell myself, "I am going to be good! I will read the chapter, do my lab work and submit my assignments by Thursday!" Every Saturday night I am scrambling to cram thirty pages of information into my brain only to complete the assignment ten minutes before it is due, midnight. This next Sunday, when the assignment is posted, I think I will just be honest with myself and not even bother looking at the assignment until nine P.M on Saturday night. This will give me a six days stress free. It's not that I'm not interested in the material it's just that I am also interested in every thing else that is going on around me. It's a catch twenty-two, I cannot study unless there is absolute silence and if the family is home I cannot lock myself in my room to study because I feel left out of whatever the family is doing. I keep thinking positively knowing that one of these days I will figure it out. Enough of the school talk for today moving on to a day in the life of Kristi. 


Since I have started working at home Fridays feel more like Mondays. This whole work week has been pretty slow for me until today. It never fails, when it's busy and things are rolling along smoothly something puts a hitch in my giddyup. 


Today, that hitch was my mother, bless her heart, I heard somewhere that you can talk about people all you want as long as you bless their heart at the end of it. 


I am going to start this story out with a conversation I had with mom about three months ago. Mom signed up for a program with an HVAC company who comes to her house and checks her HVAC unit and cleans out the ducts every so often. Three months ago mom told me, "Keith says my unit is ten years old and that I really need to start thinking about getting a new one." Fast forward to two days ago. Mom says, "My heater doesn't work in the house." My first thought is, are you kidding me? We live in Arizona, and it is seventy five degrees outside. Why is she running the heater? I refuse to turn my heater on until February! I keep that comment to myself and suggest she call her HVAC company to have them take a look at it, after all she pays a monthly service fee they won't charge her to come look at it. 
As I said earlier, I was having a pretty good work day, getting things done until ten-thirty A.M. I was on a conference call and receive a text from mom. "Kristi, Keith says I need a new unit. I can get a 14 seer unit and get a $1500.00 tax rebate. He is scheduling the installation for Monday. The total is $7639.14"
I started choking on my drink and had to abruptly end my conference call. I called her and requested she put Keith on the phone. I told Keith that he needs to cancel the order he was putting in and simply leave his work order with my mom and make note as to the exact problem with the unit as well as his recommendation. I explained to him that my mom and I will discuss her options and be in touch. Mom was mad but she'll get over it. Luckily, we have great friends and one of those great friends will be doing my mom a huge favor and coming over to give us a second opinion. I have my fingers crossed this will be an easy fix and if not an easy fix at least we have some time to do some research on a new unit that is not almost $8,000.00
I am pretty sure my dad was there this afternoon with her and prompted her to get in touch with me so I could get involved and stop that madness. Thank you dad. 
I cannot even remember how the rest of the day went, I was so floored with what almost happened to my moms bank account. Now that everything is under control, Jason and I will be headed out to my sister in laws to enjoy family, friends a fire pit and a few glasses of wine. Tomorrow morning, it's cram time!