2. I went to have a routine blood test. The pathologist poked around twice in my left arm before deciding to have a go in my right. Ow, ow, ow!
3. I'm arachnophobic. Small St. Andrew's Cross spiders like I photographed yesterday (from a distance), I can deal with. But this was waiting for me next to the garage door when I got home:
It's a Hunstman. It's body is about 4 inches long. DH is at work and won't be home until 7.30pm. It has fangs and I can see it's eyes!!! Waaaaaaaaaa!
Oh and our dishwasher blew up last night with three enormous BANGS and a pervading smell of burnt electical componenents. Guess who won't be repairing it any time soon? It will be interesting to see if it has any impact on our electrical useage actually, since it has had a minimal effect on our water use according to my figures.
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Oh no :( Sorry to hear about your water bill - hopefully it's a misread of the meter and you'll have a tiny one next time!
Another oh no on the dishwasher. It will be interesting to see what difference it makes.
Ouch on the blood test.
We've had those Huntsmen INSIDE recently - I seem to be the nominated spider killer around here!
Challenge the water bill - give the company a call and explain. That happened to my electricity bill once - it was usually under $30, and the I got one for over a $1000. The amt of electricity they said I used was ridiculous. They sent someone out to re-read, and still stuck by it. Then they must have figured it out. b/c my bill disappeared and no one could tell me why. Be firm, but polite, especiallly since it may still be you in the wrong. But if your recordings and math are right, they owe you an explanation.
At least you know what the three things are.... tough day.
I agree that you can challenge your water bill. Were you saying that yours was hard to read earlier? I have heard that sometimes the meters get so clogged with ants building etc, that the meter readers don't always bother actually reading the meter!
The other thing is to check for leaks (dodgy dishwasher, maybe too). To do this is like with electricity: turn everything off for two hours. Read the meter before and after. If there is any change, you have a leak. Some leaks can also occur at the water meter.
I hope your day tomorrow is much better.
I'm sorry about your bad day.
I showed my arachnaphobic 17 yr old daughter the spider pic from yesterday and she nearly hurt herself running from the computer. I blew up the pic of today's spider to actual size and she announced that under no condition will she ever, EVER go to Australia if that spider lives there.
New York isn't a bad place to live if you are afraid of spiders. We've never seen one bigger than a hand.
Could you have any leaks in your outside pipes?
Only reason I say that is that a couple of months back our neighbours yelled out that a section of footpath out the front of our house had water running across it (we hadn't even noticed) and that they had rung the council for us.
The council came out and sure enough one of the underground pipes was broken, which they fixed at not charge luckily.
It might be a blessing in disguise to be without your dishwasher. Maybe it will save a little in water or electricity.
I can't handle being inside with one of those big suckers crawling around, I have a morbid fear of going to sleep and having a big huntsman crawl on me. I usually live and let live, with little critters, but I can't abide those big spiders in the house so I know how you feel!
Regards,
Shell.
Hi Kez, We have Huntsmen inside pretty regularly unfortunately, but I've NEVER seen one with a body that big. Even DH was freaked out by it!
Hi Rachel :-) I don't have a record of the meter reading at the beginning of the billing period, but the one at the end matches with mine, so I think I would have difficulty in challenging it? This period is still less than the for the same period last year, so maybe it is right, but I have no idea what we did?!
Hi Suz, Thanks ;-) Yep on our water meter three of the individual dials are obscured so I can only read in KL (the main meter reading) and 10's of litres, if that makes sense, so I estimate the 100's of litres used when I take a reading. The meter reading coincides with my reading for that day so I know they must have actually read the meter... I will do the 2 hour "switch off" with the water and check the 10's of litres dial to see if it moves though. I don't think we have a leak though as I read the meter daily thoughout November and it would have shown up then? Argh! Confusing...
LOL Debby! Even hubby had never seen a spider that big before, so it is pretty unusual! I must admit though I didn't sleep very well last night thinking about it, LOL.
Hi Shell :-) I am a live-and-let-live kinda gal too normally, I mean it wasn't attacking me and was probably eating it's weight in flies and mosquitoes every day! DH shooed it outside when he got home but he caught me looking furtively glancing at the door later and admitted he'd actually killed it because it freaked him out too! Now I feel guilty, *shudder*. I agree with the dishwasher breaking probably being a good thing, every little bit saved helps. I don't *think* our pipes are leaking unfortunately, as I read the meter every day during November and we didn't seem to be using more than I expected during that period? It was the previous two months that seem to be the issue? Although I can't for the life of me think what we would have used it on, especially as it was winter? Ah well, I'll definitely know if something is amiss with the next bill!
Cheers, Julie
My husband has arachnaphobia so I have to take the spiders outside here. We have a deal. I look after spiders and he deals with MICE!!!!!!
That water bill is a puzzle. It makes you wonder how often errors have been made in the past and we haven't taken any notice.
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