The unfortunate fortune

"Your hard work will get payoff today."

Translation: Your furnace will die on one of the coldest nights of the year and no repairman will return your emergency phone calls.

It's around 1 in the morning and the temperature outside is 16. The temperature inside isn't far off. My furnace died around 9:00 tonight. After a look-over by my friend/neighbor it would appear that the blower motor has called it quits. Calls have been made to so-called "emergency heating specialists" but I guess the specialists are on vaca. Probably someplace warm, the bastards. It looks like this will have to wait until the morning.

I don't foresee a lot of sleep in my near future as I waver between worry over how I will pay for this latest (in a string of) expensive emergency and how well my poor rabbits will do in the freezing air. (I know, they are rabbits and many people keep them outside, but my bunnies are not used to being cold so I worry, so there.) At least I have electricity and hot water. It's just cold, right? No big deal? Right? I think it might be warmer inside my refrigerator right now.

That rather gross looking fortune above was found on the floor of the studio today as we did a massive cleaning. My friend Dani was hosing down the floor and I was scrubbing it when the fortune went floating by. We both found it very funny as we were breaking our backs (literally) doing all this work. It seemed quite fortuitous. Little did I know that fortunes found floating in muddy, filthy water were no longer good. They are past their "good till" date so my advice to anyone who comes across such a fortune is RUN!

OK, time to get under the electric blanket and watch Sherlock Holmes episodes until morning. Wish me luck.