it never rains but it pours

so things have been kind of hairy around here. Im not sure how much of this I have shared, but todd and I have been dealing with quite a bit of bad luck, lately. First, our house in VA never sold. We finally got a tenant, and as they were doing the final walk through, they opened the door . . . and water came pouring out. Our upstairs toilet had broken, overflowed, and flooded the entire house. Basically most of the house had to be gutted and replaced. They finally finished the work, and on saturday we got a call saying the property manager was showing it to another family, and it was flooded AGAIN. This time it was a frozen pipe, adn the damage wasn't as bad (looks like the kitchen will have to be gutted, though) but SERIOUSLY? twice? are you KIDDING?

On Tuesday, todd and I came home from risking life and limb to go to work, and our heat was out. Again, SERIOUSLY? I fell like that lady on Greys anatomy that kept yelling at God.

Really, we are very very lucky, because all our flooding damage has been covered under insurance, and our broken heat was covered by warranty (really, thank God, because we are broke.) Also ,our neighbor is an HVAC guy, and he really saved our tail by lending us some space heaters and working late at night to fix our heat in a timely manner. I am, repeatedly, forever in his debt.

Just when I thought our luck couldn't get much worse, the law of averages kicked in, and we had a little good luck! Directv mistakenly (I think) emailed us an offer for a free HDTV upgrade! (we have TIVO, and I think it was only supposed to apply to directv dvr customers.) The Directv "guy" was here today, and we ahve a new dish and a new HD DVR! I would prefer an HD Tivo, but considering we finally have real HDTV and it was FREE, I'm pretty stoked.