HOT WATER!

You never know how much you appreciate something until you don't have it...take hot water, for example.

My apartment has all the amenities needed, but the water heater was having a bad day when I arrived on Sunday evening. It refused to work and in this weather a cold shower wasn't on my list of items to experience. Thank goodness for the pile of wet and dry towelettes I hauled with me for my "spot baths."

Through the course of Monday and Tuesday, it was looking bleak. But, Brittania prevailed and I returned Tuesday evening...whispered a short prayer, and flipped the handle to on. WHAOO...there was hot water. It took no time for me to maximize this lost resource and I emerged a changed person: my first shower and clean hair since leaving Portland on Saturday!