Merry Christmas!

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Christmas full of friends, family and of course good food! Last night we had our big family dinner so I intended to sleep in today, like the rest of my equally overstuffed family, until about 9 or 10 am. Well as fate would have it, that just wasn’t going to happen.

My blackberry went off at 6:50 am today. Groggily I squinted at the screen and saw that it was my landlord for our office. In my still half-asleep mind I thought “Did I forget to slip the rent cheque under her door?”, then it clicked that she wouldn’t be calling so early about a rent cheque and especially not on Christmas.

Turns out that the hair salon next to my office sprung a leak that spread to our place through the wall and is currently being soaked up by some of the boxes that we haven’t unpacked from the move this Fall. Just the kind of thing that you want to hear about first thing on Christmas morning. Ho Ho Ho!

I guess I should be thankful that it’s not a fire or that it didn’t reach our computer system or oriental rugs. It kind of feels like deja vu because last Christmas Break the hotel that we had our office in sprung a leak as well. The room above us flooded and it came through to our place right where we had some papers all lined up on a window sill. Parts of the floor had to be repaired, the walls had to be replaced, and then months later when we were moving we found out that it had gone farther than we had expected and destroyed the corner of one of my boss’ expensive oriental rugs.

Thankfully this morning the hair salon owner was able to have someone go over and lift our boxes up off the floor, because I can’t get down there right away this morning – we have a house full of guests, a strata in the fridge and presents to be opened.

Now that I can’t get back to sleep I may as well go take a nibble out of the leftovers in the fridge. Turkey, anyone? Or maybe I’ll just crack open the peppermint bark.

How was your Christmas morning? Any big surprises?