The strange morning that was

We have had the most bizarre, not typical, and somewhat crappy day. Well, actually just this morning. By 12:00 things had mostly calmed down. So let's start in the beginning. Actually last night.
We always go to the movies on Friday nights with our friends, last night being no exception. We went to see RocknRolla (pretty good and redeems Guy Ritchie from his more recent stink-o-roos). We also always hang out in the hallway outside the theater shooting the shit for some time. Last night was a good 30-45 minutes discussion, mostly about politics since the election is coming up so soon. We leave and get to bed around 1:00ish. This is late, but isn't a problem except we have baby birthing classes at 9 across town. I've been waiting for these to start b/c I think it will really make it all feel 'real.' As if getting kicked in the gut repeatedly isn't real. We were sad about losing a weekend morning for all the work we need to do around here, but not much we can do about it.
Our day starts at 7:20ish. Not b/c the alarm goes off. It's supposed to do that in 25 minutes. No, from Jim's phone vibrating. It's work (kind of. It's long and complicated) telling him that they need him to come in and let some work people into one of their buildings. Ugh, he can be there by 8:15. While he's getting dressed my phone rings (which is lucky b/c it's usually on silence from the night before- you know moviegoer courtesy). Its the people from the baby class, class is cancelled. Our instructor was in a car accident and in the hospital. Great, what a letdown. Jim's pissed to have to get up, I'm somewhat grateful to get more sleep. But in reality, when are we going to have time to fit this into our already packed November schedule.
Jim comes back from work fairly quickly. I had barely enough time to doze off again. Apparently he didn't even need to go in b/c some jerk forgot to tell him and the guy who makes sure everything is working properly. Ugh, this would have made my phone call a relief b/c then we would have both been able to sleep in.
Jim decides he's not hungry yet and gets to work to electrical work. After some finagling, we got the fan/light to work in the nursery. Breakfast time!!! While we're making breakfast we keep hearing this distant banging noise. It is hard to describe and we kept thinking it was coming from outside. While we were eating it got louder and all of a sudden it occurred to me what it was. Sally must have gotten into the vents b/c the covers are off due to painting. I went to the nursery to see that Sally had indeed pushed aside the kid gate, Jim went to the basement to see how far from the hole she had gotten herself. I tried calling her and brought out the treats into the hole. No such luck. Jim began pounding on the duct work to try to get her to move towards me. I think this just scared her more. We gave up and decided that she would find her way out or come out where the air filter connects to the furnace, which Jim remove the access panel from.
We went back to breakfast to finish our meal and coffee. After we had eaten, we tried to get her to come out again. This time Jim located her right above the furnace. She kept moving and at one point fell towards the air filter, but got back up in the vents. Close, but no kitty. I could hear her moving towards the living room, so Jim went upstairs to take off the grate cover. He had to move the couch and 2 bookcases while I talked to Sally to try and keep her from getting scared from the noises. As he was removing the last screw she popped her head up and he cajoled her out. Of course, I came running up the stairs to hold onto my filthy, heart pounding kitty.
We decide Sally needs a full bath STAT! Her white fur is gray and her orange fur is a weird color of dingy orange/gray mix. I won't let her down b/c I don't know where she will go and she was so disgustingly dirty. That's what one gets for spending 30 minutes in duct work that is probably 20-30 years old.
Then as we're trying to get things ready for Sally's first ever full bath- Jim's dad calls. Talk about bad timing. Sally is getting tired of being held and I want to start the bath. But he's polite and talks to him about a recent family funeral while I try to gather what's needed for Sally's bath. Jim was able to get free fairly quickly (though it didn't feel like it at the time) and assist me in soaking out kitty down. Sally had to be shampooed 3 times just to get the water to run clear. On the initial soaking the water was almost black and had bits of crap coming out of her fur. She's quite a skinny thing when her fur is all wetted down! Then we had a pathetic looking soaked kitty to dry off.
I came out of it covered in the same filthy dirty grime as Sally and my shirt was completely soaked trying to dry her off. I decided to start painting and Jim went to work on more electrical projects. As I start to paint, I realize, I don't have enough to do a complete 2nd coat on the entire room. Actually I don't have enough to do half of what really needs a 2nd coat! Ugh!! This day is sucking it up fast and it's not even 12 yet! Most of the room is a weird green color b/c the room was blue with one coat of primer that just made it light blue and one coat of yellow. How distressing!!? Jim is a sweetie and volunteers to go to the store to buy more paint and one electrical switch he needs.
From this point our day becomes mostly boring and full of finishing projects. Of course the nursery still needs a another coat in some areas-gawd this blue just won't go away! But we have light in both the office and the nursery, which before today we were living with wire sticking out of the ceiling and wall where you'd flip the switch. Thank goodness for table lamps! Now I can paint anytime of the day!!! And our house is 98% completely re-wired. It's only taken 6 years!!! What an awesome job my hubby does!
My work shower is on Monday and I'm feeling excited for it. I hope everyone has a good time and we get lots of useful things!! And I ordered some cloth diapers tonight for what is hoped to be an awesome deal and very helpful. Plus, I'll feel a lot more prepared and ready for this bambina.
Long update, for a long day!