hospitals, heatless, & snow

After having the heat running for over 24 hours straight, without it automatically turning off not even once, I woke up to a very frigid apartment. I decided to turn the heat off (it's like 20 degrees outside max) , and within 10 minutes it was already 2 degrees warmer. That was on Saturday. It's now Monday, and still no heat. To make it even better, they're calling for snow/flurries starting this evening lasting until about 2 tomorrow. fantastic...Being from the south, and having seen snow only a handful of times in my entire life, whenever there's a winter weather advisory we make it a pretty big deal down here. And of course my roommate& I are crossing our fingers for no school tomorrow. good luck with that one, my college is like the only one in the state of South Carolina that doesn't see a need to cancel class if there were tornadoes and blizzards and hurricanes all at once. Oh, well.
To back up a little more, on Friday, I was getting ready for work when, after hours of not replying to my texts, Richard sends me a text asking what I'm doing. When I tell him & ask him the same, I get a response that he's sitting in the hospital getting checked out. Needless to say, I absolutely freak out, especially when I learn that he had been at a house fire for over 2 hours. After that, he doesn't reply to anything else, which of coarse makes me even more worried. To top it off, one of his firefighter buddies calls me to ask about Richard (this is the same guy that I was about to call, to get reassurance that everything was ok). Because this guy was there & didn't know what was going on with Richard, I almost completely lose it-and I have to be at work in 15 minutes. Thankfully, I learn that he was taken just as a precautionary measure & he just had some pulled muscles or something in his back & chest, but he's still in some pain & slow to move. Hopefully, he'll hurry up and get better before long.
After that ordeal, I made it to work, my mind still frazzled because I wasn't sure what was going on. I learned that he was ok & ended up having a not too bad shift. By about 9, Richard felt well enough to come to Greenwood and we kept our plans to go to my friend's birthday party, which was really good because I got to see one of my best friends who I felt like I haven't seen in forever. I was so glad Cam got to make it down from Columbia! We ended up leaving a little early because Richard's back, but I still had a great time & loved seeing Cameron. Saturday, we were pretty lazy, and Richard did a lot of resting. It was a good day though, because we got to spend time with Mammy, which is rare, as well as his family & mine. Yesterday wasn't anything spectacular, I just worked at UT for the majority if the day, then had to be back up there 3 hours after I got off to drive everyone to a meeting in Greenville, which was like torture for all three of us from Greenwood. I booked it back home & then hit the sack as quick as I could, which still wasn't until about midnight.
Hopefully the office will be open today, even though it's MLK Jr day, and they can have someone fix out heat asap! Until then its time for me to go crawl under the covers & finish my hot chocolate while I was a little tv... and keep my fingers crossed for lots and lots of snow & no school!