Be Careful What You Wish For

John and I moved into our permanent apartment about two and a half weeks ago. We were without hot water for what seemed an eternity, but it looked as if a break through had been made this past Thursday evening. We got home and there was a sign on the main entrance that said we had hot water. Not expecting much, we tested it and low and behold, hot water. We got up the next morning and had hot water still, but we had to take showers at the Dean's anyway because all of our soap, shampoo, towels, etc. were over there. That was fine though, because we knew that that would be the last time we would ever have to walk all the way over there again to take a shower. Well, we were wrong. We got home Friday night and the hot water was gone. We figured though that it had just been used up for that day and it would be back the next morning. Right? Wrong. We woke up and still had no hot water. It was a very gloomy walk to the Dean's that morning. But wait, there's more. We got home Saturday night and tested it again. Hot water! Then as it ran for three to five seconds, we realized that it was steaming hot and unbearable. No problem though, right? Just the little faucet knob a little to the left, problem solved, right? As we turned it more and more to the cold side, we realized that it wasn't getting colder. We had wanted hot water so badly for almost two weeks, but when we got it, the cold went away. Well, we went to bed and got up Sunday morning in eager anticipation. Still hot water. Still no cold water. We're tough though... We can take a shower that's a little hotter than we'd prefer. So we tried it. Not so much. It was scalding hot. I tried to get my hair wet by just barely moving it into the water's path. I slipped with the shower head, and burnt my own head. So a few third degree burns later, we were mostly clean, and very awake. People say that there is nothing like a cold shower to wake you up in the morning. Try the other end of the spectrum. But finally came Sunday night. We got home and there was not just cold water, and not just hot water, but both. We took showers that evening since we figured that it was better to get it while it was there than to wait and be sorry. Well, we've had hot and cold water ever since. Welcome to Mongolia.