So this is a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, and I promised I would have a post explaining this particular occurrence. I apologize for my slack...

Living in an old house, we are both pretty aware of how much things can go wrong. It’s old and drafty and cold and creaky. We seem to have an uber problem with the electrical wiring. Some outlets work fine and are wired correctly; others are wired to two different circuits; others are not wired at all, as far as we can tell, which is quite the quandary seeing as they work just fine. So when our refrigerator and stove went off, we really though nothing of it, went to bed, and figured we’d deal with it in the morning. We woke up to a fine layer of ice on the inside of our windows. Turns out, the furnace had stopped, too. We were freezing. So we clamber out of bed in a mad rush to figure out which switch would turn these things back on. Everything looked OK; it didn’t seem like we had blown a fuse. We turn them all off, wait for them to reset, then turn them back on. Nothing. To compact this story just a bit (for the sake of convenience, that fact that I’m behind in my entries, and the fact that I really don’t have the brain capacity at the moment to churn out something more eloquent), it turns out that the furnace, the fridge, and half the outlets in the house are attached to the same circuit as the washer and dryer, which is supposed to be reserved for just the washer and dryer. It also turns out that despite the fact that the microwave is not on the same circuit as the bathroom, that having both the bathroom lights and the microwave on at once can cause a surge in the bathroom. It ALSO turns out that we have an outlet in the bedroom that is not attached in any way to ANY of the switches we have found in the house. With everything off, that little lamp was still burning bright. So we’re missing a fuse somewhere, and we have no idea where. I mean, really.