Packed and ready to roll....WAIT!..

Well, I am ready, Buster is ready  and the car is ready... Clay was ready but now we have an electrical problem that needs to be taken care of before we leave town for a couple weeks....... Something is going on with our diningroom light. It poofed off the other day like a bulb burned out...so we thought..  Then we noticed when we turned off our bedroom light  the diningroom light was on.  hmmmm Well how could that be? So we turned on the bedroom light and the diningroom light turned off... Now that was weird and then we checked all of the lightswitches and noticed that the one  in my sewingroom was also out..... Clay checked all the  usual things you do when you are not an electrician.. and everything looks fine, no bulbs burned out, there is power to the switches... but no lights...appears that  electrical panel switches are  all ok....But  we can't leave  things like this and come back after our trip (to well, any number of things could happen,)  trying to be optimistic here... so we called an electrician and he is to be here today....sometime???  Why do they do this... tell you they will be out but not give you a time? I do hope it is an easy fix.... The car is packed and I hate waiting...... I now must plan a meal at home tonight... hmmm left overs or Thai Take away?  I hope we can leave early tomorrow....I will be taking the laptop with us so I can keep you all posted... now I better go check see if I have enough chocolate bars packed...