It's Been a Long Week!

Here's what's been going on in my world....

• I subbed everyday this week so naturally I'm dead tired tonight! I had three days at the high school and two at the elementary schools. I believe this was the first week since coming back from Christmas break that I've subbed all 5 days! My mom came down on Monday and left today but R was only able to get a sub job on Wednesday.
• We're all getting over being sick. R didn't work on Tuesday because he was still feeling like crap. I woke up yesterday morning with my nose completely stuffed and today wasn't much better. I'm sneezing and still can only breathe through my mouth. I am also experiencing dry mouth and watery eyes. Hopefully I'll be better by the end of the weekend.
• My mom's 55th birthday was yesterday. We had a delicious cake from Col.dstone and had a small little party. We burned her a CD for her gift and I got her a really nice card.
• On my mom's birthday my dad got in a car accident on his way home from work and totaled his car. An old man and woman stopped at the stop sign and "didn't see him" and gunned it across the road T-boning him in the passenger side of the car. He was almost pushed into a house, he's okay though. My aunt takes the same way home from work and came upon the accident shortly after it happened so she stayed with my dad until the cops were done and then took him home. There happened to be an "off duty" cop that witnessed the whole thing so regardless it wasn't his fault, just sucks it happened, and on my mom's birthday no less.
• Little man's birthday is Monday. I can't believe he's going to be 4 years old! We are taking him out to dinner and to Col.dstone for dessert, but his party isn't until next weekend. My mom is making him a Wa.ll-E cake and hopefully R's parents won't flake out and cancel coming. As it is R's sister (who mind you hasn't seen Baby M once since he was born) is not attending because they'll be in FL for vacation.
• R is going to a job fair in In.dianapolis the second week in March. They are do on the spot interviews and all the companies are well known and very prestigious. He still hasn't gotten word on anything else.

Well I just wanted to do a quick update because I'm off to bed to rest and try to get better. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Seriously??????!!!!!!!

I'm supposed to walk across the stage on Friday night to receive my master's degree and I just lost a contact. I have no spares and my glasses are crap. So I can either skip graduation and my moment or walk looking like shit in crappy glasses. Couldn't I have this moment without any issues and just be able to enjoy myself? I guess not! I now have to find an eye doctor and get an appt, which will cost money we don't have and be a hassle to get to since I don't have a car. This is just wonderful. What the hell? Also, there's no way I can get a contact before Friday night because I wear gas permeable lenses and they have to be made, which there's not enough time for. I hate this day!

Well the Bad Continues

The pipe hubby glued ended up holding but now the other one is shooting out water (there are two going to the water softener) so hubby got sprayed this morning with ice cold water. Luckily last night we went to H.ome De.pot and bought a wet/dry shop vac, which I put together myself and used to suck up all the water. We're concerned that it's something more serious so we're just going to go the plumber route and hopefully we can get some quotes from different companies and it won't be too much! Oh and that wonderful garbage can that I placed to catch all the dripping water just so happened to have a leak in the bottom, fabulous!

My other issue is that I actually called my best friend yesterday and she asked if her and Baby V could come down today and maybe we could go get lunch and hang out (which would totally count for my girlfriend time 2-3 times per month so I was excited that I was keeping to my resolutions so well), but now all this is going on! I think I'm still going to have her come because I don't want to complain too much about this since it was her and her gracious husband that let us live in this house for free while we were in the process of buying it. I feel like I don't want to make her feel bad because something happened to the house they sold us, when in all reality there is nothing they could have known about, it is just an unfortunate event.

This all leads to the reason that I'm up at 6:20am this morning when all week I've had the luxury of sleeping in. I need to get the house looking somewhat presentable. R got the crib so that's in the middle of the entry way and needs to be moved. I have some plastering to do in Little Man's room, luckily my mom offered to keep him until Sunday so we would have all tomorrow to work and get stuff done. There are tons of Christmas decorations that still need to be put away, and the tree still needs taken out. I'll be working on putting the decorations away and R will get the tree out tonight or tomorrow. Oh and I'm in charge of calling plumbers using a wonderful script that my husband will be e-mailing me shortly because I refuse to be one of those girls that calls up a repairman and has no idea what I'm talking about. I hate going in car places for that same reason, even though, I know more about cars that most girls. Well and now I know more about water and pipes that most girls probably care to know too.

One more quick point.......can I just say that I don't know how single woman live in houses and do this by themselves? I would be scared to death of something going wrong and then if something did go wrong I would have no idea how to fix it. I give them a lot of credit and admire them a great deal! Well I'm off to shower so I can get a great deal accomplished today!

BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I'm completely worked up!!!!! I was just watching T.V. and folding laundry when I heard water gushing in our basement. I ran downstairs and water was spraying full force by our water softener and washer and dryer. Mind you the dryer was on so I quickly turned it off and then proceeded to almost hyperventilate. I somehow found the phone and called my husband. He instructed me to turn off the water main to the house and the spraying stopped. I couldn't even tell where the water was coming from because it was just spraying ALL over. Part of the insulation is wet and fell down, the wall is soaked, the floor had about a 1/4 inch of water, the washer and dryer are soaked, and I'm completely worked up. I ran into the garage and got a garbage can, luckily it was empty, and put it under the small leak we have going on now. I pray that my husband gets home soon. OMG if I wasn't home when this happened our basement would be flooded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank God my husband knows how to fix things!!!!!! I pray that he will be able to figure out this problem and get it all taken care of. I'm just a mess, my heart was pumping a mile a minute, I was having trouble breathing, and I was racing all around like a bat out of hell. I put every towel we have on the floor to soak up all the water and hope to God nothing else happens before he gets home. I'm so glad Little man wasn't here when all this was going on. If this would have happened when we were out of town we would have been completely screwed. What a way to start the new year :o(

UPDATE: The pipe to the water softener just came unglued, not sure how, but it was actually quite minor. R got out early and came home and it literally took like 5 minutes to fix it because he already had the cleaner and glue. I guess I should have known more and been able to fix the situation or at least explain it to him over the phone. I'm catching a lot of shit how for freaking out. This is all new to me and I'm not too familiar with home stuff or fixing things. At least I learned where the water main was today and how to turn it off. Wish I would have learned that before now :o( Guess I learned the hard way! Let's keep our fingers crossed there are no other water pipe breaks.