I had great plans for 2011. I still do, but I'm trying to keep perspective. After all, how can I have such pie in the sky plans if I can't even start the year with basic necessities like....let's say, um... WATER!
Let's just say Thursday -present day have sucked. I mentioned I traded in my perfectly good but humongous van for a smaller more cost efficient car. This smaller more cost efficient car has been with the dealership for almost as many days as it's been with me. I've gotta say. I LOVE this car. The price to fill this car with gas is nearly a quarter of what it was to fill the van and that's important now that I am logging 50 miles a day just to take CDQ to day treatment. The payments...ahh, I couldn't believe what they were when the finance lady told me and they don't drag out foreva either, let's just say if the house doesn't fall apart, I could probably pay the car off with part of my tax return. Most of all the car is perfect for me to get in and out of without killing myself and my flares in the lower half of my body have been almost zero.
The ONLY problem is the car shakes... it shakes really bad. They've replaced the motor mounts, the transmission mounts and installed some bracket but it still shakes the same. After some research, I discovered this is a problem with some of these cars. I've also discovered there is a precise fix for it. Now the dealership just needs to be precise about it and I will be the happiest girl.
I had been so excited about the prospect of snow coming last Wednesday and Thursday. Turns out it got here later then predicted but when it did...we were screwed. We were preparing foods and the house was bustling getting ready for the new year when around 10 pm our pipes froze. WE STILL DO NOT HAVE WATER.
Friday I ran around like a crazy woman trying to beat the early store closures. I installed heat tape, insulation, etc... in the water heater closet, this after trying a blow dryer, a torch, and a heater. I guess I should mention that the wind tore off the door for our water heater closet which made it really hard to keep it warm.
Also, remember RA? I was frozen to the bone and am still awake right now because I am terrified of waking up and being unable to move later on today.
So my pipe fun did not end there. We still had no water yesterday morning so I called a plumber who was trying to save me money by advising me to place a heater under the house. I did and within 10 minutes we had running water. I was soooo happy my voice was this weird high pitched mess and I was clapping like a seal.
I had to run out to the store to get some things and that's when I got the call. We were losing pressure or the pipes were refreezing (I had taken the heat dish out from under the house because OMG, I don't need a fire.) so I get home thinking the pipes are freezing again and get all ready to crawl under the house (and can I say ouch! that concrete hurt crazy bad.) when the oldest (who was plugging in the portable lights) told me it was wet down there. ARGH! I crawled down by the edge and sure enough...
broken pipe
I called the plumber back because now I had a flood. He told me since I last talked to him, they were backed up with frozen/broken pipes. But to make a long story short (too late!) they will be out tomorrow afternoon to fix up my broken pipe and run heat tape and insulate and all that good stuff. So tonight the main water is turned off to the house. I guess I should be happy we had some water.
To add insult to injury, when the water came back on I tried to take a shower and there was no hot water from the shower even though when I was running the water in the tub to help the pipes unfreeze there was steam coming up from the tub. In the process of noticing there was no hot water, I also noticed the shower wasn't draining right. I was livid, because even though I said there was no water, people were going to the bathroom like there was no tomorrow. I won't elaborate on that.
I was able to fix the drainage problem on my own, but geez louise ya know?
I've been trying to stay positive but it's been a little hard. I didn't even celebrate New Year's because I was throughly exhausted and couldn't honestly bear the thought of having to supervise my kids and deal with their petty crap. I had to keep them separate for the night and called them together at midnight, then sent them to bed.
CDQ was already complaining. It made me think that maybe I have spoiled these kids. I've been so busy running myself into the ground trying to create traditions and stability that I didn't even notice how rude and ungrateful they have become. I understand the RAD and all that jazz but I don't think it should be an excuse. They all have treated me pretty poorly and still do but because it's not at the level that CDQ does it I've come to accept it. It's not ok. I also have to come to terms that I just can't physically do the things that I used to. At least not now.
I am so grateful to my acupuncturist because I am doing excellent. Even if my body locks up on me later today, I have been doing really great. I have some pain right now but it's nothing my body hasn't fixed recently. I am a little worried because I've spent my acupuncture money for the month on plumbing...but we will see how it goes.
I hope you guys are having a better start to the year then we are.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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