The State of the Union, Well – ok, The House

Well, good morning! It’s Wednesday morning as I type this and have a few things on my mind and a few things to share.

First of all, we have not been able to use our kitchen sink since last Thursday, I believe. The plumber (Lee Company) came Friday and said “oh ok yeah we don’t have the parts for that and we’ll need to reschedule”. So they rescheduled for yesterday which was Tuesday. So we did take out and washed dishes in a rubbermaid tub thing from the bathroom sink water. We were anxiously awaiting the repairs and had in our minds that this morning we’d be functioning again. They were to be here by Noon. Noon came and went and George revealed to me that he thought when they said they would work on it between 12 and 2, that must have been what time they would arrive. They called and said they were running behind. They got here around 3 or 3:30. I knew then, there would be no repairs done yesterday. And as I guessed they just took another look at it and said “yeah this is going to be a big project and so we’ll have to schedule that for another day”. (Rolling my eyes so far back in my head they are getting stuck, but you are at someone’s – anyone’s mercy – because we sure don’t have the skill to fix the darn thing.) I told George to just replace the darn pipes and be done with it so we don’t have any other problems. We have had waaaaaaaaay too many issues with these pipes and most of the pipes had been replaced already. I thought all of them had but George revealed to me they had not. So…..it’s gonna be expensive but maybe then we’ll be done.

So they are coming Friday now. We are going to see my sister on Thursday in the hospital. She said she would rather us coming then. So we told them Friday.

I was disappointed but George said “hey at least we get to eat out or do take out”. Well there’s that. lol. So we went to eat Mexican last night on a whim after the plumber (or plumber-would-be) left. And then to the grocery store for quick food to heat up – like Michealangelo’s chicken parm which you heat up in the oven but then toss the container away (yay, more forever plastic chemicals in our bodies) – and a couple of pizza’s. We bought more tall styrofoam coffee cups for the Keurig.

Surely we can make it til Friday. Not having to wash so many dishes, helps with the morale. But it was all I could do to not loose my mind when I realized it was going to be four more days til this was resolved. I did let the guy know of my disappointment, that I was thinking that they made the appointment with us for the 2nd time to fix it – but it’s been two appointments looking at it and going “not today” and that I was surprised by that, but know it’s late in the day and had anticipated I would be told that! George smoothed it over, lol. I wasn’t mad but I was honest and making sure he saw my viewpoint. I mean really, two visits? Yesterday’s person said the first person did not know what they were doing as they were new. So I guess we just keep going up the ladder. A whole different crew will be here Friday and if I’m told they don’t have parts and can’t fix it the third visit – I know without a doubt that I myself will blow a gasket. A person’s patience can only go so far and then it becomes time to have a company change its practices and you may have to be the one to entice them to do that. LOL LOL (seriously though, not kidding.)

Family Member in the Hospital Having Surgery

So my sister is in the hospital currently and about to undergo a pretty serious surgery any minute. We were going to go to the hospital but she preferred that we go tomorrow instead of today as we’d not really be able to do anything today from the waiting room. It’s a 5 hour surgery and she said if we come tomorrow she will be awake and maybe my BIL can head home for a shower while we are there. So that’s what we will do. We’ll head that way in the morning unless we hear different. I’m worried about her – praying for her. It’ll be several hours before we hear anything I guess.

I took up all my summer and greenery decor yesterday, and dusted really good and began putting out my fall decor. I am going to go to Hobby Lobby and buy a few more pieces. I really need a little outing anyway. I need long slender fall candle sticks, some tea lites (the fake ones), and something for the kitchen and some things for the dining room table and pub table in the kitchen. I don’t know why I’m so short on decor this year. I seemed to have enough in the past. But George said there is not another box down there. I don’t have any pieces that I have thought of that is missing. So I’ll go buy what I need. I rarely ever buy fall decor.

To Do List Recovery

Well, It has been quite freeing, not prioritizing my to do list and not having it tell me what is next when my heart was really wanting and needing to do something different. That was the thing that was making me sad, anxious, or something to that effect. Now, getting to decide moment to moment feels less like work and more like enjoyment. So I am seeing that now and seeing the problem with the to do list. I’ve discovered this week that it wasn’t the to do list itself, but just the prioritization of it and me disciplining myself to have it dictate to me moment by moment, that was bringing me the dissatisfaction – even though I was the one who made the list and decided what order to do it in. I wasn’t allowing myself to stop and do the little things along the way. And I am actually a pretty disciplined person, but I was cracking the whip at myself, not allowing much, if any pleasure along the way.

I have taken most of the cleaning off of the list but now I kinda wish I hadn’t. Because that was not the problem. I think it was helping me to remember to do housework all along instead of just when we have company and I suddenly need to clean. I was thinking that I would just know when it’s time to dust. But there are some things that I don’t think of doing – like cleaning the stainless still fridge of finger prints, or dusting the vents, or fan blades, or when it’s time to change out the spider traps. There’s a certain amount of your own dirt, that you don’t see. And I also can’t see dust at 62 unless it’s really thick. But maybe that is ok. I suppose it’ll just be freeing to not worry about it til it’s time or I think of it – or never, lol. Still pondering this one but I kinda liked my cleaning to be on a schedule and I may put that back on there. Doesn’t have to be to the day on spot, but I may add some of those things on the list just as a reminder.

So far I’ve been remembering most things, like meds, checking on Mom, checking her bank, doing my Bible study, and so forth. It’s been wonderful and like I’m newly retired, lol. I am not making myself exercise unless I want to because I’ve walked I don’t know how many miles in the house the last few days cleaning and decorating and such.

And with that said, I’m going to go wash dishes, finish laundry, take a shower, and go to Hobby Lobby. I’m going to be putting all the summer decor in tubs, finishing the decor, and do a thumbnail for today. I need to do my fall bucket list, vacuum while Dexter is gone, send a get well card to a church member, change my purse to a fall purse, and I need to reboot my meds and supplements in the case. See I’m about to forget that. lol.

Anyway, I am using a bit of a list but using it appropriately – more like a reminder, but not a dictator, lol.

Ya’ll have a great day. Pray for my Sis please. Her name is Kerrie.