Today’s been a sort of mixed bag.
Billy didn’t pass his driver’s test. He failed three things trying to parallel park. I felt really bad for him when I saw him bump the cones behind him. The instructor (or whatever they are called) with him said Billy wasn’t paying attention. That pissed Billy off but actually, I can see the instructor’s point. If Billy had been looking in the rearview mirror the whole time he was backing up, he would have seen those cones. He so expected to pass that he didn’t bring any of his books to go to school. Maybe it’s better this way. Next time he’ll be more careful and more careful on the road too. One thing he does that still scares me is that he doesn’t look carefully while he’s backing up.
Now that we have money again, we’re fixing everything that’s been on hold for months. Yesterday, the water service people came out to move our salt tank from under the house to the shed outdoors. This might have been a project for next year except that it also needed to be repaired and so we just decided it would be easier to move the whole thing out of the crawl space. TB took his car to be fixed yesterday.
Today, we had the electrician come out to try and figure out what happened to the lights in the upstairs bathroom. We knew it had to have something to do with Joe Kline, that horrible contractor from hell. We’ve been in the house just a little over 2 years and all of his “art work” is coming undone.
It turns out that when they added on the bathroom and redid Heidi’s room they created a very dangerous situation for us. They cut through the original wirebox that was in Heidi’s closet instead of moving it. They made a new bundle of wires but it was all screwed up … and they put sheetrock over the box they cut through! We could have had a fire!
Also, while Ted was in the attic, he could see that the vent pipe they ran from the new bathroom through the roof was never properly sealed and that’s why we’ve been getting leaking downstairs. The electrician fixed the problem with the lights upstairs but now we have to get a roofer to seal that vent pipe. Thanks, Joe, you stupid SOB.
I’ve been worrying about my blood pressure and did some reading on the Internet. I decided I’d try to be more proactive so I signed up for a stress relaxtion newsletter from About.com They also sent the first of six ways to relax and I tried practicing that. TB bought a blood pressure gauge for me to use here and I was relieved to see that my BP was 130/78. I’ll take that!
No word on when Linda might start work.
Ten things you are thankful for:
1. My husband, kids, & grandkids, my extended family & my friends
2. My pets
3. God, Jesus & my faith
4. My computer
5. Music and that I can hear
6. Beauty in the world and that I can see
7. Books and that I can read
8. Holidays
9. My so-called health such as it is, :)
10. My precious memories of loved ones who’ve passed