Good Freaking GRIEF!!!

[texchan]

So, woke up in the bad mood. Already posted about that.

Started cleaning this morning, but the power went out. Which put the halt to any cleaning efforts. No vacuum. No lights to see so that I could clean the bathrooms. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I also couldn't feed my daughter, since I was unwilling to open the fridge, just in case. So, I called it quits for a while and fled to Applebee's for an early lunch. After busting the car out of the garage: automatic garage door opener isn't so automatic when there's no power.

Got caught in a frog choker of a storm on the way home. I hate driving in that kind of weather. I could hardly see the front of my car, it was raining so hard.

Made it home. Luckily, the power was still on, which was a relief. And we had our gutters cleaned yesterday, so I didn't get drenched getting into the house.

But, kiddo headed into her room, and immediately called me to look at "this weird thing on the wall". Those are not happy words. Ever.

I head into her room and find a big bubble on the wall below the paint underneath her desk. It was about the size of my hand, so not huge, but not small, either. I pushed on it,and it was very flexible. I could tell there was something in there, so I poked a little hole in the paint with some very pointy scissors. Aaaaand ... all this water came pouring out. O_O

Now, it seems there's probably a leak in the roof, maybe between our house and our attached neighbor. Just what I needed. Argh! I hope it's something easily fixed. And I hope it hasn't done a lot of damage to the house. We have someone coming out tomorrow morning to look at it.

I called the pet sitters to schedule an appointment for them to come out and meet Fae. Fae is so shy around strangers, that I know she has to meet the person who will walk her before we ever go out of town. With my in-laws coming, my hubby has decided, all of a sudden, that we will all go to the beach. He wants to go on Tuesday or Wednesday. Which gives me only about two days to try and schedule a visit. And we have to fill out new paperwork, since we haven't used the service since 2007. Eight pages of paperwork. Hubby told me: "Don't worry. I'll fill it out." Then he proceeds to call me every ten minutes to ask me the answers to the questions on the forms. Sheesh. Just send the fucking things to me and I'll fill them out myself. It'll be easier.

Aaaaand, I still haven't gotten all the housework done. Seriously, I just want to crawl under a big rock and hide for the foreseeable future.

Comments

[katanas-edge.livejournal.com]

Calm down Patti *hugs* Just take it easy and you'll get all done in time. *hugs*

Beach? There is a beach near you? @_@

[tex-chan.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I did get everything done. Well, not quite everything, but enough so that the house was presentable. But, I didn't finish until right before they arrived. Talk about cutting things close! >.O

The beach isn't really "near" us. It's about a 6 hour drive, round-trip. I'm not so keen on going b/c that is a LONG time to be in the car. But, oh well.

[animerei.livejournal.com]

Water in the walls is never good. We had torrential rain here today, too. I always worry when we get large storm cells through, because our sump pump is electric. If our electricity goes out and it rains a lot, there is the potential for our basement to flood... *eeee!*

[tex-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a big water bubble under the paint definitely falls into that "things that are BAD" category. >.O

We had someone come out today to take a look at it. He found a small leak on our roof. Luckily, it didn't look like the leak had been there very long, so maybe we caught it in time. They sealed it up, and I'm hoping it will be OK next time it rains. *crosses fingers*

[genuinelie.livejournal.com]

"frog choker"??? Omg. I <3 you. Lol! Never heard that before!

...and "weird thing on the wall" sounded like x-files, omg. You are apparently the mulder of the bunch, I would have like, locked the door and gotten someone else to check it out XD;

[tex-chan.livejournal.com]

Ha! "Frog-choker" is kind of a Texas term, I guess. Mainly because it doesn't rain there at all ... for months and months. Then, when it does rain, it's like all hell breaks loose. Hence, enough rain to choke a frog ... or "frog-choker" storm. People here in VA look at me really strangely when I use the term, though. *laughs*

zOMG! "Weird thing on the WaLl" is so totally X-files. I'm not sure if being Mulder would be a good thing or not, though. LOLz.

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*GLOMS* =D