01/16/2024
Busy week, y’all!
Glad we had our Hygge weekend these last 3+ days because today kicked off with a really nasty bang! 🤦🏻♀️ Just to ease minds - all life forms (Sr, Jr, me & the cats) are safe, healthy, warm, fed, and free of any current ailments that are serious (or more than just annoying, yay allergies 🤧)
No, it’s the damn house again. This homeowner thing really had a whopping downside! Today’s edition: replace the shower head. James went to adjust it about 6:15 am and Sr & I just heard [BANG] “HELP!!” Turns out you have to replace the watery parts every decade or so, but especially with water as hard as ours. [Aside: who do I thank for inventing Limeaway?] Today that manifested in the threaded part just snapping off in the pipe, yay plastic…🙄
A trip to Menards and one of our bags of tools and we’re back to baseline. But still, we’re down to the wire on some other watery things, and they are guaranteed to be messy and expensive 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😢 We actually begin addressing the second phase of that in the morning, having pulled out a miracle with phase one on Halloween! This skin-of-our-teeth thing is getting old…
So today started off with a literal bang 😫 Fix part of the house, finish some chores, actually do a workout because the doctor said so, somehow get hundreds of dollars in groceries, and then attend a parent night where we will *REALLY* have to face the reality that we’ve spent half what we saved for college just surviving this illness…
You remember when you were a kid, and you’d get in trouble, and you’d be afraid of hearing what your punishment was gonna be, but mom or dad would hit ya with “I’m just disappointed” and it was somehow SO much worse!?? Well, that’s how I feel when I have to disappoint my kid. But, if I don’t disappoint him about college, he’ll lost his childhood (current!) home, and that’s a big disappointment for 5 living beings. In January. In Minnesota.
Tomorrow we likely sign up to spend more money we really don’t have, because part of keeping the house is maintaining it. A fact the only other inhabitants did not grasp, making it ours to solve as well. Thursday I guess is cleaning the place because that needs to happen frequently with pets, but more so when you’re actively preventing infection because someone’s still technically a patient. And Friday we take said patient back to the VA to see podiatry (FINALLY!!) and hopefully put an end to this cycle!
For real, Ayers peeps: remember when grandma took that fall, turned out to be weirdly related, but it clued us in to the dementia? (If you watched OITNB they used the exact same story with Red and I cried all night!) She was at Mercy, I think, got a bad hematoma from their crummy care, and it was just one thing after another the whole time she was there, y’all remember that?? *That’s Sr with the VA!!*
Just one damn thing after another and we are all 👏🏻 so 👏🏻 f******👏🏻 exhausted 😮💨🫥 Thing is, and I know this is terrible, but this is also America and we don’t say this enough out loud but it’s true:
We’d all be well rested and hunky dory if we weren’t on a 24/7 scramble to find or save or make or *beg for* money.
Yes… it’s a nasty bottom line but that’s the one it has always come down to in our life. We have plenty of everything else (love, friends, character, drive, purpose, ambition, integrity, experience, and the list goes on) or we’ve always been able to cultivate it. It has always been the almighty dollar that has eluded us.
Bad luck? A constant case of bad timing? Y’all know we’ve had to consistently spend an extra grand a month (or more!!!) on sh*t that should be reliable JUST SINCE SR HAS BEEN OUT OF WORK?? Like, can we catch a break!? There’s no income, so suddenly life becomes twice as expensive for no logical reason. 😵💫
Yall, it ain’t for lack of care and maintenance, I assure you. But if it’s not the car(s! cuz someone wants do drive and it isn’t me!), it’s the pipes, if it’s not the pipes it’s the appliances, if it’s not those it’s the detectors/alarms/filters/batteries/etc all at freaking once…!!! Don’t get me started on electrical, which has never been good enough. Visitors? The microwave thing…? Yep.
I’m at my wits end, y’all. I really do “got 99 problems, and” money could knock out about 87 of them. This one is shareable, and y’all have different friends lists than I do, so please at least consider that click to move this toward generous eyes. Please donate if you can, share if you can’t, and thank you once again 💜
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