randomkid
05-23-2010, 10:46 PM
DH has been gone for 9 days and will be home tomorrow. DSD1 has only been home briefly while he has been gone - has mostly been at her Mom's since her friends are home from college and live in that area. To be honest, I was looking forward to some time alone, just me and DD. I've really needed a break from cleaning up after everyone, doing laundry, cooking, etc. I figured I'd have a week to just worry about DD and myself. But, noooOOOOooo...
First, I found moths in the pantry - took me 2 days to totally clean it out and put everything back. During my second day of cleaning the pantry, I found our third plumbing leak. We were planning to repipe when DH got back, but I had to go ahead and call the plumber and get it done (either that or pay to fix the leak just to have them come back later), followed by drywallers coming to make repairs. I had to take everything out of our Master bedroom closet, out from under the kitchen sink and the vanities in all 3 bathrooms. I had stuff piled up so high in the master bedroom, I could hardly get in there. I've been sleeping in the guest room. Now, I've been working on getting it all put back. Poor DD has hardly had any time with me at all. I feel so guilty for plopping her in front of the TV so much this past week, but I really had no choice. To top it off, when they disconnected my sink faucet, it basically fell apart and they couldn't fix it. So, I've had to fight with Price Pfister to get a replacement since it supposedly has a lifetime warranty. I've been using the bathroom sink to rinse dishes, get water for the kitchen, etc. Still waiting on my replacement faucet to get here! Oh yeah, my parents are also out of town, so I've had to go to their house a couple of times and check on things there. In addition to all this, we had everything out of our wall unit because we had to move it to have U-verse installed. I was planning on going through everything while DH was gone and reorganizing the DVDs, CDs, video games, etc. Half of it is still in boxes on the floor.
Everything was covered in dust from the drywall, so I actually hired someone to come in and clean. I figured I deserved it. I have only run the dishwasher twice and have only had 5 loads of laundry total in the past 9 days. Life would have been so easy had all this other cr@p not happened! I really wanted my break from everything and now it's over and I'm still working!
I'm trying to get everything done before DH gets home because he has not been off having fun somewhere. FIL passed away last year and DH just spent the week cleaning out FIL's house and signed papers today to sell it. It's been a very exhausting, emotional week for DH, so I've tried to just handle everything here. BTW, he is bringing home a small trailer FULL of stuff :banghead: including a piano. I'm thrilled to have the piano (it's really the only thing of FIL's that I wanted), but we have nowhere to put it and I haven't had time to make a place for it. That was also in my plan for this week - would have taken me only one day to do that.
So, enough of my venting. If you made it this far, thank you for listening. I want my week back!!! :gloomy::crying:
ETA: Through all of this, I have been working - ugh!
First, I found moths in the pantry - took me 2 days to totally clean it out and put everything back. During my second day of cleaning the pantry, I found our third plumbing leak. We were planning to repipe when DH got back, but I had to go ahead and call the plumber and get it done (either that or pay to fix the leak just to have them come back later), followed by drywallers coming to make repairs. I had to take everything out of our Master bedroom closet, out from under the kitchen sink and the vanities in all 3 bathrooms. I had stuff piled up so high in the master bedroom, I could hardly get in there. I've been sleeping in the guest room. Now, I've been working on getting it all put back. Poor DD has hardly had any time with me at all. I feel so guilty for plopping her in front of the TV so much this past week, but I really had no choice. To top it off, when they disconnected my sink faucet, it basically fell apart and they couldn't fix it. So, I've had to fight with Price Pfister to get a replacement since it supposedly has a lifetime warranty. I've been using the bathroom sink to rinse dishes, get water for the kitchen, etc. Still waiting on my replacement faucet to get here! Oh yeah, my parents are also out of town, so I've had to go to their house a couple of times and check on things there. In addition to all this, we had everything out of our wall unit because we had to move it to have U-verse installed. I was planning on going through everything while DH was gone and reorganizing the DVDs, CDs, video games, etc. Half of it is still in boxes on the floor.
Everything was covered in dust from the drywall, so I actually hired someone to come in and clean. I figured I deserved it. I have only run the dishwasher twice and have only had 5 loads of laundry total in the past 9 days. Life would have been so easy had all this other cr@p not happened! I really wanted my break from everything and now it's over and I'm still working!
I'm trying to get everything done before DH gets home because he has not been off having fun somewhere. FIL passed away last year and DH just spent the week cleaning out FIL's house and signed papers today to sell it. It's been a very exhausting, emotional week for DH, so I've tried to just handle everything here. BTW, he is bringing home a small trailer FULL of stuff :banghead: including a piano. I'm thrilled to have the piano (it's really the only thing of FIL's that I wanted), but we have nowhere to put it and I haven't had time to make a place for it. That was also in my plan for this week - would have taken me only one day to do that.
So, enough of my venting. If you made it this far, thank you for listening. I want my week back!!! :gloomy::crying:
ETA: Through all of this, I have been working - ugh!