This too shall pass, but when?
Well, this has been the week from hell (and it looks like there's not gonna be any let-up this weekend, either.) I can't help it, sometimes it seems as though you pay for every moment of happiness with 10 minutes of misery.
Last Friday my Outlook Express went on the blink and then 3 days ago my server went, too, and so I couldn't get any help from Microsoft because I had no internet for them to work with. Yesterday, finally, I got my server back and called Microsoft and by last night after 2 hours on the phone, I had email again. So tonight (yep, friday night...the dreaded weekend, with no help from service people as a rule), my server quit and when I called them they said, well, this time there's no outtage and we will have to come out to your house, and we can't come until Monday morning (I had to cancel a hair appointment that I've waited 2 weeks for). Meanwhile, my vacuum blew up and just before my server went down I was in the shower and couldn't get the water to cut off afterward. So my water is shut down all over the house and I'm waiting for Roto-Rooter. There is no access to my shower water like there is to my sinks and toilets, because it is BEHIND THE WALL. I'd have killed my builder long ago for the many things he did like this on my house, but he's been dead for years.
So, just now the server came back up mysteriously so I'm putting this on here before it goes back down. Yep, there are worse things that could happen (and frankly, I'm afraid they're just around the corner.) And I know I should just suck it up and handle it. But frankly, my nerves are shot. It's bad enough when a menopausal woman gets stressed, but when it happens to a rapid-cycler bipolar, WATCH OUT! Actually, though, I've decided that I'm not going to worry, I'll just chuckle, in fact, I'm just going to throw my head back and laugh. And that's how I'll be when they come for me...laughing.
UPDATE: Roto-rooter guy replaced all hardware on the hot/cold/on off controlt...still leaks. I have all the water turned off, but he can't access the cut-off for the tub...it's behind the wall and my BUILT-IN SHELVES. He's trying now to find a way to at least get the water in the tub coming from the spigot to stop, but it is still not right. Looks like something farther back in will have to be replaced and the only way to get into it is behind the wall. So I guess they have to like take a hammer and tongs to my shelves and wall. If I have to go through all that I wish I could get a new tub! Shoot me, somebody just shoot me.
