I Should Have Stayed In Bed

Today is one of those days when I would have been better off staying in bed.  I didn't fall asleep until one am last night mostly due to my own fault but I wasn't too worried because I didn't have to be up early today.  The first thing on my schedule was a dentist appointment at noon.  I figured I could sleep in till 9 and then get up and get ready.  Life had other plans.

I was woken up at 8:30 by my phone ringing.  It was the sub line.  I am a substitute teacher so it is not normally unusual for me to get calls in the morning to get called into work.  However it was unexpected today because today was the first day of school.  Who calls in sick on the very first day?!  Obviously due to my dentist appointment I had to decline the job but I could not fall back asleep even though I felt exhausted.

When I finally dragged myself out of bed I found myself running behind.  I hurried to get ready and dashed out the door.  Just my luck the drive to my appointment took considerably longer than I expected due to two accidents and a funeral procession.  Go figure.  When I finally arrived running about ten minutes late I parked the car and hurried into the building only to discover that they were running even further behind than me.  At first I was relieved because it meant that I wasn't really "late" anymore however after sitting in the waiting room for half an hour... nearly 45 minutes after my appointment time I began to get frustrated.  The visit only lasted ten minutes as they were just checking on the work they had done previously and I left the office. 

When I got home I decided to tackle the next task on my to do list for the day. - Call Time Warner Cable-  My Internet has been acting up and has been choosing to disconnect and not allow me to reconnect right when I am in the middle of talking to my husband.  Can you say annoying and frustrating?  I had already spoken to a tech on Friday night and he had told me that someone would need to come out to check my modem but I wasn't ready to schedule the appointment at 10pm so I told him I would call on Monday.  Today I instantly regretted that choice.  It took me 45 minutes of arguing and three supervisors to convince the TWC people that my router is not the problem and that a visit from a tech is indeed required.  When I got off the phone I was more than a little annoyed.

Feeling irritated but trying to turn the day around I decided to do some laundry.  The next hour or so went by smoothly but then dinner hour rolled in and I decided it was time to start cooking.  I wanted to make pasta so I went to the sink and turned on the water to fill up a pot.  Only problem? When I turned on the faucet the only water that came out was in a thin dribble even though I had turned the faucet on full blast.  Seriously? I thought, you have to be kidding.  I called the maintenance line hoping to hear that they were working on the water and that it would be turned back on shortly.  No such luck.  They agreed to send someone out to look at it.  While I waited I decided that it might be a good idea to check out my basement to see if there was any water there.  I was concerned that maybe a pipe had broken.  Sure enough my basement was full of water.  We have boxes down there and all of them are soaked.  This was around 6:40pm.

To make a long story slightly shorter a repair guy did eventually show up and two problems were discovered. 1) A major water main break down the street and 2) The sub pump (sp?) in our basement had been improperly installed and was spewing gallons of water into our basement.  I have one word to describe this.  AWESOME.  NOT. 

It is now 11:22pm.  The basement issue has not been fixed and the repair guys need to come back sometime this week to work on it.  I have not even attempted yet to deal with my soggy boxes.  At this point I decided that is a project for tomorrow.  I also am still without water.  It was supposed to be fixed hours ago but I just called for a status update and was told that it is going to be another 4-6 hours.  It's a good thing I am going to bed soon because I cannot even flush my toilets.  I can only hope that it is fixed by morning.  Ellie called me to offer that I could stay at her place for the night but I figured the water would be on soon.  It was really sweet of her to offer.  She pretty much made my night.  Well she and my husband who patiently listened to me tel him everything that had gone wrong. I am enjoying some brownies that Ellie gave me yesterday and a Mikes hard lemonade though.  Somehow these two small luxuries make all of today's disasters seem not so bad. 

I know that God will never give me more than I can handle but man I was really wishing my husband was here today to help me with everything.  I am not looking forward to cleaning up soggy boxes and dealing with the TWC tech tomorrow but hopefully everything will work out.