As in Murphy's Law where anything that can go wrong will. My previous post serves to foreshadow the following ten days. When the bank, insurance, whoever crazies didn't accept our signatures we should have taken it as a sign. We should have rethought, revised and determined a new plan of action. Unfortunately when both members of the couple lean towards impulsivity we just scribbled out new signatures and started unloading box after box.
First night: a Friday night, we spent hanging drapes. A, we couldn't find anything (cheap) to fully cover the front window. It now has two different style of drapes that match and clash at the same time. B, the rod for that same window had some extra parts. It's not supposed to, we just had to rig it a certain way so it worked.
Second day: Lost the keys to the FJ and the storage unit. Spent most of the day in a stupor trying to find them.
Day three: Pretty productive and the first night we slept in our new place. Lost the bed frame so we put it on the floor all classy like. Oh, and it's deadly cold outside (finally November weather as opposed to August) and NO HEAT!
Day four: After the heater is fixed it goes out again in the middle of the night. I wake up with snotcicles. We drill through tile to install a fancy shower curtain. The drill bit lasts for approximately 2.5 holes. We had four. The sales personnel at Menards knows us by name.
Day five: Heater guy comes and says he can't fix the heater, but at least it randomly turned on again. Laundry room floods.
Day six: Kitchen sinks backed up and leaking. Dishwasher takes two runs to dissolve soap. Always.
Day seven: Internet goes out. I reprogram, reset, reassemble multiple times. A wire with a short leads to a long and complicated customer service phone call in which the guy never answers my only question: "Do I have to reinstall everything in a certain order?" We do go through the entire process with me telling him, "Dude there's a short in my power cord, it's not going to change anything!"
Day eight: The cable wire for our Internet goes out....seriously?! I asked dude to check on that last night.
Day nine: Trying to install a garbage disposal. With multiple saws, drills and trips for hardware I don't imagine they'll get to plumbing the fridge.
Tomorrow will be day ten. I plan to wrap up in a blanket and have a good cry.
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Reminds me of when I first moved to Lamar---now 33 years later, I'm still here. Back then no cell phones or computers and internet. We couldn't afford to hook up a phone for awhile. Felt really isolated but I survived and so will you! Love you.
perhaps you should take handy-man classes as an approach to the inevitable. A good offense is always a good defense!
Have to admit I did chuckle at all the mishaps! So sorry but I like Heather's suggestion... Handy-Girl Bre at your service.
snotcicles! is that what those were? I thought they were frozen tears of joy...but at least our front yard at this new house in IL is the local bus stop and back home, Utah is having its biggest snow year ever...(sniffle, sniffle). Don't worry baby Peorrhea Illannoyed is SO worth it! On the flip side you get stared at everywhere we go by women and men alike because they've never seen such a pretty girl in this state
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