Today On Wednesday

 

I am so glad today is Wednesday. Do you ever have one of those weeks, by Wednesday, secretly you have this thought, "Maybe I will just spend the whole day in bed." I have been having one of those kind of weeks. My son asked me if perchance I was getting a little uppity in the humble department. Who knows but I am beginning to wonder.  I think the hardest part is it falls on Ron to fix everything.
He had to fix the lawnmower, on Saturday, all day. I may or may not have gotten so mad I stomped into the house and fixed myself a cup of coffee and left him out in the cold and he had to pour his own. I was not even sorry, because I was still so mad. (He couldn't get a bolt out and I thought a bolt cutter would work.)
He didn't want commentary.

 

The bathroom upstairs had to be fixed. The sprinklers in the flowerbeds broke because of the freeze and those had to be fixed. The eye doctor I am going to on Friday sent the paper work so I could fill it out before hand. I decided that I would do it on Monday. As I was filling out the paper work it had these four
questions and I thought the boxes meant " No," So I checked what I thought was the No boxes and then reading back over the paper I realized you were supposed to check the boxes if you have ever had sexually transmitted diseases. I had just checked I had them all. So feeling really dumb, I have to go in there on Friday and get a new paper to fill out.

 

I think yesterday though was the worst. It all started by me cleaning out the refrigerator. I put some things in the garbage disposal ran it and every thing was fine. I had my list and I was checking off all of the things I had got done, when my son called to me that the sink in the kitchen was  stopped up. I went in and tried it for myself. I thought that if I get the plunger it will be fine. I grabbed the plunger and plunged. I broke the plunger. Who does that?

 

I plunged with the now broken rubber part which didn't work at all. I ran water and dipped water out of one sink into the other over and over. I tried taking baking soda and then putting vinegar and boiling water. Since I broke the plunger I found how I could take a small plastic cup and it fit just inside the garbage disposal and I could dip water that way. Then the funny thing happened when I did that. Water would come spraying out of the little thing on my sink which is some sort of drain. Which in my mind I thought was helping get the water out. (The water was really going under the sink. That was the overflow. )

 

I remembered and really I should have stopped by now, but I was in a panic. Ron has been really, really busy at work. I knew that he was going to be upset and I thought if I could just get it unplugged he wouldn't have to know. So I went out to where I store my supplies for my soap and grabbed a can of lye. I read the back of the can and it said to use one tablespoon and let it sit for a half hour. Well, I thought, if it says a tablespoon, just a good sized glug won't hurt.

 

I waited and then I tried it. It didn't work. So then I had another problem, now I had standing water with lye in it. Lye hurts and I didn't use gloves. I got the sink bailed out and then I had to tell Ron when he called. I told him first I broke the plunger. Then I told him about cleaning out the fridge. Then I told him I broke the garbage disposal. I forgot to tell you that the disposal wouldn't turn on after the lye. He was silent on the phone. Just silent. I finally said, " Are you still there?" It was worse than I imagined. He told me to have the sink all cleaned out when he got home and he would fix it. I had a horrible afternoon. I really felt like maybe I had taken stupid pills this week.

 

He came home from work, his ole happy self. He said, that I always beat myself up worse than anything he could ever say so then he changed and got to fixing the disposal. He fixed it and then got it all back together and then tried to turn it on. It was a light show as sparks and fire shot out from under the sink. He kind of looked at me from the floor. He unplugged it and said he would fix it this weekend. At least the sink drains.

 

Oh and he wasn't mad. He even brought me a present. I think I am pretty special that he still bought me a present yesterday.

It is a nice one too. I just hope I don't have to use it any time soon. Such is my life. Today though,
I will just be doing things that are safe.

I hope your Wednesday, is a wonderful and great day.

~Kim~