What Next?

I should sooo not be sitting here right now. Josh's parents are coming this Friday, and I can hardly believe how much work I have to do. This is just one more example of how different Josh and I are. When there is a lot of work to do, he rises to the challenge and gets it done. It inspires him or something. I, on the other hand, look at it, see that there's no way I can possibly do it all myself, and do nothing. I have zero motivation. Every time I do get something done, I turn around and realize I have to do it again because someone UNDID it. Within minutes. Seriously. And only the two youngest of my children are home right now.

ANYWAYS, last week we got our new dishwasher. The guy who was supposed to install it brought it in, looked at the space for it, and said that he'd have to charge extra that Sears wouldn't pay to get it done right. It's a Bosch and there is no clearance on the bottom or sides to work in. He said it would be $60 extra. We were not willing to pay that so he left and Josh was going to put it in himself. Not wanting to go through that (ahem) I called Sears and talked them into paying it. So two days later, it was finally done.

Not 24 hours after that, our hot water heater stopped working. I had wondered why my new dishwasher wasn't getting the dishes clean...... Josh went out and bought a new one that was 30 gallons less capacity because that's all we could afford. It would have been nice to get a tankless one. We had to drill a hole in the old one to drain the water, bucket by bucket. All 80 gallons, one at a time. When he tried to move it, it wouldn't budge. Come to find out, it's insulated with S.T.O.N.E. He and my dad had to use a come-along to get it up our steep driveway to the road where, hopefully, the garbage man will have compassion on us and take it away.

Josh had the new one installed in no time. Fast-forward to Sunday afternoon.

I had tons of cleaning to do and went to turn the hot water on so I could mop, and bubbling, steaming water comes pouring out the faucet. YIKES! We had to flip the breaker to get it to turn off. So once again we've had the privilege of dealing with people from Timbucktoo who can't speak English and have no clue what they're talking about to try to get this resolved. Parts are being over-nighted to us and should be here in the morning. I sincerely hope that fixes the problem.

In order to get the piles of laundry and other hot water required chores done, I've had to flip the breaker on and off all day to keep the temperature regulated. It's so funny to me how much I take for granted. I didn't realize how much hot water a family this size requires. I hope our well doesn't run dry next! LOL

Josh's new truck isn't running well either. He's spent so much time on that thing since we bought it. He thinks he has the problem figured out, and it really is ingenious how he did it. But I couldn't explain it to you if my life depended on it. :D It had something to do with how many times the service engine light flashed?????

So that's an update on our lives for the past week. Hopefully next time I post, it will be more upbeat. The devil is alive and well, and is working overtime. We can't let him win.