Running In Place

That's what we feel like most days, you get up and just spend the day moving all day but it sometimes does not feel like you accomplish much. I clean and clean, moving on to the next cat pee oasis - anyone that walks in the door is asked to sniff around. After awhile all you smell is cat pee and a variety of cleaning fluids.  David has been fixing leak after leak after leak. The toilet first, then the washing machine cold water is leaking, the slop sink leaks down the side and the cold water tap is frozen on that side, the kitchen sink leaks..... there are broken pipes, hinges - David just looked at me wearily yesterday and asked "is it really possible to break EVERYTHING?".  Yes David , it is.

This morning he is outside because there is apparently water still going to the hot tub so that needed to be capped off. Today we are heading out to get new cell phones, David's does not work at all, mine only on the very back of the deck. We did have the Internet installed but unfortunately they appear to be a HUGE ripoff. When I opened the app I was pleased to see it would only be 50 dollars a month. Then I saw we had a limit of 12 GBs. A month. I knew it had to be a mistake so I called. NO mistake, but of course you could add to it, 50 is 120 dollars a month. I was almost crying at this point because those of us that understand GBs also understand with Netflix, Alexa, the tablets we will be blowing through that in a matter of days. AS of this morning after having Internet for about 16 hours we've already used up 2 and we haven't even set up the TV yet. There is no grace period and early termination is $15 for every month - David signed a two year contract. But honestly, given how much he was doing between health insurance, arranging the utilities, etc. it was not surprising it all slipped through the cracks. 

But we are making progress, the smell this morning is VERY faint, upstairs there is no smell at all. We will hopefully start getting furniture in the near future, very basic course. Since we will be working on the walls, floors, etc.. we don't want to bring too much in but we are planning on getting a platform bed! The mattress is still on the floor which means when we get up it's from a deep squat position. Being that we're late 50's, early 60's doing that repeatedly after working on the house all day can be quite painful. David continues to work on the yard and very big surprise - we are overrun with blackberries! I'll have buckets of them!