Sunday, June 27, 2010

Yikes! Flooding! But under control...

I received a lovely note with three CD’s and beautiful cut flowers from an old friend and her new friend. The reason I am mentioning the note is because there have been unfortunate periods in my life where I felt like it was all my fault when bad things happened and that I could possibly be a jinx?
Basically what my psychic friend stated on the envelope that made me smile with relief was that I am not a Jinx that I am instead a Blessing?
Wow, what a short term relief.
Hmmm, love you dear old friend but today I proved to myself once again that I am not such a great blessing to Hubby anyway, since when I went to put the laundry into my washing machine this morning it sounded like it was already on!
Ghostly intervention and perhaps those spirits knew I was coming to do what I planned to do, laundry?
Nah, not at all it was… not even the washer… for it was the HOT WATER HEATER and it was leaking all over the inside of laundry-room cabinets and out through its pipes to our garage!

Hubby had installed it way back in 2001 and apparently they don’t last as long as they used to, twenty years comes to mind when I was a kid.
No, this modern necessity had a life expectancy of only six years, would you believe? And so I suppose ours was an elderly terminal unit for three years and we never knew it.
I guess it’s sort of like when people die of old age, and their obit says: Mary Jones died of old age at the incredible milestone of one hundred and one… Who in their right mind would argue with that diagnosis?

Sadly, that’s me comparing inanimate objects to human beings, but I still hope the analogy was not lost on your logic? LOL
You got to love the world for when you are down they always some how come around, not always right away but usually in the long run…
Now Hubby as I said many times before has a bad back and I worry he was sixty many moons ago and to lift anything as heavy as a water heater since our is one of those stubby kind that fits up on a shelf behind a door in the laundry, any-who he and I decided he should ask our always go-to neighbor who is big and strong like an ox and about twenty years my Hubby’s junior.
And big burly guy who works in construction for Habit for Humanity said sure and the two men made a trade off.
He just had a similar plumbing issue in his bathroom where he will need help with retiling and Hubby can do that and very well plus we have a tile cutter!
Aint neighbors great, if you let them be.

The hot water heater is in place and thanks to Hubby working as an apprentice plumber while going to college it won’t be long until we have hot water once again, YIPEE!
File this under funny I did go into the pool today and did do my exercise while all this havoc was abounding around me as most know it does have a calming stress reliever affect on most people me included and so I did indulge and Hubby understood.
He said he adjust the water so that I could use the cold water and so when I got out of the pool and went to take my customary shower I did soap up first including using the shampoo for my hair thinking it will be cold but should work for cleansing the chlorine off of me… and…. NO WATER CAME OUT OF THE SHOWER FAUCET!
LOL
And so as I usually do I had placed my bathing suit in cold water soaking in Woolite in the bathroom sink with the thought as always of rinsing and hanging to dry after my shower when I got out and now I had to rinse it as quickly as possible since my idea of getting me out of this miniscule dilemma was to put it back on and rinse my soap laden body off in the chlorinated swimming pool, sounds counterproductive, huh?
Oddly enough it worked!
Didn’t even need my conditioner on my hair, how about that folks?
It really feels quite soft and silky, how odd?
And the pool was up in temperature, so it was tepid so much nicer than a cold shower!

On that bizarre note of lunacy I will wish you all …welcome to my world…
And good night to all and to all count those blessings and I know I can find ours somewhere, even this JINX can have some hope!

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