STILL no water. The house is a mess because we can’t really clean it up. Okay, I admit the picture above might be an exaggeration…
The handyman finished the job, by the way – but somewhere along the way, our water-main valve went south. The handle is in free-spin.
The main is the park’s responsibility. The husband is under the laughable impression we’re going to have a maintenance guy from the park here tomorrow – on a Sunday – to fix the issue. I smile at hubby’s naiveté. Took us a week to get somebody out to fix it last time we had an issue. This time I don’t think it’ll take a week. We have the park manager’s phone number and lots of friends, including a tiny 94-year-old woman who will bulldoze through whoever it takes to get stuff done. However, I’m still not holding my breath on a weekend.
Thank God I spent the $$ to go to a local salon this morning and paid for a hair wash and blowout. Normally I’d never consider paying to get my hair washed, because hello: me, frugal the hobbling, talking definition of cheap. After a few days without washing it, though, I was throwing money at the person who washed it, gladly. My gut told me no matter what I was being told, water wouldn’t be on today. Glad I listened to my gut.
We’ve done sponge baths by heating water in the teakettle. We’re filling buckets thanks to a hose at the neighbor’s house. We’ve managed to keep the toilet filled with the one-man bucket brigade, though tomorrow will be fun with me back on my regular work schedule. We backed up restricted handwashing with wipes and hand sanitizer. Brushing teeth has been a challenge because the bathroom was torn up. Now it’s more or less back together, but dirty and no practical way to clean it.
There’s been no cooking the past couple of days and looks like another day or two of the same. Yesterday we did Subway sammies for lunch, chicken finger meals from Cane’s for dinner. Today was takeout pizza. I’m going to make a quick, late run to the grocery store and grab some frozen breakfast options, another box of cereal, probably some TV dinners, another gallon or two of drinking water, and a handful of other things to hold us over.
It’s not the end of the world, obviously, but it sure is annoying.
I’m so sorry your year has started out with so much difficulty. Sure hope the problem is fixed as soon as possible. Wondering if you can get credit for the days you don’t have water with your monthly lot rental?
I wouldn’t fuss over the rent issue unless it were a significant chunk of the month. The guys got the water turned on this morning but found out the new bathtub faucet leaks. Cheap faucet – but it was literally the only one I could get with the right configuration. Hopefully we can get it working. Otherwise it’s going to be a pain in the butt to find another alternative.
Any improvement yet??
I think so. The water was on yesterday for a while until we discovered another leak. Fortunately, since I work from home, I took a bath during my “lunch” break yesterday, so I feel nearly human. And hopefully what’s left will fix things the right way – which, if we’d done at the beginning, would’ve saved us a couple of days at least. In theory it SHOULD be done this morning. Hopefully.
Mind you, I’ve been on the spouse’s case about this for MONTHS and he kept telling me it was no big deal, he got it fixed, etc.
Umm… no. He didn’t, lol.
The spousal unit is still going to replace the shelf under the kitchen sink, but that’s a very minor issue, fortunately, and nothing is at structural risk while waiting for him to do the job. Good thing, because his “hurry up” will likely take at LEAST another month or two.
Stupid spouses. My wife has the same problem with hers, poor thing.
Good luck.
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Thanks. Water’s back on – for now. We shall see how long it lasts this time.