So far, I must say, 2016 has been pretty wretched. I'm ready for it to be over. Anne fortunately reminded me that February 8th marks the start of the Lunar New Year, so I've only got a few more weeks to endure.
We've all been sick with a nasty cold that just won't go away - lingering in our lungs and making us cough and blow our noses and lose sleep. Steve has had a migraine aura circling for the last few days.
We had a new tankless hot water heater installed, because our old boiler was on its last legs, and the new one is either malfunctioning or is an utter failure of new technology to improve upon the old - our showers are alternately lukewarm, freezing, and then scalding. There's also a leaking pipe in the garage which we think is connected to the new water heater. In other water news, a watermain pipe broke on our street last Wednesday - we had half a day without water, and then when it returned we got a blast of sediment that clogged our kitchen faucet. A plumber came and tried to repair it, but failed, which was frustrating and expensive and meant that we've been living with a trickle of cold water and no hot at all for the last week. We went to Home Depot and bought a new faucet and Steve tried valiantly to install it, but our old one is so jammed in there that he couldn't get it out. So we have another plumber coming tomorrow to replace our faucet, and the water heater people coming Thursday to hopefully fix this system...
We finally got around to contacting a garage door repair company regarding our broken door. The guy said it couldn't really be salvaged and made safe, and should be replaced entirely. ASAP, of course.
And then last night our car window was smashed and my belongings stolen - purse, handbag, wallet, clothes, hat and gloves, library book. I have spent the day canceling cards, ordering new ones, getting the car window replaced, visiting the DMV, and mourning the loss of my favorite purple hoodie. And the goat stew that was in a cooler bag, thanks to a trade between Cuong and Steve. Sigh. I'm just upset that I left my valuables on the passenger seat instead of safely hidden, and upset that there'll be no recourse, and upset that we added yet more THINGS to our to-do list. Sigh.
Bring on the new year.
1 comment:
Starting a new year has never been the favorite thing for most people and I am talking about the first month of the year. Here comes extra costs that might make you think they were waiting for the year to come to an end but nonetheless, once January is over, things seem to settle down and life catches up. Be encouraged.
Levi Eslinger @ Capital Plumbing
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