Came home Tues and our downstairs bathroom was gone gone gone. Just a hole in the wall. Well, not even a wall really. The boys think this is amazing. They have plans to take out ALL of the walls and make the entire basement one big huge play space. This is not an entirely bad idea really - it would be a lot cheaper than what we actually do have planned...
Weds morning, however, we had no hot water and I loooove my hot showers in the morning - especially when the weather is cooler. So on top of a demo'd basement and various other (perceived) stresses in my life, I almost broke down and cried when I had to take a cold shower - and my feet didn't warm up for hours because it's cold in my office at work too...
Called the contractor 8am - he told us about how he found the water heater unplugged and thought we had done it yadda yadda yadda and so he plugged it back in and it should be fine, except it wasn't. So he said he'd pop by. Turns out that our house has the wrong coloured wires for the different lines (or whatever - he was speaking some sort of electrician dialect...) and so while he plugged our hot water heater into the standard system, our house apparently is not standard. Matches the occupants I guess...
Good news- hot water was back in the evening. YAY!
In other news, Kid#1 managed to lose another wire from his braces (I think we're up to 3 "emergency" ortho visits now - and the braces have only been on for about 2 months out of a total of 6...). Called the ortho, got the front desk person just before she closed, and we're heading in 8am tomorrow morning - because the office is closed down for two weeks starting 5pm Thurs. So bad news - Kid#1 is going to have to HUSTLE tomorrow morning.
Which means I should go to bed. Not that I need the sleep myself necessarily, but I will need the willpower and stamina to keep nagging at the kid...
No wonder I nearly break down emotionally over a cold shower!
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