Today started out grand, but then when I was outside with Tenchi, Faust and Zeo early this afternoon, a guy pulls up in an oil van. So I grab Tenchi and Zeo and ask my brother to grab Faust. The guy says that he's here to put in a new radiator in our LR.
Ok, I tell him, "Hold on just a sec, I'll put the dogs away."
He says sure and then starts walking in the house behind me while Mojo is wanting to eat him alive. So I repeat myself and the guy just walks in behind me anyways. *UGH* Luckily Mojo listens and I tell him to go upstairs and the crew follow along while I'm cursing under my breath. (go ahead and laugh while picturing it Ang
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I put the dogs away and go back down to see what's going on. The guy smells really strong of cigarette smoke, but I dont think anything of it besides.. ick. That is until he leaves and I see that there are ashes all over my couch! WTH?
I go out to talk to him and he says that he'll be back with the parts. I'm being nice and say fine, I'll move the couch over so that he can work. He replies rudely, "Yeah, because I need somewhere to WORK!" I'm seething because noone told me these people were coming over and my LR is trashed from my brother staying in it all weekend and the kids were playing in it also. Then I realise after clearing the area that they're going to probably need to get in to the basement, which is nasty flooded icky area that I HATE going down into. I find where the pipes are and of course its where ALL the dog crates and bikes are stacked.
So there I am running around in stagnant icky water with slimey crates and Tori comes down with her dirty sheets/blankets and tossed them on the ground... in the water. I count backwards from like a million so that I don't freak out and then start the washer up. The washer which was hooked up in the darkest and creepiest room in this farmhouse basement, which the light decided to stop working a couple days ago and Jay has YET to fix.
After this I go back upstairs to start the dishes before these Radiator people come back and walk into a disaster site in the kitchen?? What happened? This was clean right before I went downstairs! Call brother and children in to pick up after themselves and find out that Mojo decided to help himself to all the fishsticks since the kids let the dogs back out while I was in the basement. *sigh*
Then I'm starting to finally do the dishes and my step mom shows up to bring my brother home... with my brother's best friend?!? I wanted some company along for the ride up from CT, she explains. So then Mike has to introduce him to all the dogs and show them off, then his friend wants to go see the cows and I have to play happy dirty, slimey hostess for an hour before they all leave.
Finally, back to doing the dishes right?? Ok start washing and Tori starts yelling, "MOMMMMMMM, they're back!!!" So I run all the dogs BACK up the stairs and put them away. The guys bring in this HUGE nasty rusty radiator and tell me that they're NOT putting it by the corner, but directly in the middle of one of the walls. Um, excuse me, that would make that entire wall practically unusable for either of the two couches or the entertainment center.
There will only be two walls left to use? The guy basically says to deal with it.
I go BACK into the kitchen for another attempt at the dishes, then Tori falls outside on her new rollerblades that my stepmom just gave her. Check her out, she's fine, no blood or nothing. Go upstairs for a second and the guys leave, taking said nasty radiator with them. OK??
So I decided to let the dogs outside to potty and play a bit. Then I start the dishes AGAIN. lol I'm 1/4 done and here they come again! Now I run the dogs back upstairs, but this time Ang saves me and calls me on the phone! Yay! Then I find out about all the chaos that is happening on BPO.
I think today is just an insane day or something?
Here I sit now, dishes still in the sink, people still putting in some stupid radiator in the Living Room and now fighting on BPO. I sure hope that tomorrow is a better day!
