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Does this mean I have come long ways?
First my handyman came over finally to put the duct work under my house on, its been getting frightfully cold lately. He turned off my water as my hose to the icemaker was leaking so he could fix it once duct work done. BUT when he turned it back on NO WATER to my house. Messed with the faucet some water came out so we thought it was fixed. NOPE - next morning he traced things top and bottom: relay switches to pressure tank were bad. SO get those parts yesterday meantime my stove top quit working: brand new ~1 1/2 yrs old or less. Panel lights up not burners.
SO I am figuring what ever we did turning the power off and on blew something - makes sense to me right?
Got ahold of him last eve - no water no stove - SO OK I can handle that overnight. Turns out it is believed its the breakbox switch to it that went bad because I get electricity in 110 not 220 watts. SO into town, no such part in this town - finally after 3 places found one - so got two.
AND than went to bank to deposit monies from sell of my flat bed. NOT IN PURSE - panic....where is it.
Got few groceries hitailed it home - found monies put aside in letter holder (NOW I remember going to function did not want that much money in purse)BUT before I found it I was sickly panicked. SO I SAID OK GOD look at me, you need to show me right now where it is I so need it - went right to it.
Sat down had a good cry - and felt better as things are going to be all right - and nothing expensively hard to fix yet. BUT honestly why are things little by little one by one going wrong just like last winter -
DANG it stop it...
BUT I do feel ok, I feel not so dispaired like I felt this spring and not so overwhelmed.
First my handyman came over finally to put the duct work under my house on, its been getting frightfully cold lately. He turned off my water as my hose to the icemaker was leaking so he could fix it once duct work done. BUT when he turned it back on NO WATER to my house. Messed with the faucet some water came out so we thought it was fixed. NOPE - next morning he traced things top and bottom: relay switches to pressure tank were bad. SO get those parts yesterday meantime my stove top quit working: brand new ~1 1/2 yrs old or less. Panel lights up not burners.
SO I am figuring what ever we did turning the power off and on blew something - makes sense to me right?
Got ahold of him last eve - no water no stove - SO OK I can handle that overnight. Turns out it is believed its the breakbox switch to it that went bad because I get electricity in 110 not 220 watts. SO into town, no such part in this town - finally after 3 places found one - so got two.
AND than went to bank to deposit monies from sell of my flat bed. NOT IN PURSE - panic....where is it.
Got few groceries hitailed it home - found monies put aside in letter holder (NOW I remember going to function did not want that much money in purse)BUT before I found it I was sickly panicked. SO I SAID OK GOD look at me, you need to show me right now where it is I so need it - went right to it.
Sat down had a good cry - and felt better as things are going to be all right - and nothing expensively hard to fix yet. BUT honestly why are things little by little one by one going wrong just like last winter -
DANG it stop it...
BUT I do feel ok, I feel not so dispaired like I felt this spring and not so overwhelmed.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
I sold the business 8 months later because it was just more than I could do alone. Its been two years for me and now when something goes wrong I can either laugh, cry, or better yet be grateful that I am able to be the "handyman."
I promise you.. the day will come when you can laugh about everything falling apart, because it won't be you that is falling apart.
Hugs to you!
I SURE AM!!! Way to go Nicker!!! Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs!
Diane
It sounds like you actually managed pretty well. Sure the tears came, but you coped and got through it. That's the important thing.
It made me feel stronger (Far from Healed) but a little stronger.