Thursday, May 14, 2009

Is it Friday yet?

I haven't posted in a couple of days because it has been chaotic around the Hall house. I had planned to have a yard sale Saturday, but it is looking like mother nature doesn't want that to happen. I went through our closets, drawers, and spare bedroom AKA the junk room. I have been collecting stuff for my yard sale for about a year now and the day i finally decide to have one, there is a 70% chance of rain. I don't know if I should chance it or not, but as soon as i decide i will have it another day, the sun will come out! We also got new appliances for our kitchen. A stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher. My plans were to sale the old fridge and stove in the yard sale, so for the time being the old appliances will be sitting in the middle of my kitchen. I am really excited about my dishwasher because i have never had one before, but my stepdad is going to come and cut out a hole for the dishwasher which will take about 2 cabinets away. Those of you that have been in my house know how small my kitchen is, so 2 cabinets is alot of storage space that i will miss! I love to remodel my house and if i had the money, i would remodel the whole thing inside and out. Jason, on the other hand, doesnt care a thing in the world about it. He would keep the house exactly the same for...well, forever. On top of all the chaos in our house, our washing machine over flowed. I put 2 large rugs in the washer Tuesday and i was in the kitchen cleaning up. Landon got real quiet and i could hear what sounded like the little pitter patter of feet splashing in water. So I walk in the laundry room and Landon is jumping up and down in the water that is up to his ankles...I quickly ran to the washer and turned it off. Bubbles were coming out of the top and water was GUSHING out of the bottom, not like sprinkling out of the bottom, like a dam had broke and water was invading the house type of gushing. I quickly ran outside in a panic to find Jason (who was fixing the lawn mower and weedeater that had both broke) and I yelled that the washer was over flowing and I couldnt get it to stop. He looked up at me calm as a daisy and said "Mandy, just turn it off". I love my husband (sarcasm inserted here). Now i know i have done some questionable things in my time and I have had some blonde moments, but did this man just tell his panic stricken wife, that is out of breath from running through the yard, and that had on her bright blue pajama pants to just simply turn it off? OBVIOUSLY, I had already tried that, but did the water slack up any? NO! So while we are outside having this discussion, Landon is beating the door down because he thinks that Mommy and Daddy are outside playing without him! We got back in the house and got the shop vac out. We filled this 8 gallon shop vac up 3 times. Luckily our house is a little uneven so the water sort of stayed in the middle of the floor. Finally, after about an hour, we got the laundry room cleaned up. We were going to have steak and baked potatoes that night, but i went to subway and picked up some sandwiches instead. So the moral of the story is when one thing breaks, everything breaks, that is just life so make the most of it! Oh, and never underestimate a panic stricken woman running through her yard with bright blue pajama pants on!

5 comments:

  1. Sorry everything has gone wrong for you the last couple of days, but you know what I always say it could be worst.We will be there Sat. to help ya'll. Give my baby a kiss.
    Love,
    YaYa

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  2. All I can say is "Welcome to my world Sis"! It's a world of disaster at times and I am always looking for the light at the end of the tunnel!lol Just hang in there and maybe one day luck will be on our side...love ya.

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  3. Well I am definately use to everything breaking and going wrong all at the same time..Im just greatful it is all small things that happen. As long as it doesnt affect my family or their health than i am thankful! :)

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  4. I made my trip to Tennessee this past weekend. Wish I could have gotten to see you. I do understand a little water in the house from a flood (via weather or washing machine). Sounds like you were able to get it cleaned up without to much trouble. Why do babies always find the mess first? LOL!!

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  5. Mom told me you came up here for a little bit. I hate that I didnt get to see you. Im sure you understand the flooding better than anyone, i am grateful mine was only 24 gallons of water instead of half the ocean! Cleaning it up has become a ritual, everytime it floods JAson and I say "you got it or you want me to do it". That is really sad! We should break down and buy a new one!

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