#we've had some issues with our shower this week and have to replace it completely

[moonchild-in-blue]

Cranky!! Angy!! Stomping my feet, crossing my arms, pouting very prettily.

[regular-lord-reckoner]

it has been a looooooong week, one of those where it feels like it's an entire month long

for starters, sometime last week i had a really busy day and finally stopped to take a shower because i'd been doing so much and was sweating all over the place and turns out...we didn't have any hot water !!

unfortunately the closet under the stairs where the water heater tank is at was where i put a bunch of stuff i pulled out of the laundry room until we could sort through it so i had to move all of that stuff AGAIN just to get to the tank but i was able to reset it and since then we've had hot water (albeit for shorter periods of time)

we had a plumber come out today anyway because of a leak with the ac unit line that he found last time he was here fixing a leak in my mom's shower so i told him about the water heater thing also.

he came out once before when this happened and was able to patch it, but we knew even then it was probably on its way out and he said he's been replacing a lot of those lately because they're getting to that point (i wanna say the one that's in there now is the one we had when we first moved in so....makes sense and my dad did say before he died that it was on its way out).

that'll probably be something for after the first of the year, just fingers crossed we're able to have enough hot water until then

the second thing is that on sunday our refrigerator started leaking !!

at first it was just a little bit, so little in fact i thought it was just from the doggo's water bowl that had gotten kicked by accident but it quickly progressed to the point where we started having to put towels down and even then it's like....every two hours they end up completely drenched and it's time to swap them out for new ones

that's been a big part of what my week has been, gathering up a bunch of sopping wet towels and throwing them in the wash and keeping the cycle going

even with that for the past two nights by the time my mom and i get up in the morning there's still a trail of water seeping out from beyond that (last night i put three right at the source and another one just beyond that and they were all completely soaked)

fortunately an appliance guy came out (same guy who fixed the dryer not too long ago) and he said he thinks it was from the water filter

i know it's probably been like...a year or more since i mentioned that it needed to be changed but we never got around to it and he showed me on the filter he pulled out where it was worn down and between that and the higher water pressure from the last time the plumber was here i think that may have been the issue

after the plumber finally left i ran to lowes and got another filter to replace the old one. i got it installed and so far so good, there doesn't appear to be any more leaking so fingers crossed that was indeed the issue and it's not something more serious !!

oh also, when he was pulling the fridge out we realized there's a bunch of broken glass back there so i got in there and tried to sweep as much of it up as i could and then mopped up all the water that was there as well

we're going to keep the fridge pulled out from the wall for a day and i've got a box fan running back there to try to help it from getting any more moldy than what it already is but just....jesus christ what a shit show

not to mention, too that i'm pretty sure we've got mold upstairs and downstairs at this point just as is. some of it's probably from that leaky ac line but i think there's also some especially in my room from where the doors i have that go outside don't close all the way because i can definitely see it on the outside part just above the door so like....that's neat

i've mentioned it several times and it's still one of our top priorities as far as getting things around here fixed but we kinda need everything else to stop breaking for one goddamn second so that we can actually address that !! that would be awesome

oh and i'm also pretty sure there's something wrong with the wiring upstairs. that's an issue i'm not sure when we'll get to or if something notable has to happen first but just based on a few things i've noticed it wouldn't surprise me

also the other day i heard a really loud sound coming from the attic, it sounded a lot like my bathroom fan but on steroids and at first i thought it was the upstairs ac unit and was like jesus christ, that's all we need right now but turns out it was just the attic fan ??

mom said something about how we're supposed to go up there and turn it on and off depending on the season, i think but as far as i know it's just....been on this entire time so we turned it off for now and she's going to text my uncle who does hvac and see what he says about it but that was pretty odd

all of this to say.....i am exhausted !!

like i know this is an older house and we should be grateful we haven't had a bunch of issues up until this point, but now it's almost like they're all coming to a head right now and it's just a lot trying to keep up with what needs to be fixed now and what's breaking next and just....yeah

(not to mention i'm also just kinda getting sick of my work days revolving around waiting for repair people....)

but !! hopefully sooner rather than later we can get all of this taken care of and definitely take care of the mold thing before it gets any worse and maybe then my mom and i can both relax a little

speaking of her and relaxing, actually, she's apparently going to be meeting up with one of her gentlemen callers as i've started referring to them as

he's actually flying in next week from california and she's not really ready to bring him here and didn't want to thrust that on me (which i appreciate), so they're going to get a hotel room and spend the weekend together and then he'll fly back on monday

i maaaaaay go out and meet them somewhere at some point. maybe.

it's just kinda hard still to wrap my head around her being with someone who isn't my dad and while i do want her to be happy and this guy seems like a nice guy (he kinda reminds me of my dad a little bit...) it's just....a lot. especially so soon, so....we'll see how that goes.

on the bright side, i get the place to myself for a little bit so i guess that'll be nice (even though i'm honestly going to be a little worried about her the whole time until she gets back but i'm going to try to power through it)

despite all of the !!!!!! lately, i do have a bit of good news to end this on !!

i've officially applied to graduate school to see about getting my masters in library science so that i can become a librarian !!

my application has been sent off and i've already got one of my letters of recommendation done (i asked both of my managers if they would send one and surprisingly the one i didn't think liked me all that much actually wrote me a really sweet one and already sent it in) so we're just waiting on the other one but i already talked to someone on the phone today who gave me an overview of the program and what tuition would be and what my classes would be like (they're all online!) and all of that so i think this is really happening !!

it should hopefully only take me 18 months to complete and it seems like my classes will probably being either around 7 or 9 pm when i get done with work so i'm gonna be a busy little bee for a while, but knowing it's only 18 months should help get me through it and then before we know it i'll be a librarian :D

i'm honestly really excited about this, i know libraries are going to be on the chopping block here soon but i just feel like this is the right thing for me right now. wish i had done it sooner, but i'm trying to trust the timing of everything

hell, we have enough books in this house alone that i could probably start my own little library if they become a thing of the past so having that skill set might be applied there, but i would really like to actually get into an established one before anything happens to them and start serving the community that way

so yeah, that's what's been going on with me !!

it's been.....a lot, but i'm trying to stay positive about it all and look forward to what's coming in the future !

admittedly, though, i am very glad this week is finally over, especially today.

as soon as the first repair guy left the phone starting ringing and first it was someone calling about this one thing from a court case my dad was part of (i think it was one of those asbestos cases) and unfortunately before they can give us any settlements from that they need everyone who would be receiving some money to fill out all this paperwork and while my mom and i did ours a long time ago we haven't been able to get any of my siblings or nieces to do theirs so they left a message today saying it's going to go before the judge and i guess we'll see what happens with that. i'd imagine if they still intend to split it up amongst all of us that it won't be that much, but you never know and it would be nice to just get a random check every so often so fingers crossed that works out but i only mention that to say that as that message was being left the phone started ringing again and it was someone from the university i applied to calling to go over everything with me so i had to stop cleaning up broken glass and water mess to talk to them

(i actually got a spam call beeping in during that phone call so i ignored it but still just...by the time i got off that phone call i said out loud, "i just need one more goddamn thing to overstimulate me right now, just one more thing !!!" ...fortunately i got to have a few minutes there where nothing happened and i got to finish my cleaning before getting back to work so that was nice)

a few minutes later the plumber shows up to start doing his repairs and he was here for a few hours working on that so between all of that plus running out to lowe's and changing the water filter myself plus thursday just generally being a busy day for me as is (it's also the day i give our doggo a bath and wash his bedding), on top of non-stop towel washing and drying all week i am....worn out

it took me a few days to do my application because i had to wait on my transcript from ksu (which fortunately didn't take too long) but i had to finish it last night because my browser would have timed out my progress and i would have had to start all over again so yesterday as soon as i got done with work i had to type up a 500 word essay about why i wanted to apply for this program and why i think i'd be a good candidate and how my professional experience has helped with that, etc., etc.

so yeah, it's been....a long one and i hope to god nothing else breaks over the weekend so i can just....relax. :P

tomorrow i think i'm going to get up early, take the trash to the dump and then see about getting my oil changed since it's about that time (i also keep hearing a voice in my head saying i need to get my tires rotated so i should probably do that as well).

after that i'm going to do a little more christmas shopping (i'm actually doing surprisingly well this year, normally by this time i'm shaking, sweating and throwing up trying to figure out what to get everyone and if it'll get here on time by the time i finally make up my mind), i'm going to get some groceries and then probably pick up some food because fuck having to cook after all of that and then i'm going to come home and turn my brain off for the rest of the weekend (hopefully) :3

i hope if you're reading this that you're doing well and taking care of yourself and i hope everyone has a nice, relaxing weekend up ahead (or as relaxing as possible) <3