I just can’t deal.

While I desperately have been meaning to write the truth of it is I’ve been in the middle of a snow shitstorm. Aside from work craziness which has been an absolute mess in so many ways there has been so much other stuff going on…

I had oral surgery last week. The odd thing is I had an implant put in in December and they gave me antibiotics and a scrip for pain meds. I didn’t take the antibiotics and I never filled the pain meds scrip and got by just fine.

I went back for a different procedure and I am in such great pain it’s really not a joke. I’m taking the antibiotics but they didn’t give me a scrip for pain. And now five days later I’m still a bit swollen and still in some pain.

That is the backdrop on everything really and in quick succession I have been dealing with the following…

Since a storm was coming it was a priority to get the snowblower running. To that end I order a new carburetor for the thing that Amazon said would be delivered next day but in the span of a few hours that became Saturday and it did come but it came late Saturday afternoon. Now, I could have had the machine broken down and ready to put the thing in but other things happened…

When I went down to the garage to take a pic of the model info on the snowblower I saw that the bathroom sink was backed up and there was water all over the floor telling me there was a drain clog. 

Grrrreeeeaaaattttt.

Fixable to be sure but one more thing. So, I got all the water cleaned up and the got the wrench and the drill and the snake and set about snaking the drain since that pipe is the drain pip for my kitchen sink which is the most used sink in the house. Mission accomplished but a dirty job to be sure. Then there was also cleanup of the downstairs bathroom which I am doing in little bites.

Upstairs I noticed that I didn’t hear the sound of the toilet tank filling and that turned out to be the fill valve in the tank going on the fritz. This now became another job! So, fortunately I had another fill valve available (I’m like that) and got the thing installed. However I had to futz with the feed lines and I was going to take the opportunity to replace the lines with shorter lines since I was doing the work anyway and when the biset attachment was installed the lines were god awful long meaning there was all kinds of feeds lines looping around that side of the toilet.

And I got replacement lines and came back and got everything hooked up again but now there was a leak around a t-valve so it was to another home improvement store to see if they had the replacement valve (they didn’t) and then running around to different plumbing supply house none of which have the part!

So, I’ve got a hose running from the utility room downstairs to the toilet upstairs while I have the line shut off while I troubleshoot that fix!

And again the backdrop to everything is pain, pain, pain!

I had thrown salt down on my driveway Friday night in advance of the storm and it actually did a wonderful job meaning the first few inches melted. I even went out after we had about several inches in the middle of the day on Saturday and cleared the bottom of my driveway to make life a little easier.

The plow guys though? There decided that they would make a point of burying me in which is what they did so now I have an over three and a half foot wall at the bottom of the driveway. I still have to see if I can get the snowblower working but for now I’m a prisoner.

So writing is the thing that has suffered but through all of it the one thing I hold close?

IT COULD BE WORSE!