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So you wanted to know how my birthday went?
8 years ago
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It cost Dineegla near a $1,000 to cover water damage!!
Well, I’ll tell you. On Tuesday, my birthday, Moosie and I were going to go to Denny’s where I could have a free breakfast. At 9 AM I went to take out the dogs, and I was hit in the face when I opened the back door with the smell of back-up sewer water. AGAIN!
Moosie and I went downstairs and proceeded to mop out the basement, me in my bare feet and Dineegla in his now waterlogged shoes. Remember, he still can't stand up for long periods of time so he mopped sitting down. We weren’t getting that much success so Moosie went to Home Depot to purchase 50 feet of hose and a water pump. I couldn’t leave the back-up: it was too deep and kept on coming up fast.
Now imagine this: I had to help him into the minivan and put his wheelchair in and he went to Home Depot, got out his wheelchair out, shut the car and went inside, picked up the pump and then went into the garden center for 50 feet of hose. A very nice young man helped him carry everything to the checkout, and then helped him back into the minivan, and put his wheelchair in the back. When he got home, I met him outside we got him inside. About an hour later I went for another of the same pump. Got to be pretty expensive.
Our regular plumber never answered his phone, and we went with somebody we did business with once before. They got there around 12:45 PM and proceeded to rod out the sewer and get rid of all the tree roots, which our normal plumber was supposed to get out, BUT DIDN’T. That plumber we will never use again.
So now we have three garden hoses running out the basement to either side of the house, with sewer water running out of them. We also had a submersible pump that Dineegla put in the water bucket that would draw the water out of the bucket while we were mopping up. That helped a lot. When the guys were done they gave us a bill that was $50 more what it should’ve been. Moosie caught it, And told them they overcharged us, and proceeded to give them a counter offer, which they accepted. Don’t f*ck around with my husband!
And you also know that we have a tenant who lives in the basement apartment, right? Well his bedroom took on water, too! We called the carpet guy we use and he came over quickly with industrial fans and came back the next day to shampoo the bedroom and small hall, which I was squeezing the water out of the rug with a shop vac.
We got done about 9:00 PM. We were cold, soaked, smelled like sewer water and very tired. Moosie was very upset that I didn’t have a birthday meal, that he ordered from a local pizza joint who gave us a discount when they heard about our problem. Somehow we managed. They were very nice!
A day later we were telling
weaselZERO that my birthday sucked, and while we were talking on the phone he gets online and gets us a gift certificate to our favorite local steakhouse, which, by the way had a little luncheon special going on until the following day. Moosie was crying over the phone and I think Weasel got embarrassed but he is such a nice son. We love him a lot. So we went on Thursday and the waitress honored the coupon for both of us (it was only good for one). She then surprised me with a huge sundae that we split because Moosie told her how bad my birthday was. Since Weasel basically paid for lunch (and it is an EXPENSIVE place, especially for dinner!) we left a nice tip for our waitress.
Now our finances are now set back again. Every time we try, Moosie gets knocked over. Hopefully we can rent out the 2nd floor apartment SOON because we finally got the drug addict out of there! I'm sorry to complain, but it's been so hard on Din since I can't have a job in America because I have no social security number yet. So I'll try to get more artwork commissioned and done ASAP. Thank you for listening.
MW
Well, I’ll tell you. On Tuesday, my birthday, Moosie and I were going to go to Denny’s where I could have a free breakfast. At 9 AM I went to take out the dogs, and I was hit in the face when I opened the back door with the smell of back-up sewer water. AGAIN!
Moosie and I went downstairs and proceeded to mop out the basement, me in my bare feet and Dineegla in his now waterlogged shoes. Remember, he still can't stand up for long periods of time so he mopped sitting down. We weren’t getting that much success so Moosie went to Home Depot to purchase 50 feet of hose and a water pump. I couldn’t leave the back-up: it was too deep and kept on coming up fast.
Now imagine this: I had to help him into the minivan and put his wheelchair in and he went to Home Depot, got out his wheelchair out, shut the car and went inside, picked up the pump and then went into the garden center for 50 feet of hose. A very nice young man helped him carry everything to the checkout, and then helped him back into the minivan, and put his wheelchair in the back. When he got home, I met him outside we got him inside. About an hour later I went for another of the same pump. Got to be pretty expensive.
Our regular plumber never answered his phone, and we went with somebody we did business with once before. They got there around 12:45 PM and proceeded to rod out the sewer and get rid of all the tree roots, which our normal plumber was supposed to get out, BUT DIDN’T. That plumber we will never use again.
So now we have three garden hoses running out the basement to either side of the house, with sewer water running out of them. We also had a submersible pump that Dineegla put in the water bucket that would draw the water out of the bucket while we were mopping up. That helped a lot. When the guys were done they gave us a bill that was $50 more what it should’ve been. Moosie caught it, And told them they overcharged us, and proceeded to give them a counter offer, which they accepted. Don’t f*ck around with my husband!
And you also know that we have a tenant who lives in the basement apartment, right? Well his bedroom took on water, too! We called the carpet guy we use and he came over quickly with industrial fans and came back the next day to shampoo the bedroom and small hall, which I was squeezing the water out of the rug with a shop vac.
We got done about 9:00 PM. We were cold, soaked, smelled like sewer water and very tired. Moosie was very upset that I didn’t have a birthday meal, that he ordered from a local pizza joint who gave us a discount when they heard about our problem. Somehow we managed. They were very nice!
A day later we were telling
weaselZERO that my birthday sucked, and while we were talking on the phone he gets online and gets us a gift certificate to our favorite local steakhouse, which, by the way had a little luncheon special going on until the following day. Moosie was crying over the phone and I think Weasel got embarrassed but he is such a nice son. We love him a lot. So we went on Thursday and the waitress honored the coupon for both of us (it was only good for one). She then surprised me with a huge sundae that we split because Moosie told her how bad my birthday was. Since Weasel basically paid for lunch (and it is an EXPENSIVE place, especially for dinner!) we left a nice tip for our waitress.Now our finances are now set back again. Every time we try, Moosie gets knocked over. Hopefully we can rent out the 2nd floor apartment SOON because we finally got the drug addict out of there! I'm sorry to complain, but it's been so hard on Din since I can't have a job in America because I have no social security number yet. So I'll try to get more artwork commissioned and done ASAP. Thank you for listening.
MW
Good luck on getting your artworks done and being able to get some of your finances back on track.