NOT a nice relaxing day. Nope.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

I woke up this morning, as usual, a little past 10, and read a bit before getting up.  It was a good thing I did, because that ended up being the last usual thing about the day!
Last night, as I was watching football, Ron discovered that the kitchen sink was backing up.  No big deal, I thought, it does that every now and then.  I'll run hot water down the drain and it should be fine.  Well, it wasn't. After Ron tried using the plunger and that didn't work, I poured the half bottle of Drano that I had down the drain, and I put water on the stove to pour down the drain to flush after the time required (you're supposed to flush with hot water, but the water's never hot when you first turn on the spigot!), so I thought I'd warm it up.  Made sense to me at the time, what can I say?  Anyway, that didn't work, either.  So I kept heating water and pouring that down the drains and it was taking over an hour for it to go down.  NOT GOOD.
I told Ron that I'd go get more Drano in the morning, and if it didn't work, then he said that he'd tear into it and see if there is a clog of some sort in the curve of the pipes.  So my day started with me having to run uptown to buy Drano.  I compensated by buying myself a Reese's Jack O'Lantern to have with my lunch - bad of me, I know, but I don't usually expend so much energy, either.
I come home and pour the Drano down the drains - the whole bottle - and go play on the pute while eating my lunch.  It didn't take me long to eat that can of chicken salad, just so I could get to my dessert that was waiting in the fridge, let me tell you!


Seeing that I was supposed to be playing Happy Homemaker today, after lunch I started a load of laundry.  I checked on the sink, too, but no go there.  Crap!  This is not good.  Not good at all.  I piddle around the house, doing small errands, but I can't do much, because my back is really nagging me.  I did stay up all day for the last three days, and that may not have been a good idea.  I want so bad for my back to be better, for me to be stronger, and able to do things normally, that I may - just may - be pushing things too much.  But I feel like such a slacker!  It's not like I'm "doing" stuff, I am just up, but I guess the extra sitting or standing is, in and of itself, too much.  Phooey.
After playing on the pute for a bit, I got up and tried to do my exercises after checking on the sink.  Still no go on the sink - except for my heart sinking - and I set the timer for my marching in place.  I only make it through one minute, then I have to quit.  I have to.  I felt as though my legs would not hold me up any longer, and my back felt like one big twist.  Ugh!
I go and lay down, and I fell asleep.  Josh woke me up when he came in to give me my winnings.  Yes!  I won the football pool!  WhooHoo!  <happy dance>

Before he leaves, I ask him if he will do me a favor, and remove the pans from under the sink, so I don't have to crawl on my hands and knees to do so.  He takes it further than that - he starts taking apart the pipes under the sink after removing the pans!  How about that?!  Ron comes in as he is working under the sink, and they both dig in doing whatever men do in these situations.
They decide, finally, that they have done all they can tonight, unless they talk on the phone and decide for Josh to come back, and Josh leaves.  He comes back in about 5 minutes, saying the wonderful phrase "Change of Plans!"  His family is bringing supper up here, instead of him driving all the way back, so they can keep on working.  Wow!
I leave to go weigh in at TOPS, but I'm not going to stay for the meeting, since this is all going on.  I'd like to know what's going on in my kitchen!  At my weigh-in, I am pleased to find out that I lost a little over a pound - 1.2 to be exact - and this is such good news!  Even though I didn't start my 'new plan' exactly as I wanted to, it seems to be helping me get off this plateau - this mesa - and that's what it was supposed to do.  I guess I will stick with it!

I come home, and they are all just getting here, and we all have a very nice supper together.  They had made a tuna noodle casserole, and I had put out biscuits for them to make when they got here (I don't know what took them so long - I guess just getting stuff together) and everything was nice and hot and very, very good.  So I ended up with a carb night, even though that's what I'm trying to avoid.  I guess it's not going to hurt every now and then.
Ron and Josh worked on the pipes both before and after eating supper, and did everything they could, but as of now, we have no kitchen sink, and they have discovered that we have had a leak under the house for quite some time, it looks like.  Wonderful.  Ron wanted to turn the water off, but I convinced him that leaving the water on, even with this "new" leak (just because we know about it now doesn't make it new, mister), will be okay.  We need water in all the other sinks, tubs, etc. for tonight and tomorrow and until this is fixed, don't we?

My brain hurts.  I'm going to bed.