Jinxes

I swear everyone I know is falling victim to jinxes.  And not good ones.  So here's hoping that things go better for all of us.

I have a working drain again.  Well...somewhat working.  A gallon of Liquid Plumbr, a gallon of Drano, and 3 bottle of foaming pipe snake later the drain is working better but not well enough for doing dishes or laundry.  So tomorrow I'll get more and keep going until whatever is blocking the way is gone.  Geez - it's a pain.

Otherwise, nothing new going on because the focus for the weekend was getting the pipe fixed, then getting the drain cleared.  And cleaning up the mess made from fixing the pipe.  We had to go through the kitchen floor which required unmounting the countertop and moving cabinets.  We had to do two holes because the first one was on the wrong side of the joist from the line break.  And of course the cordless drill had to burn out.  But after about 5 hours we had the patch done, the floor fixed and the "construction" mess cleaned up.  That left me to clean back up the cabinets and everything that had been pulled out of them.  So yesterday was cleaning all the spices, and repacking them where necessary.  I couldn't just put them back since they were already out.  Now all of them are packed in glass.  And I threw quite a few things out.  I'm still not sure where the half gallon canning jar of powdered milk came from.......we don't have milk here due to allergies.  I think it was left over from some Christmas gifts a few years ago.

Then I had to clean the "pots and pans" cabinet.  And then get the shelf back in, bowed side up.  Then going through all the stuff and deciding how/what was going in the cabinet.  And then the stuff from the top of the fridge.

Geez - I haven't generated this much trash in months!  Of course, Dad added some as well.

All of this after fixing dinner and helping my boy with the hormone mood swings.  I was pretty tired by the time his bedtime rolled around, so I crashed at the same time.

And then today was the true cleanup.  All the extra containers from spices had to be washed.  And since the drain isn't working, I'm still on the bucket detail for dishes.  And then getting the recycling moved.  And then mopping.  And I'm still debating what things are going back on the regular countertop.  I'd like to say nothing but I use my mixer too much.  But I may swing it so that the mixer is the only thing that stays on the countertop.  But I can't leave things where they are because that's where my canning goes to cool off.

So no taste testing tomorrow because no canning got done.  But hopefully I will get said canning done tomorrow now that everything else is getting caught back up.  Now if we can just get the hormonal mood swings to stop.  Ahh well, part of raising a child.

I hope everyone is having better days than I am.  And I hope that I will be having better days - effective immediately. 

Bye now!