Ok yesterday was a very bad day. it started out ok then i came home from work. My son who had been begging for a year to play football had practice yesterday and was in tears because he did not want to run. To make it worse they then had a scrimmage and on the other team were some boys of a person that I have had some intense professional run ins with. So here I am with a crying child who refuse to play infront of a man who already despises me. Needless to say my ego took a beating. Then we get home and I notice that my new hardwood foors are starting to buckle in one area. Confused I begin researching the problem only to discover that the bilage pump on my AC had stopped up and was draing water in the air intake duct. This water had seaped under the wall and under all my new floor. So I then turn off the AC and begin soaking up the water and tearing out my new floor so I can remove the pad and replace the damaged boards. Well the further I go the more damage I see. In the end I had to take up over 100 square feet of flooring.
Then to add insult to injury just as I am reaching my catharsis moment I am told "I don't know why you are so upset its only a floor." But it was so much more. it was the pride of a job well done, it was the self loathing that I had neglected to put Bleach in the billage pump to prevent it from cloging, it was the hours of work ahead of me just as I was looking foward to some time off from the intensity of this massive home improvement.
You may be thinking ok this is a bad day but not the worst. Well, after I finaly get the clean up and demolition done I go to turn the AC back on and yes you got it no AC so now the house is at 89 degrees and climbing, it is past bedtime and the kids are tired and upset because Daddy is tired and upset and now no one can sleep because the house is a furnace!!!
So let me just end by saying that after having a few choice words for God, I realized it is in fact just a floor. I should be thankful that God allowed me to notice the problem before it became a HUGE problem. And in the grand scheme of things this really was a very tiny problem.
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wow. i don't think i've ever had that bad of a day.
that's pretty funny, though... not wanting to run :]
LOL, the sad thing is he runs all day long everyday. I think he was just intimidated by the older kids. Alas, there is no better teacher than our children.
I wish I could have been there for you man. I would laughed at you until you laughted too. Then we would go and beat up the guy you had a run in with, while singing Amazing Grace.
Just kidding. Glad you got through it all. It's cool what lessons you can learn if you're willing to reflect on the things you go through, both good and bad.
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