Some Days...

Some days are just awful. But then again those days are just part of life. The last two days for us have been a couple of those days that we'd rather forget, but then you would only get a glimpse of the best moments of our lives on this blog. Here's to "keepin' it real."

Basically, our basement sewer pump died. And we unkowingly continued to rinse, shower and flush beyond the holding tank's capacity until the toilet finally clued us in on the problem. After we mopped and cleaned that mess up we found more water on the laundry room basement floor. Hmmmmmmm.

For $120.00 the plumber let us know that there wasn't much he could do about it that day. Thank you Mr. Plumber. The good news was that it was now our Landlord's problem. Yipee!!! Unfortunately, the Landlord couldn't get to it until the next evening either.

That whole next day of waiting was worse. By then the "smell" settled in. Yep. The sewer smell. Nothing helped. The candle just made everything smell like honeysuckle crap. It was our burden to bear for the whole day yesterday until our duplex neighbors informed us that they were smelling that burden in their entire home too! It was embarrassing enough without involving the neighbors. Why God, why!? It's humbling to tell your neighbor that you're sorry for stinking up their home.

The short of it is precisely this: the Landlord was able to pump out the holding tank and replace the pump last night! And today everything downstairs is finally put away and all is clean and smelling fresh again--like regular honeysuckle. The experience wasn't fun or pretty, and we hope days like those two remain rare.