Well, today totally sucks. Just like yesterday morning. It totally sucked too. We have a stupid shower in our stupid house (I'm hearing a Cowboy Mouth song in the making). Anyway, the shower wasn't reinforced correctly on the bottom and it cracked -- about a year ago. DH tried a fiberglass patch which didn't hold, then resorted to the old duck tape method, which worked for a while. Then we just started using the hall bath (that's what the guest bathroom is called in my family). So, I got a referral for a handyman and he handed me off to his cousin because he was held up doing another job. His cousin stood me up yesterday morning then called to say that his son-in-law was coming to do the job and he was held up on another job that should have been completed this past weekend. See where this is going? So today I took another day off of work for SIL (son-in-law) guy to come and start the ripping out of our old shower. I ran to work, skipped swimming and made it home for 9:00, our scheduled demolition time. SIL guy doesn't show up. I call and leave a message for him at 10:00. At 11:00 I call cousin-handyman and want to talk to him about who is getting paid, how much and is SIL okay because he hadn't showed up yet. No answer, I leave a message. At 12:50 I get a call from SIL. I let the voice mail pick up because I'm too pissed off to think straight and I want to hear what he has to say. His message said that his wife had to go to some emergency a few towns over and he has to watch his one year old and he tried calling earlier and left a few messages, yada, yada, yada. Bull freakin caca!!!! (I'm practicing my foul-mouth words for when the baby gets here) So, here I am out two days of work. Money I can't get back unless July all of a sudden sprouts a couple more days in it. We have a bathroom full of tile, grout and mortar crap! So, after I'm finished bitchin' about this I have to go*ogle "How to install a tile shower". I might have to slap a patch on all three of those handyman fools!!! I wish I had more email to read that always cheers me up. Anyway, I'm going to add stupid town to my list. In this town everyone and their grandpa has a business (me included), but very few of them do things right. DH said he will take on the challenge of replacing the shower. I think it pissed him off too.
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Ugh. How frustrating. Esp. when there is essentially nothing you can do. Getting contractors/handyman to move theis asses is like getting a moose to move out of the middle of a road (I am supposing here, as I have never actually seen a moose in person).
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P.S. I don't do any of the cooking - and when I do I am strictly on side dishes.
You guys are BRAVE taking on that project yourself! But we're chicken when it comes to doing big time house stuff like that.
Frank has a few easy freezable recipes ready to post for you tomorrow. :)
Bull-freakin' caca! LOL - you sound like me. "mother-father son of a biscuit maker" is a favorite of mine.
Man that sounds frustrating! Sometimes when repair people/ contractors are making escuses you feel like saying, "are you kidding me? Something couldn't have come up again and make you late/not show up - for real?" Sorry about the mess, I hope things get cleared up soon :-) Gotta love husbands and duck tape - mine things you could build the great wall of china with a few rolls.
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