I've done a lot of poor me'ing over the course of the last 24 hours because I am too scared of flooding my basement with poop to take a shit and I'm a compulsive handwasher and I am obsessing about how to use the least amount of water possible but to also de-germ my hands properly. It is a conundrum that I am just not comfortable with.
All because Mr. Finances doesn't want to pay double time for a plumber to come out until tomorrow. Well, I take that back, he paid the guy at Roto Rooter $90 to come here for seven minutes and tell us that the pump that pushes all of our excess water to the sewer is totally busted. I imagine that is cheap to fix. I can't wait to find out just how much we're in for. It ought to pretty much cancel any hope I had for a vacation. LIKE EVER.
Did I mention I got a new dishwasher on Friday? Yeah, SUPER that we put a big dent in our "house emergency fund" to buy a dishwasher that would probably clean our dishes up just great except for the fact that we can't actually use it without flooding our basement with POOP. The vacation fund is next to tap into and guess what I get to buy with it? A POOP PUMPER.
I think I may have asked the Karma Gods for this explicitly.
When the handyman was here on Friday putting the dishwasher, I may have made a crack about how I just couldn't live without a dishwasher and I may have gone so far as to say that "the dishwasher is the worst thing that could possibly break when you have two small children."
The lesson, folks? Karma is a bitch.
That bitch heard me say that and she was all like "Oh you think it's bad to have to hand wash your dishes, you little princess? TRY NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE A POOP FOR A DAY OR TWO."
Sometimes it's eerie how similar things happen to you guys that have also happened to us.
The big difference in our case is that when we were having the, uh, poop holding scenario it was because a hurricane had come through and knocked out our power. Our poop pusher doesn't work without electricity (shocking, I know) so we went through the same thing. I supposed TECHNICALLY it didn't cost us anything, but since we had to eat out a bunch, drive to Joanne's so that we could do laundry, shower and bathe the kids (and poop) costing us gas and tolls AND I had to go OUT for coffee every morning, it wasn't cheap. OH, and I had to empty the freezer/fridge.
And that was also when I found out I was expecting our Little One. {SIGH} Life is never dull!
Posted by: The Mommy | November 16, 2009 at 06:30 AM
I laughed out loud. Um, I guess at your misfortune. So that's not very nice of me. But your post was super funny at the end about the Karma...
At least you still have your wit!
Good luck! I've got my fingers crossed for you guys that the plumber can fix the poop pump really easily. !
Posted by: AmandaH | November 16, 2009 at 06:56 AM
OMG. I just saw your twitter update. I don't believe that I could have laughed, even at your clever and funny posting about Karma, had I known it would be that much for a poo pump.
Hope you aren't too *bummed*.
Posted by: AmandaH | November 16, 2009 at 08:58 AM
Oh my gads, I'm sorry. We've had the sewer back up into our basement before too. SOOO nasty. There is nothing nastier. And you're right, it always seems to happen at THE most inconvenient time, like when your husband's out of town or you're leaving for vacation the next day.
Posted by: anne | November 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM