knock knock...

one of the little boys that i look after
who has had trouble talking
and is being assessed for reasons why
told
a
joke
today
i was so excited i almost fell off my chair
it went like this:
knock knock
us: who's there
him: spiderman
and then he laughed like crazy....

i didn't say it was a funny joke

but this child has yet to put a sentence together
so this
was
amazing
and then he just wouldn't stop...
heehee
yay!

hows the house going, you ask?

hmmmmm
funny you should ask

my husband (usually referred to as ogg but just upgraded to ogg-mcgyver as of today)
(which should give you some general idea of where this post is going...)
hooked up the toilet and sink in the bathroom and fixed the radiator, so now we have heat
again...YAY!

opened the front door to the house saturday morning
to a virtual niagara falls in the living room...
water was pouring from the ceiling,
all of my husbands tools were soaked
the floor was soaked.

found out that a peice on the new toilet snapped,
causing a little hose to fall out
and hence,
the waterfall...

so we went to shut the breakers off,
and surprise! found 3 feet of water in the basement
and the furnace submerged...
and ogg informs me that he is not sure about touching the water in case
he gets
electrocuted...
he tells me this about half a minute before
he sticks his hand
in the water...
he didn't get electrocuted...

we found a subpump in the basement, just kinda floating around in the debris
odd took it up and we dried it off and plugged in
yay, it works...
went down to use it, no bottom on it, won't work...
ogg (showing mcgyver instincts) fashions out a brand new bottom
right there
out of a piece of tin, some screws and some fast drying glue
heh heh
yay! it works again

so...all in all
at the end of the day
the furnace works, the sink works, the water is turned back on
the floors are drying out, the basement is pretty much back to normal
and the toilet works...
yay!

i'm wondering...

why am i letting this bother me so much?
hmmmm...
am i being defensive?
and if i am,
why?
but its friday night and i should be happy
and i keep telling myself
to let this incident
(which really should be a minor irritation
and not a huge deal)
go and think positive and be the bigger person
but
then i catch myself thinking "i should have said..."
or "yeah...ok...i'll do it your way but..."
and well...
sort of obsessing about it

and then i think about chickadees blog
that i read today and her post about her friend
that she outgrew
and how i answered her saying that my theory was that certain people
came into your life at certain times to fill a specific need
but once that was filled
you tend to move away from each other
and i'm wondering
should i have been listening to my own advice...
have i outgrown this person?
or is it the dynamics of the current situation that are making me think this?
if it had been anyone else saying the same thing to me
would i have shrugged it off as being irritating but not worth
my getting upset about?
sigh...
who knows

although
it possibly could be all the stress we are currently under
with the renovations
and the moving
and the money oh the bloody fucking money
again
who knows...

sigh
but it fucked up my friday thats for sure