stressed

i will possibly be away from my blog for a couple days

so i wanted to give you a heads up

if you wish to read on

consider yourself warned- things might get a little yucky

~

we've recently had a lot of rain

& we've recently had some plumbing issues.

coincidence?

two plumbers have come & gone

both to the tune of a couple hundreds bucks each.

well, saturday night our downstairs toilet overflowed & flooded

on its own

yay me

the "master plumber" was called because our regular guys don't work weekends.

of course.

he asked the usual....sewer or septic

we told him sewer.

he comes out & gives us the diagnosis

yep...turns out we're on septic

ok...right there you might think we're stupid

however

on our contract when we purchased our home states "SEWER"

we assumed we were paying for that service all these years via our water bill.

for all you owners of septic tanks you know they need cleaning every few years.

supposedly for a family of 6, maybe even more than that.

we've lived here 14 years

& we have several females

so you can imagine the magnitude of the issue

& let me insert here

apparently with septic, "no female products what so ever should ever be flushed ma'am"

ok, i know the obvious products that shouldn't be

however since we didn't know we had septic....the other, shall we say less obvious

have indeed been flushed....

for years

thankyouverymuch

last night i farmed out all my girls

& will again tonight

we are under "do not use water" rules in our home.

no showers, no dishwasher, no flushing. blahblahblah.

we have a septic removal flusher outer whatever company coming first thing in the morning.

meanwhile

dan & i are bracing ourselves for the potential investment

scared to death this will cost a fortune

stressed it will overflow again

& if you're still reading this ridiculous excuse for a blog entry,

we might have another issue.

the "finding of the septic tank ma'am" may be compromised

due to the fact we have a large back porch that is bricked in along the bottom.

if it's under there, we'll have to remove part of the porch

$$$

all i can say is...holy crap

har har

please don't tell me any horror stories

i'm strung out enough as it is.

smk's 18th birthday is this week

we also have 784 basketball games to attend

& i make a pretty big deal out of valentines day

i know this is not life or death

but sometimes being a grown up stinks. literally.

praying for the best case scenario...

be back soon

xo

(ps...i apologize in advance for anyone offended with my potty talk)