Ok, so first I apologize for moaning. I'm having one of those the sky appears to be falling days. As some of you know, we're in the very hectic, crazy, stressed phase of : new house being built - to be finished late Sept (Oct would be better), and old house in uproar not yet sold (because the contract from guys who wanted to renovate/flip it was withdrawn). And we're way behind. So - on the mundane side - the house looks like a tornado - wallpaper still not finished being stripped, and we've had an invasion of flies - I think from when we had some repair work done and the guys kept leaving the doors open - some fly must have made a home and all her children are appearing. Plus, then I got unexpectedly struck by female ills - so to speak - laying me out for about a week 3 weeks ago, and now again this past several days. I'm the one supposed to be getting the house ready for an open-house. To top it off, DH has become in charge of teaching seminars for the state for the USAHockey refs - and that means last weekend, this weekend
- all tied up - all day - at a rink either skating or doing class sessions. And, because we're short-staffed I have to do all the admin stuff both days. What fun. Okay - so we're a bit behind with the house, post-pone the open house to Sunday 9/5. Finally decided to pay a professional painter - so he comes to look at things. Fortunately, he's the next door neighbor of some of our best friends, and has done work for them, some others we know & is a really nice, honest, reasonable guy who does good work. But... he doesn't think they can get it all done for us to be ready on the 5th. Okay - well, we'll live if we delay - as long as someone buys the house right away. Seems like we'll have to close within 2 weeks of the open-house - not too much pressure. Because of course the builder doesn't want to move our delivery into October - until the last minute - even though the house has many mistakes to be fixed (like a pregnant looking wall as the least of them). Not to mention that we didn't quite budget for the painter, or my not having gone back to work, so....
Now, that's all just stuff. - but here's what set me off so that I keep having little crying jags. My parents best friends, who have been my extended family for 40 years, are still alive in South Florida. And my DB, I stay close with them, even after our parents passed away 11 years ago. They have 2 daughters, 1 about 3 years older than me (lots of sleep-overs when we were little), the other 7 years older - who I always thought of as the big sister I never had. The elder one was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when she was 16. Her parents are founders/on the board of the Crohn's foundation. She's a great person - 2 lovely sons in their 20s, cancer survivor herself - just a great person, and a quilter/stitcher also. So, this morning my DAunt in Boca calls me - DH just left for work - to tell me that the eldest daughter had died. Her dad had just called my DA, evidently she'd been having some problems, went to the doctor yesterday, he did some tests and told her to go home and rest. The housekeeper found her
- just like that - gone in her bedroom. I finally tracked down my DB (he and DA do not speak) - he'd just seen her folks the prior week - and was screaming on the phone "what" . Anyhow, it just made me so sad. Just kind of out of the blue. Makes you realize that when you can see people, speak with them even though you're miles apart, you shouldn't be careless about it. We didn't do our usual trip to FLA this year because of me being ill, school, and the house goings on. Sometimes you just don't think of how dear to you are the people that have been in your life. Just made me so sad. Not sure if I'm going to be able to hop a plane - or we're just too overtaken with other things for me to fly-out tomorrow and come back on Monday or Tuesday. They hadn't set the funeral yet - soonest would be Sunday.
Ah, well - sorry for moaning. Just this seems to be a good place for all of us to have these OT rants, moans, etc. Especially when feeling overwhelmed.
hope everyone is having a good day. Thanks for letting me moan. ellice