Newton’s law was in overdrive this week! Good gravy!! So what had happened was….the hubby discovered a soft spot in the bathroom floor. Before it was repaired, the washing machine broke! As I was cleaning out the laundry room for a new washer, I almost fell through the laundry room floor! Awesome sauce! So I assume I have some kind of leak rotting the floors and I’m spastic trying to find a plumber/carpenter ASAP! I turn to Facebook and am offered a name. I call and set up for this man to come out and see what’s going on with the floor and leak. Well there is no leak (this will be the end of the god news!) Turns out that the A/C vents are causing the damage. One because it wasn’t installed correctly 18 years ago and the other cause I may have possibly put tape over it causing the air to blow under the vinyl…:(don’t judge me)!

That was all last week…Monday repairs began. However, the man showed up with no crew or tools or anything and a half an hour late. He talked about having people on the way and all the people he’s related to and that he’s done with women. Seems he kicked his girlfriend out 3 weeks ago. Told her he would give her $1000 to get out that night…:she thought he was kidding but oh no no no! He was dead serious! I’m guessing this is that point at which normal people would have kicked him out and started looking for someone else…..not me! Nope…I just figured we bonded a little. The crew showed up finally! Yay! It was a man and his wife lookin mighty rough. The man was missing all of his front teeth, or at least they were down to numbs and the wife wasn’t lookin much better! So I started frantically googling explanations for their appearance other than drugs…..I don’t know why….google is, more often than not, very cruel to me! I guess I should just be happy it didn’t say that I was gonna die due to their teeth! Is this the point at which I decided to pull the plug on this project??? Oh no….cause we don’t wanna be judgmental!

Floors are being torn out…plumbing is being removed….I have no clue if things are being done right or not so I just keep my distance! (Also google may have said the teeth could kill me!) A little later in the day I hear what sounds like an open fire hydrant in my bathroom!! I hear someone running and I refuse to go look! Guy runs out to the road to turn the water off BUT he forgot to take any tools, so he had to come back into the house for tools and go back out to the road again. This whole time water is gushing in my bathroom! I give the woman a stack of towels to clean up the water and shortly later I see wet spots in the laundry room!! (A wall adjoins the two rooms) I bring this to their attention and I’m told that it was already like that or somehow was not related because the leak wasn’t that bad!

Maybe someone mistook the dryer vent for a urinal then?? I’m not sure what else could have happened! I mean I did have multiple strangers in and out of my home so maybe one of them did sneak in the laundry room for a potty break….whatever! That’s the majority of the excitement for Monday.

Tuesday all of this fun continues! Late showing up, strangers visiting the house, nobody has visited the dentist, etc etc etc. Well I had to go to a ballgame that night and my husband was gonna be home shortly after I left so I went. Now I had asked them to replace a door before I realized what I was dealing with….This man calls me and says they are done for the day and they did everything except this, that, and the other…..one of the others was the deadbolt on the door!!! I said you left the dead bolt off for the night??? He said yeah did you want that done? Well….let’s think about this for a min….you’re asking if I would like to leave a 3″ hole in my door over night while we sleep and it’s like 5 degrees outside! Ummm nah….I think I’d like to have the dead bolt put on before you leave!! (What is wrong with people??)

Wednesday…..Finally they are finished! Woohoo! Well, except part of the sink that was broken and the board that goes in front of the vanity and the fact that the floor is completely uneven and they have destroyed the walls!!

Deep breaths Michelle! Just pay the man and get him out of your house along with his sketchy crew and move on with your life!! You can do it!

Thursday we took a breather and Friday (today) some friends came over to access the damage and hopefully fix it! Let me share some of this adventure with y’all!Here you will see the damaged walls, missing stopper parts on the sink, and a tile knocked loose.Then after my friends came to assess the problem….The whole floor had to be torn back up and replaced because they used the wrong size plywood to match the old floor.The whole sink and cabinet had to come back out to get to the flooring that had to be replaced!Apparently….if you are installing cabinets in a bathroom and you can’t make it fit back like it should….you can just carve a whole in the wall to make space for it!! Never even would have thought to do that!!They apparently choose liquid nails to put the ends of the sink back on!! That made taking it back out so much easier!!!The fun shall continue tomorrow! Yay! So far it’s cost $400 in parts alone to fix what they messed up….and it’s nowhere near done!!Y’all I can’t…..I’m seriously at the end of my rope! During this construction time I am sharing a bathroom with my son who has zero interest in sharing his bathroom! I swear the child will never get married…..and if he does…..God bless that poor woman! Dear future daughter in law,Apparently dryers are not to be left by the sink! There are also a limited amount of cosmetics etc that are acceptable! He will be getting up at whatever time he absolutely has to in order to get where he is going on time so if you need to shower too then you will be the one getting up earlier! The rest of this is not bathroom related but just so ya know…..there will be no sheet on the bed…for whatever reason it is not acceptable! There is absolutely no reason to make the bed! Total waste of time! You will be doing all the dishes unless you keep the dishes separate in which case he will wash only his own dishes because other people’s dishes are disgusting! Tooth brush must be protected at all times! (Guess that one was bathroom related) There should be a stock pile of new toothbrushes just in case the present toothbrush should become contaminated! Also, tacos will be consumed entirely too often! I know there is more but I figure this is enough to take in at one time. Good luck,Your future mother in law