Marsha Rozalski / My Life ~ My Blog

Okay, this is yet another sucky week!  *SIGH*  On Saturday night it got VERY cold and come Sunday morning we had NO WATER!!  yup, our water froze AGAIN!!  This SUCKS!!!!!  Chuck go VERY sick and couldn’t do anything about the water till Tuesday.  Everyone needed a shower badly!  I melted snow and washed Joe’s hair, CJ didn’t want to do that.  I melted snow to wash the dishes and let me tell you snow is DIRTY!!!! YUCK!!!!!  GROSS!!!!!  I flushed the toilet with the water that collects in the mudroom from the leaky ceiling.  But, I could only flush once a day!  GROSS!!  Of course Chuck had diarrhea REALLY bad so double GROSS!!!!  I start my period on Sunday and have NO WATER!!  ARG!!!!!!!

So, Tuesday we get the water going around 2pm to find out that the sewer line is blocked/froze and EVERYTHING backed up into the tub!!!!  We were all so excited about getting showers and now this!  ARG!!!!   SO, I take a rag, set the plug in the tub and use a rag and bucket and ring out the rag into the bucket and do that again and again till the tub is empty.  I then bleach the heck out of it and scrub it up.  I keep it plugged up and Chuck and I grabbed a shower and just let it fill up but at least we were clean!

This morning the tub did drain but it took a LONG time!  I cleaned it and plugged it back up and at 6am Joe got a shower and then at 6:30am CJ got one though he HATED to stand in Joe’s dirty water, *SIGH*!  They went to school clean and smelling nice.  I can’t say that much about my house, it smells like a giant outhouse!!!!  I got a snake from Brenda and we have to get under the trailer and unscrew the lid and nasty water exploded all over Chuck, EEEWWW!!!  We put the snake down and the jam is REALLY bad, we have no clue what it is.  We tried and tried to push it out.  We thought maybe it’s frozen so we poured 2 large stock pots of boiling water down and gave it 30 minutes and I went out and unscrewed the thing, got blasted with GROSS water and tried again, NOTHING!  It still won’t budge!  ARG!!!!  So, right now I have water boiling on the stove again and I will keep trying till we get it.  We have no money to have someone come and chew it out.

I am so frustrated and depressed.  My stomach hurts all the time and I just feel like crying!  Chuck and the boys are leaving soon for wrestling practice.  The school is done but the little guys go for another 2 months.  Chuck makes them go.  It’s for kids till they are in 6th grade.  But there are tournaments on the weekends so Chuck has them going here to practice.  The tournaments are on Saturdays and they have to miss bowling for them and they HATE that!  *SIGH*  CJ SO doesn’t want to do it and this causes more stress!  It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t such a conflict avoider and the self designated peace maker!  But, I need the quiet time as they leave at 5 and get back at 8.

CJ’s computer was acting up and he spazzed when I told him I would reformat it, he said he had too much stuff he wanted to save.  So, today while he was at school, I did it anyway and saved all his stuff, or at least I THOUGHT I did.  I guess I accidentally saved a shortcut folder and not the actual folder so EVERYTHING in his folder is gone.  He threw himself on his bed crying!!!  Dear Lord!!  I guess he had his conversations saved that he and his ex-girlfriend had on Instant Messenger.  I told him I didn’t do it on purpose and I thought I saved everything.  I will NEVER make that mistake again but I HATE learning them this way.  I had no idea he was reading those, in a way I’m glad they are gone.  He HAS to get over her and reading those isn’t helping!  So, let’s add some MORE stress!

A friend of mine wrote me today to tell me she was off to the vet to have her oldest and dearest cat put down!   She’s had him for 10 years!   They think he got into poison but not sure.  She had him at the vet but I guess there was no saving him.  She can’t have kids so her cats are her children so this is VERY hard on her and it just breaks my heart!  I remember how hard it was to have a chinchilla put down and to watch Saphira die, just horrible!  So, my tummy didn’t like that either.

SUCKS!!!!!!

This week has been very busy.  Thursday the girls and I decided to cancel lunch out because Sue H was sick with a cold, Barb wasn’t sure she could come and the same with Donna, Becky is having surgery and Nila is in Florida.  So, Sue S and I decided to just say forget it and cancel till next week.  I hope all of us can make it then.  It helps since we are short of funds anyway.

I worked on the computer, had a coaching session with Terri as she is my mentor coach and she is helping me kick my butt into gear and get my business up and going.  She says I HAVE to take an office day each week were I go to the office (library) and WORK!!  At home, I am distracted with the TV, laundry, dusting, sweeping, pets, Chuck, etc. LOL!! I end up not getting much done at all.  So, we said Monday but I may change that to Wednesday because I REALLY want bowling lessons on Monday’s but I have to wait for funds so this Monday I may take that office day at the library and getter done!

Friday at 9am I went to a neighbors house to help her reformat her computer.  It’s been running really bad and she has no money to take it in and doesn’t know how to do it.  I went over and we figured it out and actually it’s SO EASY to reformat her computer!!!  She was thrilled because now she can do it herself when need be.  BUT, her connection is slower than mine so to do the 73 windows updates and the updates for the AVG anti virus took 3 hours!  But, we got to sit and chat and I got to know her better.  Her son plays football and wrestles with the boys.  Nick is a complete SPAZ but he’s a great kid and Chuck and I really like him and his parents.

I got done at 1:30 and had to hurry home.  Her husband smokes in the house and even though he wasn’t there the house smells like cigeretts so I STUNK!  I told her so too and I told her I had to shower before getting the boys from school.  LOL!  So, I get into the mudroom and stripe EVERYTHING off into the washing machine and walk into the house naked right into the shower!  LOL!!!  Chuck was watching TV and NEVER noticed LOL!!!!!! 

I picked the boys up and YEAH there is NO MORE after school wrestling practice.  There is courage wrestling practice but the boys wanted the night off so they could do the Rock-n-Bowl from 9pm to 11pm.  Courage’s is the little kids and they go for another few weeks so the boys will join them M-W-F from 5:30 to 7:30.  Personally I can’t WAIT till wrestling is OVER OVER OVER OVER!!!!!!!

The boys had fun bowling and it SUCKS picking them up that late.  It’s like 9 degrees outside and all I want to do is go to bed.  But, they had fun and I got to bed by 11:45.

Today (Saturday) I got up at 8am and watched a movie.  Chuck took the boys to their bowling league, I chatted with my mom on the phone for a while, discussing how we are spazzes, you know my ADHD and she may be ADD.  I always knew my mom was weird, in fact ALL my friends knew this, it’s were I get it!  I bet if you ask my boys friends they will agree, heck my own friends would agree that I’m weird!  LOL!!

Okay, I swiped this off another blog I saw, but I HAD to!!  This video is REALLY good, just stomach your way through to the end, if you have to look away do so but DON’T shut it off.  I put this video on all our phones and on CJ’s iPod, LOL!!

Today was a bit stressful for me and now I am a tad depressed.  Happens and I will get over it!  Went outside to find that our propane tank is at 5% and the weather is only getting COLDER!  So, I call, explain that we have no money until Chuck gets paid in 3 weeks.  They said they won’t do anything without a credit check.  Well, I said I would call back later.  To get the minimum load of 150 gallons is $471.64.  OUCH!  I had to do something I HATE to do, I had to borrow it.  I really hate doing that but we HAVE to have heat!  So, borrowed the money and ordered the propane.  Hopefully they come soon.

Katie came over today, she is our new book keeper.  She went through ALL our paper work to help Chuck get it all together for taxes.  We have 2 LLC’s so things can get hairy.  She is NOT an accountant but she is good at putting it all together FOR the accountant.  MUCH cheaper that way!  She is now going to come over once a month and input all Chuck’s info into the computer and make him file his taxes quarterly.  She can yell at him for the way he keeps his books and he will no longer be yelling at me for how they are!  YEAH!!

There was a paper that I had to sign and give $10 for Joe to go to the Hard Rock Hall of Fame museum and it was due today and he told me and I said no problem I will find it and be sure you have it.  I TOTALLY forgot about it and this was just last night!  He didn’t want to bother me so he didn’t call me so I could bring it up to the school so now he can’t go and he really wanted to.  I might just stop by the school and see if he can still go.  I feel awful!  I am so stressed that I can’t remember ANYTHING!

I am working on an Excel project with Elizabeth and we aren’t doing to bad.  I hope we are done soon, I think she will make really good money with it.  I am also working on my own stuff so that I can start making some money of my own too!  This is nuts to be broke all the time, especially in the winter, EVERY WINTER!!!  My goal is to make $1,000.00 a week, we shall see how long it takes me to get there! 

Oh man, I am SO tired!!!  This weekend has been NUTS!!

Thursday night CJ got his head slammed into the mat pretty hard, came home and lay down on his bed with a headache the rest of the night.  He had a lot of homework so I let him stay home the next day till after lunch.  He still didn’t get it all done as his head still hurt. I said tough crap because he had a wrestling tournament that evening and had to take the bus there from school.

On Friday after I took CJ back to school Chuck and I drove 45 minutes to Painsville to the wrestling tournament.  Got there at 4pm.  I sat in the same spot on the bleachers till 10:45pm.  My lower back and my legs were killing me!!  CJ lost his first match and had a bye the second match so he made it to the next day.  Joe lost his first but won his second so he made it to the next day also.  Got home at almost midnight.

Saturday, Chuck got up at 5am to get the boys to the school by 6am to catch the bus.  He came back home and we then slept till 8am.  Made it to the school in Painsville at 9:30am and we were there till 5pm.  It wasn’t over but all the kids from our school were done.  CJ and Joe lost their matches so they did not place.  3 kids from our school did though!   We left at 5 because Chuck and I bowl at 6:30pm on Saturday nights.

We dropped the boys off at home, grabbed our bowling stuff and went to the bowling alley.  We were exhausted!  I bowled a 148, 140 and a 213!!!  OH MY GOSH!!! I have NEVER bowled over a 184!  YEAH!!!!  These bowling lessons are really working out.  To be that tired and bowl that high on my LAST game is AWESOME!!!  OH YEAH!!  I’m going back for more lessons.  Maybe on Tuesday I will go in for some more.  It’s nice that Tom at WestWay Lanes in Girard gives them for free.  He gave me some pointers on Monday for maybe 3 minutes (they were SO busy) and I can’t believe it helped that much!

Took the boys to school this morning and the heat never worked.  We froze all the way there!  I have no idea why my poor truck is all of a sudden just falling to pieces!  On the way home, the fuel light came on even though I had a quarter of a tank left, I got gas and filled it up but the light never came off, odd.  Pulled into the driveway and the back end on the drivers side is hissing and leaking some kind of fluid all over the place!!  I have no idea what it is, it’s not gas, could be break fluid?  I have no clue.  Right now, we have no money to buy or fix anything.  This sucks!

Yesterday, both boys pinned their guys in the wrestling match.  They were both very excited about that.  They are going to a tournament this Saturday, but we are going to have to find another vehicle for them to take, I think mine is about dead.

I am helping my friend, Elizabeth, get a parent time tracker software going with Excel.  LOL!!  We both really don’t know a thing about it!  She is learning some and I will try also and we’ll see if we can’t get a really good one.  She wants to sell them, and if we can make one how she wants it, she should do really well with it!

Not much else going on, thought I think with my truck that’s a good thing!

You know, I’m sitting here watching CNN and my problems really are NOTHING compared to the devastation I am watching on TV.  We have 3 other vehicles that run, sure they are big and hold 2 people, BUT we aren’t totally stranded, just inconvenienced.  Sure, we don’t have money right now, but that’s what it’s like in the winter for us, it’s not that we will NEVER have money again.  We are living on land that is totally PAID for!  We owe NOTHING for the place were we are living.  We have heat, we have food, we can get medical care, our kids are healthy, they get A’s and B’s in school, they don’t drink, smoke or do drugs.  They are great kids, I have a husband that doesn’t drink, smoke, do drugs, who works hard so I don’t have too.  I have NOTHING to complain about and it would be best if I remembered that more often.

In April 25, 1989 I was in Mexico City on a field trip with my school.  On the last day there around 8am we got hit with a 6.9 earthquake.  The buildings were bending and swaying and people were running all over the place screaming.  The horror I saw on their faces and in there eyes will stay with me for life.  No lives were lost and no buildings came down BUT if they hadn’t gotten slammed in 85′  (where their whole city just about collapsed) and rebuilt the city to withstand something like that, I would not be here today and neither would the rest of us that went on that trip.

I really do have a lot to be thankful for, way more than most people here on Earth.  So, when you think life sucks and that nothing is ever going to go your way,  I bet you can find thousands that are worse off than you.  You would be surprised at how much you really DO have and how much your life really DOESN’T suck!

Like they say, “If you don’t like how something looks, change the way you look at it.”

Well, let’s see….. I meant to write in my blog more often and here it is, 5 days later, and I haven’t yet!  UGH!!  So, after that horrible week last week, I am really hoping that this week will be MUCH better!

On Friday, Chuck and I opened up our sewer lid and found it 6″ from the top!  GROSS!!!!!!  So, we had a guy come out and for $150 we got the 1,500 gallon tank emptied out.  Now, everything runs great!  He did say that no days, because of all the anti-bacterial soaps people use that tanks really should be emptied out every 4-5 years.  He said that even putting yeast down there really doesn’t help because of the amount of the anti-bacterial stuff that gets put in there.  He did say that the only real thing he sees that works is Rid-X, because it keeps it soft enough to pump out easy and so the paper can move to the bottom.  But, at $5 a month and still needing to be pumped out at 5 years, it’s not really worth it.  So anyway, that is fixed and working good now!

My truck needs a new motor.  The bearings have worn down and it makes the oil pressure go down and it ticks really bad.  I could drive it for years or weeks before it dies, we don’t know.  We are going to look around and see if we can find a used truck with a motor that will fit mine and change them out.  Our friend, Dave, can change them out.  So, I will be looking around for a new motor, or a new car, LOL!!

My bowling has been improving since I got my new ball and shoes for Christmas!  I won about $15 on Saturday night from bowling so well.  I was 84 pins over my average and was the highest over my average of the whole league so I won some money and this past Saturday I was 109 pins over so I will probably win again!  I was highest over my average on my first game and won some money too.  My average is 128, next week it will probably be higher.  I need more lessons but Chuck hurt his knee, so it probably won’t be this week.

I had Mike look at my upper gums on the left side.  It hurts really bad and all the way to my eye.  I thought maybe I had an abscess  or something.  He looks and I guess I have a canker sore.  I never had one before.  It’s very painful and it’s up in the crease of my gum and cheek.  Mike said they are very painful and last for weeks.  At least it’s not an abscess!  So, not sure what to do about it, if anything.  I hope it goes away soon.  Another good thing, at least it’s on the inside of my mouth and not the outside for the world to see!!!