Tuesday is get back on track day. My kid goes back to school tomorrow and I have the computer back to myself most of the day. I feel I have gotten so far behind during the Thanksgiving break. With having had that low energy spell that I had, it also made a difference too.

I have a few weeks before having to mail my boxes to my family members for Christmas. Working on decorating the house for Christmas and writing Christmas cards have become a priority right now.

Shortly after starting this post, I got unexpected visitors at my door. They stayed for over 2 hours. Then my kid wanted to go to the mall. More interruptions from what I started off set to do today. When am I ever going to get a chance to do MY important things? This is really starting to bum me out.

Today is now Tuesday and I forgot to post the part above for Monday. I can’t think straight. Woke this morning to more interruptions again. Shortly after I tested my blood sugar, reading of 112, I ate my breakfast. Eager to get started. I no more sat down when a family member came rushing to me. Telling me that I had a leak in the main water pipe right above the water meter. I immediately called the contractor that is suppose to start in the next few weeks on fixing or replacing much needed work on my house. He told me he would send someone right over. That was 10:15 AM. No one showed up for the next hour. Called the contractor again, he told me that the crew was in a different town and were finishing up a job and then drive to my house. Thinking to myself, okay it will probably be at least another hour and a half. I got a call from the contractor telling me that it would 2:30 that he and the crew would be at my house. Needless to say, the contractor finally shows up at 3:10 PM and his crew did not show up till 3:30 PM. Within 5 minutes the contractor left after giving instructions to his two man crew. Within 20 minutes, the crew managed to break the pipe below the meter going out to the City water system. They did not inform me they broke the pipe. One of the crew asked me to look up the City water dept number very calmly. I didn’t really think much of it at the time till I heard his conversation with the Water Dept. concerning the pipe broken and water going all over MY basement. I quickly ran down the stairs to the basement. I was horrified at the site. I have my eBay and website merchandise stored on shelving and racks down there. I was lucky to get down there when I did cause if I hadn’t heard that conversation they would probably never told me. I put circus rugs down around the edge of the ever growing huge water puddle and pans and small garbage can around the spray to divert it off any shelving. I started pushing water with a mop to the drain in my basement floor. I did this and dumping the pans and can down the drain as fast as it filled up, then go back to pushing the water down the drain with the mop. It took the City Water Dept. employee to arrive here in 25 minutes. I was exhausted from the work and the stress of worrying. I talked to the City Water Dept. employee about the situation. He told me this could have happened due to the age of the pipes. My house was built in 1923 and these pipes were the originals put in the house. The other thing the employee informed me was that if these men got the pipes fixed, I could call them tomorrow early morning and someone could come and turn my water back on. UGH! No water for kitchen or bathroom or laundry all night. I do have a water machine that holds 5 gallon water bottles. So my kid and I will be able to have water to drink and brush our teeth. Ordering subs from Creno’s tonight for dinner. Yeah, no dishes have to be washed. Took my blood sugar for the second time of the day. I am suppose to test four times a day and I missed one for the no lunch one. Reading of 289. I know it is the stress of today that brought my blood sugar up that high. Think I am going to start decorating my Christmas tree before anything else happens.