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Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2005. Mattie was three years old and that afternoon he was doing what he loved to do... paint with his feet! Mattie always thought and worked outside the box! The notion of me putting my feet in paint and then painting with them would never cross my mind. Or let's put it this way, it may cross my mind, but even as a kid the notion of getting my feet dirty in this way, was a turn off. But I learned to go with Mattie's choices! What was fascinating about all of this was Mattie made some wonderful creations with this feet and he just understood that he had to keep his feet on the paper! When Mattie was done painting, he would lift his arms up in air, which meant.... I am ready to be carried to the kitchen to get cleaned up! Loved that smile.
Quote of the day: Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ~ Maya Angelou
This morning I woke up, went downstairs to feed Indie, and I heard something beeping! Some days, all I can say is..... Dear God, give me strength! Of course with Indie meowing at me, I couldn't pinpoint where the sound was coming from, so I fed her first and then started my walk around. It turns out it was coming from my refrigerator. I opened up the refrigerator door and I could see a warning that the freezer was a higher temperature than it should be. I saw this warning on Saturday too, but I thought perhaps I didn't close the door appropriately overnight. That wouldn't explain today's warning sound. So at 7am, I called my Thermador repair guy. Bruce has helped me before with both the refrigerator and stove.
Now picture a tired Vicki, blurry eyed, and trying to understand what Bruce was saying to me. He wanted me to shut off the circuit breaker to the refrigerator. Seriously if you saw my circuit breakers you would cry! Even my electrician hates dealing with it, because things are NOT appropriately labeled (thanks to the previous owner)! Any case, Bruce suggested turning one thing off at a time to see if it shut off the refrigerator. I literally thought he was going to say.... hey lady I don't have time for this! He didn't! He stayed with me as I turned every circuit breaker off. The breakers are in the garage, so I was going in and out of the house. Fortunately I deduced which breaker it could be, and I got it on the third try! That alone was a miracle! So the electricity was off to the refrigerator for two minutes and then he had me turn it back on. He is hoping that will reset the system, and he will call me later in the week to see if he needs to do a service call. As usual, it is another ball in the air to juggle here. Our lives are run by technology and each of these devices is way too sensitive.
Tomorrow is another early morning, as Cody, my plumber is coming back. I had him do some repairs last month, he's doing more tomorrow, and the remainder in the spring. It is so costly that I have to break up the work. Thankfully all my service guys know what I am up against, and they all try to work within my budget. But when I am overwhelmed with house stuff, Foundation work, and caregiving, I can't help but want to scream. No one should be doing this alone, much less someone who was in a very long term relationship. I never saw my life going this way.
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