Tofurkey

What a week. All I have to say is.....home ownership stinks. For the past few weeks Stephen and I have been planning out our holidays for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are having Thanksgiving at our house for the first time this year with both our parents and we couldn't be more excited. we've made our Christmas lists and started planning on what our budget was going to be this year etc...

WELL.......let me tell you just how awesome our weekend was. First thing, our kitty Toby started throwing up last Thursday night, so Friday he stayed in the house all day because a huge snow storm just came through hurling a wopping eight inches of snow. He was throwing up all weekend all over my carpet around the whole house, so when Stephen came home from work he let Toby outside and we lost him until the next night. We found him on the basement stairs outside our house at deaths door. He had lost a ton of weight, he was still throwing up with diarrhea, and he wouldn't eat or drink hardly anything. Needless to say, it worried us so we took him in to the animal hospital because we were really afraid we would lose him, and yes, I know he's just a cat, but right now he's our baby and we love him. The vet did several tests and of course they all came back negative so she gave us some medicine to give him for the next week to help with his stomach pain, aka vomiting and diarrhea. Since we've been home from the hospital his vomiting has stopped, but his diarrhea is still going strong and he poos all over my carpet, so now he's been locked up in the only room that has no carpet with his litter box so its easier to clean up. I wanted to wait a few days for him to get better before I shipped him back outside, so tonight might be a good night to do that since the snow is melting. In the end I have cleaned up my fair share of cat poop for the rest of my life, and we were slapped with a huge vet bill.

Next, I had to take the car in for maintenance and get it ready for winter. That was another couple hundred dollars. Then I have an eye doctor visit this week because I am out of contacts. Add another couple hundred dollars.

Then, Monday morning comes around and Stephen had to get up early on his day off to set up flags for scouts and found that the roof of the garage had fallen on top of our car. Yaaaaay. Luckily the sheet rock was so wet it just crumbled so there was no damage done to the car, but I now have a gaping hole in my roof that is still leaking water from the snow storm. Add a few more hundred dollars to get that fixed.

Then last week I noticed something strange in the corner of my living room ceiling. I walked in there to investigate and come to find out I have a leak in the ceiling in my living room that we JUST redid. Awesome! Its not dripping water, thankfully, but there is a leak so we called a roofer to come take a look at it and he can't come out until the snow has melted all the way off the roof. REALLY?! It's winter! Add another few hundred to patch that up, but if we end up having to re-shingle our whole house it will cost us thousands. You think I'm done? Think again.....

Next, we go downstairs to the basement bathroom. We don't use this bathroom a whole lot, but since we have to clean up after Toby's accidents we've been using the sink in there . So we notice the carpet is wet around the toilet. Huh, that's strange. So we're feeling around to see just how much of the carpet is wet. There was only one spot, so we thought well maybe the vent in there will dry it up. The next day we notice the wet spot has now consumed the entire floor of the bathroom. Saturated. We can't figure out where its coming from, it's not the ceiling, or the walls, or the window.....its the floor. Which means we have a crack in our foundation. Grrrrrrrrrr!!!! Could this possibly get any worse you ask? Why yes it can... 

We also have leaking sinks in the upstairs bathroom and the kitchen sink with buckets underneath to catch the water. Our entire house is slowly flooding, haha! It is so frustrating and stressful that its funny.

So back to Thanksgiving and Christmas....there will be no Christmas for us this year and as for Thanksgiving dinner we are having tofurkey because we can't afford a real one....