The Big Day and No Fun

I haven't written in 3 days because I didn't want to...things have been so bad that writing about it just didn't hit the spot.

Like always, it has been up and down with the downs severely down.

Starting Friday morning, it was looking up. My builder actually met the right people and resolved our water service issue that was going to extort $200 dollars from us. Hurray!

Then, another tenant in our rental complex got back a day early, so we could finish housesitting and move Yella into the house permanently on Friday.

It should have been a great day...we have been waiting for this for 10 months.

But it was really a downer.

There are so many things wrong with the house that it has finally built up and hit the boiling point.

Yella is upset with the kitchen counter tile, which is a mess. The grout lines aren't straight and the goofy builder used cement instead of grout so it looks ugly. This broke the dam loose and sent the resentment and anger flowing. I know this has been visible for a while but the reality of it sunk in Friday.

The lack of beauty and freshness of a new house along with all the other problems is so disturbing to Yella that the pleasure of moving into the new house was ruined. I can see why.

But it doesn't stop there.

The dishwasher backed up and we discovered that the drain hose was plugged, causing pin hole leaks in the pipe. When I tried to disconnect the drain line, it fell apart.

So no dishwasher now. I will have to order parts from the US to fix it. That will take a few weeks. We now have a very expensive dish rack

But that's not all.

We tried to set up the Internet phone. This required a call to the Panama service provider.

What a cluster F@#$#@!

He spoke limited English and the phone connection was distorted. I had to ask him to repeat everything 3 and 4 times. We were at it for over 2 hours. 2 hours of listening with all my concentration, struggling to hear...that will give you a headache.

And, we didn't get it to work properly.

How discouraging. Again.

So we are in our new house with a refrigerator that stops working when the power goes out, a kitchen counter that looks like hell, a dishwasher that can't be used and an Internet phone that doesn't work, a bucket under the kitchen sink to catch the leaking flow of water, and much more.

The stress put Yella and I into a huge fight. We stayed there for 2 days and finally broke out of it last night.

But it is tenuous...very tenuous...with any little thing sending us over the edge.

I thought it would get better once we were in our house. Not so. It is worse. For how long, I don't know. Things are breaking faster than we can fix or repair them. Is it going to always be this way here?

I hope not. I can't take it. I don't think our marriage will endure it either.

This has been a very bad 2 days...probably more coming in the future.