Feelin' it again

I try not to be a vengeful person. Really, I do try. However, I am feeling that vengence is due. Our money pit is opening up again it seems. We saw our first warmish hot day last week and our upstairs turned into an oven...literally (just about). You should not live in a home and feel the need to completely avoid trurning on the AC because it costs so much. You should also not have to turn on an AC and have to wait hours for your house to cool down 1-2 degrees. Not right. At all. I am learning so much about Texas through the inabilities that our house has given us. I am not feeling thankful one bit to the previous owners for this. I wish my anger and frustration at them would go away, but every time it starts to leave something happens and it shoots right back up. They used up everything in this house and moved on....fetching top dollar for a home that was not deserving of it. I suppose it's a lesson learned for Mike and I. A long, hard, expensive lesson.

Oh no, Snow. We're Closed!

Of all the years we lived in Utah never did a day "close" because of weather. There were some real humdingers as far as snow storms were concerned, yet, people still had to go to work, kids still had to go to school, and life continued on through it. Although there are snow plows, and salt and gravel trucks galore, I still remember many a day driving too of from work with white knuckles....praying I would not get stuck, or my car would not start sliding. I also recall many a morning driving the girls to school and being thankful that I needed only pull up and let them out, lest I would need to get out in that weather! Fast forward to present day. Texas. Yes, Texas. They do not do snow or ice or plows or salt here. Not at all. Just the slightest threat of either and they shut things down. To date....and in the past 10 days....we've had a total of 5 school cancellations. That means that Mike is home and the kids are home. And by home, I mean, stuck at home. Literally, when there is ice and snow and no way to clear it, the roads become sudden death. It's quite scary. Who am I to complain. This year, so far, it's been kinda nice to have unexpected days off to spend at home, however, when the school year gets extended so we can make up those days I'm sure no one will be quite as happy. All I know it I've never known how much I hated the freezing cold and snow until it hit Texas. The is a big difference between 19 degrees in Texas and 19 degrees in Utah. I will take Utah's 19 degrees any day over Texas'. Apparently this is the worst winter that Texas has seen in decades. The most school has been closed that anyone around here recalls is two days total...and not in a row.

The Poop that Binds

You know you have toilet issues when you've used your toilet auger so many times it breaks in two. Ugh! At least I unclogged one of the two clogged toilets before it broke. Guess I'm off to Home Depot to re-invest in my most beloved house tool! No pooping upstairs for a little while longer.

Stuck Like Chuck

I haven't posted in a while. Perhaps it was the holiday spirit that kept me from "venting", or perhaps I have just started to "roll with it" better. We have settled with the previous homeowners. We pretty much got half-way screwed, but it's nice to just be done with it. I'm working on making things prettier in the house and am having a lot of fun "accessorizing". Now if I could only get out of my garage!
Yes, something else is broken - the garage door. After tinkering around with it a bit I can see that one of the sensors is out. Tried to "adjust" it a bit, but it's not correcting it. Good thing for our home warranty which, you guessed it, covers garage door openers.