Now it's the washer

We had major water pressure issues last night. I didn't check until evening. No explanation why. But all that came into the tub was a trickle from both the hot and cold water. There wasn't enough pressure to make the shower work. It just dribbled. It must have been air in the lines because this morning it's back the way it was. A slightly stronger trickle of cold water and full force hot. WHEW! I had nightmares about trying to live with a dribble instead of a shower.

However, I absolutely had to do laundry last night. I got the essential load done though with the water pressure being so low, it took nearly three hours to finish. But since it worked and the temps are in the winter catagory, I decided to wash the new long sleeved tops I got on sale at Sierra something or other online. They were only $6 each so I got 7 of them. I also tossed in some towels that needed washing and I went to bed. This morning I went out to finish drying my main load and discovered the washer was still sitting on the fill part of the wash cycle. It was full of water. It's dead.

I checked the circuit breaker. It's good. I checked the outlet with my halloween lights. It's got power. That tells me the timer probably burned up waiting for the stupid machine to fill. I guess I should be using a bucket to help it out until we get our house repiped.

So now I have a dilemma. I'm supposed to go to lab tonight but I don't want to leave my new tops sitting in water until tomorrow evening when I can probably beg my mom to let me finish washing them at her house, which means instead of studying I'll be visiting. I missed work yesterday. We're hurting for money. I'm completely broke. I can't miss another day of work. There's only two weeks of school before finals week. We have to finish this last lab so we can do the case study. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

More money we don't have to spend. More time I don't have to waste. Crap.

And at work in theory, I can work on the case study. But I have objectives on my list that I need to finish by December 7th, objectives I haven't been able to even get to because of not having a monitor for the Mac I'm supposed to explore or by other tasks getting in the way. If I could lift a monitor, I'd have put one in my cube two months ago but I can't lift a monitor because of my bad discs and my repeated requests to have someone bring me one have fallen on deaf ears. Usually my boss signs things off even if I didn't get to them. This quarter, I'm being graded by in instructor at school rather than the internship office. He/she may quiz me on my objectives.

I'm trying not to panic. Panic won't help anything get done.

I want to hide my head until everything is ok. That won't work either.

There's a cat on my chest. I guess all isn't lost.

What is really weighing on me..

Two things:

First, my Godmother/aunt is dying. I need to go see her while she can still visit. I'd planned to visit her over the weekend but ended up fighting plumbing and being too dirty to go anywhere. She has survived a lot longer than anyone expected. She has emphysema from smoking most of her life. I'll write more about her later.

Second is J's uncle who is apparently stealing J's social security money. He still hasn't signed the official custody transfer papers and isn't sending J's money to his new guardian, either. It's creating financial issues J and April shouldn't have to deal with. The uncle wouldn't do well in prison. He's not a well man. I wonder if he realizes he's committing fraud? One thing I learned from a mistake on my taxes, you don't want to mess with the U.S. government on financial matters.