not quite spring, but yet a break.

I wanted to start this entry by talking about how refreshing spring break has been, but a few things have rained on my parade. Our basement flooded. Twice. And our landlord has made more excuses as to why he hasn't been over to fix it. So our washer and dryer are up on bricks, we have a lot of laundry we are unable to do, and no hot water to wash our dishes because the pilot light was drowned two nights ago. My dear, sweet husband is downstairs as I type trying to work on the silly sump pump that continues to malfunction. He's ankle deep in frigid water. Bless his soul. Maybe when our landlord makes it here, he will 'think' about fixing our pipe that burst in December. That might be a stretch.
Also, my dear, sweet husband who is pretty handy at sump pumps determined he's not so great with expensive linens. For example, our new bedspread. It was downstairs to be washed because our precious pup got nervous on our bed (which always leads to tinkling). Well, it was drowned as well in our flood. Hubbie took it to the laundromat, which was successful, but then he put it in our dryer...on normal heat. We now have a fried bedspread. I'm calm about it now because I used last night to cry and weep over this lost item. I've reminded myself its just a 'thing' and he didn't do it purposely, so eventually we will replace it. Until then, I'll sleep under a melted and semi-hard comforter.
Also, its been cold. And I'm over cold, and very ready for Spring.
I have a few more updates but I'll wait a couple days, hoping you'll check back in anxious anticipation!