justagirl101's Journal

I knew it!  I knew the other shoe would drop!  Things were just going too good.  That's the way it always is...

Got home today, and there's a leak in my condo.  Only it's been going on for awhile and I didn't know it.  It's coming from the condensation line in my new AC Unit.  But, get this, it's RUINED my hardwoods!  Ruined them!  They are all going to have to be ripped up and replaced.  And my condo is wall-to-wall hardwoods.  So because they're continuous, they can't just replace a section out of the two rooms and the hallway that have sustained damage, because it will never match.  They have to replace everything.

And!!!!  My walls are soaked!  So they've got to tear out the sheetrock.  I barely touched it with the end of my hammer and it all caved in at the bottom.  I was able to tear the rest out with my hands around where the leak is.  It's horrible! 

Now I'm going to have contractors coming in and out of my home, starting with the emergency plumbing repair man tonight.  Then the people to start drying out the walls and floors tomorrow.  They're going to have to pack up my entire house and move me out and into a hotel for about a week while they do the repairs.  Then, when I move back in, I have to unpack everything all by myself.  It's like going through the whole moving process again.

I've been through this before when we had a leak two years ago and it was horrible.  I know it could be worse.  I know that no one has died and it's only stuff and there are starving children in China.  But I just didn't need this right now.  I don't want to fight this battle alone.  And this time I am on my own.  Completely.  No one is here to help me.

This is just so horrible.  Please don't tell me to make lemonade or look on the bright side or any of that stuff.  I know all that.  It's not going to make me feel any better.  I just needed to vent and say how sad I am about this.  I just feel so helpless and alone...