Bad Mood Explained

I am still dealing with the flood waters at Camp Chaos. Every time I think we might have this thing under control and make an appointment with Servpro to come over and extract the remaining water, dry the place, and most important make sure no mold grows we get more water! It is never ending. I keeping saying (and believing!) that this could be so much worse than what it is, but it is just overwhelming me. My house, my place of "zen" if you will, is a place I HATE to be. Who hates being at home? I pull in the driveway and I'm instantly pissed; everything is off. I have an overflowing dumpster, the yard hasn't been mowed, I am parking outside, there are no flowers planted. I walk into my garage...aka Jimmy's closet...he literally has clothes hanging from the tracks of our garage door. EVERYTHING that was in our basement is in boxes/totes in our garage. I walk into the "shoe room" and I instantly smell the water. I walk in a little further and see chaos. Now, I live(d) in chaos, but this really is too much for me. There is no break. I have not played with my kids in weeks. They have been good (kinda:)!) about it. I feel like I am on vacation, you know the END of vacation when you have been gone to long and just want to get back to your home, your surroundings, your comfortable place...I just want to go home!!! I guess this too shall pass. I did have an appointment for Servpro to come out today, but woke up this morning to a few new additional inches of water...so it will be awhile...again!! No point in paying thousands of dollars just to do it again.

My most wonderful friend Dirk (yes, you will only hear me speak GREAT of this man...he really is one of those rare breeds...always kind and willing to help a mama out!) Rather ironic really that this is the man who helped build my basement... that he would be the one to help take it apart. Of course, he did it with a smile on his face telling me destruction was way more fun. He even had me kick the wall to make me feel better. Let me say, kicking my mushy wall did nothing but make me cry, but his heart was in the right place. Only on little boo-boo to speak of. I am not sure how he felt the next morning...Jimmy was sore, throwing the drywall and insulation out the egress window because heaven forbid someone use my front door...my birds have to be safe:)!

In order to draw the water away from the house we had a well point system put in. They basically drive 8 points down into the ground, hook them together, hook up a pump and push it out. I now have Lake TenBrink forming in my back yard, but not under my house. The water has been coming out of the 2 inch pipe for almost 15 days straight. It pumps out 90 gallons a minute; that calculates over 2 million gallons of water pumped into Lake TenBrink!!

A picture of the basement before the insulation taken out. Currently, the water is back above the wood base. I keep telling myself that we have done all we can do. The walls are open and circulating, the drywall and insulation are out, now it just needs to stop coming in.

Dirky waving hello and blowing everyone a kiss... Thanks again Dirk for all you do to help!!!

I would also like to thank Keith for helping remove the carpet. It was very kind of you too!!