House of Blues

Do you ever just get sick and tired of your house? I try to stay positive and thankful for having a home with a solid roof over my head but sometimes things just get me down. We have a drain that has been clogged since Sunday night and I have dumped 4 bottles of draino/liquid plumber down the drain and there it still sits. I can't do laundry, and I can't run the dish washer until this clog is cleared. We have old pipes and this happens from time to time. I have also been in the process of hanging Christmas lights outside since Saturday but its been one issue after another. We don't have any outdoor power sources so I have figured out a window I can run extension cords through. Finding a window that I can do that with was easier said than done because half the house has its original 1918 windows and most of them no longer can move. The wiring is old and can't handle more than 2 or 3 strands of lights connected together running out of one outlet so that is very limiting. I wanted a winter wonderland but thats not what I am going to be able to pull off. The outside of the house just looks like crud. We need new paint and have needed it for awhile but we haven't found the money to re-paint. The bathroom needs a ton of work. Again old plumbing is rearing its ugly head, and we have a leak that needs fixing and a pipe that needs re-placing but Doug says they don't make those parts anymore and he can't do it. Part of the floor in the bathroom has a dip and so the sub-floor needs to be replaced. The entire bathroom needs to be re-tiled from top to bottom and a new tub and shower doors would be really nice. I can go on and on with stuff that needs to be done and we just dont have the money. Its very frustrating and makes me think about how nice a full-time 2nd income would be. I don't want to leave the kids though. Its a dilemna, and its not fun. I just have to remember that things will work out in due time its just not always easy to wait.