A long night and early morning

So last night at about nine o'clock or so, I decide that I should make some dinner. I headed down to the basement to get something out of the deep freeze and discover that our basement drain had backed up, badly, and not just water, if you get my drift. So back upstairs I went and woke Steve up telling him that we had a bit of a problem. Bless his heart, he put his boots on and took the plunger and tried to unclog the drain. About a half hour later with no results, I told him that i was going to call a plumber. I tried one here in town that had an ad in the yellow pages claiming 24 hour service. However, I got the voice mail and hung up. I looked through some more and found another one, out of Burlington, that also had 24 hour service. That guy answered and told me it would be about an hour before he could get here. Well, not like I was going anywhere. So I puzzled and fretted about how much this was going to cost us, and what could possibly be wrong for about an hour. The plumber, a very nice man named Tim, arrived at about ten thirty and went to work. Steve decided that the plumber didn't look like a serial killer and thought it would be safe for him to go to work. I agreed. Finally at about midnight he was able to get through and the water drained. Apparently tree roots have gotten into the clay tile that is our sewage drain. So he informed me about how to get the mess cleaned up and sanitized and to attempt to prevent it from happening again. He only charged me a little over $133 which I thought was incredibly reasonable given the time he spent driving here and the time he spent fixing it. I would have gladly paid him twice that much. I managed to get to bed at about 1am which is really late for me these days. Needless to say, the alarm came too early this morning and I had a bit of trouble waking up. So that was last night...

Today most of my appointments cancelled so I was working on getting my licensing paperwork all together. I swear I was on the verge of a panic attack for about an hour while I tried to get all that stuff figured out. I have no idea what I am going to do if, for some reason, I don't have all the necessary classes to sit for the exam. I am trying not to worry about that now and just get all the paperwork done. I wish I would have been aware that EIU had a community counseling program that was aimed directly at what I am doing today. It would have been so much easier than going through the Clinical Psych program and I probably would have learned a whole lot more! Not much I can do about that now.

I went to go see my dad tonight and helped him staple new velco straps on his tray table for his wheelchair. That was entertaining. I did have an easier time with the staple gun than he did, but I do have more leverage of course. So now, I am trying to convince myself to get up and cook dinner and then call people about the church newsletter. If I didn't hound people every month I would never get the information that I need. Very frustrating!