Black Bubbling Gunk

I honestly thought we would be more settled in our new home by now. We have been here for 18 days and it is still chaos throughout our house. The boxes are slowly getting unpacked, but no room is complete yet. I wish I were able to stay in one area to completely unpack and organize that room in it’s entirety before moving on to another room, but apparently that’s not how I work. Inevitably I find something that belongs to another room and get distracted and begin working on a different room. It’s maddening moving from room to room to find half emptied boxes and no order to anything. 

I didn’t realize how much I need things in order to feel comfortable and happy until we began this moving process. The current state of my house makes me feel extremely anxious. The boxes and mess of our stuff paired with the lack of proper plumbing in the kitchen is making me crazy. I’ve gotten to the point where I am finding solace at work in my classroom, because everything is in order and organized how I want it. I never thought I would get to the point where I would prefer being at work over home. I’ve been trying to get things in order here at home, but it seems like an impossible task to tackle with my endless responsibilities of trying to keep my family life under control. 

I hate to admit it, but I’ve yet to even clean this home. Living anywhere for 18 days, is going to create filth, especially with two little boys. While I want to spend tomorrow (my extra day off), working on unpacking and organizing, chances are, I’m going to spend a good portion of the day cleaning bathrooms and the kitchen so that I feel comfortable using them again. 

I also have to wait on yet another plumber, to most likely tell me that they aren’t going to be able to fix our problem tomorrow, but need to reschedule yet again, because they don’t have the proper tools to complete the job. I’ve about had it with plumbers. Over the last two weeks we’ve had three plumbers and a whole lot of time unable to use our kitchen sink. The second plumber that showed up on Wednesday, snaked the kitchen drain and hit mud, indicating a break or collapse in the line, which meant he was unable to proceed with the hydro jet. He called the warranty company and suggested a scope of the line to determine where exactly the break or collapse may be. 

On Friday we had yet another plumber show up, who was supposed to scope the line. Unfortunately he showed up without the scope and decided that he would need to snake it himself to yet again diagnose the problem. He snaked the line and determined the same thing the previous plumber determined that there was a break or collapse in the line. No, really? At that point I was beyond annoyed. I felt like that guy wasted my time. Not only did he do exactly what the previous guy did, but he didn’t do anything else and to make it all worse, I had to reschedule an appointment that I had been waiting for, for three weeks. He then told me he would be back later that day with the scope, and if he wasn’t able to come back that afternoon, he would for sure be back Saturday or Sunday. 

Lies! He did not come back, nor did he answer my calls that afternoon. He also didn’t come back Saturday or Sunday. Instead he is supposed to come back tomorrow with this scope to determine where the leak or clog is. But I could probably tell him right now, where it is. 

Shortly after the plumber left on Friday, I tackled all the dishes that had piled up from Wednesday to Friday, since the warranty company had warned me not to use the sink until the next plumber gave me the okay, because if I caused any secondary damage from the use of it, they would not cover that damage. I received that okay before the plumber left and when I was finished with the dishes I looked out the window and noticed all of this black gunk bubbling up in our backyard lawn and leaking onto the patio. 

It was the day we moved in that our wild husky-lab had dug a little hole in the exact spot where the gunk was now bubbling up. At the time we thought that’s where the desert tortoise that we got with the house was hibernating. We saw our puppy tossing the tortoise in the air like a ball and attempting to chew on it like a bone as horrifying as that was, I never really thought about the hole again until Friday. I walked outside to get a better look at the gunk, the smell smacked me in the face. It smelled horrible, just like our sink when it backed up initially. Sweetums and her dog nose must have discovered the stink and the leak when we first moved in. So I’m guessing the black gunk in the back yard has something to do with the kitchen sink problem. Hopefully I will have a competent plumber show up in the morning that will have a solution for us.