Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I haven’t felt like writing stuff for all the world to see cause, quite frankly it has been a &%&# week.

On Monday morning I discovered that our septic system alarm, silenced by someone was ON. This meant that our tank was not pumping out into the leach field. DH didn’t want to deal with shit so I did the only thing I could do which was to call the Septic Tank pumpers and have both our tanks pumped. It wasn’t due to be pumped for a few more months but I knew this would buy me a few days. I also feared that we’d be replacing the pump, again, and feared seeing all these $$$ going out the window again. Thankfully DH examined the system today —- at times it is really great having a handy-man for a DH but a pain-in-the-butt at other times— and he discovered that the wires going to the pump had been burnt through. He’s in the process of replacing the wires.

On Wednesday afternoon I visited my Optometrist. For the last upteem months I’ve had double-vision but only after reading and mostly with my right eye. I didn’t think too much about it until DH told me that I needed to get things checked out. To see him concerned about anything medical is cause for alarms to start screaming. It wasn’t until I was in the Dr. office though that I realized how serious this could be —the Dr. ruled out a mini-stroke, aneurysm, cataracts, nerve damage, tumor,… it looks like it is probable just that my eyes do not converge so we are going to try glasses with prisms —- as he said, ‘you probable cannot read for any length of time cause your eyes get too tired.’ WOW! I have not been able to read for any length of time for years and years but it has been even worst lately. I was also heard to say during the exam —-you mean objects aren’t supposed to jump around like that?

Just a few stressful things this week. Neither ScienceKid nor I had a uninterrupted sleep this week since Brutus was waking us up every 2hrs. That’s 14 days of being woken every 2hrs, every night…. We’ve been reading a few puppy books and made a few changes around here yesterday. The first was that Brutus is offered water every-other hour and no-water after 7pm. Friday was the first day we did not have an accident in the house. We can’t say that about today since DH didn’t listen to me when I said “Brutus needs to go out.”

DH–”Yea, yea, he’s fine.”

Yep a minute later, and one load dropped on the kitchen floor told a different story. But last night we tied Brutus to ScienceKids bed post when SK went to bed, and Brutus slept through the night!!! Glorious sleep!