yaaaaaaaaaarggggh

[cimorene]

I'm just... so... tired.

When will we have hot water again! WHEN!

Evidently not before the next time I have to go to Turku for evaluations and meetings in the morning (Monday - Wednesday)!

Tonight: going after 10 pm to light the wood-fired sauna and wait for it to heat up. Will we be home by midnight? WHO KNOWS?

Comments

[oanja]

Is there any way for you guys to use the public swimming pool for showers and sauna? I dunno how expensive it's where you live, but usually you can get discounts, especially if you're unemployed at the moment?

[cimorene]

I'mmmmm... not sure actually, having just moved here. Like, where the pool even is. Wax would probably know. But I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be open after 10 pm, anyway.

[viggorlijah]

I wish you much hot water. When we were halfway through the renovations and living in the house for the two months without hot water it was so HELL and we are in the frigging tropics. Living in a house during renovations is just torture because - I am so sorry and I hope it ends soon.

We did bucket showers with the kettle - fill up a big ass bucket with cold water and pour in about 2-3 kettle's worth of boiling water and you get reasonably tepid water that is pleasant to cup-pour over yourself.

Can you get a night or two to stay at relatives or friends or even an airbnb to be somewhere with working plumbing and finished floors and QUIET for just a moment? I would go to the nearby mall and just sit there and pretend that I was going home to a finished house. That everything was unpacked and the walls were not scaffolding and there were not live wires I had to keep a small child away from.

I hope the bunnies and the cats are blissfully ignoring everything.

[cimorene]

It's a lot of work to sleep elsewhere because of taking the cats and their litterbox and their special food and Snookums's insulin and ... all of that. We can leave the bunnies overnight, in theory, but sleeping without the cats isn't very comfortable or restful anymore for us, not to mention how vocally offended they get about it.

But yeah, I have found that going out in the daytime is still somewhat restful, because I can briefly ignore the mess at home.

I have tried a bucket-sponge-bath with just one kettle's worth so far, but I was kind of in a hurry then. Perhaps a bigger bucket and a couple more would get rid of the problem that the air is too cold and the water isn't really hot enough to make up for that. (Although right now the shower drain isn't working either and we have to wait for someone to come look at the drains next week too!! At least we didn't have an actual working shower anyway for it to drain. I found out because I tried to wash a garbage can.)