Crazy Week

This comes under the banner of "sometimes I just sits" rather than the "sometimes I sits and thinks" banner.  We've had a crazy last week or so.  On Thursday (last week), we began the process of getting carpet in our house - the carpet layers arrived, took out the old and put in the new - that took till late Friday afternoon - at which time they let us know that they didn't have enough carpet to finish the job.  We called the warehouse - none of our particular carpet was in stock because it was a special order (just for us).  They would have to order more from the factory in Georgia!  A potential problem was then raised - they had died the carpet for us - if they didn't have extra of that "die lot" then there was no guarantee they could exactly match the carpet that was already laid in our house!!  A few phone calls and anxious moments later and we found that the factory still had some of the carpet from our "die lot" in the warehouse.  It was to be put on a truck and shipped Saturday - possibly arriving by Tuesday - so we live in a mostly carpeted house a few days.  At the same time, our son began tearing out our back deck and replacing old wood.  Hours of sawing and hammering going on.  He got that job to a stopping point by late Saturday and will resume the process Monday.  At the same time, the lawn mowing man came with his trailer and worked around all the debris in the yard.  At the same time, the internet went down so I called AT&T - they sent someone out.  He puttered around a while and discovered that the problem was not with anything (connections, etc.) inside so he would have to put in a work order for the "outside technician" to come.  Who would have imagined that these guys were so specifically trained that an inside technician couldn't check an outside line; and an outside technician wouldn't even come inside for a drink of water!!  So no internet on Thursday or Friday - outside technician would arrive sometime Saturday.  So now we have carpet guys, carpenter guys, lawn guys, inside internet guys, and outside internet guys buzzing around our house.  At the same time, some IHOPU students showed up at our house to get a couch and chair we are giving away.  At the same time, Debbie wants to go to Nebraska Furniture to get something to replace the furniture that was given away!  All of that in just 4 days!!  And we still have a deck to finish and more carpet to lay.  On top of all that, this week, the roofers will come to replace our roof that was damaged in a hail storm last April.  Whew, I'm tired just repeating all this.