Friday morning get call from M and she says she hopes I don't mind but she saw the job supervisor and went over to talk with him about her house and mentioned to him about no power to my ceiling fan. She said he was not happy about that either!

So I went over to the house and he came out of another house and was talking with me, I asked if they could hang the fan for me or if I needed to have the guys come all the way back down to do it? He said they would do it.

He pulled the electrician in and the electrician was pissy. Maybe job supervisor had said something to him before I got there, not sure.

He acted like we were idiots, said well the switch isn't hooked up all they had to do was hook up the switch. I said well we didn't have to do that in the other room. He said there was a fixture there, I said no it was blanked off as well.

While he was working on hooking up the switch I asked the job supervisor about there only being one switch in the front vaulted room. Before he could answer me the electrician jumped in and said defensively that they didn't know what was going in that room so only put one switch in. Now I certainly didn't mean to be stepping on his toes as I wouldn't have expected him to change the wiring diagram for the house. I know we certainly didn't when I worked for the electrical contractor.

They discussed a duplex sw and electrician said he didn't have any with him. I said I would just prefer the fan be controlled by the pull chain and the light be on the switch. The jerk walked over and turned my fan off and then turned the switch off and on and just the light was coming on. I said I know that but I want the fan on most of the time. He was not happy and he left my fan off which I can't reach it to turn it on. He asked do we have to hang this fan? Job supervisor checked with someone and got the go ahead for them to hang fan. He sort of clomped out and talked with job supervisor and then sent his helper over to hang the fan.

I left as he was working on stuff. Told job supervisor I would be back later. They did get my fan up and changed the wiring on the other one, but also knocked a spot on the wall, probably with the ladder.

It all sort of left me with a bad taste. I didn't want to go back later. FB went with me and the furniture guys got there shortly after I did so I had a sofa to sit on and wait on the refrigerator.

It came lots later so FB and I wandered around the house and just sort of got more familiar with it.

That evening went over and M and I opened the champagne, she toasted my new house and my new beginning in life.

Then we sat and talked got to know the history of each other a bit more. Discussed emotions and feelings and going through a divorce. Not a party atmosphere but not sad just talking. We also discussed rearranging my furniture.

After she left I did some vacuuming as I didn't want to leave till the dishwasher finished running.

Pam

"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned
so as to have the life that is waiting for us"