Success Finally!!!

I know that it is a little thing but right now – little victories mean a lot to me. For weeks now my garbage disposal hasn’t worked. I have tried using the little wrench to rotate the blades so that it would work again but was having no luck. Even put several sprays of WD40 in the hole to try to loosen it up.

Well, FINALLY, tonight I got the blades rotating and it is now working again. I was beginning to worry I’d have to call a handyman which would go against my spouting that a single woman living alone should be able to fix the fixable things around a house. Obviously the larger things – like the ac when it broke – has to have a professional but little repairs should be doable…like fixing the garbage disposal or taking the back off the refrigerator to clean the coils each year or flushing the drain line of the ac unit…

To me these small repairs rank right up there with knowing how to change a tire. In this day and age, it can be dangerous for a woman to rely on a stranger to help her with these little tasks – it makes her seem vulnerable and face it, to some predators that is a red flag.

Besides, there is a bit of pride that comes with being able to be single, live alone, yet fend for oneself.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow

I have been chatting with a friend of mine who lives up in Nome, Alaska. She is a physicians assistant and trains the CNA’s up there to do a variety of things that CNA’s aren’t required to do in the lower states. They are required to do more because medical clinics are few and far between so CNA’s get relied more heavily on. My friend also does missionary trips around the world to administer vaccinations for various outbreak, sometimes several a year. She almost died of dysentery once when staying in Africa.

Anyway, she was telling me some great things that were being accomplished up there and how she, though the teacher, was learning so much from her student/employees. One such person is elderly and started being a CNA after she retired from working for the post office for 30 years. Her dedication to her patients, my friend said, is so heart warming.

By the way – it is -37 degrees up there right now. It made me smile – hearing her stories – and realize that I really have little to complain about. Yes, I’m mega stressed right now but really, I am a very blessed person.

So once again I will sing my “no worries” song “Que Sera Sera” and try to get some sleep. Tomorrow is another day and everything is going to work out just fine. God is in control – of that I am certain.