The Secret Works, But You May Not Always Like What You Get

We now have our new ceramic tile kitchen counters and they look great. Especially now that we shined them up with some floor wax. Now we’re waiting for the workers to put the sink back down so it rests on the counter. But the Einsteins who came to fix the leak that they left us with when they popped the sink (same home repair company) said they couldn’t do it. So we asked that the person who popped the sink come back and put it back in right. But I’m not holding my breath. We got the promise from the contractor that they’d be here on Friday so I waited all day and wasn’t so surprised when they didn’t show. This is the biggest team of inept labororers I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve heard bad contractor stories before, but I don’t even know how some of these people got jobs in this business. My husband has spent most of his nights fixing stuff that they did wrong. And they even had to use my husband’s tools while they were here because they didn’t have their own. Then one of them walked off with all our tools–even the ones in the garage–and also took the clips to our sink so my husband can’t fix it even though he knows how and they don’t. We did get the tools back, but not the clips.
They don’t even have their own tools! What kind of home repair business doesn’t even have their own tools?
I know, where’s the gratitude for getting all this work done for free, you’re probably thinking. And it is there. We just didn’t realize what a huge amount of work would go into redoing our kitchen counters. And we didn’t know we’d be taking on a do-it-yourself project. If they’d been done right in the first place, we wouldn’t be complaining. We are grateful to have our kitchen back. We’ve had to keep our counters clear for the past 2 weeks and now we finally can use the microwave and toaster in the kitchen.
We are grateful for getting a grant to cover our new roof–which was done by professional roofers who know what they’re doing–and kitchen floor and counters. But if I had it to do all over again, I don’t know if I would bother. Maybe after the dust settles I’ll think differently, but this has been one of the most stressful times of my life. And I think if we got to choose the contractor and were paying for it ourselves things would have turned out different.
Originally I was totally picturing our new floors and countertops looking great. I just didn’t know what a long and difficult process it would be. That’s the thing with The Secret and the law of attraction, you don’t ask to know how or when, just the outcome. So, I guess in that respect, I did get exactly what I wanted. It’s all in how you perceive it.
Next time I hope to have my sink fixed. And just maybe I’ll have more positive news to report. But The Secret does work. Just know that sometimes things get much worse before they get better. In the end it should be exactly the way we want.
Till next time, prepare for the best.