Yes, the party is tomorrow.......go get your tickets! I have the wine. This pool is good to go. And yes, it is my flaw to try too hard and be somewhat OCD...that is why I love the wine....my children lovingly nicknamed me MONK-Ma because I used to keep a mop bucket next to my front door when we lived in Rhode Island to mop up their mess.....we lived in govt housing with tile floors that dirtied easily and were dangerous when sloppy. The name stuck. Probably because I organized their toys into color coded bins, stacked them in their closet on a shelf, and insisted they make their beds...on the weekends. ( and any toys not collected made their way to my locked, out of use, freezer.) Back to the pool....
Have a bit of a revelation to share about bleach. They are NOT all created equal and sometimes labels do not tell the unvarnished truth. I was careful and looked for solution that rolled in at 8.25% hypochlorite.........but I am a couponer........a cartwheeler, ( men may not get these associations), a home goods , wayfair, zulilly addict, my zones for sin are many, but they are all below market........my husband says I can make a nickle scream and still get free shipping..... I avoid paying full price for anything that I can get at a better deal........until........the quality degrades. Such was the insight this week. Couldn't get the pool stable....tried and tried and tried again. All the other chemical elements were falling into place except my daily free chlorine read. It was discouraging. So I wondered, not everyone tells the truth. What if the store bottles are not the concentration they say they are. Who is checking? Well, this time I bought Chlorox. I paid the extra 60 cents for my almost gallon ( love the note above).....and given one day to stabilize the other totally weak solution, I now am losing less than 1ppm in full sunlight...........when I was losing up to 5ppm before. Tonight I did not feed the pool. She is 7.0. Reading labels only works when people tell the truth. If you are monitoring and things are still a challenge.......before resorting to a shock process.......try the name brand.