I don't want to grow up

[bethlakshmi]

Why is it that after several day of grow-up-ed-ness earlier in the week, I now to have to get even more grown up? Argh. This morning has just been the pits.

I got up, took a shower, used and flushed the toilet, and went in pursuit of my contact lenses. Surprise! I had managed to break my very last left contact lens such that it is completely unusable. So, I hunt down my glasses.

I realize my toilet is still flushing. Still... flushing... the filling noise just never stops. So I open the top to see what's going on in Toilet Land.... and get hit in the face with an arc of water! Apparently my toilet was working by virtue of a washcloth jammed on top of the little gizmo. This cloth prevented a leak that keeps water from spraying everywhere. Now the cloth has rotted away and I have the great toilet fountain. I, getting desperate to leave for work, jam a new washcloth over the leak, and satisfy myself that it'll at least hold until I get home.

So... now I need to shop for new contact lenses, hopefully to get them before London. And I need to get a new toilet, which will be a new and probably not fun experience to add to my repertoire of homeowner experiences. Yes, I can probably fix the old one, but it's got other problems - it's ugly, really old, and the upper lip of the tank is broken.

Sigh.... this adulthood thing never stops, does it?

Comments

WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HOME OWNERSHIP

[jackoutofthebox.livejournal.com]

IT'S AMAZING HOW MUCH YOUR LIFE CHANGES ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR OWN PLACE. AND I DON'T MEAN JUST AN APARTMENT. I MEAN REALLY OWNING A PIECE OF PROPERTY. FIRST YEAR WE HAD OUR HOUSE, I MUST HAVE SPENT 2K IN JUST LAWN STUFF WE NEEDED (HEDGE TRIMMERS, CLIPPERS, AXE, CHAINSAW, LAWNMOWER, ALL THE GAS AND LUBRICANTS, ETC ETC AD NAUSEUM).

EVERYTIME SOMETHING GETS FIXED, SOMETHING ELSE BREAKS, AND IF THE HOUSE IS IN GOOD SHAPE, THAT'S WHEN THE CAR DECIDES IT'S TIME TO GET SOME ATTENTION.

BLAH!!!

[new-man.livejournal.com]

We (you and me) can replace your toilet in about two hours for less than $300 -- and that includes the running around to Home Depot, etc. We can do it Sunday, if you want.

Thank you! thank you!

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

That would be AWESOME!!! I also need someone with some plumbing know-how, to take a look at the pipes in that region - I have reason to suspect that they are leaking, and I want a thought on what to do - both immediate and long term - about them. As long as we are shutting off water and playing with plumbing, let us do this, too...

Thank you baby.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at the toilet, so I don't know what needs to be done. I was giving a worst case scenario.