We have a lot of stuff in our house that falls into the category of "sorta broken". Sometimes, the problem fixes itself or otherwise goes away; eventually, this stuff degrades until it becomes "mostly broken" or "very broken and of great urgency". We do try to fix stuff before it gets to that last category, but ya know, we're pretty busy. Our "sorta broken" shower has decided it wants to be fixed; we had been able to keep it from dripping by turning the handles just-so, but over the weekend it started dripping continuously. We have upgraded its condition to "mostly broken", and plans are underway to fix it before it becomes a screaming five-alarm emergency.
Whenever something breaks or needs doing, we debate as to whether to do the job ourselves or pay someone who knows what they're doing to do it for us. The plumber I had in this morning wants seven hundred clams to fix the problem for us (not including fixing the access wall), so we're gonna have at it ourselves. Some bonus problems that came along with the leak at no extra charge: there are no shut off valves to turn off the water going to the faucet, the access door for shower faucet is behind a toilet that had to be disassembled in order to open the door, and the door that is supposed to allow us a
ccess to the faucet was placed too low down to actually
allow said access, so we have to cut a new, bigger hole in the wall.
In other news, our very long Christmas vacation has come to an end. Matt had to go back to work, and we here had to pick up our books again as well. It didn't go too badly for our first day back; the kids got a respectable amount of work done, and I only had to shush Elena one time for singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Christmas is finally over- we took our wreath out of the window on Saturday, and ate the last few cookies before lunch today. The kids are back to watching regular old Scooby Doo instead of Yogi Bear's First Christmas or The Flintstone's Christmas Carol for the tenth time.
We have a lot of stuff in our house that falls into the category of "sorta broken". Sometimes, the problem fixes itself or otherwise goes away; eventually, this stuff degrades until it becomes "mostly broken" or "very broken and of great urgency". We do try to fix stuff before it gets to that last category, but ya know, we're pretty busy. Our "sorta broken" shower has decided it wants to be fixed; we had been able to keep it from dripping by turning the handles just-so, but over the weekend it started dripping continuously. We have upgraded its condition to "mostly broken", and plans are underway to fix it before it becomes a screaming five-alarm emergency.
Whenever something breaks or needs doing, we debate as to whether to do the job ourselves or pay someone who knows what they're doing to do it for us. The plumber I had in this morning wants seven hundred clams to fix the problem for us (not including fixing the access wall), so we're gonna have at it ourselves. Some bonus problems that came along with the leak at no extra charge: there are no shut off valves to turn off the water going to the faucet, the access door for shower faucet is behind a toilet that had to be disassembled in order to open the door, and the door that is supposed to allow us access to the faucet was placed too low down to actually allow said access, so we have to cut a new, bigger hole in the wall.
In other news, our very long Christmas vacation has come to an end. Matt had to go back to work, and we here had to pick up our books again as well. It didn't go too badly for our first day back; the kids got a respectable amount of work done, and I only had to shush Elena one time for singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Christmas is finally over- we took our wreath out of the window on Saturday, and ate the last few cookies before lunch today. The kids are back to watching regular old Scooby Doo instead of Yogi Bear's First Christmas or The Flintstone's Christmas Carol for the tenth time.
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