Move Over Mike Rowe, I've Got My Own Dirty Jobs Right Here

The new garbage disposal is installed!!!

There are no leaks!

It works!

I did it myself!!!

P.S. Did you know you have to wire the power supply on those yourself?  Unreal!  Who sells an electrical item without a power cord???  Good thing the cord on the broken one works!

P.P.S.  The best way to remove an old, corroded, stuck garbage disposal is to get really frustrated and pissed and then kick it one time really hard.  It comes right off...  It's a bit messy, but it does the trick.

P.P.P.S.  What kind of small handed, super strong circus freak installed my old garbage disposal?  The nuts I had to losen required brute strength and fitting my hands into ridiculously tight spaces.  Talk about irritating.

P.P.P.P.S  I think I would have been far less frustrated if my own personal hover craft (The Boy) would have kept his mouth shut and stayed out of the kitchen.

Glamorous

I mentioned the other day that my home is currently a plumbing nightmare.  Ugh.  It's times like these I wish I had a husband...  Ok, not really.  Maybe just a useful man in my life to do these "man job" kinda things.

 My garbage disposal is  broken.  Despite having told this to my rotten, ungrateful, messy wonderful children, that drain has ended up a smelly, clogged breeding ground for fruit flies.  Gross doesn't even begin to cover it...  It is even more fantastic when I run the dishwasher.   So, 1 drain auger and a bottle of bleach later, I have purchased a new garbage disposal. 

I'm a do-it-myself kinda girl.  Most days.  I was all motivated this morning to read the instructions for garbage disposal replacement and get this problem fixed. 

This is a basic diagram of a garbage disposal set up.  Doesn't look too complicated, right?  Well, let me tell you a thing or two about garbage disposals.  A.) There are a lot of freaking pieces.  2.) This isn't just a 10 minute job.  Grrr....

Something tells me this won't be getting done today.

Did I also mention that my toilet in the master bathroom isn't draining?  It's amazing.  Even better, NO ONE knows why!!  Really!  So on Friday, I sat on my knees, if front of the toilet, feeding a 10' drain snake down the hole.  Guess what I found.  You'll never guess... 

Q-Tips!!!

Yeah, there are Q-Tips stuck in my toilet drain.  The best part is, according to The Girl, the cat must've done it.  Yes.  The cat.  I can see it now.  She was pissed that the kids didn't do their chores (shocking) and her litter box was smelly, so she opened the linen closet, got the Q-Tip box, and systematically threw an entire box of Q-Tips into the toilet one Q-Tip at a time...  And then, SHE FLUSHED IT!!!  ALL BY HERSELF!

The drain snake didn't quite do the trick, so now I have to go back to the hardware store, buy a wax ring, remove the toilet, and clean the drain that way.  Don't be jealous.  I know it's glamorous.