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.

Coffee and Laughs

Today has been interesting.  BFF says it's insulting, but I think it's freaking hilarious.  It just goes to show that perspective is in the eye of the beholder.

BFF came to town last night.  She is picking up her kids this afternoon for a week of parenting time.  I'm excited for her.  The last almost 2 weeks without her kids has been a rough one.  Soooo, this morning, after I dropped off a pile of kids at school, I went over and picked her up to go have coffee. (YAY!!  I miss her so much!)  I pulled up and she was sitting outside waiting for me.  Grey Hollister hoodie, Big Star blue jeans, and black Ugg boots.  I laughed.  Why?  Because what was I wearing?  Grey Hollister hoodie, Big Star blue jeans, and black Ugg boots.  LOL!!!  Great minds think alike.  I love her.

This is me and BFF 2 summers ago at our friend's bachelorette party.

So, after coffee I had to run to the hardware store.  My house is currently a plumbing nightmare.  I have a clogged bathroom sink, a toilet that doesn't drain when flushed, and a broken garbage disposal causing another sink to back up.  YAY!  (Grrrr...)

On my way to the hardware store, a car pulled up along side mine and slowed down.  I glanced over and the driver looked familiar, but I didn't recognize the car, so I continued on my way.  As I pulled into the parking lot of the hardware store, my phone rang.  It was a man I "saw" for a while in my 20's.  Apparently it was him in the car next to me...  We said hello, talked for a few minutes about how long it had been since we talked, and said we'd talk again soon.  No harm done.  Moving right along.  As I'm walking to my car, my text messaging went off...  It was the man from the car.  The following is the conversation:

Him: btw i was serious you did look really good

Me: thanks. call me, we'll talk soon

Him: i wish i had more time id take u to lunch

Me: you're funny

Him: thanks

Me: lol.  you are welcome.

Him: do u have time to meet me for about an hour?

Me: sure. i guess

Him: ur not even going to ask why?

Me: ok. why?

Him: bc i want u

WHAT!!!!  Did that just really happen!?!?!

Me: ugh! what am i, a hooker?

Him: no!

Me: you kill me

Him: so now you dont have time?

Me: not for sex

Him: shoot

REALLY?!?!  Do people just stop what they're doing and go hook up like that?  Unreal!

So... BFF thinks it's totally insulting.  I think it's hilarious.  I suppose had I ever had feelings for this person and years down the road he was just turning to me for sex, I'd be hurt.  But that was really ever the nature of our "relationship" years ago...