I've Lost My Shower

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve done plumbing stuff, but now that I’m married and all, I let my manly man take care of that. I help, but he does the grubby work. He knows how to do copper pipe stuff, and I watch.

Before I got my manly man, I owned a house and I had to take care of the plumbing myself. I installed a toilet and replaced some supply lines when I remodeled the bathroom. And I’ve fixed assorted leaks and such. I even figured out how my hot-water radiators worked when I bled the system. I was pretty proud of myself after that.

Not that it matters here – we have forced air heating.

Our weekend was meh – no sailing. Saturday, there was no wind and lots of heat. Then it thunder stormed (thunderstormed?) in the afternoon. So we did some shopping and some errands. Sunday promised more thunder boomers, so we just stayed home. I made chili and some cucumber salad. And mostly we did nothing.

This week is going to be something else. On Wednesday, my sister and nephew are going to spend the night after fossiling at Calvert Cliffs all day. They haven’t seen the place since we remodeled – last time they were here, the house was still ugly. Then on Thursday, my sweetie will be flying to San Jose to meet a satellite that’s being delivered to Stanford. He’s got to supervise the unloading. And since he’ll be gone all weekend, I’m going up to my mom’s on Friday to spend the night and hang out with her and help her out. I’m taking the doggie with me – she’ll enjoy that. The cat stays home, though – he’s not a good traveler.

Oh yeah, and on Thursday, I have an appointment to get my eyes checked and to get new glasses. I know my current specs are marginal at best. Stoopit old eyes.

And that’s pretty much it. Hope I can get this posted – our internet access has been wonky since the thunder boomers on Friday. But I’m doing it the smart way – writing it in Word. Go me!

:smiley:

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I cannot believe what a sloth I’ve become these past few days. I had plans of getting up at 6:00 a.m and doing all kinds of things around the house that needed doing. But…I ended up sleeping until after 10:00. I just cannot believe that. My back was screaming at me to get up. So, I got up and cruised the net and the Straight Dope for awhile, took a shower and now I’m back here and it’s 2:30 in the afternoon.

I feel like there isn’t any point in starting anything big. I still need to get my car tabs taken care of though. Maybe I’ll do that at least.

I will get up early tomorrow and take care of things that need doing around here, I’ve just go to.

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I have nothing on plumbing having never done any in my life.

First day as new boss type lady in my district has been kinda hectic. My old manager’s idea of a “cleaned out desk” is shall we say extremely different to what mine is. I found paper work in the files from his predicessor (sp???) form 2000! And I didn’t even get started on the filing cabinet or the shelves. This was just the damn desk. Men!

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WTF is a “car tab?” Do you owe money to your car? Or do you mean those stickers (tags) that we update our liscense plates with anually?

Really, I am curious.

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I’m from the “hire a plumber” school of thought. I’ve tried a couple of minor repairs with mixed success, but I really don’t want to be the one who creates the water damage that winds up costing me a few extra thou. So, I pretty much limit myself to painting and some minor hole patching (and yes, I actually do the patching first… :D). Really need to have the bathroom floor replaced in the next couple years. Hadn’t thought about the part where they’d need to move the toilet to do that. That’ll be fun. Guess who has only one bathroom? :rolleyes:

This week is all about getting ready for Mom’s arrival. Gotta make sure all the laundry’s done, office is cleaned up, bath and kitchen are reasonably clean and garden is relatively spiffed up. I’m certain I won’t get everything done that I need to, but…maybe some of it? Fortunately she’s not exactly a paragon of organization.

Guess I should quit hanging around this durn message board and get to work. Happy Monday, everyone!

Oh, and ILovCoffee, that missing gravestone is rather troubling. I like the Y2K theory, though.

GT - Not sure why I’m using so many smilies today. :cool:

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I’m totally Ms. Handy Gal with building stuff, but I don’t do plumbing because it’s oogy with nasty slimy sludgy stuff no matter what you’re working on and there’s spiders and scorpions and other critters lurking just to bite you *bite you * bite you. The only thing plumbing related I do is irrigation. If anybody has a field they need to set up for irrigation, I can do it, but I won’t. I’ve dug too many ditches to not pay somebody else to do it for me. I also won’t string fence, or kill chickens.

Electrical stuff I keep away from. Well, that’s a lie, sorta. I can rewire a lamp but the stuff in the walls is safe from my interference, because I’m afraid of it and evidently should be. Y’know how my lamp in the bedroom died and I was going to re-wire it? Well, I did rewire it and it was tough because it was made by evil leprechauns, but I re-wired that puppy, yay! Only not yay because it wouldn’t work, I pulled the chains and nothing, clicky click ffffttt. While checking my work I managed to forget to unplug it not just once, but three times. Still no light but I sure knew juice was getting to the bulbity thingies, that’s for sure. So fine, just fine! I’ll take that lamp to work and have the shop teachers fix it’s little red wagon. Only I didn’t because it just sat on the counter and mocked me, ‘nya nya can’t even rewire a laaa-amp.’ So I ripped it’s little skull off and poked at it’s guts and happened to grab a different bulb to test the lamp this time. It was the brand new, no noise when I shook them bulbs the whole stinking time! The old wiring was bad, so at least I hadn’t re-wired a lamp that didn’t need it. Stupid electrical stuffs.

Speaking of showers and playing on words (I’m lookin’ at you Shibby), last night it rained here. More like determined sprinkles really, but the thunder and lightening was amazing! Kabooms all over the place, rumbling, crackling, and the lightning was coming down (and side to side for a while) so often it was like a mega-watt strobe light. When the first storm came through, the thunder actually made the building shake and the windows rattle, it was weird to feel the floor sort of vibrate from thunder. Today it’s only 94 degrees, unfortunately the humidity is like a bajillion percent.

Are you allowed to plant stuff around those pipes Puggy? Maybe a lattice sort of box with a door of course, and vines could grow on it. Or paint them. What could you paint them to look like, I wonder?

Shower inventory indicates I have one bar of verbena soap, one bottle of eucalyptus and cardamon liquid soap, one shampoo (diappointingly smelly since they stopped making my fav non-smelly), one conditioner (the last of the non-smelly), the end. I save my free samples for travel. It’s the accessories I go nuts with. One buff puff, one wash cloth, one scrubby wash cloth, and one net poof. It seems I don’t just scrub my skin, I’m trying to scrub it completely off.

Nobody seriously calls a person’s ashes cremains, do they? I mean, I may be a bit biased here, but how is cremains a better word than ashes?

ems, when I helped my dad clean out his classroom, he had stuff in there from the fifties. I wish I’d kept the ‘How to Protect your Students from the Communists’ pamphlets and workbooks. His junk was nothing compared to my classroom. I threw out an entire dumpster of crap, some of it was so old I didn’t even know what it was, much less what kind of art you’d make with it.

This Old House hasn’t been as good since Bob Villa left. I don’t know whether Yacht Boy or this new Dancing Monkey Boy is more annoying. Yacht Boy was irritatingly aloof seeming, but Dancing Monkey Boy is irritating because he’s an idjit. I say let Tommy or Roger drop kick the host into some construction rubble and then have them do the show themselves.

Swampy, your neighborhood sounds very well-lit, what with all the lamp posts everywhere.

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Ok - **Rue ** has a toilet issue. And I’ve not heard from **taxi78cab ** since Friday. Either her and **KeithT ** eloped and went to Vegas, or her toilet ate her. :eek: Anybody heard anything? No e-mail, no nothing, and I miss her. :frowning:

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I forgot to thank NoClueBoy for his post about my plumbing conundrum, thanks NCB.

I also forgot to update you all on the endlessly fascinating aspects of my everyday life.
Today is one of my 2 days off (Sun and Mon) but it’s bloody hot outside, and inside, so I didn’t do all that much today. I went over to the soap shop and cut the 2 batches of soap I made Sat., gathered up the garbage and threw it in the back of the truck, (we don’t pay for garbage at the shop 'cause there’s usually enough room in the cans at home.) watered the flowerpots in front of the store, and made a bank deposit. Then I went down to the store and bought groceries, and then over to the video store and rented the first 8 episodes of season 2 of 24. Wife bought the first season offen E-bay, but figured out that it’d be cheaper to rent the rest. We finished season 1 last night. 5 episodes in 1 night. Whew! While I was there I discovered that they have a copy of Metropolis! I didn’t get it though as I wouldn’t get to see it until Wifey has had her fill of 24 anyway.

I think you should build a little lighthouse over your pipes, Puggy, and wire it up with a flashing bulb. I’d be the bee’s knees! You’d be the envy of all our neighbors! or maybe not.

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Yes, car tabs are those little stickers you buy to put on your license plates annually. What do they call 'em where you live?

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Tags.

Like I get from these guys.

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Whew - I narrowly ducked withdrawal. I’ve got a trouble call in to the cable company - they’re supposed to come tomorrow and tell my why my signal strength is so low. It’s been fine for the last hour, but earlier today, I could barely get a page loaded before it’d die again.

I know I had something I wanted to share, but in my jittery agony, I forgot. Better luck tomorrow.

HAPPY MONDAY!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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My terletries include:

One bottle of shampoo/conditioner mix
One bottle of fake Pantene shampoo
One bottle of same conditioner
Two bottles of the St. Ives face scrubs
One bottle of citrusy face scrub
One bottle of basis face wash
A bar of soap (usually Irish Spring)
A bottle of body wash (currently Softsoap (the blue scent))
That’s it.

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I call them the little stickers you put on your license plate. Seriously.

I just have a bar of Ivory soap, shampoo for normal hair, and a spray bottle of mane conditioner (yes, for horses. I put it on my hair when I go riding-no tangles).

Ashes, you can’t mean you rewired the lamp without checking the bulb? Well, I just read that again, you said the wiring was bad, so maybe you did it for an object lesson for your students. Or maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about. I don’t mind doing electrical stuff. I got a ceiling fan that needs replaced if I ever get around to doing it. I don’t think I don’t think anybody outside the funeral home industry calls to them cremains, by the way.

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Since the theme is plumbing and dentists, I guess I will add my dentist story. I am having a tooth pulled on Wednesday afternoon. They are going to knock me out, because it’s a healthy molar, my mouth is very small and I’m a wimp. Say a prayer to the dental gods for me.

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You know what the difference is between a plumber and a dentist?

No?

Please! Keep your mouth closed, then! Ew.

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Heh. There was the time my visiting aunt who was, um, a little slow as we would’ve called it, except my parents told me never to speak of it – anyway, Auntie took it into her head to go and flush my baby brother’s bath toys down the toilet. These were bath toys held in a big net bag like what they use for bra bags, all pulled up nice and snug.

That gave us the inevitable stopped up toilet. Plunger didn’t do squat to fix it, either, so my dad, he had to go and disassemble the toilet to figure out why it was all stopped up. This was in the days of carpet in the bathroom, so we also had rags down to soak the ick out of the carpet around what was left of the toilet. I’d never seen a toilet unscrewed clean off the base, go figure. Or seen poor dad fishing around in what was left of the pipe with a hanger to see what there was to see.

So I remember the sight of those toys coming out of the pipe like a magic trick, only way more gross. I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure that the toys went straight into the bin and that we kept a close eye on Auntie after that for the rest of her visit.

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Oh no, the bulbs were the first thing I checked and they were good. Plus the little parts where you wrap the wires looked toasted. I just managed to get two brand new bulbs that didn’t work and didn’t make any noise when shaken, either. Actually, I should take them back to the store, they were 'spensive bulbs.

I’m worried about my betta fish Indy. I’ve had him for more than six years, which makes him Methusela h in fish years. For a couple three months now he’s been pretty slow, just hanging out in his plant. I think he’s taken a turn for the worse and tomorrow morning may be a sad one. He’s just a silly old fish, but he’s my grumpy little fish buddy and I think I’ll really miss him. So extra good thoughts for Taxi and Teddy.

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Well, NoClueBoy , we call 'em tabs here, always have. Don’t know why, it just, “is”. Frankly, I kinda get tired of paying a tax on a vehicle I’ve already paid taxes on and paid for in full, but supposedly now, some it it is going to fix roads and to help pay for a really pie in the sky, ain’t never gonna happen, mass transit system. This came about because we revolted and voted in Initiative 695. It was known as the $30.00 Car Tab Initiative. We were paying astronomical prices for our car tabs and our legislators weren’t listening to us. 'Course, we’re still not paying thirty dollars because of that stupid mass transit thing, but it’s better than what we were paying.

It’s past midnight and I should be in bed, but I’m not really tired.

Maybe I’ll try watching some really bad TV. That should put me to sleep in very short order.

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Let’s see my shower inventory:

Bar of soap
Little Soapy Bear with a teeny tiny bit of red clover shower stuff in it still
Two bottles of shampoo + conditioner
One bottle of some weird shampoo to use after being in the pool all day that’s supposed to get all the chlorine out of my hair.
Oh, and this morning a little jillion legged critter which I washed down the drain.

Kinda boring ain’t it?

I sat through a hour and a half church vestry meeting last night. We may have a buyer for our present buildings. In case I never mentioned it, we bought land and plan on building a new place cause the present place is too small now. This should get interesting. If we sell, we gotta go somewhere while the new building is being built. Thus the hour and a half long meeting to discuss all those particulars, i.e., start making a plan.

Oh, and thanks to the stoopidness of our previous CFO, all the cd thingys on our work puters are read only. So, my assistant and I are in the midst of a massive project which means work at home for me. See, I want to put all our policies and procedures, AKA THE EVIL[SUP]TM[/SUP] on cds. In order to accomplish this, as we revise em, my assistant is puttin’ em on floppies which I will take home and then transfer everything to cds. Of course the simple thing would be for work to get my assistant and me puters with cd thingys we can write to, but that ain’t happening just yet.

-swampbear (I’m through gripin’ now)

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I’m not particularly high maintenance in the shower department. I don’t use conditioner and Mr. Anachi and I share a bottle of Alberto VO5 shampoo for normal hair. I DO use a product called Sleek One Lite after my hair is towel dried. It’s not a mousse. It’s more like an old-fashioned hair dressing that tames the frizzies. Anyhoo, other than the shampoo, there’s liquid soap, my razor and shave gel, and Mr. Anachi’s nail brush. That’s it.

Thanks for all the thought put into the stoopit backwash pipe thingamabob. Mr. Anachi went ahead and planted a hibiscus next to it. We don’t know whether it’s 'lowed but we don’t rightly care. So there! :stuck_out_tongue: A lighthouse? Erm, somehow I think the homeowners association would frown. I’m just sayin…

Waaagh! I was so looking forward to the shuttle boom booms this morning but it ain’t happening. I luurves it when the dogs flip out when that happens. :smiley:

I am a baaaaaaaad puggy. I can’t remember whether my anniversary is today or tomorrow. I know it’s number 15. I just can’t remember whether it’s the 9th or the 10th. If I get flahrs today, I’ll know. Mr. Anachi is much better at rememberin’ it than I am. But since I’m older than him, shouldn’t I get cut some CRS slack???

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