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Home ownership isn't all it's cracked up to be...

July 5th, 2006 at 06:41 pm

One long weekend, three things with the house went wrong. All plumbing related too, must have angered the water gods...

First, the upstairs toilet cracked. Yes, cracked I say! No, DH and I are not fat (just a bit flabby). Turns out the floor isn't level. So, $25 for new toliet base. As for the floor, we're going to gut that bathroom anyway come fall, we'll fix it then (we've leveled the toilet for the time being).

Then, I notice everything under the kitchen sink is wet. Yup, the drain pipe has a small leak. DH isn't happy. It's not the expense, heck we've got left over pipe from another project so it won't cost anything. But fixing it takes time away from working on the never-ending fence project.

Then, after DH went to work, I noticed the slop sink in the basement is also leaking. Fortunitaly it just goes out the floor drain, but still. I haven't told DH yet. He'll either start to laugh or get mad, I'm not sure which...

Otherwise, though, it was a great holiday weekend. My office was closed on the 3rd and 4th, so I had a 4 day weekened. My best friends mother turned 60, so she flew into town for a surprise party. We met up to go shoping and have diner on Saturday (I bought a pair of cargo capris to replace the ones I riped last week, $20 marked down from $50, not bad!), then Sunday was the surprise party. Monday I went to my friends house for a barbeque, after DH and I went to see Superman (our first movie outing in about 9 months). Great movie by the way! Tuesday was just a day to relax and work around the house. We'll, we relaxed, our dog Missy spent the day a nervous reck from the fire crackers going off all day and night!

2 Responses to “Home ownership isn't all it's cracked up to be...”

  1. shadon Says:
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    LOL I know what you mean about the plumbing, same story here. Our toilet cistern in the main bathroom has been running constantly into the toilet (the cistern isn't filling up) and we must have tree roots in our pipes again because whenever someone has a shower the toilet in the ensuite "gurgles". Just waiting for plumbing event number 3 to happen.

  2. veronak Says:
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    Oh boy it must be that kind of day, my g-friend lost water for a half a day yesterday on the holiday can you believe it

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