Home Improvement: Clumsy Crafter Edition
Damion was out of town the past few days but I couldn’t tell you that because then I would be like a sitting duck in a pond. But now he is home so I can tell you.
So what did I do while he was gone? Oh.. just some home improvement things like fixing the cracked brick mortar, caulking things, straightening up the garage, touching up paint, re-grouting the bathroom and breaking the shower. What? Breaking the shower isn’t considered home improvement? I’m shocked.
The shower started with a slow drip last week before Damion left to go out of town. After about two days of going batty with this slow drip… drip… drip… for hours after we used the shower Damion finally figured out a trick to turn it all the way to cold and it would stop. This is where I should tell you that I cannot sleep while Damion is gone. I try to stay up as long as possible in case someone tries to break in or something worse happens I’ll be more ready. Sleep finally happens when I’m so exhausted that I have no choice but to sleep. However after several nights of no sleep I decided last night to lay down by 11:00 and try my hardest to sleep. That was a great plan but all I heard was drip. drip. drip. So I got up and turned it to cold. The drip got faster. I layed in bed for awhile longer and then got up and turned in facing the hot side. The drip turned into a steady stream.
Not one to be out down by a little drip I kept playing with it. Do you see now where I should have stopped much earlier? I’m not sure what time it was at this point but it was late. Eventually the water started leaking out of the shower knob and I got worried that it was going to go into the wall and cause damage. So of course, I just messed with it harder.
Then the shower turned on. I have NO idea how but it came on full force, soaking me…… and it WOULD NOT turn off.
So now let’s just skip to the crazy lady in her front yard in mismatched pajamas trying how to turn the water at the street off but I couldn’t get it off right there. I decided that I would have to try and take the shower knob apart at 2am to get it off. Plus even if I had gotten it off, no water with three kids by myself at 7am when I was rushing to get to the dentist did not sound appealing.
The next hour or so would involved the screw to take the shower knob off being rusted and stripped and me having to break the knob with pliers.. bit.. by very slow bit… while the shower ran… on me. Eventually I did break the knob enough to get the shower face plate off and by some miracle of God, was able to get the shower off… at 3am.
Cue Princess Newbie needing me a few minutes later and I eventually crawled into bed with a still wet shirt on sometime before 3:30am… only to get up and rush to the dentist this morning. Wow.. I looked like a sight!! so did my kids. My hair looked like it had been crimped and electrified, my pants were so wrinkly they could have passed for a living organism.. and my nail polish on both my toes and hands were so chipped that I’m sure the word “tacky” was used more than once after we left. The kids were a little better but they needed a bath that we had run out of time for that morning.
All this to tell you that the shower is still knobless..and I broke the screw head off trying to get it out and now it’s stuck inside the shower thingy ma bob (professional plumber speak)….. and we have a house showing in the morning… that might be followed with a call to the plumber. Ahh… the life I live… crazy.. undefined.. definately not dignified.. and wrinkly. It’s a good thing.
Courtney Crawford says
lol…you’ll sleep gooooood tonight! 🙂
Milehimama@gmail.com says
I know it’s wrong to laugh at another’s misfortune, but BWAH HA HA HA!
I got a couple of showers while fully clothed last week too. I feel ya!