What Bug Did I Kill in a Previous Life? or, Why I Still Don’t Have Hot Water

Posted by on Aug 18, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Today, DH and I get cranky with the Home Depot install crew that was supposed to install our new hot water heater “same day” yesterday. They claim they called yesterday before lunch to apprise us of some City code-upgrade requirements, blah blah blah. Whatever, doofuses. Explain to me how calling the manager of our local Home Depot store qualifies as contacting us?So this morning I...
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Insult Added to Injury

Posted by on Aug 16, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Day 2 of workshop. Same as Day 1, different presenter. I have now heard the same information FOUR TIMES. I think I get it. I do have a college degree. Two, in fact.Grr.Our hot water heater is peeing all over our laundry room floor. It’s been like this for a while, and we can’t do much about it, since teachers have NO money at the end of the summer. So we slog through wet, do lots of...
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The Tile Queen!

Posted by on Jul 10, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Backsplash Originally uploaded by mimifl. Except for a line of caulk and some general cleanup (note to self: keep the grout WET so it doesn’t dry in the crannies of your lovely tile), the backsplash is finished. I’m rather impressed with myself. I told DH it looks like rich people live here. His response? “Rich people could afford a maid.”He has a point.
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Suzy Homemaker

Posted by on Jun 27, 2005 in dish | 0 comments One thing about summer for teachers–our normal routine gets completely shelled. When we’re not in school, my sleep cycle goes haywire, I wander aimlessly through my messy house (Clean up? Please!), I waste way too much time checking email. Extroverts trapped at home with small children are not a pretty sight. There’s no way I could be a stay-at-home mom. I’d be on the six...
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Cinderelly, Cinderelly!!

Posted by on Jun 4, 2005 in dish | 0 comments You could operate on my kitchen floor right now. Right now, that is. Give it ten more minutes with my two monkeys, the twins from around the corner, and the two dogs, and it’ll no longer be that clean.How clean, you may ask? On my knees with a scrubber sponge, a bucket of suds, and a rinse bucket. I could practically hear the mice singing the work song: “Cinderelly, Cinderelly, all I...
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