Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
- Murphy's Law
That Murphy is a bastard. Somewhere he's laughing it up as my husband and I struggle to keep up with all the sudden repairs needed to our house.
This summer? The downstairs toilet broke. Not a huge deal - just the chain between the handle and the plunger and since we don't really use our basement much we just ignored it. But last night when we had a drunk friend passed out in the upstairs bathroom floor it became a more urgent issue. Still, it's one we can handle - a cheap, easy fix. No big deal.
Last weekend the ice maker in our refrigerator broke. It was crappy anyway with its hollow little ice cubes and the prong things always getting stuck in the tray, but Sunday morning as water was pouring (yes, literally pouring) out of the fridge onto the kitchen floor it became an emergency. Our solution? We never liked that stupid ice maker anyway. We took it out and headed over to Target to get ice trays. Only old fashioned ice for us from now on!
Last night the kitchen sink clogged and clogged hard. I made butternut squash fries (from one of the Hungry-Girl cookbooks) which meant quite a bit of squash peel and pieces ended up in the garbage disposal. All was well until I started the dishwasher and the sink filled with water. In a panic I stopped the dishwasher, and the water in the sink went down. I frantically ran water in the sink and started the disposal but it only added nasty food debris to the mix. Suddenly, water's pouring from the dishwasher. I open it and the bottom is full of nasty water. Yuck!
The hubby's going to try to take the pipes apart or something today. We'll see how that goes. The last thing I want to do to our budget is call a plumber. Please, house, please!
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