Socks, Plumber, Birthday.
Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 05:58PM So Rowen has been into socks lately.
She wakes us up in the morning, and she’s got socks on her feet, having put them on unheard at some point during the night. She’s sampled Jared’s socks (on hands and on feet), Elliott’s socks (mostly too small), and the other day she pulled on two of mine (it’s like 11 a.m. in this picture, she had had them on all morning long):
With her capri pants on she looked pretty hip, actually - she could’ve worn a cowl-neck wool sweater and some high-heeled boots and called it good, except that her socks were a little mismatched.
I said, “You’re wearing one brown sock and one black sock.”
She said, “Yes! One brown sock and one black sock!”
I said, “You know, normally people wear two socks that are the same color.”
She said, with a smile of great pride, “But I’M NOT NORMALLY!”
Rock on, little darlin. Rock on.
Meeting a Plumber for the First Time
We have a stand-up shower in our master bathroom that has been draining more and more slowly over the past several months. It is a pretty nasty feeling to have water swirling around y0ur ankles as you shower. Especially water full of shampoo and shaved hair. Sorry for the visual. Two bottles of Drano over a couple of days did nothing, so I scheduled a plumber (Roto-Rooter even has an online scheduler! neat! I love never having to call anyone on the phone anymore).
The plumber came yesterday morning, made some mysterious drain-cleaning-related noises in the bathroom for 15 minutes, and handed us a bill for $179.00 on his way out. I stood there with the yellow paper in my hands and my mouth open, gasping for air, and Jared said, “That’s why we don’t want to call the plumber very often.” Clearly we are in the wrong line of work.
Of course, the downside of this line of work is actually doing the work of being a plumber. *shudder* I totally mean no disparagement here. I’m sure there are upsides, like installation, disconnecting and reconnecting when people remodel, but I would imagine that opening and cleaning drains full of soap and shampoo and hair probably doesn’t rank right up there in the faves, even for a plumber. But $179.00 for 15 minutes of it sure ain’t bad.
Birthday
Just wanted to say thanks for the birthday wishes. Tuesday was pretty much a perfect day - of brunch with some ladies from church, taking myself shopping, out to dinner and the mall (still on the fence about the iPhone, but I got |—| this close), and the best part? I turned off my computer and basically did nothing. :P I’ve been paying for it ever since, of course, playing catch-up, but it was worth it. :) I’ll share some pics of my new scrap table and my new artwork (found the 10x10 frames at A.C. Moore today! Yay!)
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I'm sad, though--your pics never want to show up on my computer. Oh well...my imagination works well. lol
I do look forward to your Rowen stories. She's an individual, that's for sure!!
Jeanette
Plumbers one of our family friends (a former students dad) is a a plumber and as he was doing some work around our house I did a photo shoot with his kids in exchange he commented he was trying to get a job with the city I live in the plumbers start at $80 for the city!
and I can totally relate to the slow drain issues. My hair is medium lenghth and curly like yours. I think it is just designed to clog drains, no matter how much I try to keep it out of the drain.
**** the tool you need is called a snake. it is a long metal coil in a round black housing... you pull the end of the snake out, push it down your drain until it meets resistance, lock down the screw on the side, twist the handle and then pull it out. use a paper towel to get all that nastiness off into the trash, rinse your snake and you are good for a while. less than 20 bucks. sorry about the plumber. also- I hope you were not scarred by any plumber crack in addition to the bill!
We've had our own plumber issues this summer...called Roto Rooter, too...although we were not so "lucky" when it came to the bill. We had sewage back up in our basement (EUW!!) and the Roto Rooter gentleman had to stick his hand places I would definitely not want to go. Turns out *SOMEone* had stuck a whole tiki torch (yes, the whole 5-foot long one!!) into the pipe that intersects the sewer pipe from the house to the sewer in the street, so it was clogging the way out of the house and backed up into the basement drain. sigh Then he found out the sump pump was broken as well, so we forked over $890 for that 'fun' escapade. Still, I'm really glad it was HIM and not ME doing the unclogging...even WITH gloves. So sometimes, I think they do earn their wages. haha