Sunday Morning
Sep. 4th, 2016 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngI feel like homeownership is an endless parade of finding things Wot Work but Really Need Fixin'. New to the list are:
- The garbage disposal. It is apparently older than we thought as well as the cheapest thing available, and it not only likes to rattle items off the counter, but it backs up without anything in it. Honestly, somewhat impressive of a feat.
- The shower drain and trap. Both also very old and both prone to backing up, which has led to sad, barely drizzling showers and an inch of standing water.
- The toilet. Which impressed the plumber we had called out (we thought all the slowness was something wrong with the main pipes) by its sheer inefficiency and age. I never dreamed of having to replace a toilet.
- The curtains. They are the cheapest plastic roller curtains available and while they work, well - actually some don't any more. Kona's destroyed one already, dad yanked too hard on another, and two more mysteriously decided to give up on us since moving in. They still do their job - screening us from the outside world - but they do it with a lot of complaining. Did I mention they're ugly?
- The countertops. Okay, this one is mostly cosmetic. They're salmon pink laminate from the 50's. It was one of the big issues we had when we looked at the house (how I laugh now) and even our real estate agent was like, change that out and you'll have no problem selling the house next time.
- A/C, or rather the lack thereof. It's going to be 89 tomorrow and 90 on Wednesday and humid and the portable a/c unit we have just can't handle that. The gorgeous 70's weather we've had these past few days have only underlined just how miserable I've been working at home in the heat. I can do it, I can cope, but omg it sucks and I can't even think about next summer. So we got an estimate and for such a tiny house it's hella cheaper than I was expecting. We'll hopefully have a/c within two weeks - just in time for it to actually start cooling down.
It's a lot. I keep reminding myself that this house was cheap as a bag of potatoes and the rest of it, the really important stuff - furnace, structure, main pipes, electrical - is 100% fine.
And all of this house stuff on top of having little to no energy because I'm 35 weeks (fuuuck) and working full time and still trying to finish unpacking and also maybe go outside sometimes and it's just been a lot. I haven't been reading for fun or writing or going for long walks or playing uke or finding friends and I miss it. I'm just so brain dead. x.x
- The garbage disposal. It is apparently older than we thought as well as the cheapest thing available, and it not only likes to rattle items off the counter, but it backs up without anything in it. Honestly, somewhat impressive of a feat.
- The shower drain and trap. Both also very old and both prone to backing up, which has led to sad, barely drizzling showers and an inch of standing water.
- The toilet. Which impressed the plumber we had called out (we thought all the slowness was something wrong with the main pipes) by its sheer inefficiency and age. I never dreamed of having to replace a toilet.
- The curtains. They are the cheapest plastic roller curtains available and while they work, well - actually some don't any more. Kona's destroyed one already, dad yanked too hard on another, and two more mysteriously decided to give up on us since moving in. They still do their job - screening us from the outside world - but they do it with a lot of complaining. Did I mention they're ugly?
- The countertops. Okay, this one is mostly cosmetic. They're salmon pink laminate from the 50's. It was one of the big issues we had when we looked at the house (how I laugh now) and even our real estate agent was like, change that out and you'll have no problem selling the house next time.
- A/C, or rather the lack thereof. It's going to be 89 tomorrow and 90 on Wednesday and humid and the portable a/c unit we have just can't handle that. The gorgeous 70's weather we've had these past few days have only underlined just how miserable I've been working at home in the heat. I can do it, I can cope, but omg it sucks and I can't even think about next summer. So we got an estimate and for such a tiny house it's hella cheaper than I was expecting. We'll hopefully have a/c within two weeks - just in time for it to actually start cooling down.
It's a lot. I keep reminding myself that this house was cheap as a bag of potatoes and the rest of it, the really important stuff - furnace, structure, main pipes, electrical - is 100% fine.
And all of this house stuff on top of having little to no energy because I'm 35 weeks (fuuuck) and working full time and still trying to finish unpacking and also maybe go outside sometimes and it's just been a lot. I haven't been reading for fun or writing or going for long walks or playing uke or finding friends and I miss it. I'm just so brain dead. x.x
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Date: 2016-09-04 03:33 pm (UTC)SO. TRUE. I'm seriously wondering if I can list Home Depot as a dependent on my taxes.
hopefully you get AC soon :( i was so excited about mine and it's been a cold, chilly, rainy summer here in Oregon.
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Date: 2016-09-06 12:57 pm (UTC)I hope we get a/c soon too. 90 today and tomorrow. Yuck.
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Date: 2016-09-05 03:59 pm (UTC)One more week and you enter the "come anytime" zone! Good luck and enjoy the last couple weeks where the baby is (somewhat) easily carried everywhere you go.
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Date: 2016-09-06 12:58 pm (UTC)Hahah, I know I keep being like "almost 36 weeks! almost any time! Come on baby!" The discomfort really sneaks up on you. I felt like I was handling it until suddenly I really, really wasn't.
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Date: 2016-09-06 10:12 pm (UTC)And there"s so many changes those last couple weeks as your body gets ready to deliver that it isn't surprising that it can go from "I'm handling it" to "I AM DONE!" almost overnight. Tristan came early enough (two weeks) that I didn't quite reach that point, but I was certainly there the last little bit with Kelhan!