1. Toilets break. They actually physically break, not just stop working but break - into pieces. I know this because I have seen it with my own eyes. One of our toilets simply cracked and left a huge porcelain piece laying on the floor. Not to mention a small and slow leak. I found this disturbance and showed it to L. He immediately went into "L the Tool Man Tully" mode and loaded us into the car for a trip to Home Depot to buy a new toilet. Ever the worrier, I asked about doing some research first. Can you really just go to Home Depot and buy a toilet, is it that simple? Apparently so. We parked, we found the toilet aisle, we chose one, and we paid. The entire experience from getting out of the car to leaving the checkout line took 10 minutes...no exaggeration! I was amazed, it takes L 10 minutes at the grocery store just to decide what kind of cheese he wants on his chicken quesadilla. Stunned. Anyway, he had the old one removed and the new one installed in no time. We are back in working order.
2. Our dog Riggs. We love him to death but God forbid I try to wake him from his slumber to remove and wash the bed sheets. He can be one stubborn pooch. I managed to get him off the comforter to remove that and the top sheet but he can sometimes be pretty intelligent and he just scooted over to an area where just the fitted bottom sheet remained. I undid all the corners and this is what was left: slightly pathetic isn't it?! :)
3. L and I ventured to a Baby Consignment Expo (aka hell) last night. Yikes! I had two things on my list that I have desperately been searching for at a reduced price. We did indeed find one out of the two on my list so I was pleased with that. We ended up walking out with 5 items but still, it wasn't like Target where you go in for 2 things and come out with 27. Anyway, I had found this extravaganza online and the sale itself runs from Thursday-Sunday. However, if you are a first time mom they would let you come Wednesday evening to have first pick of the goods. I was certainly on board for that. Let me make it clear before I go on that I did say to L, more than once, that he did not need to go, that I would be perfectly capable without him but he would hear none of it. It did make sense for him to be there because one of items I had been looking for was a baby backpack, the hardcore hiking kind, and since he would be wearing it more often than me he really needed to get what he wanted. So he came and it might have been one of the biggest regrets of his life. There were certainly other men there but all were looking equally miserable. It was a madhouse! Pregnant women everywhere - let me remind you that in a normal aisle with non-pregnant women you can usually slide easily by one another to see what is on the racks...not so with preggers. Bellies literally have to be shoved into the clothing racks to let the other person by. And these were not your standard, perfect conditions. It was kind of like Supermarket Sweep. Most people knew what they wanted (like us) and headed right for that section. You would watch other people eyeing the very item you wanted, silently praying that they would move on and as soon as they took a step away from the merchandise you were in and out with your prized posession. Insane. We were smart to not even head into the clothing section, let's face it, there is no more "sucking it in" to slither by people so for me to get from one end to the other would take 20 minutes. To make matters worse there was THE LINE to purchase your items. It is a tough situation. You have the potential to save a lot of money (in our case at least 150.00) but the line to pay for your items in unreal. We decided to stick it out (L did have to convince me...150 bucks is 150 bucks) but we waited FOREVER! Their system was terrible and we passed the time discussing how we could have run it better. But we came, we conquered, and we left. No one got hurt.
Smooches---K
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