a fifty-something under-tall half-deaf school librarian in the jersey suburbs with two grown kids and time on her hands

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12.23.2003

4:36 pm

School's out for the next week and half, no going back and looking Satan Herself in the face for a while. Go me. In other news, R called me at work this morning to tell me that the cold water faucet in the tub/shower was not just merely dead, it was really most sincerely dead, prompting a visit home at lunch and calls to the plumber. I used to think, when the thoughts of fixing up/remodeling the Mouse House were mere fantasy, that even if I had a dime I could never do anything to the bathroom, since it was silly to replace the floor without replacing the toilet without replacing the sink without replacing all the tile ... ad nauseum. Yet we did replace a few things in the last few years: gotta have a toilet that flushes when you've only got the one, and so on.

So the bathtub looks like the very first bathtub ever made without feet, and now the faucet's shot. The plumber's coming to "fix" it on Friday, but I'm thinking that when the girls go back to school we should just replace it, you know, with one of those pressure-balanced faucets so you don't get scalded when someone turns on the kitchen sink.

(Funny, people always say, so you don't get scalded when someone flushes the toilet. We've got one bathroom. We're just not the kind of folk where someone's on the toilet and someone else is in the shower two feet away. It just ain't us.)

I'm thinking, get the new faucet, all shiny and nice, and then get one of those shower/tub liners. One piece, they say, no grout to clean. (Hahahahaha.) This sounds promising. Once again, on the road to real furniture and working plumbing, after only 26+ years of marriage. Maybe when the kids are both out of school for good, I'll get me a new pair of shoes. (Just kidding. I have shoes. Maybe one day Hubs will not feel the need to wax triumphant when he picks up a new shirt on the sale rack at Target for $6.99. Yet it makes him so proud. Men are weird.)

Uh ... what? Heavens, such a boring entry today. Out of school. Off to dinner with the girls and the Sibs and the wonderful niece. 'Night.

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