Here's To: Being Caught Off-Guard

HEY! You know what's NOT fun? Being soaking wet, standing in the front yard trying to figure out where the water shut off valve is. Why was I trying to turn the water off? Well, it sounded like a fun activity but turns out, not so much. Oh wait, that's right- it actually wasn't voluntary. Let me take you through it:

We've been having trouble with our shower for a while now so I guess it was MY fault, not the piece of crap that broke. So our shower has one of those handles where its a single knob that you turn counter clockwise to adjust the water flow and then another handle behind it on the same knob that you can turn to adjust the water temperature. A few weeks ago tho I guess the 2 knobs were turned in just the right way so that we couldn't turn the water off all the way. FANTASTIC! So we fixed that but from then on we had to turn the shower on with a wrench, which is always fun. It makes me feel oh-so handy when I can use tools in everyday situations. So of COURSE the wrench ultimately stripped the tiny rod that's only half the diameter of a pencil and 1/2 an inch long leaving me with a running shower & having no clue what to do. And of COURSE Joe is out of town when this happens so I'm on my own! Cut to me, scrambling around the front yard looking for this valve because I have to take the entire knob/handle/valve out of the wall. BUT, I ultimately found it and fixed the shower so yeay me! Ha, never a dull moment!

Being a person who has lived in an apartment for the last 8 years, whenever something breaks or needs to be replaced I've become so accustomed to just calling maintenance to take care of it. Oh the luxury of non-responsibility! It is the BEST! People who live in apartments- USE THIS SERVICE TO THE FURTHEST POSSIBLE LIMITS!! You will appreciate it when things like this happen to you later on-TRUST ME. Haha, it just reminds me of a quote from comedian Mitch Hedburg: "I went to the Home Depot today, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying 'We don't have to fix shit!'". I used to like that joke, now... not so much.

So thats the new project- fixing the shower so we don't have to use our roommates bathroom with the broken light and the bathtub that for some reason the floor of it is like its been coated in butter (I've almost died twice, I SWEAR). So, I'm looking forward to that. But for now... here's to being caught off-guard!