So we're packing up to head out for calories (whether grocery form or restaurant form), when several people remark "Holy shit!" and Zach starts scrambling for the kitchen ( Read more... )

One of the advantages of living somewhere that just doesn't normally get snow (doesn't generally get cold enough/stay cold enough, due to the Lady Pacific being a giant temperature regulator) is that when you wake up in the morning and squint blearily out the slider to find the sky spitting slightly spiteful tiny white flakes, your response is "Oh ( Read more... )

So we got married today.

Original plan was to do a lunch afterwards at a chain restaurant about two blocks from the park we got married in.

Due to a water main issue, we moved to a different member of the chain a bit farther away.

Love you too, sky gods. :D

So we finally have snow! After weeks of teasing and cold-without-snow ( Read more... )

I mean, I had one more post planned, detailing the fact that the washing machine had been doing a slow leak for some time and one of the two-by-fours next to the laundry area had gone Spongy.

Oh, and that the water heater had got bored, too, and sprung a visible leak.

No, really. Our last week of the lease and the water heater goes ( Read more... )

If I had (or should have) your phone number, please either comment here (comments screened) or email me at a.rogues.gallery at gmail.

No, I don't want to talk about it. Suffice to say that the Evil Device is no more.

Because sure, I needed something else that could go Interestingly this week.

I don't even know how my sink is spitting at me--I turned off its supply of water when it decided it didn't want to turn completely off anymore ( Read more... )

So I have a contractor currently (suprisingly) not cussing in my bathroom, ripping out the Warped floorboards (we're blaming the wax seal around the toilet and the heat wave in June) so as to make way for a new lino floor. I think my landlord's afraid of what's going to happen next ( Read more... )

I wandered out to the front room about an hour ago, and was extremely glad I had bothered to throw on an article of clothing, as there was a sea of construction orange in my street ( Read more... )

I swear, us and this house and water. =P ( Read more... )