I dont feel like blogging but I feel like story-telling.

pictures: from my Cousin Jonathan in Scotland again.

Mood: relaxed but anxious

Current Annoyance: I am somehow starting to catch a cold or get sick, its minor right now just a tickle in my throat thats making me cough a little I've had two bottles of Emegen-c already so I'm hoping I can nip it before it turns into a real cold!!

Pat on my back: I fixed my toilet all by myself!! I'll tell the story below, its actually pretty funny. I was so proud of myself though! It was broken for a whole day!

Music: Magnet - Lay Lady Lay

Television: The Office - Pearl I wish you loved this show, I feel like your missing out on good laughs and smiles

Quote of the Week: "I have always been intrigued by all things international. The Women, The Pancakes, The Man of Mystery." Michael Scott - The Office

Food: I had a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner, it always sounds better than it ever really is. then I had some applesauce, with my emergen-c.

Drink: Orange Juice, and 2 bottles of Emergen-C I'm on the right path, right?!

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The Toilet Story

So were going to skip what actually happened to the toilet, I think you can figure it out! haha So anyways, I flush the toilet and the water goes EVERYWHERE. I don't mean it overflows a little and stops running I mean the toilet is litterally running, and running, and running, I immediatley grab my shower rug and everything and throw it into my bedroom and grab towels to block the water from hitting the carpet thats right by the door to my bedroom (the door to my bathroom is just a pocket door and just has a small metal strip from the laminate to the carpet)

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so I freak out, the water is litterally ankle deep in my bathroom and the dogs are trying to play in the water and I don't have time to try and punish them or get them out so, knowing NOTHING about a toilet and only knowing what i've watched on TV (quite frankly what I'm remembering from a 'Sex and the City' episode when Aidan is moving out of the apartment) I take the top of the tank off the toilet I somehow just try and grab something and I pull up on something that stops the water from running.

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I call my dad to try and figure out what to do but his toilet is apparently different than mine and he's trying to tell me to click things and pull things that dont exisit in my tank, so I take a picture on my cell phone (thank you technology) and send it to him but its too dark so he tells me how to turn the water pump itself off, which saves me and I start messing around with all the nothing that is in the tank (its really a big tank for having so little in it, now I know why people hide things in their toilet tanks!)

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So dad's advice fails even after seeing the picture I send him on my cell phone, And I spend 2 hours trying to mop up the water on the floor, using ten, YES, TEN, towels and ringing them out in the tub and reusing them to mop up more water and using a cup to scoop up water and pour it out in the tub my arms start burning from the weight and strength my hands are raw from ringing the wet towels in my hands and i'm pissed because the toilet is STILL broken.

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luckily we do have two toilets in the apartment so midway through all this when I had to use the toilet, I was still able to do so in my sisters bathroom.

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the main problem was that I didnt have a plunger, but I got disgusting and that toilet was empty of nothing but water. but the toilet still just wouldnt flush down - after this point I start looking stuff up online, I was hoping to find specs on the toilet but the toilet was from 1994 and their website didnt have anything on their older models but I did find a website that talked about using dishwashing soap and hot water - So I tried that but nothing helped.

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so I went and got a plunger today, now it would seem like no big defeat if I used the toilet and it worked right away but it took me like 45 minutes! and when I first turned the water back on the water went all over the floor again so I had to deal with that all again.

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but when the toilet actually did flush - I was so proud of myself!

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I hope I didnt disgust you with my story : )