When It Rains, It Falls

It seems like anytime we try to do ANY home improvement project at our house, disaster will always follow. We ripped out the carpet and put it in wood floors, but surprise, surprise none of the walls are square and so on the last run of wood, it looks horrible. Just stupid stuff like that ALWAYS happens. For example, yesterday I was having a nice little day...that is until I got home. Turns out our cheap-o faucet (I can imagine the guy that redid our place got it in the bargain bin at the dollar store.) in the kitchen decided it was going to crack on the side of the faucet. Just imagine how a water hose does if it is not properly secured to the spigot. You turn the water on and poof you are now soaked. Same principle with the faucet. I went to turn on the water to wash my hands and I was surprised and shocked to not only see that the faucet is busted, but my shirt is wet as well. So needless to say a trip to Lowes was in order. So I run into Lowes and was in total faucet overload. I never realized how expensive they were, considering I never had to buy one before. I finally picked one out and a hundred bucks later I was in the car headed back home. Joseph wasn't too happy to have to replace the faucet because that got in the way of his Generals and Commanders game playing time, but the kitchen sink is pretty important, so he had no choice. Thought it would be simple. In and out and have it done in half and hour. WRONG. So wrong. First off, Joseph couldn't get the bolts that hold the faucet in place loosened. Joseph is a very strong guy and he probably tried for over thirty minutes trying to get one off. Seems like the guy that installed the thing used an air wrench or something and torqued the mess out of them. But eventually Joseph prevailed and the faucet came off. I was relieved because by this point Joseph was not a happy camper! So we get the nice, new faucet in place and Joseph goes to hook it up to the water lines. Guess what? The lines weren't long enough! Just my luck. So another trip to Lowes looking in the plumbing section for crap I had no idea what it even was. So I found some more tubing and some little brass things that go on the end. But another little plastic tip-thingy I couldn't find. Neither could the workers at Lowes. Ding, ding, ding!! I just won the jackpot!! I would have to go to a plumbing store and get another one. Bad thing is that it is 8:00, store-no-open! So, I had a super fun night cooking dinner with no water and let's be honest-the fridge water spigot takes FOREVER to fill up a big pot of collard greens. And it was even more fun after dinner and cleaning everything up-with no water. So at this point I am still out of water and Joseph still has to hunt down the special part that will get our sink back in working order. If not....I'm moving to Mexico. Scratch that---Mexico Beach. No swine flu for me! Stay tuned to see if we can get through the installation without anymore trouble!