watery woes

[theladyrose]

I'm so so sorry about being tardy in responding to comments. I've got both an exam and a presentation both this week and the week after, and I'm going home next Thursday with Lillian so I'm trying to get everything ready in advance.

I've been trying to cobble together an older women and medication management website as a final project due a month from now. It's the most glamorous subject matter, but I hope it's comprehensible or at least readable. I've got about 75-80% of the content up now. I swear if I stare at it much longer I'm going to down the bottle of Martinelli's sparkling apple cider I have on reserve for emergencies.

It seems that the plumbing in the apartment goes haywire before I have a counselor training workshop to run. Last month our only toilet...well, on second thought, this is too gross to discuss in polite society. Let's just say it was a shitty morning. Earlier in the week we had no hot water in the showers, but on the bright side we conserved water.

The kitchen sink resembled something out of a horror movie yesterday and today, but I think I now worship the emergency plumber who came this evening. We had to periodically bail out the water and stuff from the sewer and the pipes that would bubble up when the tenants in the apartment above ours would turn on their dishwasher. On the bright side, lilbabiangel888 was kind enough to get us sushi for dinner as the kitchen was a mess. Lysol may be my Xanax; I'm starting to see why my old roommate Rose would obsessively clean things when she was stressed. You feel instant gratification as you see and realize that you've theoretically killed off 99.9% of bacteria and viruses on various high-use surfaces. That, and I suspect that breathing in the chemicals kills off some of your brain cells in the process.

Comments

[darklightluna.livejournal.com]

Something may have died in my kitchen sink, so I can relate to the fun hijinks.

I realized I have no way to contact you but here, so, lunch at some point? Or random Torchwood watching?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I suck at responding to comments :( But I hope your Thanksgiving was enjoyable!

Are you free to get a quick lunch/briefly hang out before the end of semester? I'm leaving on Thursday. If not, hopefully we'll have a chance to hang out during winter break.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

I have some free time randomly? Sat and Sun me thinks?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Either's good for me; any particular time/place in mind?

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

We had some plumbing crises when we first moved in here. There's nothing quite so horrible as a plumbing crisis, so I sympathise!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

One never appreciates modern indoor plumbing until it goes wrong. I've never been so grateful for the on-call plumber in my building.

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

In the entire history of human civilisation the single greatest step forward was modern indoor plumbing!

[eyepiece-simile.livejournal.com]

1) Your emergency stash needs work. It should at bare minimum involve chocolate. Or mint. Or mint chocolate.

2) Your description of your toilet problems was excellent.

3) Of course cleaning products kill brain cells, what do you think inhalants are?

4) um, I miss you?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

1) I need to replenish my emergency stash and hide it somewhere. I just finished the one remaining item, a Hershey's bar, a few days ago. I saw these chocolate covered coffee beans at Starbucks the other day, and they reminded me of you :)

3) As we've discussed earlier, it sounds much more innocuous saying that you felt a bit lightheaded after using too much Lysol than sniffing, say, glue. Or rubber cement. Rubber cement always makes me think of those gross booger things that annoying 2nd grade boys would throw at you during class.

4) I can't wait to see you when we're both home :D Still thinking about the usual New Year's Eve Trivial Pursuit tournament?

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I hope things are going well with school. It sounds quite busy. I just discovered that there's no school here Nov. 26 - 28, so we've got five days in a row off, counting the weekend. Yay!

How do you like setting up the site on Webcity? I've never done one, but I'm thinking of doing one, and I'd love to hear about your experience.

Sparkling apple cider? You're such a Wild Thing:)

A shitty morning! Hah! I know it's rude to laugh at the misfortune of others, but I did. Glad to hear things are fixed. That thing with the kitchen sink sounds horrible, too. I'd have been scubbing away with soapy bleach water. As for breathing in the chemicals - isn't it sad to imagine people doing that on purpose? Scary.

Best of luck with the counsellor training workshop.
And try to get in a little TLC time for yourself, okay?
All these busy days! I'm sure you're having the time of your life. Enjoy.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Yay for long weekends! I hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving; I definitely appreciated being home last week. Thankfully the end of the semester's been pretty good; I think I actually am getting more sleep now than I was earlier in the year! I can't wait to be home for winter break next weekend.

The host I use, Weebly (http://www.weebly.com), is very user friendly and offers a lot of great design features for free. I'd highly recommend them.

If you thought the apple cider was wild, you don't think you want to know how much of the Newman's Own lemonade I was drinking at my work holiday reception the other night :P

Laugh away at such situations; at least we can all enjoy the absurdity in retrospect : ) Unfortunately there is a trend of teenagers sniffing any chemical products for a cheap high; common inhalants tend to be glue and cleaning products. I generally find most of these things pretty overpowering.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

We did have a good Thanksgiving gathering, and I hope yours was lovely as well. The five days off went way too fast. Now it's Friday, a week later, already. I am going to make my first foray out for Christmas shopping before school this morning. And you're anticipating your Christmas break - yay, life-giving vacation:)

Thanks for the rec on the web host. I will check it out.

The schools routinely send information to parents about inhalant abuse. Kids are so vulnerable to this activity - they think nothing will hurt them.

Take care! Good to hear from you.