Insane Saturday

Saturday was a crazy day for Scott and I! If it was going to go wrong it did!

To give you some background recently we discovered that our guest toilet was running constantly and spiking our water bill so throughout the week, I had gradually changed all the parts inside the tank except one.

Sunday morning we get up and decide to go to get the last part and see if it would fix our problem. So I make breakfast and while reaching for a glass, I drop it and it shatters on the floor. I have to fight the cats to keep them out of it but finally get it cleaned up. However, while eating breakfast I discover my big toe is bleeding because I got some glass in it. So I have to do the bandaid thing and finally get breakfast finished.

I then take a nap which you will find later was needed.

We then go to Ace and pick up the final part. The reason we have not changed this part before is because it requires the removal of the tank from the bowl. So we set about doing that and replace the part. We put everything back together and start running water in only to discover that the tank is now cracked because we put things back to tight. So now we have a bigger problem requiring the replacement of the tank.

We have lunch. After lunch, Scott takes his drink into his computer room to look up some tank info and proceeds to spill his entire drink on his expensive MAC keyboard. Needless, to say I left him alone to clean that up and went to research on my laptop.

After he got the entire thing opened up to air out we decided to go to Lowe's to get a tank and stop at Staple's to get another keyboard just in case the old one is ruined.

We get all of this done and come back to install the new tank and of course, it does not fit. Too small!

So we pack it up and research some more and find one that has almost the exact dimensions of our previous one (keep in mind this was a builder grade toilet that you can not find anywhere).

We head back to Lowe's and return the small tank and get the new one along with a water hose that will be more flexible. We pick up Arby's on the way and get some very large drinks (it is hot and they had a summer special on 44 oz drinks).

We get back to the house and I put the food and drinks on our kitchen table to help Scott get the new tank in and Sebastian (our precocious cat) knocks both drinks onto the floor. So now we have about 88 oz of Dr Pepper all over our kitchen floor. So here we go cleaning the floor for the 2nd time that day (I do not clean floors more than once a week so this is annoying.) The floor is still sticky after 3 mopping sessions.

We take the 2nd tank to the bath and again it does not fit. It appears they have to be of the same brand and it still may not work.

At this point, we gave up. Scott decided to take a shower and I told him to be careful as who knows what else could happen. Luckily, the day finally ended. We are taking back the 2nd tank today and getting a whole new unit and letting them install it. We are done! But hey we have all these nice new parts for the bath upstairs if there is a problem there.

Luckily, no baby yet having to deal with this too!