Friday night, I came home and promptly started working on this week’s Photoshop assignment. A half hour later, I was cleaning my kitchen in frustration. I just could not figure out how to complete a particular step in the assignment, no matter how many times I tried to start over. But man, my kitchen looked great!

Saturday morning, I tried again. It still didn’t work. I finally posted a message on the class discussion board pleading for help. The Boyfriend had plans to go to a Tigers game; a game he wanted me to attend with him, but there was no way. He left and I gave the assignment a few more futile attempts before starting to watch the Cubs game.

They won. Which is more than I can say for the Tigers.

Somewhere in there, my dad returned a call to me. The bathroom faucet has, in the past couple weeks, dramatically decreased in water pressure. Without my dad to tell me, I would have just replaced the whole faucet (which needs to be done, eventually) instead of pulling out the aerator and cleaning it out. Voila! Instant water pressure!

Nothing says empowerment like solving a plumbing issue for free.

I checked the discussion board and some lovely person named Teresa had responded. She’d had the same problem and she detailed what she did. It worked like a charm! Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked for a couple of the others who have posted since then, and our professor has yet to weigh in with any advice.

Today, I decided I wasn’t doing any homework, even though I have two major projects due on the 15th. The Boyfriend’s car died on him last night in Maumee. Unfortunately for him, it was on a street with “No parking this side of street” signs. Guess which side he was on? I called Maumee Police to let them know we’d get it out of there in the morning by noon today. Even though I have Triple A, we were hoping we wouldn’t have to have it towed. It started right up, though, which was good because halfway there we realized that neither of us had our cell phones. We are BRILLIANT!

So, today during my no homework day, what did I do? Changed up my blogroll and added a contact form. You know, for the LEGIONS of people who have been wanting to get in touch with me on this site but are too afraid to leave me a comment.

And then I went back into the bathroom to measure the bathtub for a shower surround. And pulled the funky fake tile looking wallboard away from the plaster to see what was underneath, because I want to yank it all down and just paint.

But you know that’s not how it works, right? It’s never that easy. I’m not going to tell you what I found, because truthfully at the moment I’m not quite sure. All I can tell you is that it’s going to require a lot more work than I was hoping. And this is why people should not make cheap ass repairs to their house, because someday… someone is going to want to change it up, and the cheap bastards make it that much more expensive in both time and money to fix it.

I just really hope that somehow this comes back to bite those previous owners in their asses…

** ETA - I’m more than a little annoyed at the professor in this Photoshop class. She was apparently able to log into our course to upload the assignments for next week, and was able to send us all an email to remind us that our projects are due a week from tomorrow, but unable to post to the discussion board regarding any of the issues that students have been experiencing. Nice feedback.

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