Tribulations from Twitter

[cleolinda]

So, to recap from Monday:

@cleolinda: Diagnosis: twenty year old house, never had any plumbing repairs. Thus, $1500. $800 of it today. I just don't even bat an eyelash anymore.


But some of that $800 went towards my bathroom!

@cleolinda: It is amazing to take a shower in a tub that actually drains. Not $200 worth of amazing, but I'll take what I can get.


But then the plot thickened. Or dribbled, whichever.

@cleolinda: Aaaand the plumbers are back because our shower pressure and toilet flushing suck now.

@cleolinda: Aaaand NOW the shower pressure's nearly knocked my sister out of the bathroom.

@cleolinda: Son of a bitch! She's right, the shower HURTS!


That fixed, we moved on to Tuesday night:

@cleolinda: I HAVE HAND-WASHED MY LAST SINKFUL OF DISHES, HUZZAH! Dishwasher will arrive tomorrow!

@cleolinda: Also, Mom's at the doctor for a really severe pain her eye--eyelid? She's not sure. Waiting on dishwasher delivery in her absence.

@cleolinda: "An ulcer on her cornea"? A staph infection? Dear God.

@cleolinda: Well, at least she has not one but two sets of prescription eyedrops now.


Wednesday:

@cleolinda: I do believe the dishwasher is installed. Our long soapy nightmare is over.

@cleolinda: http://twitpic.com/i1tnw - The new dishwasher...

@cleolinda: http://twitpic.com/i1tw6 - ... is terrifying inside.

Don't get me wrong, I love it. Or I would, except that Mom doesn't want to use it. "I really just don't want to use it unless we have a lot of dishes, you know--it's stupid to just put a plate in there and let it sit when we can just wash it right then, and besides, the water's probably so hot that it'll melt the plastic plates, we should just save it for the dinner plates..." WOMAN, YOU ARE KILLING ME. It's not that washing dishes by hand is such a trial--it's washing everyone's dishes. Which is what I have been doing. My mother said something about having to wash them herself at night and I was like OKAY HOLD UP MAYBE YOU DON'T SEE THEM BECAUSE I DO WASH THEM BUT I DO AT LEAST TWO SINKFULS A DAY SO DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT THE ONE OR TWO THINGS YOU WASH AT NIGHT WHEN YOU'RE HOME BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN WASHING EVERYONE'S DISHES FOR THREE WEEKS INCLUDING THE STUFF YOU LEAVE IN THERE EVERY MORNING AND I DON'T EVEN WANT TO HEAR IT. Because I'm the one who works (I'm not even sure they consider it "work") at home, and I don't want three different people to come home from a long day at wherever and face a sinkful of dirty dishes. No, it's not an "everyone wash their own" or "everyone take turns" arrangement that would be more fair, but... I feel bad, you know? Guilty, because that is my default reaction to everything. So I do all the dishes. NOW YOU HAVE A DISHWASHER. USE IT.


Thursday:

@cleolinda: Crappy day. Just getting to sit down to work was a win. Dryer fixed, though. Pretty much just going to bed now.


And then... today.

@cleolinda: I cannot believe I am chasing a snarling 50lb dog around the house so I can wipe his butt. This sums up my week.

Comments

[khaman.livejournal.com]

This is of absolutely no help whatsoever, but my week sure as hell has gotten some perspective.

NEXT WEEK MUST BE BETTER.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

But! Happy things to focus on. The week is (almost) over. Starting tomorrow, it's a new year, so party like it's 5770!

Also, tomorrow it's Pirate Day, which I have mixed feelings about.

Also that is a pretty awesome dishwasher.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I usually celebrate TLAP Day, but I am so tired that I don't know that I can bring myself to care.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

That is an amazing week.

And I know today's stuff very well. (Enter story here about our 15-lb dog eating a yard of fabric)

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

A whole YARD? And tell me it was something expensive, too.

[nem0.livejournal.com]

Ack, corneal ulcer? Been there -- make sure she follows the doctor's orders w/r/t when to use the drops and for how long. I kind of failed at that, and now my cornea has a chronic erosion. IS NOT FUN. JUST FYI.

[lady-findel.livejournal.com]

I once had an ulcer on my right eye cornea. It took six months of drops to cure it. I was not allowed to wear my lense. The funny thing was, that I did not feel anything. My eye wasn't irritated at all!

So if your mom takes the droplets, she'll be fine.

[edda.livejournal.com]

This week has been at the least kind of weird and out of whack all over, from what I can tell. Hopefully next week will see an improvement.

And washing dishes is big work in my opinion. I'm the unofficial Dish Fairy around here and let me tell you, I feel your pain.

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

just felt the need to use TEH ICON.

but overall you're on the uphill here I feel.

Slowly more will go right than wrong until one day you'll realize everything is WONDERFUL!

that's my hope for you!

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that that was the perfect icon for this entry.

Here's to things (hopefully) looking up! The pendulum has to swing back the other way at some point.

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

You know, I thought I should be proud of myself for surviving 2008. Now I think we all need medals for getting through 2009. Levels of Utter Suck Heretofore Unknown By Man have been passing over people in waves.

I think the only thing for you to do is kick random strangers in the shins, and then go home and torture clean dishes in the dishwasher.

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

Check your dish washer instructions - there should be a programme that rinses, but you only need to use that if you leave a part load for more than a day or two. I stack stuff in mine as I go along and run a cycle at the end of the day, rather than after every meal - no problems at all.

[msilverstar]

My mom rinses everything very well (aka washes the dishes) before she puts them in the dishwasher. We just shove them in, wash when full (water miser / no heat dry). Seems to work fine, but my mom just can't compute.

we spent almost that amount up there on a replacement sink faucet and two toilets. OUCH.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

<3 your icon!

[mumford519.livejournal.com]

Isn't nice to have Twitter to explain your day in 140 characters? What did we do without it?

I hope everything gets better soon. Can't you just put the dishes in the dishwasher and then, when it's ful, run it?

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

I feel your lack of a dishwasher pain.

I've been living in an apartment without one for a year and a half and I never thought I'd miss it so damn much.

SO USE IT AND REJOICE! Is basically what I'm saying. :D

[calliopes_pen]

With the ulcer/staph infection on the cornea thing, my Mom has those every so often, too. One eye swollen shut and bright red if she did open it, and nobody in this house noticed one time.

A week into it, I looked at her and asked what had happened. Commence facepalming.

Oh, and I've never experienced life with a dishwasher before. About 32 years ago (I think--it could be longer) my parents got a dishwasher. I'm told that it died after a week. We still have it, and use it for storing dishes and Tupperware.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Does your mom realize that's it far more cost-efficient to run the dishwasher versus doing dishes by hand?

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

And environmentally sound!

[icepearls.livejournal.com]

*giggles at the last one*

[fizzyblogic.livejournal.com]

I too have a corneal ulcer! I second the comment above stressing how important it is to follow the instructions. I had no problem with mine when I did, and it cleared up pretty quickly. :)

[anna-sinistra.livejournal.com]

The problems do not vanish with the dishwasher. You get my roommates the people who pile the dirty dishes up in the sink rather than empty the dishwasher. They frequently pile them up when the dishwasher is empty or dirty too. It drives me crazy.

[iluvbroadway06.livejournal.com]

Amen! My roommates do the SAME EXACT THING. It's ridiculous. Also, no one but me seems able to unload the clean dishes from the dishwasher until the sink is overflowing with dirty ones.

[sunset-glow.livejournal.com]

Oh, I feel you on dishwashing trials. I lived in a house my junior year of college that had, wonder of wonders, an actual working dishwasher - and 3 out of my 4 roommates didn't want to use it. It was so much better, they said, to just "wash your dishes right then" and it would "save on the water bill." Um, no. Not with 5 different people cooking and eating in the house. What was even more exasperating was that half the time the hand washers wouldn't wash their dishes "right away" and would leave them to clutter up the sink - instead of sticking them in the dishwasher right next to it!! Aghhhh.

This past winter I lived in a house with 5 other roommates (no dishwasher) in which a couple of us would occasionally wash all the dishes in the sink when taking care of our own. I stopped this real quickly, though, when I saw that several of the roommates were taking advantage and not bothering to clean their dishes for days because clearly, if they just waited long enough someone else would come along and deal with them. Yeah, no. I now refuse to wash anyone else's dishes, unless I'm visiting a friend or attending a dinner party, etc. But if you are my roommate, and I did not partake in any of your meal? No, I'm not washing your dishes.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Try and explain to your mom that using a dishwasher is healthier for everyone because the hot water used will kill any possible germs, especially with the cold/flu season coming up. (And if the plastic plates melt, they shouldn't have been in use anyway.)

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

I wish we had a dishwasher like that. I'm staring at it and seriously thinking about how beautiful it is. Dishwashers circa 1980 don't do so well anymore...

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

You have pretty tile.

[sushixpack.livejournal.com]

Never in my life have I lived in a home with a dishwasher. I only know the ways of the hand-washing. But generally our house is a take-turns sort of thing. Now you do, in fact, have a new dishwater, and after doing dishes for that long BY YOURSELF, wanting to use that damn washer makes complete sense.

Whatever you do, don't look down. Next week will be better :) I mean, it's not as bad at the Compocalypse.. right?

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

My family also has a non-working dishwasher and I applaud you for washing other people's dishes. It's just something I won't do; especially if the dish is my brother's. I'll put them away, I just won't get all the gunk and slim off of them.

the evil is spreading east....

[suzeclues12.livejournal.com]

Um, did the contractor who built your house ... did he build any in GA?

The Husband is snaking our house's sewer line as I type this.

The evil, she is spreading.

Shiftily eyes computer - but not too closely - just in case...

[neveth.livejournal.com]

I think the solution to this is to run the dishwasher when she's not home. Same result as what you did when it was broken, but less work for you. :D

(to be fair, I only run the beast once a week once the pair of us have managed to fill it up, but I rinse/scrape most of the food off before it goes in, and run a rinse about midweek to keep things from getting dank.