King of My Castle
Now that I am a homeowner, I have discovered what it is to be in a never-ending battle. And I have only lived here about 10 days! As I said before, over the weekend I bought a new couch and a microwave. No sooner do I finish one task, it is time to start another. The problem is that nothing changed from yesterday to today. I am going to keep breaking the rule of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
I replaced one of the toilets in the house after I bought the house, but the other one (the one that I use most often) has got to go. It has the weakest little petunia smelling, “I like skipping instead of running”, “girley-mon” flush that I have ever seen. I even checked it out myself to make sure there was nothing I could do. The top fills with plenty of water, but it just doesn’t translate into an effective flush. I usually have to flush twice, which is unacceptable. Even if I don’t have to replace the entire toilet, I am going to have to replace the seat, which isn’t very securely attached. It is certainly not the throne that the king of a new castle deserves.
The other thing is the kitchen sink. When I bought the house and moved in, I was saying, “Replace it? Are you kidding me? I can live with almost anything. I won’t want to pay for that!” I am singing a vastly different tune now. As I clean off plates to put them in the dishwasher, I think a volcano enthusiast designed the basin floor of the sink. The water does not naturally run into the drain. It kind of collects around the outside. So every time I clean dishes I have to clean up after myself in the sink with a sponge. Also the faucet, while being a respectable brand, has done nothing to improve the situation with it’s less than powerful trickle. It sprays more like a decorative fountain than a kitchen sink. May I remind you, Kitchen Sink, that your purpose is to help me clean awful food off of my awful plates!
Oh yeah, and I would love to have the separate dish cleaning sprayer nozzle because those are just cool.
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If water doesn’t drain, then it’s not really a drain, is it? It’s more of an elevated hole. Coincidentally, a new faucet and dish sprayer were our very first capital improvements to our Epicenter. The previous owner put in an uber-fridge but left the circa-1965 wackass trickle faucet in place. Go figger.