first catastrophe

Hello there, from homownershipland.

Well, today, as we hosted our sister and soon to be brother-in-law, we noticed leaking from below the lovely, smelly kitchen sink.

Low and behold, further inspection (and rapid chunking of all soggy items stored under the sink) revealed a HOLE in the garbaged disposal. Not a connection leak, not a burst seal or valve leak, but a HOLE in the garbage disposal. Ew. Can't say we were too surprised though. I'm pretty sure the owners manual was from the Kennedy administration. Really. I'd take a picture and post it, if the asshole movers we'd hired hadn't stolen our digital camera. Tricky bastards, those movers.

So, then today became all about man vs. machine. Husband vs. icky old house plumbing. Many trips to the dreaded Home Depot and about six hours later, man triumphed! New garbage disposal in, dastardly old garbage disposal headed for the garbage heap, hurrah! and the people rejoiced!

Husband will tell you, it was all at the cost of male bonding, two-player Madden NFL time, but well worth it, I say. That, plus he can brag to his testosterone pals at work how he armwrestled it to the ground, and won. For sheer bragging rights, an impressive feat, to be sure.

top ten most disgusting discoveries

Okay folks! I knew you couldn't wait for this post. Took us a while to get our ole friend "the internet" up and running, but here we are in our own house!

Here are the top ten most disgusting discoveries since moving in:

10. Goo inside and outside the kitchen cabinets that make opening them a very sticky endeavor. You would think that would have bothered someone before us?

9. Completely blackend light switches. Okay, so you are a manual laborer...don't you ever wash your hands?

8. Black smoodge on the floor where the old washer and dryer stood. I am sure there is basement floor tile under there, I would just be hard pressed to see it.

7. Crickets and assorted bugs in the basement. The Bean has been earning his keep nowadays...we just have to vaccuum up dead bug parts 3 times a week. Thank G-d...cause I don't do bugs. Really.

6. The smell emanating most of the time from the kitchen sink garbage disposal. Ewww.

5. The grime on the mini-blinds. We thought they were yellow....but they really were white!

4. Dog fur in the refridgerator and freezer. THAT is Gross.

3. The black, smelly, scary, gaping wound gouged into the back of one of our kitchen cabinets to move the sink over 2 feet.

2. The inordinately large pile of dead ants found under the kitchen cabinet we had to remove to get the new washer/dryer downstairs.

1. The grisly discovery of what J thinks was a dead frog plugging up part of our utility sink in the basement. OMG.

There you have it folks...the uncut version of home-ownership. Or at least OLD home ownership. I wouldn't think new homes to have so many surprises. I could be wrong, though.

We do like it here, but we obviously have some work to do. Have no fear, though. We will get it in ship shape....eventually.