Sunday Dinner, August 5, 2007

Is anybody seeing a pattern developing here for my Sunday Dinner? Once again, I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner. We can either go out somewhere to eat or we can get chicken or something else to bring back here to eat. Doesn't matter to me which of the two options we do, but I refuse to cook Sunday Dinner this week.

I'm too tired tonight to even think about cooking, and I ain't cooking tomorrow before church or after I get home from church.

I think everybody knows the drill by now. What are you having for Sunday Dinner? Share your plans in the comments.
Except for a few last minute or everyday cleaning tasks we're done with cleaning for the inspection. It's a good thing too, because when our landlady picked up our rent check Friday she told us the inspection had been changed from later in the week to Tuesday. One thing about it, it'll be over sooner and that's fine and dandy with me.

Since my last post Lamar and I have gotten a lot done. We've:

Pulled out the furniture in the living room and vacuumed.
Decluttered and straightened the living room.
Spot cleaned the carpet in the living room.
Swept and mopped the kitchen and utility room.
Scrubbed my stove top, burner pans and rings and ventahood.
Decluttered and vacuumed my spare room/computer room/Emmy's room.
Scrubbed my bathtub and bathroom tile, toilet, lavatory and bathroom floor.
Put up a new shower curtain and liner, and put down a new non-slip tub mat.
Put down clean bathroom rugs and straightened up my over-the-toilet shelf.
Probably more stuff but I can't rub two brain cells together right now.

I am so tired I can barely think but I am so glad to have all that behind me.

I had just gotten everything done in the bathroom late yesterday afternoon when I noticed water in the floor behind the toilet. I investigated the new contour rug I'd just put down in front of the toilet and found it soaking wet. Hmmm....I looked at the toilet and couldn't find any obvious leaks, but after feeling around I found the leak. It was dripping a steady stream where the tank joined onto the bowl. The toilet was taking a leak, as it were.

Talk about disgusted! I was somewhat irked because I'd just mopped and put down clean rugs, etc. and now a leak. I grabbed up my sopping wet rug and draped it over the bar in the tub to drip dry and flung a bath towel in the floor to hold back the flood temporarily. Lamar put out an SOS to our landlord who promised to be here this morning to look at it.

(Rabbit trail coming up: The landlord asked Lamar what we'd done to the toilet to tear it up. Now I'll tell you, we're 44 years old, not that age necessarily has anything to do with it. There's only one thing I use my toilet for besides the prescribed use of, you know, pottying. That one thing is mopping my bathroom floor. I put Pinesol or whatever I'm using to mop the floor in the toilet and use the toilet to mop from. I don't put that much muscle action into my mopping. I've been wracking my brain, trying to decipher what he thought we might have done to make the toilet leak. It boggles my mind, it truly does. Ideas, anyone? Keep in mind this is a family friendly blog, please.)

It turned out to be a rubber gasket that had lost its personal integrity and caused my toilet's incontinence. My landlord had it fixed in about 30 minutes, praise the Lord. I've lost a lot of confidence in my toilet and I'm keeping a wary eye on it, but so far it seems to be keeping its legs crossed. I'm ready to throw an adult diaper on it at the first sign of it taking another leak.
The thermometer there should give you a hint about what I'm going to yammer on about now, and if it doesn't the fan should. It's been miserably hot and humid here this week, and it's supposed to be even hotter for the next week at least. It's supposed to be in the upper 90's to over 100*F for the next week.

That's another reason I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner. I fried some ham for sandwiches and warmed up some homemade garden vegetable soup from the freezer for our supper tonight. I wasn't about to heat up the kitchen and mess up my clean stove, plus I believe I've already mentioned that I'm tired. This heat and humidity saps your strength even if you're just sitting down doing nothing, much less if you're outside doing physical labor. Lamar just came in from his walk. He came back early for a cold drink of water. He said it's like walking in slow motion. I'll take his word for it.

I'm already showered and ready to take it easy for the rest of the evening. I still have to study my Sunday School lesson but other than that I have no other plans for the evening. I'm ready to rest and maybe read some blogs and comment a bit. If anybody posts anything new, that is. I think everybody must be out living life and enjoying their weekend because hardly anybody has posted anything today.I think that's going to do it for me tonight. Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. May God richly bless you with all you need, and enough to share.