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okay, it’s official. i’m not allowed to go to ikea any more this year. geezus, that place is like crack to a whore, and that whore is definitely me.
\nwhile sitting around the apartment last night waiting for it to cool off a little before i tackled sanding the rest of the shelves, i had a bathroom epiphany. glass shelves! i could put up glass shelves to keep my cute bottles of bath and body works lotions on! that would keep crap off the vanity (i have a thing about clutter on flat surfaces) yet still keep them within arm’s reach. pure brilliance!
\nup came www.ikea.ca<\/a> in my browser while i shopped for bathroom shelves. in i went with the measuring tape. everything was coming together nicely. i had planned on doing my coquitlam running around on saturday (i had to exchange one of the tank tops i’d bought at the bathing suit store because i’d mistakenly gotten the polyester version instead of the cotton. goodness knows i don’t need any more help sweating as it is, so it had to go back), but since i’d just phoned my dad and asked him if saturday morning was a good time to come over and help me hang things i’m too short and lacking in tools to hang, there went that plan. well, no time like the present, especially if i wanted him to mount any new shelves while he was here!
\nwhile at the crack store (formerly known as ikea), i picked up another pair of bathroom slippers (more on the need for slippers at a later date), another 99-cent cobolt blue plant pot (this one’s for candy) and, the piece de resistance, a very lovely runner for my hallway! i’ve admired this particular rug every time i’ve visted the crack store this summer, but i never noticed they had hallway-sized versions. i was beside myself and i absolutely HAD to have it. now i do and i love it very much. i’m so pleased. oh, and i also got two glass shelves for the bathroom, which was why i went in the first place. i’m just so very good.
\nthen, just to make my night even better, i figured out the Mystery of the Persnickity Potty.
\nyou see, ever since i moved in, i’ve been having issues with my pretty pink toilet. it never seemed to flush all the way on the first try. it would go through the motions, but it wouldn’t quite muster the gusto to get everything down the drain on one go. this disturbed me greatly. my handy dad took a look and declared that it wasn’t getting enough vortex and i should tell my super. my mom said to pour extra water in the bowl before i flushed to give it a little more “oomph”.
\nwhile in the bathroom doing my shelf measuring, the toilet started making a running noise (this is normal, it does it on a semi-regular basis. i hardly even notice it anymore), but this time there were bubbles coming up from the bottom of the bowl. i’d never seen that before, so i jiggled the handle and all was quiet again.
\nfast forward to bedtime.
\nas i lay in bed (looking out the window to see what the people in the building next door were doing, i’ll admit), the running noise started again. this time, it didn’t sound “normal” and it persisted for quite a while. eventually, it started to piss me off so i got up to investigate. i was about to jiggle the handle again when i thought i should peek further. off came the tank top (more on my toilet tank fear later) and i found the source of the problem.
\nthe little flappy thing (yes, i’m being very technical) at the bottom of the tank hadn’t re-seated properly after the last use, causing water to continuously run into the bowl, causing the noise. i don’t know why, but after i jiggled it back into place and the top was still off, i flushed it again. ah-ha! the flappy thing was closing before all the water in the tank had gone into the bowl! that was why there wasn’t enough vortex!
\nof course, i don’t know how to actually fix<\/i> it other than to hold the handle down for a twelve-count (the time it takes for all the water in the tank to drain) when i flush, but it’s a total toilet victory and i’m really quite pleased with myself. a dysfunctional dumper is really quite dreadful, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

okay, it’s official. i’m not allowed to go to ikea any more this year. geezus, that place is like crack to a whore, and that whore is definitely me. while sitting around the apartment last night waiting for it to cool off a little before i tackled sanding the rest of the shelves, i had …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}