I'm a plumber, I'm a spackler, I'm a laundry master...

OK, imagine that title to the tune of "The Joker" by The Steve Miller Band.

It was probably funnier in my head. Deal with it.

I've actually done a whole lot of nothing today, with the exception of actually getting my butt out of bed in time to get a shower and get to church - on time, no less! Daniel played in the nursery during the service and built the most hysterical Potato Head - I'll have to post the picture of that on my facebook page because it's on my phone and it's a pain to get it from the phone to the computer to the blog, blah blah blah.

Anyway.......

After church Daniel and I came back here and just hung out for the day. He watched movies and I worked on laundry (imagine that) and puttered around online. A friend's daughter came over to drop off a dress to be altered, and I started working on that too. That's a fun project - not terribly difficult but I get to bust out my sewing skills for the greater good. LOL

Then I finally decided to tackle a couple of projects in the godforsaken bathroom. I hate that room more than any other room in this house! Even after it was remodeled, it's still had issues. One of those issues has been a hole in the drywall next to the toilet. It started out as a little hole, then the kids picked at it and it got bigger, then I patched it, then they picked at it again, then the maintenance dude patched it, and guess what? the kids picked at it again.

So once again, I busted out the can of spackling and filled it. I'm quite sure that it'll stay patched for a few days, or maybe even a couple of weeks, and then some kid will be sitting on the toilet and will start poking at it again. It's a losing battle, and I don't even know why I try to fight it, but I do. I just can't stand having random holes in my walls. I might have a ghetto-esque house, but I like to try to keep it looking as nice as I can. Too bad I don't have any paint to touch it up once it dries - but at least having the hole patched makes it look better.

The second - and much more disgusting project - was the sink. Some genius put a new drain in the sink that doesn't have anything in it to keep objects from falling into it. It's just an open hole that goes into the pipe. I've had to fish crap out of it before, and I'm quite sure that I'll have to do it again, ad nauseum....

Yeah. Gross. Nasty. Disgusting.

And I will freely admit that this particular toothbrush has been in the drain for about 2 weeks now. The kids told me when it happened, and I made a mental note to get it out, and then I promptly forgot to do it. I remembered every time that I used the sink, and made another mental note to get it out, and then forgot about it again. Every time.

But it's out now. And it's in the trash. The plumbing under the sink has been reassembled, and doesn't appear to be leaking.

Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to cleaning the bathroom. I should put that on the list for tomorrow.

Or not.

Frantic Friday Fun

The older 3 kids didn't have school today, but the younger two did - so it was nice to spend the day with the older ones doing stuff that we don't usually get to do.

The day started with Daniel's Halloween parade at playschool this morning. One of the teachers asked my kids if they'd like to hand out the candy, so Daniel thought that it was pretty cool that his big brother was handing out some of the treats.

We went out for lunch after we took Daniel to preschool this afternoon.

Then we went shopping to get the girls some new jeans, which they so desperately needed. I wasn't really thrilled about spending the money, but they really did *need* them. We found some good sales, so that helped, but dang they're expensive!

After we got done shopping, we went back and picked the boys up from their schools and then came home. We had dinner, and then we had to go back out again to go to a Family Fall Fun Night or something like that for Boy Scouts - now that Jared is in that, it just adds to the hectic schedule that we already have.

Anyway, the kids had fun playing silly games and winning even sillier prizes.

On the way home, we were greeted by another incredible sunset.

Then when we got home, I was called to the bathroom and told to look down the drain in the sink, where I saw this lovely sight. *sigh* So off I went to get a pair of pliers and a bucket to perform surgery on the plumbing.

I was not impressed by the treasures that I found in the murky water of the trap. *barf*











The final (for now) project of the evening was to work on a Halloween costume for a truck for tomorrow. I might have procrastinated a bit on this one...but I'm not the only one. But it's about as done as it's going to be. It's a cape (because every superhero truck needs a cape) and it's huge - I didn't make the cape part, but I was assigned the "S" and the crosses, which were made out of this horrible shiny gold faux-sequined stretchy stuff, and it was awful to work with, but it'll do at this point.

Tomorrow, we have a meeting to go to from 10:00am until 3:00pm - it's a Policy Council thing, and I have no desire to go, but I'm obligated. Luckily they're providing childcare...

But as soon as we get out of that meeting, we have to get ready for trick-or-treat and meet everyone from the church to get the costume on the truck, and then deal with all of the chaos of the Safe Walk....and I know that there was something else that we were supposed to do tomorrow but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

All I know is that I ran out of Diet Pepsi today. Tomorrow's looking ugly already.