no rest for the weary!!

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Registered: 04-21-2004
no rest for the weary!!
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Mon, 09-12-2005 - 8:06am

ok, so my dh is a hardworking man, that's for sure! he is currently working one full time job, one part time job and also going to school. He has one full day off a week, sunday (even though he should use it to study). so yesterday we were hoping for a nice relaxing day at home. Around 10 am all hell broke lose. Poor dh went outside to mow the lawn and the lawn mower died. while dh was outside taking that apart, my dd and i stayed inside making frugal homemade pizza. The dishwasher was running and all of a sudden dirty dishwater starts spreading across the floor. dh gives up on the mower and comes in take the dishwasher apart (thank goodness he once had a job working on those!) turn out, the dishwasher is dead. needs a new motor. (i can live without it, although it is nice to have! but, it will have to wait). dh goes outside to work on the mower again. I go into the bathroom and notice the water in the toilet bowl is low. I flush it and the whole thing fills up with water... and keeps going! water pours all over the floor and doesn't stop... i run screaming outside to dh who prompty comes in and takes the toilet apart. (thank goodness he got that fixed or rigged up somehow.)

I gotta say, that man is amazing. he is one tough guy and he took it all in stride.. although he did look at once with an expression that said "what the hell is going on here???" thank goodness for him, i can't imagine the amount of money we would have to spend if he wasn't so handy!

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Registered: 07-11-2001
Mon, 09-12-2005 - 12:12pm
Your H sounds like a trooper. Sorry to hear about all the things going wrong. They say it comes in 3, so I hope that was your 3 for quite some time. I wish my BF was as handy, but I guess that's why he is still my BF and why I don't live with him!
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Registered: 10-14-2003
Mon, 09-12-2005 - 2:56pm
Oh no! Well I'm glad you have such a handy fella!!! Brandon isn't handy at all. You have no idea how much he admires someone that is handy! :)