Fix It

Today is a rare day in my little world.  Carter is away on a school trip and other than my early morning trip to the trainer I purposely kept my day completely free.  Imagine the fun I could have.  With Russ at work and no one to answer to other than my sweet dog Shay I could do what ever I wanted– well, other than eat chocolate or cheese fondue.

The possibilities for excitement were endless and I did not disappoint myself.  What in the world did I do on my big free day, you ask?  I fixed everything that was broken in my house!  Maybe not everything, but most of the things that had been piling up for months awaiting a repair.

I know it sounds incredibly boring, but it has made me practically giddy.  I took my favorite reading glasses that had the lens held in by fishing line that had snapped into the optician and got them put back together good as new.

While on vacation in Maine my old beloved camera started acting sluggish so Russ ordered me a new battery.  Putting it in he dropped my camera and broke the battery door.  You would have thought he cut off my hand the way I acted about it.  He thought he was going to have to buy me a whole new camera, but today I found an honest to goodness camera repair store today and in a flash he replaced the broken part with a new one he had on hand, I never.  In this day and age to actually have an obscure part like that in stock is practically unheard of.  The camera still is acting sluggish, but I was able to leave it with this photo superhero who I have great confidence can fix it.

I noticed while taking a shower today that the drain was a little slow so I picked up enough Draino at Costco to unclog every pipe in my neighborhood and now the showers running free.  I’ve had a couple pairs of Russ shorts/pants that have needed mending sitting on my dressing table for a month so I whipped those up with a quick needle and thread.

None of these minor chores were difficult or time consuming but somehow they sat undone at my house with no excuse.  If I had known that getting them done would have given me a high very similar to eating chocolate I would have done them long ago.  Next time I am having a craving I’m going to look for something to fix.