The Kitchen Sink

Or, more specifically, the faucet.

So this is my kitchen sink. It is fairly unremarkable, as sinks go. It doesn't have a garbage disposal, which makes me frowny. I would love a garbage disposal, but installing one is magical trigonometry for which I do not possess knowledge and thus it is also scary. But I digress! My kitchen sink, like most kitchen sinks, has an associated faucet:


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Like many faucets, if you want water to appear, you raise the lever thingamabobber (that's a technical term). Like so, see?



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That lever doohickey is the troublemaker, and the topic of this post. You guys, it falls down constantly. If you have ever used a sink or context clues, you know this means that the water shuts off.

WHICH DRIVES ME INSANE.

I can't figure out how to fix this. There are no screws or removable parts or anything which seems like it can be tightened. Google isn't helping me because my Google-fu, on this topic, is weak.

Help me, Internet Nation. You're my only hope.

Oh you know I did it / It's over and I feel fine

As of 11am yesterday, we are homeowners.

When Tim and I arrived (early) at the lawyer's office for the closing, we found our agent standing outside talking to the listing agent. The first words out of my mouth were "Good morning. I think I may vomit.". The listing agent, having completed all of the paperwork on behalf of his clients (who are in Ohio), spoke with us for a few minutes and then left when we went inside.

I signed or initialed something like sixty pieces of paper, and when we were all done and the lawyer asked "so, is there anything else?"... I was like "er, so who has the house key?"

Everybody looked around the table at each other, realization dawning: Nobody had the key; the listing agent left with it.

So for about three hours yesterday I owned a house I couldn't get into. Tim had a fantastic time with that one, I tell you what.