Jul 23, 2008 | Ati:
fixing tub?
we have a tub,say like this one http://www.rikb.com/luxury/main-tub-spa. jpg where the ladys right shoulder is collects with water during any shower and runs down to where her left few candles are...
A: It would appear that the tub was not installed level, an easy way to check this would be to just get a two foot level and lie it along the edge of the tub (where her pillow thingy is). you then...
Other than major repairs, you can try these. I have used them and they work well. The tub should be lower towards the inside and higher on the outside. If it is perfectly straight, the water will...
Scorpio | Jul 23, 2008
Oct 11, 2011 | Anna:
My roommate is pissing me off, what should I do?
My current roommate is subletting through December, and she just moved in at the beginning of September. Yet she seems to think she can just take over the apartment.
Also, she seems...
Summer Camp: You Sleep Where?
About half of the population of South Pole Station sleeps in tents. They are semi-cylindrical canvas and plywood structures called Jamesways that stand on platforms a bit off the ice and are heated with AN8 jet fuel. Summer camp is about 1/4 mile downwind from the Destination Zulu exit of the main elevated station. There are 13 or so Jamesways in summer camp that have approximately 10 rooms each, and the rooms are divided by plywood walls and/or curtains.
You can smell everyone, dirty and gassy and covered in cologne, and you can smell the history of the last 30 years of shower limitations permeating the canvas walls. Some people are lucky enough to have doors, but many people have only curtains, and you can hear every spoken word, bodily function, and footsteps of a person passing through to their room. You can hear tractors groaning up and beep beep beep ing back down snow mountains outside, plowing all night long. You can hear the military planes landing on late missions, sounding like they’re so close that the wing might just clip your canvas wall and take out your pillow. Oh, and the bathrooms are a shared facility that requires going outside to get to, which can be very disconcerting if it’s 3am and the sun is shining like midday, so many people pee into water bottles or salsa jars they get from the galley. I say all of this in the fondest manner possible: I really do like living in summer camp. You can read more about the little details about living at South Pole and in Summer Camp here.
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Stuck At Home Mom
For various reasons, we take on the role of full-time unemployed parent. Me, I always wanted to be a “Stay At Home Mom.” In fact, when we got pregnant and it became apparent that I would have to work after Maya was born, I was aghast. But I’m a MOTHER. This is what I’ve always planned on doing. Being separated from my parents for most of my childhood really locked it in for me as an absolute. Plus, I just KNEW I was going to be an amazing mother. I love kids. I’m fun. I’m creative. I love glitter and dancing and play-dough. I had big dreams for my mommyhood. First of all, you’ve got the housework. The maintenance of housekeeping is paramount. You start to let that slide and you’re on an episode of Hoarders before you can blink. As we speak, my bathrooms are in dire need of cleaning, and I swear I JUST CLEANED THEM. But one must have clean bathrooms. If...
