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[penguinfaery]

My dogs managed to lock themselves in my mom's room.

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.................

We had to saw away part of her door. I'm not even fucking kidding.

(They were locked in after the book incident. they managed to knock over my mom's keyboard and barricade themselves inside.)

*sigh*

In other news, I may be mailing out people's cards and presents in time :D However, Ju has most the present packages so unless your Chag, you won't get your till after Christmas.

Comments

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

Darling, HOW is your house still datnging?

As from what I know of it, it seems to be held together with Duct Tape and a lot of prayer.

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, duct tape makes the world go round. That plus the $12K of de-sewaging and repairs that went into the basement this summer. .__.

I swear it's a darn good thing I've got a theater tech degree, because when something goes spoinggg I have about a 50-50 chance of being able to fix it -- I replaced my thermostat just last week, for example... the basement was just plain above and beyond the call of the theater tech skills, which involve things like "slap up a temporary wall and paint it pretty" or "tear down thin painted boards that aren't a toxic waste dump," NOT things like "removing 800 square feet of sewage-soaked carpeting and associated walls" or " functional and up-to-code plumbing diversion to repair the lack of two backflow valves that were never installed in the Basement Bathroom From Hell that started the whole flood mess".

...And of course I bought my house in May 2006, right at the height of the real estate bubble, and I don't dare get my house reappraised to lower the property taxes because if I did I wouldn't have enough equity left to avoid paying PMI. (sigh.)

Aaaaanyhow - yeah, I totally feel your pain on the 'unexpected things you never figured you'd have to do to your house' front! Taking a saw to an inside door really is up there on the WTF chart.