I'm Movin In

October 29

A lot has gone down.

Dani and I, along with our little childrens, experienced some plumbing problems. And by plumbing problems I mean our house was in chaos.

For one, our toilet has been struggling for a while to keep its head above water. Literally. Sometimes it flushes. But by sometimes I mean rarely. Or quite possibly never. To be honest I gave up using that little darling a long time ago. Don’t worry I still go to the bathroom. I just make the journey to Candace and Courtney’s house.

It just kept getting worse and worse. Until finally we made the executive decision that BOYS LISTEN NOONE USES THAT TOILET. EVER. Because, to be brutally honest, IT WAS GROSS.

And so Andrew did the kind and daring task of digging a giant hole in our front yard (as it was flooding because a pipe underneath the ground had a giant leak) and repairing the leaking pipe. Which made it even more clear that no. We could not use our toilet.

Then one night I took a shower and was realizing that my shower was somewhat turning into a foot bath as the entire bathroom was suddenly filled with like three inches of water. And low and behold then we realized our shower drain was clogged.

By morning it had gone down, but when we reattempted using the shower? Well, it happened again.

You know when you’re like oh yeah all the evidence shows it’s definitely clogged but maybe if I just shower one more time and hope really hard and look down the drain and whisper kind words to it the water will go down? Yeah. Doesn’t work.

So Dani and I were all like well okay. Now we can’t shower in our house either. But phew. At least we’ve got a sink.

Yeah. Until one day someone used the sink and suddenly water is literally bubbling up out of the shower drain and our entire house is flooding.

So now I shall describe to you what goes down when our house floods.

If you’re picturing those really cute machines that suck up water like you get at the dentist? Except a lot bigger as hopefully our house is bigger than your mouth? Well, go ahead and get that picture out of your head.

It’s more like we get dustpans (which don’t have poles by the way as our little boys are constantly taking the poles out of the dustpans and out of the brooms and doing, well, honestly I have no idea what with them) and bending over and scooping the water into buckets and then emptying the buckets outside and bringing them back in to fill up with gross water again. Meanwhile someone else is on guard with a squeegee in our room, constantly pushing the water out that is so desperately trying to come in and destroy all our stuff as our room is directly next to the bathroom.

And I’m sure this sounds like a really fun and enjoyable experience, but honestly by the third time in a day I’m pretty over it. Especially when we finally get all the water out and then my brain decides to be a genious and a half and is all like “Darian you should wash the sink” and I’m all like oh yeah great idea! And then I wash the sink. And then I hear water bubbling up from the shower drain. And then I’m all like

Oh. Probably shouldn’t have washed the sink.

So yeah. I don’t know if I’m eighty or what but bending over with my back and scooping up water kind of makes me think I might die.

Dani and I desperately tried to make it an enjoyable experience.

We tried the optimism attempt: blasting Frozen music through the house and being all like wow this is fun!

We tried the denial attempt: Everything is perfect. I love scooping dirty water into buckets. Oh dear drain, please flood my house again.

We also tried the reality attempt: I hate this. I can’t.

In fact, little Wilfredo kind of picked up on it as one time, when the drain started bubbling up, I heard him shout through the house, “OH. MY. WORD.” (He speaks Spanish so that’s pretty funny, in case you didn’t get it.)

But the reality is your house flooding a million times a day and not having a toilet, or a shower, or a sink, or sanity, is kind of sad.

So we moved.

Across the way (which is my fancy way of saying a few hundred feet from where we first lived) is a house that is not used. The reason being the roof leaks, so when it rains all your stuff gets wet. Miguel used to live there and loved it, but had to move as it was soaking all the stuff in his bedroom and needed repairing.

But since it was pretty much our only option unless we disrupted everyone else’s living arrangements, this is where we ended up.

Okay so I have been in this house before. I saw it in March and earlier this year Kevin and I cleaned it with our work crew. But somehow I remained unaware of its beautiful bounty.

So now we are moved in and I am going to tell you all the wonderful things I love about our new house. Be prepared because I’m livin the dream.

Its tile. Like I touch it with my bare feet.

There is no ceiling below the roof so sometimes I mistake it for a mansion.

The walls are nice. And tannish.

And then there is the big news. Like brace yourself.

DANI AND I HAVE OUR OWN BATHROOM.

Like our own toilet. And shower. And as soon as it is put in we will also have our own sink.

I’m not going to lie, the first time I took a shower in there I almost cried. Like for cereal. It’s that exciting.

We even have a new shower head. And yeah it spews out cold water but to be honest I love cold showers. You should try it. And if you like it I’ll trade you for your hot shower.

Also our room is just way bigger. It’s super spacious. And we decorated it and made it homey and put pictures everywhere and basically I am living the dream.

Like every time I walk to my house I feel like skipping. And singing. And shouting IF I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM I SHALL BECAUSE I HAVE MY VERY OWN IN MY VERY OWN ROOM WOW I LOVE EVERYTHING.

So yeah. That’s one of the many things that have gone down. And to be honest one of my favorites.

Miguel said we are only living here for three weeks, until summer break starts. Because they have to repair it and stuff.

But I’m going to go with the denial attempt on this one and just say this is where I will be chillin for the next big while cuz I’m digging it.