Careful what you wish for

When the small wall hot water heater we call the woomph broke I wasn't sad. It was ugly and noisy and drank a bottle of gas every few weeks. After two weeks of no hot water though I sure missed it. I longed for a real shower where I didn't have to heat water over the stove in three large pots for baths and wash our hair in the sink under icy tap water, (but hey the shiny hair thing rocks). We hoped it could be fixed and then we thought okay how about just starting renovations right away and then as time went on last week we just gave up and said we need a temporary solution because three weeks without hot water is way too long!

What I didn't wish for was the replacement, THIS ugly thing dominating my kitchen, duct tape and all. We're stuck with it until the kitchen renovations start in the Fall and we can move it all downstairs to the future laundry room.



By the way if you looked at this photo, scratched your head and said "that's a kitchen?" you aren't alone.

Last night I had a dream that we were on a beautiful tropical vacation. There were only a few hours left and for some reason we had to steam all the rest of the wallpaper off the hotel bathroom walls before we caught the plane home. We also had to iron all our clothes before repacking all of our suitcases and I could see outside, the blue skies, and the beach that we never got to see because we'd been renovating our hotel room the whole vacation.

Dreams are kooky but what felt real was that I could feel that sense of missing out on everything.

There are only two options. Option one is just Let it Go and not care whether it all gets done, --steamed wallpaper, electricity, plumbing, all of it. And the there's option two which is to work harder and get it done faster. I don't think I can live with Mr. Water Heater for really a very long time (as Little S would say), so I think the only option is to work harder and get it done faster somehow, some way.

That tropical vacation looked really inviting.