What a day

 So, I got up and exercised, and ate and then went to get dressed. I have a fancy facial cleaner (it's like cold cream, but with rose geranium added. It's in a heavy blue glass pump bottle. 

Well, I either dropped it or it slipped off the edge of the sink and hit on the inside curve.

And it broke a big hole in the sink. Yes, all the way through. I thought this was a sink with a metal base covered with porcelain but I guess not, and it did already have a tiny chip (I think I had dropped something there some months back).

I just stared at it gape mouthed for a moment, because like I said, I didn't think that damage was possible.

And then I sighed, and since it was after 8 am, called the plumber I use. I have an appointment Friday morning for someone to come out and replace it (or at least take the measurements for such). I've moved my makeup and toothbrush and hairbrush to the kitchen - I only have one bathroom but at least I have the kitchen sink to do things like brush my teeth.

I also take this as a Sign that it's a time to ask the plumber guy about how to work the logistics of getting the crummy old ceramic floor tile gone, the subfloor fixed where it's starting to subside, and get a new toilet. The one there is older than I am! (it is stamped with a manufacturing date of 1965)

I'm apprehensive because often reno work here proceeds way too slowly, and if I'm without a toilet for long.....well, I'll be staying in a motel. (But not the one I stayed in last May. It was really shabby and nasty and I'd rather pay more and go somewhere else). No, there's no one I'd be comfortable asking if they have a guest room. So I'm REALLY hoping they can at least manage the subfloor and toilet in one day, and if I have to wait a day or two for a floor guy, I could just wash myself and my hair in the kitchen sink (because I wouldn't want to get the bare wood subfloor wet)

It's stressing me out a little. I'm trying to ignore it. If I have to I'll do it; I'm not taking a "vacation" this summer so maybe I just count a few hundred dollars to stay at a motel a couple nights if necessary as a sort of vacation? (Heck, if I didn't think the guys might need me to answer questions or make decisions, I might just go somewhere ELSE, like somewhere out of town)

I worked until lunchtime on data entry, and then decided I wanted to get lunch out. Partly I just didn't want to go back home and think about that sink, partly I felt like I needed I treat. I went to a coffee shop I'd never been in here (I had not known they had food) and got a ham and cheese croissant and a chai. It was....okay. Not great, not as nice as the food from CJ's in Denison but it was fine. Better than fast food and the online menus I looked at for other places were not as appealing. 

After that, wal-mart. I needed toilet cleaner (after all, if someone's gonna work in your bathroom, it needs to be as clean as it can be). My intention was to also get one of those make up mirrors on a stand - I had wanted one for a little while but had never got one, and having one now would make it easier this morning and tomorrow (and any other morning where I have to use the kitchen sink to get ready). But I forgot that, because Wal-mart is renovating and it's impossible to get around and impossible to find things. 

However, I did get shredded cabbage for okonomiyaki this weekend, and the cleaner I needed. And I found this:

 It's a little alarm clock. Shaped like a dinosaur. I had been wanting a small alarm clock to have next to my bed - I had been using my phone since my knee injury last year, but  I'd rather leave it on charge overnight and there's no convenient plug. And the nice thing about this is it lights up for about 30 seconds (and changes color!) when you tap the snooze button, so in the middle of the night, you can easily see what time it is. 

But the annoying thing? Instead of just being in a box, it's in a box with an anti theft device that's annoying to remove (it was a $10 clock! It was inexpensive!)

Little screws! Attaching the clock to its box! At first I thought "well, okay, maybe these are the attachment points for the battery cover, and you just reinstall them later" but no....there's an even smaller screw holding on the battery cover. So I had to search for a Phillips head screwdriver to remove it from the box. But I finally got it out and the batteries in.....

and realized I had forgotten to buy the make up mirror.

So I went back (after first checking online to be sure they had one in stock). Got it, so now I have that. But still - a frustrating day. 

And tomorrow after my doctor checkup I have to clean the bathroom and try not to be too anxious about "strange people are coming in to my house"

But maybe if this - and the eventual other repairs - go okay, maybe I get up my courage and FINALLY replace the dishwasher this fall, given that I finally have the money for that AND the subfloor repair.