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Normally, my bathroom looks like this:

When I got home today, it looked like this:

Not that I'm not thrilled the Hello Kitty toilet is going by the wayside, but surprise!bathroom!remodel was not factored into my evening's plans.

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[pocketmouse]

Must be the week for it. We've had a nasty bathroom floor (bad tiling job) since I moved in last year. They fixed it, and by fixed it I mean laid down a bunch of tiles with caulk and called it fixed. So of course it came up again, but they've got new maintenance people, and when one of them came by yesterday to do something to the A/C, he saw it and offered to fix it. Offered! Will wonders never cease. They're doing it tomorrow. Which is, of course, my first day off in weeks. ...yay?

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Isn't that kinda illegal? Like, a residence without a working toilet . . ?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, the guy came right back and it's already installed, but the sink won't go in until tomorrow.

Thank god. I definitely don't fare well without a toilet.

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

Personally if I came home to that I'd probably faint - and try to collapse with my legs crossed because i know why i'd have headed straight for the bathroom!

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

@____@.......

[venivincere]

...That's a tad bit inconvenient. He's coming tonight to fix, correct? Or at least leaving you a hose and bucket? (And digging you an outhouse?)

[blue_ant]

That's what I was wondering, too.

[indyanne.livejournal.com]

I was wondering the same thing.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's already come and gone and repaired it, thank goodness. The sink's still missing, but that'll go in tomorrow.

[tartancravat.livejournal.com]

:/

Have a cool link, since you don't get a toilet: airship harmonicas (http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/airship-harmonicas/).

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HOW AWESOME IS THAT.

[revieloutionne.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one wondering why you have a "before" picture?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall Sam gave us an apartment tour when he moved in, though I don't remember if it included the bathroom ...

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I took pictures of everywhere when I moved in :) It's a good policy as a renter, to have your apartment documented. Plus I wanted to show off!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, that doesn't help the crazy.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Not so much, no.

[eac.livejournal.com]

This IS the kind of thing that wouldn't be at all helpful...

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

UM HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO PEE?!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Very carefully, I imagine.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

D: I'm glad you put a new toilet in for you last night. EEEEEE

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Don't they have to give notice before remodelling?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Technically they did. The super told me a couple of weeks ago "we're going to be giving you a new sink" and I was like "Sure, whenever" but the whole...retiling thing wasn't really mentioned.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

that fucking sucks. and then you have to clean your tub. b/c you don't wanna step on leaky stuff from the dead toilet, as that would be gross and unhygienic.

i have to make frosting. which has nothing to do w/ your toilet. i'm glad it's replaced, sam. though the broken sink is problematic.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, fortunately there was no apparent leaking from the toilet, so the shower wasn't any worse than it usually is (my shower = not the most hygenic place in the house, but it's not like anyone else ever uses it).

[cathouse-mary.livejournal.com]

Sam, stuff like this only happens to you.

However, I have deep and sincere envy for your radiator.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty great radiator. All of my radiators are silver. Some of them are not well-situated to facilitate furniture placement, but they do look COOL.

[dbzlives.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hear you on radiators and furniture placement. The radiator in my living room is roughly the size of a small sofa, which prevents me from having an actual sofa.

[swordage]

My thought process:
1. BUT WHERE WILL YOU POOP
2. WHY IS THE POOPING RECEPTACLE IN THE SHOWER
3. WAIT THAT MEANS YOU CAN'T USE THE SHOWER EITHER
4. THIS IS A NIGHTMARE

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Because at the very least, you can do number 1 in the shower.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my thought process when I walked into the bathroom, yeah. :D

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

Earlier this week, I went home and found I had no power. When I recently moved, I told my power company my new address and requested power. Turns out they wrote the address down wrong.

But now I know to be grateful that I at least still had a toilet!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

By wrote, please say they did not use pen and paper.

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

I assume they actually clicked an incorrect box on the computer. Street, Avenue...they're all the same, right?

[firynze.livejournal.com]

...at least they contained the chaos in the tub?!

So it wasn't cute and four legged.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Surprise Toilet Fixing...I honestly expected something like 'Water pressure turned off because coyote got into Chicago Water And Power Maintenance Facility'.

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! A surprise!

[cat63.livejournal.com]

This is the sort of thing where one would really expect advance notification.

Reminds me of the old joke about a thief stealing all the urinals from a police stations and the police having nothing to go on...

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'd never heard that one!

He did tell me they would be replacing my sink, eventually, but retiling and replacing the toilet weren't discussed...

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard that one!

Perhaps you're too young :-)

but retiling and replacing the toilet weren't discussed...

I feel I would have been somewhat miffed, under those circumstances. But at least you didn't have to wait too long for new loo.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, I love that I have new bathroom tiles and a toilet that now flushes properly, and I'm looking forward to a sink that doesn't leak. So in that sense I don't feel I can be too annoyed. My emotions were more along the lines of "worried I won't have somewhere to poop".