sorry for killing the thread with my frustration! obviously I didn't know it's power. I think the worst part is that I just want to take a shower, and there's no way I can right now with the state of the bathroom.

It's only two months, though. I can do this for two months.

And Emily? I think my vote would be SF or Portland, if it were me.

SA, what beth said about a shower on a hose. That's what my parents had for years. It actually makes washing just your hair a lot easier.

You can also rig it to hang from a hook on the wall or ceiling so that you have a more regular showery experience.

Well, I bought a shower head with a hose that I figured would work, but there's no place to screw the hose in to get water. I'm wondering if there's some alternate kind of attachment for the really strange antiquated faucet on the tub.

There probably is. Since figuring out adapters can be a bitch, one trick I've used in the past is to press Fimo into the faucet so that I can bring it into the hardware store and show them exactly what size I have and where the thread is.

I lived in a tenement apartment in NYC for two months, with a bathtub in the kitchen and the toilet out in the hall. I got good at washing my hair in the tub by combining putting my head under the faucet as far as I could get it and using a plstic cup to dump water over my head. It is awkward, but can be done. My hair was almost to my waist at the time, too.

SA, there is, but I wouldn't know how to find the right one. You need my dad.

I might suggest, though, that is one of those things where it might be worth going to your parents and seeing about replacing at least the faucet - not like they'd be able to lease it without a shower, and shouldn't be that big an expense.

I'm going to take a picture of the faucet and bring it in to a hardware store. And I will probably suggest to them that they need to make the tub a shower, too. I don't think they have realistic expectations for this house at all.

The smart Bitches have offered the good suggestions so I'll just offer hugs. {{SA}} A shower is a beautiful thing.

Staking out a comfort area and piling stuff in the other places sounds like a workable plan. And of course a trip to the helpful hardware man, perhaps with a picture of the tub faucet. eta: which on xpost I see you will be doing

{{SA}}

I cleaned out the freezer and brought food to the next door neighbor's garage freezer. I have some food cooking in the oven that I'll just freeze again after it is cooked I suppose. I moved the milk, but I'm hoping it's cool enough for the fridge food to keep for a little while.

I called Brandsmart where I bought the thing and they told me someone would be out FRIDAY to fix it. And if it ends up not being an emergency they will charge me $60. I asked her if having all my food spoiled was an emergency by their definition. She claimed that some people call for service and then have no problem. If I didn't have to live with the smell I would leave the fish in the freezer until Friday and see if the repair person thinks it qualifies as an emergency.

I'll just call tomorrow to KitchenAid because there is no real help on the holiday. Now to clean up the melted slop from the bottom of the freezer. sigh

I spent 2 hours in the yard before it got too warm for me to be in direct sun. Made the first part of my to do list for next week . too awake to nap , so I think I will pull out the beads and finish watching X2.

cleaning my fridges is on the list, but not, thank goodness due to Laura's problems.