The Money Pit

I hadn't taken a shower in a couple of days (in my defense, it's been cool and rainy most of the week so I didn't need to) when I turned on the water for the shower this morning. Before I got in, I looked at the shower head and noticed that it was leaking and squirting water across the tub to the wallpapered wall on the opposite side. Not good since we don't want to redo the bathroom decor for a while. So I reached up to tighten the shower head. Even after a couple of turns, the leak wasn't going away. In fact, the whole shower head fell off and crashed to the bottom of the tub. Off to Home Depot we go!

This comes on top of another shower-related issue two days ago. We took down the shower curtain rod to remove the old funky curtain and the blue rings (more blue!!). When we put it back up, we noticed that it wasn't fitting as snugly as before. It wasn't until 7:30 Friday morning that we discovered how loose it really was. I was awakened to Bang! Bam! Clatter! Dammit! One light tug had sent the curtain rod crashing down just as my fiance finished his shower. We got it back up, but picked up a new rod today at Home Depot when we picked up a new shower head.

We watched the Money Pit Friday night, and while its exaggeration made us feel a lot better about all the things we've had to fix, having the shower head fall off randomly was a bit too reminiscent of Tom Hanks and Shelly Long.