the Battled Queen

I did a lot of letter-writing today and am currently overwhelmed with a bout of nostalgia.

In other news, I repaired a sink! Yes, in fact, I CAN survive on my own AND I'm self-sufficient! Get ready for the story.

So I'm doing the dishes, minding my own business, when I start to realize I'm hearing a lot more running water than I should be hearing. Plus, my toes are getting uncomfortably... well, soaking wet. I look down and a river--I kid you not, a river--is pouring from beneath the kitchen sink. I think, Well. That cannot be good.

So while my pizza burns in the oven--one I made from scratch thanks to my lovely cousin's recipe :)--I fling open the cabinets under the sink

AND THE PIPES WERE ALL DISCONNECTED!!!!

Nope. Definitely not good.

So while water gushes everywhere, I scramble for a towel and try to scrape all the bottles of cleaning solution out from under the sink, so the stuff doesn't all get wet and make a huge bubble bath.

When the towel proves insufficient, I grab a huge trash can and begin collecting the waterfall gushing from the sink. I soak up all the surrounding water as the coursing river slows to a trickle, and decide to try an experiment.

I turn back on the faucet.


Idiot.


Unleash Niagara.

Well, at least I was sleuthing. The pipe that had become disconnected--an elbow pipe, not a goose neck as I was to learn--was supposed to be connected to this vertical pipe that drained the sink; however, the joint was off and the nut that was supposed to be screwing the two together was failing royally at its job.

After much hard work and an emergency "Call-a-Friend" (my dad), I ended up figuring it out on my own. I jigged the pipe up and made my OWN seal--since the one that was supposed to be working was...not working.

Now, hours later, my jig is still functioning beautifully and I'm extremely proud of my handiwork.
I may not know how to make Chicken Parmesan, but I can make a mean batch of baked goods, I can dig out a driveway, I can battle spiders, and hold my own beneath the sink.