Jen (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jeninmaine) wrote,@ 2007-08-21 14:10:00 |
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The latest blah blah blah
Funny how I can write about anything, but I never get as many notes as I do for entries about poop and pee. We all do it, so I guess we can all identify with it.
Anyway, here's the continuing saga...the toilet is brand new, installed less than a year ago. At the time it was installed they cleaned the flange on the septic pipe and put a new wax seal on it. The toilet doesn't move at all when you sit on it (I tried, just to test it) so I'm not concerned about the seal with the flange. I'm sure it's just pee that's gotten under the edge of the toilet and is living somewhere in the gap.
There was a (short) period where we were letting kidlet stand up to pee as it seemed like he was getting it in the bowl, only after a week or so we started smelling pee and found a literal puddle of it to the rear on the left side of the toilet that the small garbage can was sitting in, ew. It was baffling. How the heck did he get it all the way back there? I figure he was overshooting while standing, though it really was a lot of pee so it must have been a cumulative thing.
After that point we ask him to sit down at home and we even have a little padded vinyl potty seat that has a ridge along the inside where it fits into the toilet seat to catch splatter. Regardless of this, I think he's still splattering. The unfortunate truth about the intact penis is that the skin can be pointing anywhichway even if the penis is pointing in the right direction. The only suggestion I can make to him is to pull his foreskin straight out before aiming to pee in an attempt to straighten the line of fire. He does this well enough, but even with that precaution it's not always predictable which direction the stream will go. Once in a while he'll use the toilet without the padded seat and I'm always worried that his pee is sneaking out through the gap beneath the toilet seat and running down the side. Anything is possible.
SO, anyway, all pee talk aside, late last night I went into the bathroom and it smelled cleaner, but I could still detect a faint scent of urine under the tea tree oil scent. I pretty much grumbled about it and went to bed. This morning when I used the toilet I wasn't able to smell anything offensive at all. I didn't get right down and put my nose in there but I'm hoping that maybe the majority of the smell is being taken care of by the TTO.
I think what we'll end up doing if the pee smell comes back is just suck it up, buy a new wax seal for $2, and replace the damned thing ourselves. Michael would of course be doing the heavy toilet lifting but it would give me the opportunity to really clean the heck out of the floor and the underside of the toilet base before putting it back, and then we could caulk around the bottom of the base to seal it off. He had metnioned just sealing it as-is, but I'd rather not do that as the stuff I've read online suggests that you caulk everything but the back so if there is a leak you actually know about it rather than rotting out the floor under your toilet and ending up in the basement.
If we do replace the seal I will surely take pictures. ;)
Check this out, though, I found a full tutorial complete with pictures at HammerZone. It makes it look almost...easy! disgusting, but easy. Let's just hope we don't get to that point.
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Saw Crazy Madeline again today while dropping kidlet off at school. She was somewhat far behind us but kidlet saw her and started talking to her, then he opened the gate for she and her son and I held the door for all of them. She did say "Thank you" as she passed through the door but I don't know if it was directed at my kid or me.
Can I help that I really don't want her speaking to my child? I mean, for almost a year now she won't even look me in the eye much less say two words to me so I really don't think she has the right to talk to my son. There's not really a good way to do anything about it, either, other than saying, "Hey, Madeline...don't talk to my kid." That's not very friendly so I haven't said anything as yet. This is the second time she's held a conversation with him in front of me, however, and I can say it makes me feel pretty hostile.
I did get some satisfaction that I was headed to work dressed in my adorable Keen Mary Janes, a tea-length layered skirt with little sparkly things on it, and a zip hoodie thrown over a tee shirt with the Jolly Roger on the front while she swished by in dress pants with what sounded like full-length nylons underneath. Shudder.
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OMG I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING. I really have nothing appropriate to wear to Keith's wedding this weekend. The closest I have is a bridesmaid dress I wore to J&C's wedding six years ago, and while I think it might fit it's still pretty...well...it's a bridesmaid dress! So I must go to the store. I was supposed to go with Jenn on Sunday but it didn't work out so I'll probably just go by myself. Ugh. I detest shopping by myself. I'm hoping I can just find something cute that doesn't look too horrid and I can possibly wear other places, like work. Ideally I want to find a nice skirt and some sort of top. I don't even know any more, I hate shopping for tops, I don't even look at pleats and seams and arms any more, I just look for "fits".
...
Speaking of my pregnancy body, I haven't gained any weight yet. I know that just saying that will cause me to balloon up like a whale, but there it is. I'm very disgusted with my starting condition, however...if I ever have any more kids I am not going to start out at this weight, nuh uh ever again. I feel so gross. With kidlet I was probably 30 pounds lighter and though I wasn't fashion-model material, I was a size 16 and felt at least a little more, "contained" is a good way to put it. Right now I feel so sloppy and jubbly. It's my goal to only gain 10-15 pounds this entire pregnancy since I've already got plenty of bodyfat to support the baby and hopefully the pregnant belly will fill out enough that my already existing plain-old-fat-belly won't be as noticeable. Right now I look pretty much about the same, though I can see a difference as I'm wider but my clothes still fit, just in a weird way. I know I'm going to hit that point where I look pregnant but strangers aren't going to be sure if they should congratulate me because I could just be fat. That's going to be fun!
The only saving grace I've got is Autumn and Winter are coming soon so I can cover up. Whew.
The weather has been crazy around here lately, it feels like early October! It's been getting down into the high 30s at night and I actually had to turn the furnace on for the first time last night as I just couldn't get my feet to warm up. I guess it's time to put the extra blanket on the bed. To be honest I love this weather, I love bright, warm sunny days with that nice cool breeze, mild slightly chilly evenings, and then bundling up under the blankets at night. An added bonus is that we've only used our air conditioner maybe three days this summer, so that's good for our electric bill. It's definitely time to get the furnace serviced.
Of course that hurricane is coming up the coast soon and poor Keith and Misty's wedding is outside...I'm hoping the weather holds for Saturday. Right now weather.com is reporting "Partly Cloudy" for Saturday but thunderstorms the Friday before and the Sunday after...eek! Keeping my fingers crossed.
Funny how I can write about anything, but I never get as many notes as I do for entries about poop and pee. We all do it, so I guess we can all identify with it.
Anyway, here's the continuing saga...the toilet is brand new, installed less than a year ago. At the time it was installed they cleaned the flange on the septic pipe and put a new wax seal on it. The toilet doesn't move at all when you sit on it (I tried, just to test it) so I'm not concerned about the seal with the flange. I'm sure it's just pee that's gotten under the edge of the toilet and is living somewhere in the gap.
There was a (short) period where we were letting kidlet stand up to pee as it seemed like he was getting it in the bowl, only after a week or so we started smelling pee and found a literal puddle of it to the rear on the left side of the toilet that the small garbage can was sitting in, ew. It was baffling. How the heck did he get it all the way back there? I figure he was overshooting while standing, though it really was a lot of pee so it must have been a cumulative thing.
After that point we ask him to sit down at home and we even have a little padded vinyl potty seat that has a ridge along the inside where it fits into the toilet seat to catch splatter. Regardless of this, I think he's still splattering. The unfortunate truth about the intact penis is that the skin can be pointing anywhichway even if the penis is pointing in the right direction. The only suggestion I can make to him is to pull his foreskin straight out before aiming to pee in an attempt to straighten the line of fire. He does this well enough, but even with that precaution it's not always predictable which direction the stream will go. Once in a while he'll use the toilet without the padded seat and I'm always worried that his pee is sneaking out through the gap beneath the toilet seat and running down the side. Anything is possible.
SO, anyway, all pee talk aside, late last night I went into the bathroom and it smelled cleaner, but I could still detect a faint scent of urine under the tea tree oil scent. I pretty much grumbled about it and went to bed. This morning when I used the toilet I wasn't able to smell anything offensive at all. I didn't get right down and put my nose in there but I'm hoping that maybe the majority of the smell is being taken care of by the TTO.
I think what we'll end up doing if the pee smell comes back is just suck it up, buy a new wax seal for $2, and replace the damned thing ourselves. Michael would of course be doing the heavy toilet lifting but it would give me the opportunity to really clean the heck out of the floor and the underside of the toilet base before putting it back, and then we could caulk around the bottom of the base to seal it off. He had metnioned just sealing it as-is, but I'd rather not do that as the stuff I've read online suggests that you caulk everything but the back so if there is a leak you actually know about it rather than rotting out the floor under your toilet and ending up in the basement.
If we do replace the seal I will surely take pictures. ;)
Check this out, though, I found a full tutorial complete with pictures at HammerZone. It makes it look almost...easy! disgusting, but easy. Let's just hope we don't get to that point.
...
Saw Crazy Madeline again today while dropping kidlet off at school. She was somewhat far behind us but kidlet saw her and started talking to her, then he opened the gate for she and her son and I held the door for all of them. She did say "Thank you" as she passed through the door but I don't know if it was directed at my kid or me.
Can I help that I really don't want her speaking to my child? I mean, for almost a year now she won't even look me in the eye much less say two words to me so I really don't think she has the right to talk to my son. There's not really a good way to do anything about it, either, other than saying, "Hey, Madeline...don't talk to my kid." That's not very friendly so I haven't said anything as yet. This is the second time she's held a conversation with him in front of me, however, and I can say it makes me feel pretty hostile.
I did get some satisfaction that I was headed to work dressed in my adorable Keen Mary Janes, a tea-length layered skirt with little sparkly things on it, and a zip hoodie thrown over a tee shirt with the Jolly Roger on the front while she swished by in dress pants with what sounded like full-length nylons underneath. Shudder.
...
OMG I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING. I really have nothing appropriate to wear to Keith's wedding this weekend. The closest I have is a bridesmaid dress I wore to J&C's wedding six years ago, and while I think it might fit it's still pretty...well...it's a bridesmaid dress! So I must go to the store. I was supposed to go with Jenn on Sunday but it didn't work out so I'll probably just go by myself. Ugh. I detest shopping by myself. I'm hoping I can just find something cute that doesn't look too horrid and I can possibly wear other places, like work. Ideally I want to find a nice skirt and some sort of top. I don't even know any more, I hate shopping for tops, I don't even look at pleats and seams and arms any more, I just look for "fits".
...
Speaking of my pregnancy body, I haven't gained any weight yet. I know that just saying that will cause me to balloon up like a whale, but there it is. I'm very disgusted with my starting condition, however...if I ever have any more kids I am not going to start out at this weight, nuh uh ever again. I feel so gross. With kidlet I was probably 30 pounds lighter and though I wasn't fashion-model material, I was a size 16 and felt at least a little more, "contained" is a good way to put it. Right now I feel so sloppy and jubbly. It's my goal to only gain 10-15 pounds this entire pregnancy since I've already got plenty of bodyfat to support the baby and hopefully the pregnant belly will fill out enough that my already existing plain-old-fat-belly won't be as noticeable. Right now I look pretty much about the same, though I can see a difference as I'm wider but my clothes still fit, just in a weird way. I know I'm going to hit that point where I look pregnant but strangers aren't going to be sure if they should congratulate me because I could just be fat. That's going to be fun!
The only saving grace I've got is Autumn and Winter are coming soon so I can cover up. Whew.
The weather has been crazy around here lately, it feels like early October! It's been getting down into the high 30s at night and I actually had to turn the furnace on for the first time last night as I just couldn't get my feet to warm up. I guess it's time to put the extra blanket on the bed. To be honest I love this weather, I love bright, warm sunny days with that nice cool breeze, mild slightly chilly evenings, and then bundling up under the blankets at night. An added bonus is that we've only used our air conditioner maybe three days this summer, so that's good for our electric bill. It's definitely time to get the furnace serviced.
Of course that hurricane is coming up the coast soon and poor Keith and Misty's wedding is outside...I'm hoping the weather holds for Saturday. Right now weather.com is reporting "Partly Cloudy" for Saturday but thunderstorms the Friday before and the Sunday after...eek! Keeping my fingers crossed.
