This Old House

When friends come over to our house for the first time we often hear, "Wow, what a cool old house you live in! It has so much character, we just love it!". Most of the time we agree, but tonight we experienced more of the Old and less of the Cool.

Apparently somewhere in this giant building one of the Cool Old Pipes is clogged, and our kitchen sink is currently full of our upstairs neighbor's shower water. Only it's black. Soapy, but black. Gag. So, as any more showers from him will surely flood our kitchen, we got to meet our new neighbor (did I mention we had not met him yet before tonight?) by asking him to please not shower. Lovely introduction, don't you think? He'll probably pee in the shower now.

Here is Bryan, dutifully plunging the sink. Completely ineffective, but a great manly effort.

Oh, and as a sidenote, the ladybugs have decided to invade again. In February. During a snowstorm. Are they really seeking shelter or just harrassing me??? Shouldn't they be dead???

Drama, drama, drama...