I've accomplished quite a few things that I'm quite proud of lately. Today (or I guess technically yesterday), takes the cake, though.

The toilet in the girls bathroom had been driving me crazy for some time now. After it flushed, it would stop, but a few minutes later, you would hear the tank filling up again. This would go on all night and all day. I'm still not really sleeping well, so I would blame their toilet for keeping me up late at night.

Anyway, I looked it up, and it seemed like it was likely that we were suffering from a "leaky flapper". It seemed like a pretty easy fix. I went upstairs to take the old flapper off so I could buy a new one, and I couldn't figure out how to get the old flapper off. I became overwhelmed with the project and quit. I turned off the water to that toilet and locked that bathroom door when other kids were over so no one would use it. I'm sure that was a very healthy way of dealing with things! (Hush, I really DON"T want to hear it!)

So, anyway, today, I had had enough. I went back to the directions I found a while ago, and I went back upstairs to their bathroom. It said to "pop" off the flapper. So, I just did that. It was simple.

The girls and I were running out anyway, so we "popped" by Home Depot. I bought a new flapper for less than $6.00. When we got home, I "popped' on the new flapper. Honestly, the hardest part of all of this was adjusting the chain for the new flapper onto the - oh, let's call it the flush handle. No, let's call it the flusher. Yes, adjusting the chain onto the flusher. The rest was really easy. I fixed that toilet almost 12 hours ago and I have yet to hear the water running in it. I guess I now have to figure out something else to blame for my inability to get to sleep at a decent time. It certainly can't be my fault, can it?

knb