#24...Almost...

One of my goals is to fix something in the house all by myself.

So when the toilet started running, I was actually pretty dang excited!

Anthony had mentioned something about needing a red rubber ring and just having to replace it. Super easy, right?

So while he was at work on Friday, I thought I'd surprise him!

Well I went to home depot and went to the plumbing section and there were 2 different kinds of red rubber rings and some other red rubber things. So I asked a guy working there (I don't think he was normally working in that section, but he seemed to know what he was talking about). He told me to get the other red rubber things - toilet flappers. However, I got home, took the lid off the toilet, and my toilet doesn't even have that part in it!

So I went back to home depot again, returned the toilet flappers, and bought the red rubber rings. Then I went back home, and switched it out. Easy.

Unfortunately, after turning the water back on, it didn't fix the problem.

Now, I got smart. I took a video of what the toilet was doing and the sounds it was making and took it back to home depot (for the 3rd time) and showed it to the actual plumbing specialist. He said that I had a little bit bigger problem than I thought. See, home builders like to skimp on little things like quality toilet parts, so even though the toilets have only been in use for about 6 months, their parts were already wearing out. So I had to replace the entire flushing mechanism.

He said it wasn't too difficult, so I went home, pulled out the instructions, and got to work!

I actually got pretty far, but then I realized that I needed a plumber's wrench and I knew we had one somewhere from installing the sink in the house, I just couldn't find it.

I was looking for that thing for at least a half hour. I knew what it looked like, but it was no where to be found!

That's when Anthony came home. And he walked over to right where I was looking, and pulled it right out.

Then he walked to the bathroom to see what I had done...

...And this is what he found:

And so, since it would have hurt his manhood or something to have his wife fix the toilet, he took over.

And finished it in like 10 minutes.

So I almost completed the goal.

I'm sure something else will break in the next 2 1/2 years though. So I should start earlier in the day so my husband doesn't come home in the middle. :)