Was I relieved? Well, not exactly. I knew that I did not have time to take care of it before we were heading out of town so it was just going to have to wait until we returned. Then we returned and there was that snow storm, so it had to wait for a few days until things in Seattle thawed out and I could head to Lowes to find the strange plastic attachment doohickey. Yup, that is the technical term!
See, how it is held on there? Those little plastic things that allow the face plate to just pop into place? Two of them had broken off.
Sadly, as I wrote earlier, Lowes was no help that day, which is how I ended up venturing to Goodwill and scoring the beautiful piece that is now in my entry way. Still, the broken vanity has been annoying me since then. We don't use that bathroom all that much, but each time I venture in there I cringe at the board just lying across the basin.
For someone who loves projects as much as I do, we aren't really the home DIYers, and we certainly don't have much going on in the way of home repair tools. Now, if you are in need of tools to work on your car - we've got those covered! For the house, however, it is me and my trusty drill.
When I moved to Seattle from Ohio, I was the one who brought the majority of the home tools that we currently use. Yup, that's right, me, the girl. I used to joke that I dated men for their tools and or their music. That's only about 5% true. This drill, however, was purchased one morning at 6am when I was back from a summer in Vermont and needed to do some work on my apartment in Ohio. I was totally done with the guy I had been seeing before I departed, and although he did have awesome tools and was kind enough to help me build a closet and hang a lovely door, those were not reasons to pick up a phone and dials his number ever again. So as a declaration of my independence and total frustration I went out and bought a drill. I probably should have spent more time researching the purchase, but I was a broke grad student at the time, it was on sale, it was cordless, and so it was coming home so that I could put holes in something! The drill and a medium sized tool kit from my grandfather are about all I've got, and they do handle a surprising number of jobs.
In leaving Lowes and trying to determine what I would do next, I recalled that I had some wood in the house. More specifically, I had some wood shims lying around from purchasing shims last summer to deal with one of our dressers. So I figured I would see if I could somehow make use of that wood and just "make it work."
Yeah.... no. This was a total fail.
I emailed a handy friend of mine a picture of the plastic piece to see if he knew what it was called so that I could find it online. Sadly, he was of no help in that area. I know that I don't NEED to find the exact plastic piece, but I am going to need something, something more than shims to get the vanity back together. Truthfully, at this point I think some shallow L-brackets will do, but that will require me making bit of time to head back to Lowes to see what they have so that I can get the vanity back together again. Time is getting tight as the due date of the dissertation approaches.
Right now, I really am just frustrated each time I walk into the bathroom as it still looks like this.
I guess this is why I've been working in my other office. Back to revising the Introduction -- home repairs will have to wait for another day or bout of procrastination.
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