The Plumber is Cracked

Remember this post when I showed the demolition of my bathroom and said it would look that way and worse for some time to come?  Yeah, that was the beginning of January.  It's now April and still not done.  I'm getting a wee tad desperate here.  I think the project is beginning to affect Mr. Lime's brain though.  Allow me to share.

I mentioned on Facebook a couple nights ago that I thought he may be spending too much time alone with pipes because I overheard him speaking to fixtures and pipes saying, "Come on, baby!  Oh yeah!  You're a dream come true!"  I thought if I dabbed some pipe dope behind my ears it may elicit some passionate encouragement directed at me.

We selected a shower, vanity, toilet, and tile and Mr. Lime has installed the shower.  Since the medicine cabinet just came in he said we needed to go get a light fixture and I wanted to get some paint chips to coordinate with a tile sample.  On the way to the store he complained the vanity being made in China, as were many other bathroom components.  I held up the porcelain tile square remaking that it had been made in USA.  I thought about it a moment and added that I thought porcelain may have been invented in China. 

Mr. Lime huffed, "The Chinese invented EVERYTHING....well...except for Velcro.  The aliens gave us that."

I asked, "Stonehenge, crop circles, and Velcro, huh?  All the works of extraterrestrials?"

He responded, "Definitely."

There ya have it, folks.  I thought my sanity was at stake in this whole process but it's clear his cheese has already slipped off his cracker.

I thought better of asking if Bigfoot worked in carpentry and the Loch Ness Monster was in HVAC.

What's the Gift for 24 Years?

Next year will be our silver anniversary but what is this years?  Is it the Linoleum Anniversary?  Faux Fur? Tupperware?  Whatever it is, we've reached it.  What a fairy tale it's been.  I mean look...here's a wedding picture that proves it must have been happily ever after, right?

Ok, so it snowed on our wedding day but I can't snow all of you.  Any of you who have been together any appreciable amount of time know life isn't a fairy tale.  There are times when it's a horror movie or a freak show.  But hey, Mr. Lime and I are each other's freaks (as evidenced here and here) and we've gotten this far together.

Folks who know us both sometimes scratch their heads because we have such divergent personalities.  They can't understand what brought us together or what keeps us together.  To that I say, "Duct tape and bungee cords!"  In that answer is expressed as much truth as humor. He may be the jock to my couch potato, the workaholic to my homebody, the reticent clam to my Chatty Cathy, and the impulsive knee-jerker to my agonizing deliberator but we both laugh at the same things...and we are both incredibly stubborn people.

Some years we have looked back and celebrated with laughter.  Some years we have looked each other in the eye with something more akin to, "I swear to God I will out last you!"  This year, there has been a lot of reflection during the period of rest after a long stretch of circumstantial suck in our shared life. It's been a good process.  I'm not happy for what it took to bring us to that point but I am glad we are there...so we can share some more laughs and channel that mutual stubbornness to surviving this world together.