{"id":191,"date":"2005-10-10T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=191"},"modified":"2005-10-10T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T03:59:00","slug":"i-fall-to-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/10\/10\/i-fall-to-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"I Fall to Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it weird how something as mundane as a clogged bathtub can make a girl fall completely apart?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t quite know what happened. One minute I&#8217;m working the plunger, the next I&#8217;m sobbing like a girl.<\/p>\n<p>I mean really, what the fuck? The bathtub drain was working just fine only this morning when I took a shower. Tonight, after Shannon takes her bath suddenly it won&#8217;t drain and the only thing keeping it from flooding everywhere is the little &#8211; I guess it&#8217;s a backup &#8211; hole under the little flippy thing you shift up or down to hold the water in. There&#8217;s a foot of water in the tub, it&#8217;s cold because of course my faucet never shuts completely off no matter how hard I twist the knobs, and I can&#8217;t for the life of me figure out how to get it to drain. AND when I lean forward and push slightly on the wall tiles to get a better angle for the plunger, three goddamned tiles cave inwards to reveal a natty inner wall.<\/p>\n<p>So I stand back and look at my horrible bathroom and I lost it. I had a good cry. I hate this apartment so much but I can&#8217;t afford to move. I hate the bathroom and it&#8217;s putrid yellow tiles on ALL the walls. I don&#8217;t fucking know how to do caulking! What were they thinking when they designed this shit? I hate the Brady wallpaper out in the stairwell. I hate grocery shopping and basing what I buy on what we can carry up three flights of steps. I hate that I can&#8217;t see if my car&#8217;s being ripped off because I can&#8217;t see my car full stop. <\/p>\n<p>And right now, I hate the damn non-draining bathtub.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, I&#8217;m whinging about it in a blog instead of trying to fix it. But I&#8217;m tired, frustrated, angry &#8211; angry with the tub, with life, with just everything that&#8217;s bugging me right now. I figured I should stop trying to fix it before I really break something. And yeah I&#8217;ll probably have to call the landlord &#8211; the same landlord I&#8217;m still waiting on to fix the glass in my shower doors that split over a year ago when Shannon slipped in the tub and fell against them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to bed. If I drown during the night, then so be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it weird how something as mundane as a clogged bathtub can make a girl fall completely apart? I don&#8217;t quite know what happened. One minute I&#8217;m working the plunger,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}