Blonde?

Do you ever feel like you just had a blonde moment? I have been full of them for a while now. I used to have very blonde hair, but not so much anymore. When I had the blonde hair, I am sure I was way more intelligent than I seem to be these days. Okay, I didn't have as many blonde moments anyways. If you have been feeling a bit blonde these days, then I read on. Hopefully my blondeness will make you feel much better.

Recently, we were having some problems with the shower drain in the upstairs bathroom. The water was draining at less than snails pace. I don't know about you, but I am not a huge fan of standing in water while I shower. I figured it was my hair clogging the old drain, but I found it odd that it seemed to come on suddenly. I expressed my concern to my hubby and he said that he had tried to plunge it a few times with no luck.

I had just enough drano left to put down the drain. Usually this is a sure thing, however this time it did not work. I decided to try it again, so off to the store I went to stock up on more drano. I didn't want to run out, so I bought 3 bottles. My hubby did not share in my enthusiasm for poreing all of that drano into the old pipes, but I was determined that I was going to get that sucker unclogged.

Once again, I pored half of the bottle of drano down the drain. Much wiser this time, I decided to let it work its magic for a while longer. After 45 minutes or so, I went back up and flushed those pipes with some nice hot water. (Me, thinking to myself.-->) Arrrr. It didn't work this time either. Perhaps something fell down in there and is causing it to clog. I know. I'll find an old hanger and bend it so that I can shove it down there and see if I can fish anything out. After many attempts to reel something in, I decided I was just going to have to try the Drano again. Third times a charm, right? WRONG! Still clogged. It was time to surrender and accept the fact that I was destined to spend my days swimming in shower water.

The detective in me was not willing to accept this. Once there is a mystery, she can not shake it. She does not give up until she finds the answer or knows that she has exhausted every avenue. I suddenly had a light bulb moment. I remembered a bathtub incident that had occurred a couple of weeks earlier while giving Colter a bath. He discovered this lever that moved up and down like a light switch, and he loves his light switches. Colter played and played with that "switch" in the tub. I thought it was fine, because I had no idea what it was. I had never seen one before. For all I knew, it was just some decorative doo-hickey.

I decided to mess with that lever and see what would happen. What do you know? The water was being pulled out of that tub at moch 10.

*Smacks forehead* Heres your sign......