The SEWER!!! (insert creepy movie music here)

a-hem so it's been a while. i know i know.
i've been busy getting married :)
and now just when i thought i could get some new gutters....
our back drain floods. and the basement toilet looses water at an alarming rate. and we shopvac and bail out the flooded drain so it doesn't freeze and bust a pipe.
and we call roter rooter who you should know, won't charge you to snake a line if they can't clear it. but he couldn't clear it, which was the beginning of the really bad news.
so we had another plumber come out to clear the drain from inside at the stack pipe and then he scoped it, we've got it on vhs so you know, the next movie night at our house when you can flush the toilet again will feature popcorn and "The SEWER!" daa daa DAA!
so we can't flush, shower, wash dishes, etc. (thank god i got the laundry done) and we get to have the basement floor dug up for about 10-13 feet depending on the damage and we get some new piping...it's exciting times at the homestead.
it's expensive times at the homestead...and those gutters? yea that's a pipe dream that won't happen probably for another year... sigh.

luckily we've got some pretty amazing friends who've just moved into the neighborhood and have opened their home up to us which i think takes a lot of love--i mean they literally JUST moved in and i remember when we did that, we didn't want to share that experience with anyone because the house was our cool new toy. but they're both better people than us. :)
they play well with others, make up super comfy beds and leave me breakfast sandwiches every morning NYC style. it's a pretty amazing thing. and we're lucky they like us so much because it could be until next week that we're using their toilet, their shower, and washing their dishes.

ah home ownership....sometimes it makes me miss apartment living.

but sewer gases--i thought they could kill you but it wasn't so bad....