Tub Troubles

Apparently, it is possible to shower and take a bath at the same time. At least in Chateau de Steph&Scot.

For as long as I can remember, we have had drainage issues in the tub at our current apartment. It used to appear that it was just a slow drain, with maybe a half inch of water pooling when I took a shower. Slowly but surely, it's gotten worse and worse.


This may or may not have been exacerbated by my someone's brilliant idea to dump the Christmas tree stand that was full of water and pine needles down the tub drain last year. Irrelevant.


We've tried Liquid Drano, we've tried plunging the daylights out of it, we've tried one of those snake things on the infomercials that claim to fix ANY backed up pipe (that was a really gross experience, by the way). It all seems to work for about 10 minutes, but the next shower inevitably ends up being half shower, half bath.

Example: I shaved my legs in the shower the other day, and the water was above my ankles. That's like, 4 inches people.

Another example: I decided to rinse out my red hair dye (did I tell you guys I'm dying my red hair.. red?) while I was in the shower about a month ago. It looked like I was standing in a pool of blood. And yes, it left a temporary ring around the tub. Ew.

So yesterday we tried FOAMING Drano. I have no idea what the difference is between that and regular gel/liquid Drano, but Scot was all about it. By the way he was talking, I thought it be magical.

Guess what?

I'm not sure why I look like I have clown feet. Gross.

It didn't work. I took this about 2 minutes after getting out of a 5 minute shower. 5 minutes!!

Don't get me wrong, I love baths.. when I actually want to take a bath. And when I'm not standing in 4 inches of soapy Steph filth water.

I'm not sure what is down that pipe (besides pine needles that are still surfacing after 7 months), but we're at our wits end. We're moving soon (foreshadowing!) and would very much like to not lose half our security deposit because of a drain.

Speaking of which, our bathtub sink drain is pretty backed up too. I did not put pine needles down that one.

Any suggestions of something that might work or what might be the issue here? Help would be appreciated!

Website Warbles

I've been doing a lot of wedding website research lately. I started out with The Knot, moved onto WedSpace, and ended up with My Wedding, which I still wasn't happy with. I don't need the creme de la creme when it comes to a website, but I like to customize. And make things colorful and personalized. And, I don't know, justify something to center if I really want to. None of these websites were giving me that option, and I was getting mad. Grr.

So then I thought, what if I recreate a Blogger (or WordPress) site to make it look like a normal website, and have that be my wedding website? GENIUS. I basically know how to edit and format Blogger to make it do something close to what I want, so I gave that a go. Then I kept hearing how fantabulous WordPress was, so I tried that, and failed.

Back to Blogger.

Here's a preview of what I have so far!

I seriously have to look up how to do a screen capture on a Mac every.single.time.

It's still a work in progress, but I have to say that I'm kind of loving it. Our colors will (should) run along this general theme:

So it's kind of all matchy-matchy, which I love.

I also decided that I want to expand on this blog a bit; maybe separate some of the wedding related posts by using the Pages widget, and eventually linking to a new, pure wedding-only blog. What do you think??

Note: I really did give a go at WordPress the other day, got extremely aggravated and confused, cursed it to hell, and then came back to Blogger. If you can help me figure out how to use it and understand what the G css is and how I go about using it, I just might bake you some of my world-famous snickerdoodles. Well, apartment-famous anyway.