Ew. Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!!!!! This morning Roto-Rooter came to check out the pipes in our kitchen sink. The building manager told them to fix the problem in the cheapest way possible. Nice to know they cut corners in a building where our rent is $2140 a month. The guy tried to snake out the pipes, but that didn't work. So, he needed to convince our manager that more needed to be done. They went to the pipes below in the garage were our kitchen sink and garbage disposal (and the ones of the people above us) drains. The first problem was that the guy said the pipes were WAY too small. They installed the wrong pipes in the building. The second problem was a massive sludge build up that needed to be snaked from both ends and have enzymes poured into it. And the worst problem, was when the guy took the pipe apart and a ball of maggots and rotting food dumped out on his head. Like I said at the beginning of this entry - ew!!! Remember how Rob and I kept calling maintenance because our kitchen sink was letting out a rancid rotting odor? And how maintenance kept telling us just to use lemons or a Plink? Well, this is why those never worked for us. There was a rotting ball of food covered in maggots down there. That's why the odor wouldn't go away. Isn't that a health hazard or something?

So... the plumbers came at 9am. They finished up their job around 3pm and then Rob and I headed down to Knott's. We ate dinner at the Chicken Dinner Restaurant and then headed into the park for our final Halloween Haunt visit until next year. This time, we were going to take it easy and just go on whatever we wanted to and leave early. We ended up going in the vampire maze, the TV maze, the spider maze, the mine ride (which is themed to be the underworld), the clown maze, the malice in wunderland maze, and the asylum maze. We decided to head out around midnight. I'm so glad that we did. They were about to close the freeway again and we just got through before the closure. Whew.

When we got home I felt scuzzy, so I wanted a shower. Unfortunately, I was off gauging where the track to our sliding glass door was and managed to break three of my toes while getting into the shower. They hurt like hell. I'll still be able to walk tomorrow, but I'll need to take it a bit easy. I've had broken toes before and while they hurt like hell, there's also nothing that can be done for them other than taking it easy. You can't splint them or put them in a cast or anything like that. Gah.

My tattoo is itching like hell. It is healing well though. It's already in the peeling stages which is good and means it is healing up nicely, but the itching is driving me nuts. Rob said that it looks like it's healing normally, which means that my problem with the fish is just a problem with the blue ink. I should be all right on tats down the road as long as I don't get any blue in them.

Here's something interesting. Remember how I said Rob and I were both feeling like we had the flu and thought he picked something up from the live virus in his flu shot? Well, we're both feeling a lot better today. Ever since our rotting meat maggot ball was gone, we both felt a lot better. I wonder if that was making us sick?

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