Little Miss Runner Pants

for the past two weeks my toilet has been every once in a while-turned-all the time sorta kinda leaking water...

like... not on the floor or anything, but the big tub thing in back would fill up.. and then like... keep trickling water. so there would be this constant like ...*trickle trickle....trickle trickle*...

omg there's nothing more annoying. it got to the point where i had to close the bathroom door so it wouldn't bother me...
cuz.. ya know how when something's so faint you can barely hear it, you then strain to hear it above all the other noise in the room? like not on purpose, you just DO...

UGHHHHH i was going out of my mind. and i live in a loft... thats the ONLY DOOR, besides my closet, even IN here... so, its not a habit for me to close the door.

this is my HOUSE. if i want the door open, then dammit, i want the door open.

but it gave me the heebie jeebies to hear the water, and i'm entirely too much of a space cadet to actually remember to call maintenence, so its been two weeks of gradually getting more and more constant of a trickle.

like.. trickle turned freakin' STREAM. i swear.

so today, i'm like alright, ya know what? i've had enough. and....... i took the top off of the toilet.

(yeah i dont know anything about toilets people. taking the top off without dropping one of the items on the lid is an achievement.. because i of course refuse to clear the lid because i'm like oh i have good balance... inevitably something falls in the FREEZING cold water.

this is my life, ya know?!)

anyway... i take the top off and put on my "plumber" hat.. and mmmm... yes. toilet. still dont know how this thing works... but maybe if i jiggle.... ?? yeah. that does nothing.. whats this floaty ball. why is it? why is it floaty? so i mess with it and realize OH. if i lift it up, the water stops running... oooh oooh oooh. look! look! it stopped so i let go thinking, ha. problem solved....

let go and.....water starts running again...

dammit!!! okay a.maria... you're a single gal living in the city. its time you take matters into your own hands... where is my screwdriver?

go rummage thru my closet... cuz where else would a screwdriver be? (am i spelling screwdriver right? is it one word or two... how much of a girl am i right now?...ok yeah its one word. we're cool...)

so. i find my screwdriver (that i totally stole from the ex... AHHHHahahaha) and its one of those switch-o-change-o ones thats both a philips and a flat-head (how impressed are you that i know THAT?!)... and i actually need both, so already i'm congratulating myself on the find.

oy.

anyway... back to the toilet

so. lift floaty ball = stop water running... lift floaty ball.... lift... hmm. maybe if i screw this on tighter?..... yeah no it just became a gushing waterfall, thats no good, undo, undo, undo....

umm. okay... lift floaty ball... lift.... AHHHH. okay... okay little screw goes DOWN when ball goes up... oh! omg i think i've found the cure.... ok. need the flathead....

do the little magical switch of the screws, tighten, tighten, tighten...why isn't this WORKING tighten tighten...

hold... wait....

NO TRICKLE TRICKLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am a GENIOUS!!!! i am a PLUMBER!!!

ha!

i am the coolest. i don't need no stinkin' man......!!!!!

...........now then, i wonder what'll happen when i flush the toilet......?!?!?!?!?!