Why can't anything just be simple. Easy. No problems. Straightforward. I'm not sure if it's this house or having twins or if somewhere over the past year things in this world just got complicated.

I had three projects for the day. Just three. Nothing overly ambitious. Small, relatively straightforward do it yourself projects.

1) Connect the sink in the main floor bathroom
2) Buy and install a roof for our swingset
3) Install the babies' shower rod so I can finally iron and put up the curtain

Two of the three projects needed the Depot. One required nothing more (or so I thought) than a drill and some provided hardware. To HD we went. We purchased two water supply lines of the 12" variety, one washer, and one swing set canopy kit. Fifteen minutes later we were home and I was on to project one.

I screwed on the water lines without a hitch. I fitted the P-trap with the washer no problem. Then I discovered that my PVC piping did not reach the wall. Awesome. There would be no brushing my teeth downstairs after all. But then there was another problem. As I tried to shut the drawer I discovered that my 12" supply lines got in the way of it closing properly, i.e. it now stuck out three inches. This could not be more annoying. I now needed new pipes and a smaller supply line of which they do not sell at Home Depot or Lowe's so I would now need to go to our local plumbing supply which a) is super expensive and b) is super un-kid friendly. Notice the drawer stick out and the pipes oh so close but not quite making it to the wall...


On to project number two. It is a beautiful day here in STL so we got our shoes on and headed outside to de-ghettofy the swingset. I unfolded the hunter green roof we had picked out, started attaching the right bit to the drill when I looked up and noticed that our swingset has no cross beam. WHY?! Why did this have to be so difficult! Not only is it missing the top cross beam but the one on the right hand side as well. Now I would have to have to go back to Home Depot to have 2x4s cut and purchase the proper hardware as well as a new bit for the drill...and here I thought my green roof for $29.95 would be a straightforward cheap little project. Of course not.

Hoping that all was not lost I tried to accomplish project number three before naptime. As P turned on and off the bath water below me, I measured and leveled and perfected my placement of the curved shower rod. I got out the 1/8" drill bit and started. Problem (at this point you're all thinking why didn't I just give up already) the drill won't drill more than 1/4 of an inch into what I thought was just drywall in THREE of the FOUR holes. No big deal I thought. I'll use one of the provided mollys and use three of my own. I must have something that will work. I pulled out all of our screws and nails and odds and ends and nothing. Nothing in our whole house will fit into the holes I drilled into the wall while also fitting through the impossibly small holes in the rod. I now have to head to aisle 12 (pathetic I know) at HD and find something that will. Which entails bringing the entire shower rod into the store because the problem is that I have screws that will fit the holes in the wall but not through the holes in the rod.


It appears we will be making another trip to Home Depot in the immediate future. I need a sink. And a shower curtain. Oh, and there's that swingset. Why can't anything be easy?!