Vance Tales

So let me tell you about home ownership…Matt and I bought our house and then realized that the previous owners had kept 3 dogs in the house, but never vacuumed.  We steamed the carpet twice, vacuumed the carpet, swept the hardwood multiple times and to this day we are still encountering pet hair.  It really is quite annoying.  Especially with the allergies that Matt has.  Oh, and that is another thing.  Whoever built our house built an air return that only takes “custom” made air filters.  We can’t find one anywhere so we are guessing the previous owners never found one either and, therefore, that filter has not been changed since the house was first built.  I’ve lived with all of that because it is fixable and not catastrophic.  However, this past Sunday I was cooking lunch and decided to run the dishwasher so I would be able to unload and reload after lunch.  Everything was going great until I looked down at my floor and I have suds around my feet.  AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!  So we took every dish out, drained the dishwasher (by hand might I add), and tried to locate the problem.  We decided that some rinse aid that I had just refilled got mixed in with the detergent (if you read your dishwasher’s owners manual it will tell you that is a no-no) and ran the dishwasher with no dishes in it.  Worked like a charm! ….until Monday night when I reloaded it with dishes and looked down to see standing water on the floor.  Now my hardwood is screwed up and I have to keep a dehumidifier on all the time to avoid mold (back to Matt’s allergies).  I currently have a dishwasher, fan and dehumidifier in the middle of my warped kitchen floor.  I have towels spread out on my counter so that when I wash my dirty dishes by hand I will have somewhere to put them and I am still trying to cook most nights!  Sometimes growing up just isn’t that great.