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12-08-2005, 01:24 PM
Hi All, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours...
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the water section :D but I'll give you alittle story that's sure to make you smile the next time you think you've had a bad fish day :D .
So, I'm not feeling well.. flu, cold something hits and I finally get up the courage to ask my boss if I can leave work alittle early. I get home and pack myself directly to bed but I have a bad habit of waking and feeling like I should be somewhere or there's something else I need to do so that's exactly what happens....I wake in a panic that I need to do a wc. Oh...how those discus have a hold on me ;) given I think the kids (18 and 15 year boys) starved that same night ;) .
I argue it out/beg with my eldest son who's the reason I'm in discus to help me with my wc but currently has no interest in fish or anything to do with fish, it's only the two of us home so I finally resign myself to struggling on my own. I have a 150 gallon polystyrene barrel that I fill nightly to use for my next day wc which unfortunately was empty :smash: . I turn on the taps which runs the water through several various filters and therefore takes about an hour and 45 minutes to fill. I'm not thinking so I fall back to sleep:sleep: :sleep: and then some!
The water barrel overflows for two whole days and nights. I should say... that when I get sick the other occupants become automatically dumb. On the third morning I wake up thinking I hear the doorbell...now looking to see if I'm alone I end up in my husband's office where the piping for the drain and fill is run downstairs through a corner of his closet..and vaguely hear water running :confused: . I'm alone in the house... what could be running?
All of a sudden it occurs to me.... oh my gosh the water barrel:shocked: :scared: :puke: . I beat a path downstairs which is fully finished but because we recently moved into this house... there are still boxes and items strewn everywhere still waiting to be addressed now totally submerged under about 18 inches of water. The drain would have been a great help but a piece of wet cardboard covered it :( . So in a panic I run for the shopvac... I could have used a hundred. It holds only 8 gallons and is heavy as all heck when it's full which took less than a couple of minutes to fill with the amount of water I was sucking. So now I'm crying:waaa: ...I don't feel well... I'm wading around in water to my mid calf of never ending water.
Finally....big sigh...:fried: after several hours I manage to reduce the water to just a slushing sound under my feet. I run as many fans as I can find but before I go back to bed... I resign myself to turning on (powerheads, heaters)the barrel since it's now well more than full which I do by pushing on a switch in the office closet upstairs and go off to bed...tired, upset, crying headache and still not feeling well....finally some rest... while my pump downstairs which is still plugged in, pumps 150 gallons of water upstairs and floods my husband's office :rolleyes: .
Remember this: Over this past weekend, I pestered..stomped my feet..tried anything that would get my husband to replace the ceiling tiles in our basement because they were previously stained through another flooding incident from my son's room.... 'cause we're done making floods...learnt our lesson :angel: . The tiles I chose weren't cheap on top of all. Should have gone with plastic!
Fortunately and unfortunately, my husbands office is wood plank flooring so the water didn't stay long..oh.. still enough to have to shop vac but the rest leaked through and downstairs to the basement raining through.... yup..you guessed it... :wasntme: the brand new ceiling tiles and soaking what I'd just finished cleaning downstairs.
So when you think you've had a bad fish day....water day or you need a reason to give up on Discus.... you can think of me :D. I survived it.
Not hoping for diamonds now :bomb: ....hoping Santa brings me new ceiling tiles :D LOL.... life can be funny!
My husband, well.... he's away on business....and I'll tell him soon.... I promise :argue: :crazy: . LOL! this should be good.
Enjoy a great day!!
Take care
Tina
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the water section :D but I'll give you alittle story that's sure to make you smile the next time you think you've had a bad fish day :D .
So, I'm not feeling well.. flu, cold something hits and I finally get up the courage to ask my boss if I can leave work alittle early. I get home and pack myself directly to bed but I have a bad habit of waking and feeling like I should be somewhere or there's something else I need to do so that's exactly what happens....I wake in a panic that I need to do a wc. Oh...how those discus have a hold on me ;) given I think the kids (18 and 15 year boys) starved that same night ;) .
I argue it out/beg with my eldest son who's the reason I'm in discus to help me with my wc but currently has no interest in fish or anything to do with fish, it's only the two of us home so I finally resign myself to struggling on my own. I have a 150 gallon polystyrene barrel that I fill nightly to use for my next day wc which unfortunately was empty :smash: . I turn on the taps which runs the water through several various filters and therefore takes about an hour and 45 minutes to fill. I'm not thinking so I fall back to sleep:sleep: :sleep: and then some!
The water barrel overflows for two whole days and nights. I should say... that when I get sick the other occupants become automatically dumb. On the third morning I wake up thinking I hear the doorbell...now looking to see if I'm alone I end up in my husband's office where the piping for the drain and fill is run downstairs through a corner of his closet..and vaguely hear water running :confused: . I'm alone in the house... what could be running?
All of a sudden it occurs to me.... oh my gosh the water barrel:shocked: :scared: :puke: . I beat a path downstairs which is fully finished but because we recently moved into this house... there are still boxes and items strewn everywhere still waiting to be addressed now totally submerged under about 18 inches of water. The drain would have been a great help but a piece of wet cardboard covered it :( . So in a panic I run for the shopvac... I could have used a hundred. It holds only 8 gallons and is heavy as all heck when it's full which took less than a couple of minutes to fill with the amount of water I was sucking. So now I'm crying:waaa: ...I don't feel well... I'm wading around in water to my mid calf of never ending water.
Finally....big sigh...:fried: after several hours I manage to reduce the water to just a slushing sound under my feet. I run as many fans as I can find but before I go back to bed... I resign myself to turning on (powerheads, heaters)the barrel since it's now well more than full which I do by pushing on a switch in the office closet upstairs and go off to bed...tired, upset, crying headache and still not feeling well....finally some rest... while my pump downstairs which is still plugged in, pumps 150 gallons of water upstairs and floods my husband's office :rolleyes: .
Remember this: Over this past weekend, I pestered..stomped my feet..tried anything that would get my husband to replace the ceiling tiles in our basement because they were previously stained through another flooding incident from my son's room.... 'cause we're done making floods...learnt our lesson :angel: . The tiles I chose weren't cheap on top of all. Should have gone with plastic!
Fortunately and unfortunately, my husbands office is wood plank flooring so the water didn't stay long..oh.. still enough to have to shop vac but the rest leaked through and downstairs to the basement raining through.... yup..you guessed it... :wasntme: the brand new ceiling tiles and soaking what I'd just finished cleaning downstairs.
So when you think you've had a bad fish day....water day or you need a reason to give up on Discus.... you can think of me :D. I survived it.
Not hoping for diamonds now :bomb: ....hoping Santa brings me new ceiling tiles :D LOL.... life can be funny!
My husband, well.... he's away on business....and I'll tell him soon.... I promise :argue: :crazy: . LOL! this should be good.
Enjoy a great day!!
Take care
Tina