Who's awesome? I'm awesome!

Did I tell you guys how I fixed my washing machine a couple months ago? Can't remember if I blogged that. What happened is that the spin cycle or whatever that cycle is called where the water is wrung out, wasn't working and the clothes would be sitting in like six inches of water when the cycle finished. So I googled it, found the info I needed, and fixed the machine all by myself! Turned out there was a clog in the drain hose, just like the website had suggested. I was so proud of myself for figuring it out on my own. But while I was doing that, I noticed that the drain hose had a major kink in it, which is what caused the clog. I rotated the hose so the kink was straightened and re-tightened the clamp. Everything was fixed and working, end of story.

Until this morning.

I noticed the same thing happened again in the washer -- clothes sitting in inches of water. Checked the drain hose and here the darn thing was re-kinked. Then I remembered that Tyler had come across another hose in our furnace room a while ago; found it and went through the process of replacing the old one. The old hose was thick rubber, whereas the new one is a light, flexible corrugated plastic hose and its long, so I was able to move the washing machine to a better position farther away.

But here's the best part!

My washing machine has been un-level (is that a word?) for years. It didn't start that way but at some point one of the back legs became shorter than the others. I've tried repeatedly to move the leg to a lower position by unscrewing it a bit but it was rusted in place. So because of the unevenness, my machine tends to dance around the laundry room, often ending up many feet away from its original position. I have to move it back at the start of every new cycle.

But this morning, after I'd fixed the hose problem and was riding that handywoman-high, I just got so darn fed up with that stupid leg that I grabbed my screwdriver, jammed it in at the top of the leg and levered it really hard. And wouldn't you know it but the damn leg shot down that half an inch!!

So all these freakin' years I've been cursing that machine and its tendency to tango, and here all it needed was a good levering!

I immediately put the machine on spin cycle to see how it performed while level, and it was amazing, it didn't even move!

So yeah, who's awesome? I'm awesome!!