I finally did something about the leaking faucet in the bathroom upstairs this week. Leaking from around the base of the handles, not dripping into the basin. We've had a washcloth wrapped around it for at least a few years now to keep the water from leaking all over the vanity, and I finally got to the point where I thought I really should do something about it. I bought a faucet at Menard's a couple years ago, but quite a while back after I unboxed it I thought it seemed really chintzy so I never installed it; last weekend I went to Lowe's and found a much better one. Installing wasn't that hard, except for the awkwardness of getting underneath everything. And there was enough patina all over the hold-down bolts that I couldn't get the nuts off, so in the end I cut them off with a Dremel. After that it came out very easily :) and the new one went in place pretty easily, except for getting the fixtures tightened up around the basin from below. Hurt my shoulder getting up and around in there. Hard to see, too. But we have a new faucet in the bathroom. The flow is quite a bit less than the old one, but maybe that's a good thing. 

On the same topic, now that I fixed the upstairs bathroom faucet, Natalie told me that the downstairs toilet has been leaking. She thought it was leaking around the floor, which is gross, but I got a plumber in here to take care of it and it turned out to be from the tank. The gasket between the tank and bowl was basically shot: it crumbled in the plumber's hand when he took it out and it was so old that it was an odd size and he had to run out to find a new one that fit ours. But he got it all taken care of and I found a coupon for Summers in the Lake City Saver, so all good! 

Beth and I picked up her framed cross-stitching of the floral cross in FW Saturday. It is beautiful! 

The Super Bowl was today. Beth and I were kind of half-hoping to find a friend having a watch party of some sort or something like that, but no dice, so we just watched it at home. I made some homemade salsa from a recipe I found on the internet that is supposed to be the best, and it was good, but I think we should have let it sit overnight in the fridge before we ate it. We just ate it as soon as it was done. Beth kept talking about making all kinds of snacks for the game but in the end I think she caught on after I told her we didn't need anything fancy and it was just going to be us at home. It was kind of like Thanksgiving when she makes 8 dishes with enough for a huge extended family that isn't here and I have to keep telling her "It's just us, you know." I think she needs to hostess something pretty soon. Anyway, the game was forgettable. So were the commercials.