Twenty Things

1. Life has been taking me for a spin lately.
2. I've been sick for a week. I was very sick last week. On Tuesday I spent the afternoon passed out on the bed with a fever, letting my poor children fend for themselves. The only thing that worked in that scenario was that Baby was sick, too, so she came to bed with me. Otherwise, the whole "fending" thing could have involved plunging down stairs, choking on Polly Pocket shoes, or running with scissors. Thankfully, everyone survived.
3. Even though I'm getting better, I'm still not feeling great, and I'm also behind on EVERYTHING (so, sorry I've been so bad about replying to your wonderful comments on the last post!). 
4. On Friday, our toilet clogged, which was not unusual. 
5. But then someone must have flushed it again and it overflowed. When I got back from someplace during the day, I saw it was overflowing, but it didn't look too bad.
6. The reason it didn't look too bad was because it was draining into the bathroom heating duct.
7. I could not get the toilet unclogged.
8. Even when I turned off the water, the toilet kept leaking. 
9. The toilet water in the heating duct leaked into our storage room in the basement.
10. The dashingly handsome sidekick spent basically all weekend on his hands and knees doing things to our toilet, and the plumbing under the toilet. 
11. We've turned off our central heating until the whole thing has a chance to dry out....
12. Which means we're wearing five layers of clothes in the house. 
13. Still, thank goodness it's spring.
14. And thank goodness for scented candles.
15. The old toilet is in the bathtub.
16. The new toilet is in the living room. 
17. The little girls are still blowing snot bubbles. 
18. Spring Forward was not good timing. I REALLY needed that extra hour this weekend and I'm kind of pissed at the government for taking it away from me. (That's about as political as I'll ever get, people.)
19. For Thursday I promise you a much happier (or at least more interesting) blog post, in which I discuss this post by Ellen Oh about the shocking lack of diversity on YA book covers, with nods to Adam Heine and Victoria Dixon who are helping make waves about this issue by giving away books with ethnically-diverse covers. The book giveaways are still going, so click through to enter!
20. How did you spend your weekend?