Plumbing Woes

This has so not been my weekend. So many things have gone wrong, and I swear my bathroom hates me. Yesterday my toilet decided to go on the fritz. I couldn't get it to flush, so I decided to investigate only to find that the handle that lifts the chain is broken. I didn't know what to buy, so I had to wait for hubby to get home to fix it. Hubby got home just in time to leave for the Oktoberfest fireworks show. He was so tired when we got home from the fireworks he didn't feel like going to Walmart, so I spent the whole day and night having to manually flush the toilet by lifting the little arm myself. I know it's gross.

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse I decided to take a shower. I stepped in the shower, reached up to turn my shower head from normal to massage, and the shower head fell off in my hand! I got a nice spray of water full blast into the chest, and boy did it sting. After I got the water turned off and recovered from the blast, I inspected the shower head to discover the entire thing was plastic, and the part that screws onto the pipe basically broke in half. I had to settle for a bath.

Now I'm waiting on hubby to get home again so we can go shopping for what we need. I'd go get the stuff myself, but I don't know what I'm looking for. Plumbing is not my forte. Unfortunately hubby's off hauling hay with my dad, so he's going to need a bath as soon as he gets home. He hates taking baths, but that's what he gets for not going to get the plumbing parts last night!