Saturday, February 17, 2007

It's not all flowers and romantic dinners

Yep, that was made clear to me last night. Yesterday, I came home from work and was getting ready to make diner for us. However, there was an unexpected twist to the evening. My toilet was clogged. I got out the plunger and worked on it forever! It was so gross and I kept cursing to myself that I was going to make a horrible mother. JP called to tell me what time to expect him and, by this time, I was pretty pissed. He told me not to worry about it and that he would take care of it when he got there.

Now, the issue wasn't that I was embarrassed that he was going to have to take care of this mess. No, it was an issue of me not being able to do something. Something that I'd have to figure out if I didn't have a boyfriend / dad / 24-hour maintenance man at my disposal. No, this was something that any homeowner (hopefully me soon) would need to know how to do. How am I going to rule the corporate world if I can't unclog my own bathroom? I am fiercly independent (sometime, admittedly, to a fault), so this really bothered me.

When JP came over, he gave me a big hug and went to help me out of this mess. About 30 seconds later he came out of the bathroom. Problem solved. Seriously!?!?!? I worked on it for about 2 hours and nothing. Then, he said, "Hon, where do you keep the cleaning stuff? I'm going to clean it for you so you don't have to worry about it." Okay. So here is my loving boyfriend who not only unclogged a very gross toilet for me, but he is offering to clean it for me to boot! If that's not love, I don't know what is. I fell more in love with him last night... and all because of bad plumbing.

5 comments:

Rebecca said...

thats awesome!

glad to hear things are going great for you guys!!!

Neese said...

what a great quality that he is willing to help AND then some.. hope ya'll had a nice evening after all that, i bet you did :)

MNFirefly said...

Oh.my.gawd! You have an angel in your life. He ROCKS!

Radioactive Tori said...

What a good guy! And for the record, you could have done it, it was just faster for him to do it instead. It doesn't make you weak or anything, just resourceful. That's what I tell myself when I get irritated that I need help for things.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like he's a keeper! Don't let him out of your sight. :)