The Easy Bake Toilet

I forgot to tell you guys something.

Our bathroom in winter is a sauna. It doesn't have windows, but it does have one heater. And as soon as the boiler downstairs gets turned to a certain level, that heater is stuck on high no matter what we do, ninety percent of the time. It's currently, technically, turned off and it's still at least thirty centigrade in there.

Now, we have been running around like little chickens with our heads cut off for the past two weeks or so, so no toilet cleaner was bought and/or used since the heater decided to do it's own interpretation of what hell would feel like if it was done all in white tiling. Except Boyfriend bought some, and used some. Last night, to be precise.

You know how you're supposed to let that stuff sit for a while? We did, and we did.

So after an hour, I decide I'm allowed a pee. I do my thing, try to flush it down with all the blue stuff and--only my pee disappears.

Our toilet bowl has had time to adjust to the ambient temperature and is not really cool to the touch. There is no way to cool the room and all things in it down, unless we leave the door open, but Iggy's going through a kleptomaniac phase lately, so we couldn't. Well, we could, but then we'd wake up to find our three-pound puppy has stolen a giant towel, two bathmaths and tried to get the laundry out of the hamper through the holes again.

We now have bright blue toilet cleaner effectively baked to our toilet. We've flushed a couple of times since, mostly because we used it, since flushing to see if that helped was mostly ineffectual. At the moment, there's a small dent in the blue layer. We could try scrubbing tonight, or we could try using the toilet until the blue goes away. We'll see.

(Side note: I finished my Christmas wishlist! I found a website where I can add items, even show where they can be found--not that that's mandatory--and have both registered and non-registered users buy stuff, potentially as a surprise, while other visitors can see what's been bought already. It's got 53 items on it, 29 of which are books, 7 of which are jewelry and 4.5 things are knitting related. Oh, and one thing's a box of 100 fortune cookies. I like fortune cookies. People who know where I live can e-mail me for a URL, should they want one.)

(Second side note: Yes, this was meant to be a 'yay, finished Christmas list' post, but, frankly, I thought the toilet was more relevant than me demanding to be bought stuff)