The squeaky wheel

This post falls under the heading, "The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease".  After we'd been in this house about 10 years, one of our toilets developed a leak.  By that time, Bob had stopped doing plumbing repairs, or any household repairs for that matter, so I called our plumber, Phil, and told him we didn't want a repair, we thought it was time to replace both units.  Phil's a great guy, period, and we trust him.  When Bob was so sick he couldn't stand to take a shower, I called Phil and asked him to purchase whatever handheld shower he thought was best.  He came over and installed it.  He's that kind of guy, you can trust him.

He recommended one of the new toilets by Flushmate, when you flush them, they go whoosh, and  they're super efficient.  We gave him the green light, he did the work, and we were happy.  If a toilet can make you happy, these new units filled the bill.

About a year ago, the "toilet people" sent us a recall notice on both our toilets.  Now, it's not like a recall on your car, you can't take it to the dealership and have them take care of it.  No, this is toilets, and they're installed in the house.  I logged on to their website and arranged for the new items to be shipped to Casa Prytz.  When the small boxes arrived, I called Phil.  He came and installed the replacement parts.

After that, we were not happy campers.  Not at all.  We were even discussing purchasing replacement units, that's how unhappy we were.

This is what was wrong.  The toilets were no longer efficient, often they had to be reflushed.  Oh, bother.  Plus, the one in the Master Bath ran.  That's right, ran.  After flushing, 98% of the time you had to "stand-by" to see if you needed to jiggle the handle.  This was all very unacceptable.

Yesterday I decided, what the heck, I'm gonna email these toilet makers and tell them how very unhappy we were.  I figured the worse that could happen would be we'd be ignored and proceed to call Phil and get these suckers replaced.  Enough is enough.

This morning I got a call from the Flushmate company, the customer service person said they were sorry we were having these problems and they were going to send "two new units" to us.  We should have them in about 4 days.  Then we can call Phil.

This is my 3rd post this month, I'm one behind, but I'll catch up.  During the month I'll post on different subjects on my various blogs.  Keeping it' real for November NaBloPsMo.

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Pinterest and me.

Do you "pin"?  Of course, you do!  Here's an excellent article about using Pinterest to drive your business or brand.  While the article is good, that's not why I pin.  I pin just for me!

I have many interests, Animals, Books, Cooking, Crafting, Love, Music, Quilting, Travel, etc, etc, so I have many boards.  When an image catches my eye, Pinterest is a great place to save it for future reference.  I try really hard to keep my boards organized; I want to be able to find that pin, when I need/want it.  I keep my boards in alphabetical order, not because I'm anal, but to make them easy to find.  If all the quilt boards are together, it makes it easier to find my next project.

Just as important, to me, is where I get my pins.  Some I import from outside sources, online articles and other blogs; but most come from pinners I follow.  Who I follow is very important to me.  I have over 4700 followers and I follow about 410 pinners.  Some of those pinners are family or friends who feel like family, many pin very little, some pin a lot, and I follow all their boards.  All of them, even when I'm not interested; boards about tattoos, TV, vampires, blog love or fashion.  (I really don't like fashion boards.)  Family/Real Friends get a pass, and I look at all their pins because, to me, that's what family, blood or not, does.

The rest of the pinners I follow I either initially select which boards to follow, or I follow all their boards, then un-follow a board or even a pinner, when that board or pinner gets ridiculous, it's subjective you know.   Who do you follow?  If you want to follow me, this is the link to my boards:  http://www.pinterest.com/janprytz/boards/

All the photos, I've included in this post are recent pins of mine.  Click on the photo to get to the source.

BTW, my goal of posting every day in October, for NaBloPsMo, is still on track.  This is post #17 on day 17.  Of course, not all the post are on this blog, I have many interests, so I have many blogs!

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How to be happier

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Here's 10 tips to increase your happiness level:

1. Exercise more – 7 minutes might be enough
2. Sleep more – you’ll be less sensitive to negative emotions
3. Move closer to work – a short commute is worth more than a big house
4. Spend time with friends and family – don’t regret it on your deathbed
5. Go outside – happiness is maximized at 57°F
6. Help others – 100 hours a year is the magical number
7. Practice smiling – it can alleviate pain
8. Plan a trip – but don’t take one
9. Meditate – rewire your brain for happiness
10. Practice gratitude – increase both happiness and life satisfaction

Quick last fact: Getting older will make yourself happier

For a fuller explanation, click here.

To only one that left me scratching my head was #8.

I'm going to try to post every day in October.  I really haven't been a faithful blogger, and October is National Blog Posting Month.  This is day 2, my day 1 post is on Loves Books and Tea.

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