Home repair.
Self-repair.
In answer to previous comments about self-medication and self-dentistry I write. Hey, that was Yoda-esque without even trying. Wait, I've just realized that's totally Japanese sentence structure! George Lucas, clever he is not. (And the prequels stink!)
I digress.
Rather than pay large sums of money, there are times when I do try to solve my own problems. For instance, I love the way my teeth feel after they've been cleaned at the dentist's office but insurance only covers a visit every 6 mo. Instruments are available to the general public and it's not like I'm blindly probing my gum line. Sheesh.
Skin-wise, if something weird appears why not try sloughing, clipping, anti-bacterial or anti-fungal at home before spending $20 and waiting 4wks to see the MD? No harm done and problem potentially solved.
I don't use the box-cutter on myself, that would be self-mutilation. However, I did have to cut a vacumn cleaner belt to size because hoover no longer sells belts for my vacumn. Annoying.
I once tried altering a pair of gloves (to fit my stubby fingers) by cutting off the tips and re-sewing them. Yeah, that didn't work out.
I had a friend tell me the reason I'm single is because I'm too self-sufficient. Grrr!!
It's not as though I wouldn't prefer to have someone remove my rusted out garbage disposal for me, or repair my sprinklers. This is a characteristic born of necessity, not some weird assertion of my independence! Uh oh, did she just mean that it was a weird assertion, period? Oh no!
Not true about being self-sufficient and single. I guess if you wanted to be married to some control freak that wanted to dictate every move you made and wanted you to be helpless. I think most rational men would want to be married to someone who could pull their own weight.
ReplyDeleteAnd why did you type vacuum as vacumn?
How embarrassing, maybe because it was Sunday and I had hymns on my mind.
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't there more silent letters in the English language? What about humn, bumn, trimn, skimn, scumn, broomn, roomn, or bottomn? Why should hymn and autumn have all the fun? Why does vacuum have 2 U's?
ReplyDeleteBumn! Hahaha!
ReplyDeletehey i like to try and fix things myself too! i learned the other day that if you cut yourself and need stitches, you can simply super glue your skin back together and it will work the same... i'm hoping to not have to try that one.
ReplyDeleteas for the self-sufficiancy thing being the reason you're single, i don't believe that! there's nothing wrong with being able to take care of yourself... however if you let a cute guy fix your sprinklers for you it probably wouldn't hurt... i've been told men like to take care of women and it's somehow flirting to let them do so...