Suicide Showers

So I haven't put up any posts this week with pictures, and our last picture (manta ray pancake) was just lame. . .so I decided to describe our ensuite bathroom here.
Don't worry, if you are staying with us, we have a completely normal-sized bathroom for guests to use. I just wanted to share "the phone booth" with everyone.
First picture shows you the bathroom view from our bedroom. Yes, it's all messy. And, yes, we are having a gloriously sunny day over here. I should be outside enjoying it. But I'm feeling lazy and have no plans, so here I am posting to the blog. . .
As you can tell by the tile, our house is decorated in a very black, modern, masculine style. Since those of you who know me know my decorating, um, talents, you know that I have not added anything to personalize the place except things that people have given us (thank you Sunday School buddies for the Texas stuff!!!). Actually, I did buy a candle--it was on the clearance rack at the store (still cost about $5) but it is nice and vanilla and "decorates" the kitchen. But I digress. . .
Here in the second picture, I am crammed aside/behind the toilet to take a picture of our electric "Suicide" shower. There's a lot of glare--sorry--but you can see that there's not a whole lot of space in the shower. Should we start taking bets on how far along I am when I no longer fit into the shower???
So we call the shower a suidice shower because it's like the showers in Costa Rica--the water is heated electrically by a device inside the shower. Of course, things in Costa Rica are slightly more frightening (at my "mom's" house there you saw the exposed wires and just made sure not to touch them while showering! Kim and Steve's shower is much nicer, of course!) than they are here.

Next picture is of our water heating device. Before it will work, you have to flip the RED BUTTON on the wall outside the bathroom. (There are no light switches or outlets inside the bathrooms here. This takes some getting used to. When it's time to shave or dry your hair you have to head for the bedroom.) So to turn on the shower, you turn the top knob to the left to the "two red dots" setting (we assume this is "hot hot") and then you set the temperature of the water with the bottom knob. You don't have to wait long for the water to warm up, unlike our shower in Pearland. You turn on that thing and make a cup of coffee and by the time you're back then maybe it's hot. The water runs from a hose coming out of the electric box to a shower head that sometimes stays put during the shower. Our record is three times that the shower head came off the base and "attacked" John during the shower. It takes some getting used to, but it all works just fine.

The last picture here is one I took while standing in the shower. You can see our "storage cabinet"--the metal stand squished between the teeny-tiny sink (you can't even wash your face over it--water get everywhere; this is funny when it's midnight after an office party and you're just desperate to get the makeup off your face and it's splashing all over the place. or maybe not. . .) By divine intervention, the plastic storage unit I've used beneath our bathroom sink back home for years actually FIT in the storage stand so we have some good storage here. Men often ask how we ladies handle the bathrooms with no storage here. I always want to tell them that they are talking to the wrong woman. . . my "beauty routine" is pretty darn simple!!


The last item of interest is the radiator or "towel warmer" or "hiney warmer" next to the toilet. You can see it best in the top picture. These radiators are how the house is heated. Unlike central a/c and heat, you want to close all the doors to each room because that's how it heats up. This is the nicest radiator in the house because we throw our towels over it at the beginning of the shower for a nice warm towel and, well, there's nothing like having a warm toosh while you are using the potty. . .sorry if that's TMI. You spend the winter in a cold place and tell me otherwise!!!

And thus concludes the tour of our bathroom. Hope you enjoyed it!!!