Accomplishment!

Guess who has a fully functioning, fixed front door lock?? That would be ME. Guess who did it completely by herself?? That would be ME! I'm pretty proud of myself.

And just like everything else in this house, I discovered what had gone wrong while I was fixing it. The reason my front door lock was all gunked up and stuck half the time?? The damn hole where the deadbolt went was completely filled up with WOOD PUTTY. And was gunking up the parts of the lock that needed to move in order to, you know, operate. The hole was filled with wood putty because for some reason, even though the door holes were drilled correctly for the locks, the surface of the door was chiseled off in a wider circumference- so they had moved the deadbolt casing around to cover that up, and had to fill the hole with wood putty to get it to stay in place! Oh my goodness. She Who Shall Not Be Named was truly a moron.

Anyways, the whole thing is fixed now and everything fit on correctly. I even have four keys now to my front door! Previously, I only had one that worked all the time, and another that worked half the time.

I'm pleased with myself!