You're a good woman. The "clean at last" feeling of accomplishment would probably just convince me not to cook again...

Yuck, that sounds awful!
Is the leak anything that could be temporarily reduced with some combination of duct tape and a dishpan under the sink?
For a little while I lived in a house where we had undrinkable tap water -- so washing dishes meant heating bottled water on the stove and then washing dishes in the dishpan. Not eating at all started to sound like a good alternative. Thank god for indoor plumbing! (when it works)

We certainly tend to take things for granted. And now knitting in a fun thing...back then it was work. Sometimes I think I'd like to live in a different era, but really...I'd probably be miserable and exhausted all the time.

At least you didn't have to heat the water to wash the dishes. Yikes. Yeah, we take a lot for granted and think we have it tough. Not so much.