What a morning!

The toilet had been acting funny the past week but it seemed to work fine. I went to bed and 3 hours later was woken by the sound of water running. I jump up and run to the bathroom to find a flood. The tank was overflowing. I tried turning the knob behind the toilet but couldn’t get it to budge. I ran downstairs to shut off the water to the house and the second I open the basement door, I hear water running down there. Oh jeez. I run down to find water pouring through the ceiling onto boxes of books we have stored down there. Great. Yes, books like baby books, yearbooks, expensive & irreplaceable books and magazines. I turned the water off and just cried. Sky woke up from all the commotion and told me the water stopped running upstairs. I spent the next hour salvaging all the books I could. Skylar had to be at bowling at 9am so I went back to bed but could not sleep.

I got up and waited for Mau to get home with coffees and the car so I could run Sky up there. I get a phone call from Mau. The car broke down. Jeez, what next? Same Focus problem Edr0 had with his car…the ignition gets stuck and the key won’t turn. I hear this is a common Focus issue but there is no recall. I figured Mau had enough to deal with at the moment so I didn’t tell him about the flood. One thing at a time and that thing was getting the car out of a no parking zone before it was ticketed. We have a service plan we paid out the ass for when we bought the car so hopefully that covers it minus deductible. Since it is a Saturday, we will have to wait until Monday to find out and I’m sure it will have to be transported to a Ford dealership too. I hear this is quite a pricey repair (of course, why wouldn’t it be with us involved?) if it is not covered…like $800ish. And I haven’t gotten paid since the beginning of October. As always, excellent timing. It would be nice if the Jetta was running but sadly, it is not. Mau borrowed Edr0’s car to get home and Mary Jo is going to give him a ride to work tonight. That’s as far as we have gotten. Did I ever mention how much I hate cars?