what a mess

one morning last week
i got up at my usual ungodly early hour of 5
of course i had been awake since 4
jack feels
 i need 
at least an hour of 
crying whining jumping on off the bed 
to wake

i dont

my routine in the morning is
 get up, out of bed
walk into the living room
turn on the lights
fend off the cats
head into the bathroom
shower
then 
i feed them

well
 the morning
 i am going to tell you about
i deviated
i walked into the living room
spied a zappos box on top of the temporarily 
(for the last 10+ years) 
placed chest of drawers

oh wow my slippers got here after i went to bed last night 
i thought

i stepped closer
right 
into 
a puddle of
honestly
 i thought one of the cats had an accident
got some paper towels 
container of clorox wipes

as
 i began to wipe up the wet 
something 
hit me on the head

splat

i looked up

splat

oh my gawd
the ceiling is leaking

wake toonman
put lots of towels on the floor
call our neighbor/landlord
he turns off the water to the toilet in their guest bathroom

dramatic beginning to a long day
sadly repeated the next morning
because
 'someone' 
turned the water back on
 before the plumber/handyman came


that evening
 day two of the leak
the aforesaid handyman and his assistant arrived
they cut a hole in the ceiling
 to see
 what 
where 
the leak was

that being ascertained
 they sealed a crack in a connector pipe

alls well

well not all


friday morning 
through
 the temporarily closed hole 
water 
began 
dripping 
again

the handymen returned
re-opened the ceiling
re-checked the pipe
flushed the toilet
ran the water in the sink

voila

turns out 
something between the toilet and the pipes was 'off'

its now fixed/replaced

the hole in the ceiling 
the furniture all moved to one side of the living room
remain







sometime late this week it will be closed
hopefully for good



here's a video i hope it plays