leaking roof. wet bedroom.

There's a new leak in our roof this morning. I had wanted to sleep in today but woke up as soon as I heard it starting around 5:30 a.m. this morning. Thankfully, it is over the foot of the bed and in an empty corner of the room and not over something more easily damaged by water. It seems to be traveling a line down one of the beams in the center of the room. I also found a small drip in a back corner. They put a new roof on last December. Last, some guys were walking on the roof, blowing off leaves and cleaning gutters. My guess is that something was stepped on and pushed through the membrane. MonsterMustDie has already fired off an email to our landlord.

The interesting weekend

Still cleaning the ruins. Bedroom is done. Main bath is done. Kitchen is mostly done. Lots of laundry going on - clothes, cleaning cloths, and sheets used to cover the big things.

Then morning a new leak over the couch appeared and the power went out due to the enormous tree that fell across our street this morning. Phoned the roofer, who had a man at the house to make a temporary patch within the hour. He was a ginger-bearded character who, when I peeked outside, was surfing on top of an SUV another person was driving to get to the lowest point of the roof, rather than just using a ladder. He was fast, polite, and seemed to have it capped when he left. Still, the SUV surfing had me amused.

As I left the house today, I saw the Power Company crew had the street closed off entirely and many large trucks and with bright flashing blinky lights were working on breaking down the fallen tree and putting up new power lines. The ginger-bearded roofer had already alerted me to the alternate route out of the neighborhood, past the school, so no problems there.

I hope the power is back on and the living room is dry by the time I get home.

The latest news is that I must go to Alabama the day after Christmas with Monstermustdie so he can help his mother buy a car that she probably has no business driving.

Seems like we just can't get ahead.

Woke up at an hour ago, around 3:45 a.m. with water dripping on me in bed. Water was dripping squarely in the middle of the bed, which is now shoved as far over as possible to one side of the bedroom. Water is also dripping in my closet, so all of my clothes are also shoved as far over as possible. Water is also dripping in my office on the side of the room I've already moved everything away from to avoid leaks that have been off and on since we moved here.

There is also roach poop from the ceiling everywhere upstairs.

There are also large centipedes that show up downstairs and, for the first time tonight, upstairs in the hallway - they are no doubt trying to avoid drowning.

We should not have signed a lease for another year, but moving takes a lot time and money and labor. It also involves finding what would be a better, even if much smaller, affordable space that does not increase our commutes to work significantly - especially with MonsterMustDie's car ready to die at any day now.