Sigh...Again

I just wrote a big, long blog complaining about the hole that is currently in our computer ceiling and when I went to post it, the computer wouldn't let me. Apparently Blogger doesn't want me to whine. Ok, no whining. Just the facts...

Fact #1 - Last week, just before we left for Portland, I came home from shopping and there was a puddle of water on the computer room floor.

Fact #2 - After some time trying to figure out where the water was coming from, I realized it was dripping out of the light fixture.

Fact #3 - I kind of yelled at Brent. It wasn't his fault that the water was coming out of the light fixture, but apparently in my stressed condition, it was his fault. Sorry about that, Love!

Fact #4 - After much time and sweat, and a big old hole in the ceiling, Brent found where the water was coming in. Why it was coming in there, we have no idea, but at least he could see where the water was dripping.

Fact #5 - My amazing engineer of a husband fashioned spouts of sorts so the water would go in the buckets rather than wherever it wanted. (Brent loves duct tape.)
Fact #6 - It is FREEZING in the computer room now since there is basically a hole into the crawl space. It makes me very happy that we have a laptop so I don't have to be in there if I don't want to.

Fact #7 - The water has stopped raining down. Is this good or bad, I don't know. If it's not coming out of the spouts does that mean that it's not leaking anymore or does that mean the water is going somewhere else? I'm going to pretend that it isn't leaking anymore.

Fact #8 - My mom and grandma are coming up next month and I was going to have my grandma stay on the futon in the computer room. I guess I'm going to have to figure out some place else to put her now.

Now you have all the facts. And, since Blogger wouldn't let me whine, I've decided to look at it a little differently and tell you what I'm thankful for in this whole thing.

Blessing #1 - We were already planning on replacing the roof this summer. We thought we were being so responsible replacing the roof before there was a big problem, but...at least we aren't blindsided with this HUGE expense.

Blessing #2 - I have an amazing husband who is calm in almost any situation. As I said in Fact #3, I didn't react too well to this whole thing. But Brent just took it all in stride. I can't even image what a basket case I would have been if he had freaked out too.

Blessing #3 - Brent is smart. I think it's pretty amazing that he thought of making the spouts in the ceiling for the water.

Blessing #4 - We haven't "fixed up" the computer room yet. We have all these great plans for our house, but it's just one room at a time. I'm really glad that we haven't taken the popcorn ceiling off the room, then had to cut a big old hole in it.

Blessing #5 - We even have a house. I'm so thankful for this beautiful house and our chance to live here in this beautiful place.

Blessing #6 - The ceiling didn't get worse while we were in Portland. I kept having visions of coming home to the ceiling being completely caved in (I come from a long line of worriers...it's in my blood). I was steeling myself for what we would find when we got home, but everything was just as we left it. The carpet was dry and everything!

Ok, enough of this. I'm going to figure out how to move things around and have a place for Grandma to sleep. It's going to be great. And we're going to get a great new roof soon so there will be no more rain inside.

And, I feel like I will be able to tell you all about our GREAT trip to Portland by tomorrow. I need a vacation from our vacation, but it was still great.

Happy Spring everyone! (I feel so much better putting all this down. Thanks for listening.)