So this was our Saturday afternoon conversation.

Jon: Why is the carpet wet? (as he is walking down the hall)

Janice: What!? (internally freaking because mysteriously wet carpet is NEVER a good thing)

Jon: Why is the carpet wet?

Janice: I heard you. I don’t know why it’s wet. (as I’m getting up to help investigate)

Jon: Well it’s soaked. (we are standing out side the water heater closet)

Janice: Crap!

The problem was indeed our water heater. And it was a Saturday afternoon! So we toughed it out and called the plumber on Monday (SO not paying weekend hours! yeash. we are poor. regular hours are good thanks.) morning.

Jon turned the heater off and we (I) just used cold for cleaning and stuff. And he would turn it back on (we aren’t crazy) when we needed to bath and shower.

Even keeping the thing mostly off I ended up soaking through several old towels. And our house smells like wet dog/moldy towels. And it’s like 20 degrees outside so airing out the house isn’t really an option.

(This is after 3 min. of using the Bissell to suck up the water. Filled up the tank 3 times before I could even think of adding water and cleaner to get rid of the smell.)

Sunday afternoon we had another fun conversation.

Jon: I think I’m going to call Bruce Thompson Plumbing. They have the best website.

Janice: (laughing) Ya?

Jon: They also have the best reviews and say they do water heaters.

Janice: Good. So stuff that I think matters too. (more laughing)

Well the lovely plumber man came this morning. Looked at our crappy water heater and informed us that we needed a new one AND new hot/cold flex supply lines. Sweet. (sarcasm!)

We had planned on going to visit our friends this weekend, but then Regan was all snotsy and coughing so we decided it would be best to stay home. Never been so happy about a sick child. Can you imagine the horror we would have come home to?!

I was FINALLY able to clean UNDER the water heater (I’m a crazy clean UNDER things kind of gal). And now my water heater/broom closet is all shiny and newish looking.

Our new (clean/shinny/pretty) water heater is cooler (as in easier to use) than the old one, and does NOT look like it’s about to explode (that old thing was SO nasty and corroded and I forgot to get a picture!).

Also our sweet friend/neighbor Miss Pattie brought me her carpet shampooer to borrow. So that gross smell is gonish (we are thinking we may need to just rip out the carpet anyhow…), and I’ve decided that I may as well do all our carpets while I’ve got her machine. She’s totally awesome and we LOVE her. And clean carpets are ALWAYS awesome!

No basebords/drywall were water damaged.