Lookin' On The Bright Side

Finally, after a long first week at school, I decided to take a little bit of Me Time early this afternoon.

I filled up the bath tub with hot water, added epsom salts and eased myself in with the next book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris.  Just as I started to get really comfy, I heard this: "Oh.  My.  God.  Oh my God.  Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod."

Now, I know good and well that I don't have voices in my head, so that couldn't be the explanation.  Could it?

I yelled to The Hubbs: "What's the matter?"
Hubbs, from the basement: "Oh my God."
Me: "What?"
Hubbs: "There's water all over down here.  Drain the tub, drain the tub!"

After which I pulled the plug, set ol' Sookie Stackhouse on the back of the toilet and hauled my sopping body out of the water and into some sweats to head downstairs and help The Hubbs with the cleanup.  Turns out it wasn't too much water, and not something we actually needed to call anyone in for, but what a pain.

You know that little plate in the tub, usually right below the faucet?  The one that will either have the little lever if you have a self-stopping tub, or that just acts as a cover for that spot if it doesn't?

Yeah.  No freakin' caulk around it.  So when I settled my butt in the tub for a nice soak, water seeped around that useless little hunk of metal and started running into the basement. 

It ran down the ductwork for the furnace and air conditioner, plink, plink, plinking away on the one and only thing it really could have damaged down there: our wireless router.  I know, right?  Very rude, indeed.

The Hubbs and I mopped up everything we could see, disconnected the router and wiped it down the best we could.  It was still wet inside, so we threw it in a bin of rice (See?  Texture bins come in handy!) to try to suck the moisture out.  The problem was that this poor little thing took the bulk of the water...so we weren't sure if it would make it or not.

A few hours later, I grabbed the router out of the rice bin and plugged it back in.  I am sad to report that it was either too weak or too old to make it through the procedure.  We did everything we could...we really did.

With The Hubbs being a work-at-home kind of dude, we really can't be without the internet on any given work day.  So...

Off to Wal Mart I trudged.  I think I did admirably...this is one of those stores that seems to suck $100 out of my pocket every time I walk through the door, and I managed to get out of there for only $60 including the router.  We needed a few other things, most notably The Princess's new vibrating toothbrush (which is an adorable Zooth brand Hello Kitty model), and I suppose if I look on the bright side I don't have to go to the store tomorrow.

The new router works great.  It was a breeze to set up, and hopefully we won't have to go through such a silly thing again for a very long time. (Ha!)

Oh, one more thing as long as we're lookin' on the bright side: The Hubbs' grandpa is a whiz with caulk and has offered to take a look at our bathroom and caulk/re-caulk anything that needs it.