Merry Christmas from the Pearson-Lavallee Family! 

All wet..Again

So I go to bed at 11 pm. 4 am rolls around and I'm sleeping sound until I realize that someone is running a bath.
I wake up enough to realize that it's not a bath, but someone doing laundry.
I wake up a little more and can hear that the water is actually pouring through my bedroom ceiling. Right at the foot of the bed.

The laundry room is right above our apartment.
After running around the apartment naked for a minute I managed to be coherent enough to send the wife upstairs to turn the laundry off thinking the drainage sink was over flowing.

She comes back down and says she can't do anything. One of the pipes broke. Luckily the shut off valve for the building is in our apartment. Now no one has water. At least until the plumber comes in to fix things.

So now we've got laundry to do, and we may need to replace our mattress.
And since we don;t have content insurance, we're probably shit out of luck.

Water water everywhere.....

So. New neighbors moved in up stairs on Monday. It looks like a single mom and her 3 kids, the oldest is 17 and the youngest is 12. The mother came down Tuesday evening to ask if we'd be interested in sharing cable with her and the family on the top floor.
We got screwed over on a "deal" like that before so we said no.

Yesterday afternoon we noticed some "rain" noise but it wasn't;t raining out side. It was, however, pouring in our bedroom. Carrie called the landlord and I went upstairs to see what the problem was. The sink next to the washing machine, used for drainage, overflowed. A sock had gotten into it and blocked the drain when someone did a load of laundry.

We ended up having to do a small load of wash since our comforter got soaked. The middle daughter came down to help us clean up and Nova got over excited....Right the middle of our bed so the sheets needed to get washed too.

Later in the evening she came back down with our clean laundry and stayed for a Pepsi. She's a typical 16 year old girl, starts talking and doesn't stop. LOL
Shortly after, her older sister(17) came down as well. She barely spoke. They left after about an hour.

20 minutes later the phone rings. The 16 year old wanted to know if she could borrow some movies. She came back down with her brother. Now I don't remember the girl's names, but his is Christopher. He and I talked a bit about paintball and I loaned him one of my magazines. I think he's hooked and he hasn't played yet.

Any way, it looks like the ceiling in our room needs to be repaired due to water damage. I'm just glad things weren't any worse.