Sunday, April 12, 2009

oregon coast

i'm a sucker for the sound of waves. i really am. rushing water -- in waterfalls, at the ocean, on a river's edge -- LOVE that. i even have addie's noise machine set to "ocean" because it's so relaxing. (i'll post, on another day, about our oregon coast. one word: fabulous.)

anyone else find it ironic that a sound so beloved by me could cause paul's (and my) hearts to fill with dread? i say "dread," because it's that sound that we heard promptly upon our arrival home from our weeklong oregon coast vacation. porbably because the watery sounds were coming from inside our house. running down the stairs. dripping from the caved-in ceilings and engorged walls in our basement. squashing up with every footstep.

hey, we've been wanting new carpet downstairs anyway. now we'll get new carpets....everywhere. and new walls. and baseboards. and a dining room floor. and ceilings. and furniture. and shelving. amd lights. and bathroom fixtures. and and and...

makes you all want to rush over and buy our house now, doesn't it?

4 comments:

Andrea said...

i'm so, so sorry. you've been doing so much work on that house. be sure to take pictures so that someday (you know, like fifty billion years from now) you can look back at this and laugh. or still cry. whatever.

wish we were there to help :)

Erica said...

Oh wow! Where did the water come from? I'm so sorry, that is terrible.

Brittney said...

erica, we have a main bathroom in the middle of the house upstairs. apparently, the water holding tank on the toilet cracked (from top to bottom), so the toilet kept refilling and refilling and refilling and refilling... you get the idea. thank goodness for the two drains downstairs -- everything got soggy, but at least the water level didn't rise too high. blugh.

Bettridge Family said...

I'm SO sorry!! I bet you wish that was the April Fools Joke. What a mess!!!! That happened to me twice when I was at college and all my stuff was destroyed. The good thing about mine is the apartment had to pay for the damange. That just sucks!