The Tiniest Bit of Excitement on a Potentially Boring Day

Last night around ten I was chilling on my computer as my roommate went to bed (yeah, she goes to bed early, my roommates here are just way too mature). As I was listening to music on my computer I could hear a light tapping noise coming from our bedroom wall. I thought someone was tapping on the wall. As I took out my headphones I could hear that there were actually two tapping noises. And one sounded a lot like water was dripping.

I ignored it at first. I'm really good at tuning noises out when I don't want to hear them (pretty bad during class when the professor is discussing something important though). I got into PJs and did all my nightly routine stuff. As I went back into our room just about to climb up into my bunkbed, I heard the tapping noise again. It had been going on the whole time, but it just entered into my head again.

I was really curious what the noise was. I heard water. I knew our old apartment used to sound like water was running through the walls all the time. So I wasn't really worried about there being a problem, I was more just curious where this noise was coming from. First I asked my roommate. She said she heard the noise too and it had been going on for a while, but didn't know where it was coming from.

Finally I went into the hall. Just on the other side of our closet wall is our utilities closet. I opened the door and immediately knew where the water was coming from. The floor was covered in water, and more water was dripping from like five different places. I didn't even know where it was beginning. It was like every pipe in the whole closet was leaking.

I called my roommate and told her I was pretty sure it was raining inside our apartment. We both looked at it for a second, trying to figure out what to do. I mentioned getting a bowl, but as she pointed out, what good would that do? There was so much water on the floor already and it was dripping from so many places we'd need a lot of bowls.

We pulled the vacuum, mop, and other stuff out and then decided to go to our neighbors upstairs to see what was going on. We knocked on their door and explained what happened in our apartment and went to their utilities closet to figure it out. And of course you could hear the problem walking down the hall. As we opened the door we saw the cause. It was as if someone had turned a faucet on full blast from one of their pipes. Hard to explain, but it was a LOT of water.

We went to get the managers. It was about 10:30 at this point. The manger came and spent about three minutes in there fixing it, draining off water into a jug and doing other random stuff. I think they said it was the hot water heater... and something about freezing from the cold. I don't really know. The manager didn't really know either. But apparently the same thing had happened in another apartment. He said he'd have our maintenance guy come over first thing in the morning.

We went back downstairs.

Fortunately, our utilities closet has a drain in the floor so the water didn't spread much further.

Unfortunately, my side of the closet is the one that shares a wall with the utilities closet and so there was water all over the floor of my closet.

Fortunately, it was only my already dirty clothes that got wet.

We made sure the water had stopped leaking, *texted our other roommates, and then went to bed wide awake. Pretty fun final twenty minutes of the night.

*I think it's totally hilarious that my computer doesn't know the word "texting" or "texted" and is telling me I'm spelling it wrong. Just thought I'd throw that in there. :)

A Real Update... Mostly Disney!

I haven't updated in a while. I think it may actually be a record for me. Wow.

Well, okay, I mean a real update. Nothing's really been going on. Take the word "boring" and multiply it by like, a thousand. That would probably be my life right now.

Except for the fact that I'm moving to Disney next week. :)

We went to Washington DC last Saturday. "We" being my dad and me. We mainly just stayed on the mall and went to the Smithsonian museums. We saw the Castle, the Air and Space Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the Art Gallery. It was a long day, but fun. Definitely. We didn't get back until after midnight. They were doing work on the metros so it took forever to get into DC. We parked just outside of DC because it's so much cheaper. The museums are all free, but they must get their money from the parking. Blech!

We're looking at going on the Safari thing down near Natural Bridge later this week. There's a Fipplefest on Saturday (go to my mom's blog for that). So life is moving on along pretty nicely. :)

As for Disney I've actually made several posts about that but never really posted them. I think I will start posting them now because obviously that's pretty much my life right now.

We leave next Monday and my check-in day will be next Wednesday. In preparation I think I'm gonna buy a ton of food while I'm still up here in VA because the prices are probably much much much better. Not the food like bread, milk, butter, eggs. More like spaghetti, possibly a box or two of cereal, spaghetti sauce, Ramen, Pasta Roni (no, mom, of course I don't live off of that!), maybe some canned foods or soups. Things like that. Then I'm going to get started packing. I kind of kept my suitcases from Idaho out in middle of the front hall (no one uses that door anyway!) so I'm going to start figuring out the stuff that I won't be using and packing and putting it all in the car. I have to be careful to pack so that I'll be able to have everything for Idaho down there as well.

So yeah, that's the plan for this week.

The power flicked yesterday. I lost internet for a while. But now it's back. Making this whole entire paragraph pointless.

Annnnd, I guess that's it! I'll try and update a bit more. I'm planning on keeping a real detailed update of the day I check in, what I do, and what happens for the few days after. By detailed I mean they'll probably be a series of super duper long posts. I'll keep them mainly for personal record and also in case other people ever want to read my blog on what happens at Disney. I know at least I'm obsessed about it, and I've found a forum online of a bunch of other obsessed people on Disney College Program. So ihey, there are others like me. :)

Kay, for real. That's it.

PS. I think it's funny that I'm ending up tagging this post with both the word "Bored" and "Excited." Haha! Maybe I"ll tag it "funny" as well.