Floodland.

[icebluenothing]

For those of you who haven't heard yet -- Sunday morning of Halloween weekend, a pipe burst in my kitchen and, well, more or less destroyed the condo below mine. Their insurance seems to be taking care of it, thank God, and I'm paying their deductible out of pocket, so that's covered, at least. I'm going to be seeing if the condo board's insurance will cover the damage to my unit or not.

This really couldn't have happened at a worse possible time-- I had spent most of the past month working on all those props and decorations for the party at the Mercury, so all of my materials were out and scattered everywhere, and I hadn't had a chance to clean up after making everything. I had to just shove everything aside and start tearing up soaked carpeting and the carpet pad to stop any further water damage. Then I spent many, many days trying to turn the resulting wreck into something vaguely livable, while still leaving room for workmen to come in and tear up the floor if that still turns out to be necessary.

Anyway. Yeah. So to anyone I'd promised to hang out with soon -- chemicallace, rivendellrose, anyone else I might be forgetting -- I'm not trying to blow you off, honestly. I've just been insanely busy and distracted. (Which, I realize, is arguably my normal state. But I mean, even more so.)

I'm trying to look at this as an opportunity. I've been needing to replace the carpet, and I've been needing to repaint the walls, and that will be easier to do with the carpet taken up. There's any number of projects I've been wanting to tackle -- replacing the shower and dishwasher, for example -- and this clearly feels to me like a sign from the universe that it's time to start doing it.

The downside of all this is, I have no idea what state my condo will be in come New Year's, so I don't know if I'll be able to host a party or not. I'll keep you posted.

Comments

[artvixn.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'm sorry to hear it.

So, does this change the plans for Orycon?

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Naaah. I'm definitely going to need the vacation, so we're still going. We haven't had a chance to work on costumes, though, so we'll have to get on that.

[artvixn.livejournal.com]

Oh good! I need something to look forward to. I'm fighting post WDW depression.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Crap on a stick, that sucks.

Um... yay for redecorating opportunities? :}

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It was kind of exciting and cool to realize that now I *had* to do the work I've been planning. :)

[chemicallace]

*hugs*

Don't worry about blowing me off. I'm just glad I hadn't not noticed blowing you off or something while blowing off the whole universe. Any luck with Fae?

We should talk about NYE options sometime, though. I have schemes.

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

*scratches head* Not sure I parsed out your double-negatives correctly, but it sounds like we're cool, so I'm just going to leave it at that. :)

Still don't know what to do with Fey. But if they're not tearing up my floors, then it's not as high a priority to find someone to look after him.

[winterjaye.livejournal.com]

eek! You poor sweetie. I hope things dry up quickly. Glad to know they are not suing you over it...

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm glad, too. I pretty much *immediately* went down and left a note on their door explaining how sorry I was to hear about the accident (stressing carefully that it *was* an accident) and making reassurances that we could work something out for the deductible. I think that went a long way toward putting them at ease.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, yuck. Don't worry at all - I figured you were busy, and this month's been pretty busy for me so far, anyway. You just take care of what you need to do! I know how awful water damage and all that can be... we had the water heater break in a house I lived in a few years ago, and it was a nightmare.

Take care! I hope everything starts behaving for you soon!