What would YOU do??

You walk into your bathroom and see blood dripping from the otherwise spotlessly white ceiling. What do you do?

My answer was to grab a bucket to put under the drips, get the dogs in the car and drive into town. The bucket wasn't actually to contain the mess, it was to prove to the authorities (if I needed to) that there actually WAS blood dripping from the ceiling, and I'm not crazy.

I didn't tell Stephan right away. He was having a hard day at work, and I didn't want to upset him. So as we were driving back home and he asked, "How was your day?" he got an unexpected answer. His course of action involved going to the bar before coming home. Once home, we poked a screw driver into the ceiling (which was still white, though there was liquid in the bucket) to make sure that no one was going to come sailing down while we were sleeping.

This morning Stephan opened the ceiling wider and saw... daylight! We knew there was no roof cap, but we had no idea they'd just left it open to the air. Rain water had leaked down overnight and soaked through the pink foam insulation and the brown pressboard covering the ceiling, and onto the floor. 3 cans of Great Stuff later, we have a new access panel up into the attic through the bathroom.

In other news (yeah, the ceiling was bleeding, but life goes on) the internet man came over and I'm typing this from our very own living room! Oh? The living room? Painted a beautifully custom mixed autumn harvest orange. The dogs took one look at the area rug (from Chicago) and just sat on it. Their territory is back. The futon frame came in yesterday so we even have a couch again.

Tomorrow I start my job at Quality Personal Care, a senior assisted living facility. It should be fun- I'll let you know.

We are planning to come home next week for Easter. We leave Tuesday night, arrive Wednesday morning, and stay until Monday night. I don't know where we're staying, or when we're going out or anything so if you have plans and want us to join you please let me know!

And seriously, imagine you walk into your bathroom and the ceiling is bleeding. The ceiling is pure white except for the red droplet that forms and drops onto the floor, leaving no trace on the ceiling. What DO you do??