A/N: Just wanted to let you guys know as soon as my house is in better repair, or I have a few minutes, I will finish the next chapter...Anyone ever experienced this?

A day in the life of I Dream of Jasper

I wanted to wash one more load of clothes the other night. So I threw them into the washing machine before going to bed about 1:30. (Working on this story, up half the night, hehehehe) No biggie right? We all do it every day. Well in my world never do anything unless you are right there with it, cause shit happens and well, usually to me. LOL. So my husband wakes me up at 5:30 screaming at me something is wrong to get up. Now after my 4 hours of sleep, I'm groggy and cranky. I come into the kitchen and half of it is covered in water. I grab my mop and bucket and start mopping. It is what we usually do. I grab a can of Mt. Dew out of the fridge, cause I gotta have something to open my eyes. My husband stands back at looks at me. I am mopping and wringing it out over and over.

He finally breaks, can't take my stupidity any longer, "Honey, I think you might need something more than that."

Of course me, I look at him like he has lost his mind, what else you gonna use to mop up water but a mop? "Okay?" I say to him.

"You haven't made it far enough yet." He tells me.

"Huh? What do you mean."

"This is from the washer. It ran all night and it never cut off." With that he runs out the door and goes to work.

"Well, Fuck!" I say to myself and go to inspect the damage.

The laundry room is off of my kitchen, so I walk in there and what do you know, about 2 inches of water is covering the floor. "Fuck" I say, and grab a broom and start sweeping water out the back door. I also have the bad habit of washing clothes and leaving them in there till we need em or just whenever. I know, my husaband already bitched about that so you don't have to, too.

So anyways after getting about 5 clean baskets of laundry out of there plus 3 dirty loads that I hadn't finished yet. I now have 8 loads of soaked clothes. I finally have all the water out of my kitchen and laundry room and think fin-a-fuck-in-ly! Nope so not the case. It has also flooded my daughters room which is behind the washer wall, and dining room that is behind the other wall. So I had to call the insurance company after getting what I could up.

They sent out some very nice people to help out. By helping I mean they ripped up my flooring. Moved all my shit, ripped up carpet, peeled the trim away from my walls. Disassembled my daughters bed away from the wall, Cut up the floor in places, and cut some of the dry wall out. Sounds great doesn't it. Now that obviously isn't enough so they go under the house and rip out all of the insulation, cut holes in the duct work, cause there is about an inch of water in that to. And when they finally proclaim they are done, they move 10 very loud, very in the way fans into my kitchen, laundry room, bedroom, and dining room. So I now have half of everything we own in about 4 rooms. Washer and dryer, table and chairs, bed and dressers, and on and on in all of these rooms.

Oh and did I mention I have 3 kids on fall break this week, cause they obviously gotta be home so they can try to mess with all of these high powered fans, humidifiers and such. Plus before the nice men left they said. Please don't go into the kitchen. "WTF" I think cause how can I not go into the kitchen for 3-5 days?

So lesson of the day...Never, ever, Never leave your washer on when you are not there to switch it off if you are going to wash clothes.

Maybe I can get back to the story in a few days, or when I get everything settled into place for this process. Thank God I got insurance though, cause I would hate to have to pay all of this out of pocket!

Now don't you feel so much better about your day! = )