That toilet that was fixed yesterday? The goddamn incoming water valve that he had to open/shut is leaking.

Now, the good news is that my brother put a pitcher under it when he did the repair yesterday just to be on the safe side, so the bathroom isn’t flooded and there isn’t a ton of water leaking, but – it is leaking. Granted, it’s a near 50 year old bathroom, so, these things will happen.

And of course, this on the heels of my reading KC Davis’ “How to Keep House While Drowning” literally last night before bed – and was actually feeling good about things – the tl;dr is “housekeeping is morally neutral – being good/bad at it doesn’t make you a good/bad person” and I’d really felt good about just sticking with the super bare bones basics and getting things under control slowly and not treating rest as a reward but instead as something that just needs to be done.

And now I have to fucking panic clean so we can bring a plumber in. At least we don’t have to bring the plumber in today, and I can take a deep breath and tackle things.

So, order of operations here – places the plumber will have to walk through/will be in line of sight:

– Entry Hall
– Stairs
– Upstairs Hall
– Living Room
– Kitchen
– Parlor
– And of course, upstairs bathroom (at least the scrubber is all charged up!)

Now, at least from that awesome tiny little book I have a strategy – she pointed out there are 5 things in any room: trash, laundry, dishes, things that have a place and just aren’t put there, and things that don’t have a place, and you tackle them in that order. That is doable.

I just really didn’t want to try to do it in the space of a week or two, but here we are.

But hey, I guess I’ll get that little rolling shelf put together I got specifically for that bathroom!

My little Pomodoro timer app is going to get a hella workout in the next 10 days it seems. But, it’s OK, I can do this, it’s probably gonna suck, but I can do it, and it won’t be the worst thing in the world to get some spots to a place where it’s more about maintenance than shoveling shit.