In case anyone hasn't heard the embarrassing yet fairly humorous story of my misadventures last week, here goes...

My family left town for Chicago last Wednesday night (11/9) and I followed my normal routine of heading over to The Billy Goat for some dinner, drinks, and a round of Golden Tee. After putting down a six pack at The Goat, I headed home pretty beat and thought about going straight to bed. But I knew that I would have the house to myself and didn't want to waste such an opportunity, so I headed to QT to grab another 6 pack.

I spent the rest of the night drinking a brew here and there, snacking on morsels of leftovers that I had found in the fridge, and watching various crap on TV until I finally settled into a movie.

Before I knew it the movie was over and the six-pack was gone. I was indeed tired by then seeing as how it was already 3 am. I was in serious need of a shower before bed though. So I headed downstairs to get clean.

I hit the shower and immediately sunk to the floor, just tired of standing. I just wanted to relax for a bit and let the warm water calm me. I've been known to sit in the shower and relax for an extended period of time, but what happened next has never happened before.

At about 3:45 am I awoke in the floor of the shower with icy cold water hitting my back. Oops! I had fallen asleep in the shower. Time to get out and head to bed. My first foot hit the bathroom floor with a light "splash". SHIT!! I had somehow flooded the bathroom. Ahhh, the cross section of drain marks on my ass cheek told the story. At some point during my slumber I shifted just right to cover the entire drain with my ass. Hence the water on the floor.

I cleaned up 90% of the mess in the bathroom and headed to bed. To my dismay my first step onto the carpet felt extremely chilly... and wet. NO WAY!! I had let the water run long enough to overflow the bathroom floor and onto the carpet too! Oh but it wasn't just outside the door, it was at the base of the stairs, down the hall, and all the way to my bedroom. NOT GOOD!

I started soaking up the majority of the water using dirty towels, got it to a point where I thought things were better off, and headed to bed. After all, it was about 4:30 am by now and I had to work in the morning.

Unfortunately I had long days at work both Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So most of my cleanup during those days revolved around swapping saturated towels with dry ones, setting heavy boxes on the towels to help soak up the standing water and then of course doing multiple loads of towels in the wash.

Saturday night by the time I got home from work around midnight. The house had developed the unpleasant sour smell of mildew. That is definitely not good. Mildew is a bitch to get rid of and extremely unhealthy. Luckily my mom had just bought a steam cleaner. So I spent the rest of my Saturday night devirginizing the steam cleaner. Hopefully that was going to do the trick.

Not quite. The carpet was still more than moist on Sunday. So after doing the towel/box trick one last time, I broke out the fans, heaters and dehumidifier. Finally after a few days of this, I think I finally quashed the mildew and removed all moisture from the carpet. A lot of work for a stupid mistake. At least it makes for good blog content though.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 12:24 PM