illustrationsbykaj

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

This was supposed to be a tag post but there was too much for the max tags, so read more it is I guess. But oh god, what a day.

So there was a big storm this morning, like bad enough that I tried to go to work but it was raining so hard I couldn't see shit and the streets weren't really able to drain fast enough so it was kinda flooding a bit, so I turned around and just came home and wound up cleaning my kitchen, listened to a new vinyl that arrived in the mail this morning too, but I was in the upstairs part of my house all day.

It wasn't until about 4 PM that I came downstairs for something and realized there was a puddle at the bottom of the steps. Concerning, obviously. The rain had stopped a couple hours before that, so I started pulling stuff away from the wall and find stuff i meant to throw away a while ago, so i go back upstairs to get a garbage bag. There I find my cat pissing in a laundry hamper, which thankfully there wasn't much in the hamper and the top most was a towel that covered most everything else, but it still leaked out the sides and onto the floor. so then i have to grab gloves and throw those in the washing machine, and then wash the hamper in the tub, and then find the spray to clean the floor and then grab the mop which i needed for downstairs anyways. got that cleaned up, go back downstairs and mop up the floor.

While mopping I notice the bottom of the door frame is bubbling up. There's been some discoloration there for a while but it just looked like silicone so i had assumed it was a shoddy glue job from when my ex put on the floorboards, but looking at it today i realize the whole bottom of the door is fucked and the floorboards are cracking. and then on the other side of the door is the same, and the floorboards all behind the door are warped to hell, I think water is getting inside the wall and it hasn't made visible damage on the drywall yet. I rarely close the door because the cats need access both up and downstairs, so i never see the backside of the door, so i have no idea how long this has been accumulating, and it only came to a head today when it puddled out onto the floor.

but now i'm here like. is there mold inside that wall? is this why i've been getting headaches and migraines so much? i think i've even griped here about getting migraines nearly every weekend and even that tends to be on weekends where i'm home all the time, and even more so when i spend a significant amount of time on my couch watching tv or playing a game on my console, which is only about 12 feet from that door frame with no obstacles in the way.

so fingers crossed i can get this torn out this weekend and we see if i stop having headaches and migraines so often.