It sprays out at the elbow where the horizontal pipe hooks into the vertical. It’s just a tiny stream but a steady stream when the shower is on.

I’m watching Youtube videos. I have a leaking shower arm and I cut away the drywall to expose where the arm goes into the pipe. I can see water spurt out from the joint.  It’s been leaking awhile. I was sure the drywall behind the tile could use replacing, which meant replacing the tile also. It felt sturdy but I thought it had gotten wet for a few months. I stuck my cell phone camera in the hole I cut in the drywall and took a pic. Yay – it looks like zero water damage in there! I know it spurted (just a little squirt but it’s steady when the shower is on) for awhile before it made a wet spot in the drywall that I cut away to see inside. I was gonna cut the hole larger to stick my entire phone down in there, but I’ve already cut away all the soft crumbly stuff. If the drywall is that sturdy and dry, I just need to replace the shower arm and make sure it seals properly. Likely just the seal has been broken due to the fixture being 26 years old.

4-30-14 update: I replaced the shower arm and shower head!

I’ve decided to go back to Planet Fitness. I cancelled last year after I didn’t want to drive west anymore, now my body is like WTF? Yes, I can work out and lift weights here, but there I’m motivated to do more. I like an early dawn workout, the moment I get up, go jump on the treadmill while I wake up and decide what my work out will be for the day. By the time I’m halfway through my rounds, I’m awake and pumped for the rest of the workout.  Last year I checked out the new Anytime Fitness right next to the Publix I’m in every other day. It was a nice facility but the enrollment and monthly price was much higher than Planet Fitness, something like $89 to join and $54 a month.  For me, the extra amenities didn’t matter and $10 to join and $10 a month is fine.  I’m here for the treadmill, the weights and the machines. I don’t need pool or steam or tanning. Oooo, which reminds me I have access to a pool three miles away if I want to swim.  Win/win! Continue reading →

Today is my parents’ anniversary. It is also the 18th anniversary of mom dropping her body and leaving the earth plane. My mom and I were close, speaking every day, never arguing, she was my best friend. I always thought I’d freak when she passed, which she did suddenly on April 8, 1996, of her first heart attack.  I didn’t freak.  I didn’t grieve.  I felt there was no separation.  I still don’t feel she’s missing from my life. I’ve ever been a sentimental person. I’ve never been family oriented. I am more a loner.  I love my family, but family life is not for me. In the two days between her heart attack and passing — which we did not know was going to happen —  she was heavily medicated and could not speak, yet managed to open her eyes very wide once in order to look me in the eye and let me know she was still in there.  I talked to her and I whisper-sang to her.   Continue reading →