I intended to keep a fairly regular workout schedule, with lifting on the weekends and cardio like Basketball during the week. Of course the minute I started planning something like that, life decided to intervene with its own plans.

Last Tuesday the water tank on my toilet spontaneously cracked. With no one there to see it, the mechanism that refills the thing kicked in and attempted to fill the broken tank, pouring a constant stream of water onto the floor. I estimate it ran for 2-3 hours before one of my roommates noticed it. It soaked through the walls, swelled baseboards, and absolutely drenched the (barely installed 8 months ago) new carpet in my bedroom.

Five-hundred dollars later (!) I’ve got a new toilet, a new shopvac, and I now know how to pull up carpet, cut out & replace the ruined padding, and then stretch the carpet back into place. Needless to say, I didn’t find much time to hit the gym while I was doing my own little disaster recovery though I’m very encouraged to find I’ve still been dropping weight without the workouts I had planned.

Of course, moving furniture and laying carpet is no walk in the park, so it wasn’t like I was just laying around, but I hope to get back on track with a more traditional workout regimen this week.