Hi. I'm an idiot.

I have been monitoring the drip, drip, drip in my kitchen cabinet and have been perplexed by how thick and sticky the "water" I collected was. I was also obsessed with finding where the leak was coming from. The top of the cabinet was dry. The back of the cabinet -- the part that touches the walls and pipes -- was dry.

WHAT WAS GOING ON?

Two cans of creme soda, smack dab in the middle of the cabinet and completely out of my view, had sprung slow leaks for some reason. Good Lord it made a mess in there! Scrubbing everything down was not fun. (Although my cat Reynaldo seemed to find the whole thing quite thrilling as he climbed in and out of the sudsy cabinet.)

And it was very embarrassing to call the condo management co. and confess that the water leak I feared was really just a couple cans of pop. (Cheap store brand pop, at that!) So no inspection is necessary.

But while I may be an idiot, I'm a happy idiot. As unpleasant as this morning was, it's far less complicated than a leaky pipe would have been.