ESP01-S voltage divider short circuit?

See reply above

all the GND are connected together. I have a feeling this is wrong, but I can't get it to work if they are not connected.

I can build the wiring and post a picture tomorrow ... getting kinda late to whip up my breadboard, but the wiring is really that simple. The only thing that differs is that I use 5k+2k
in serie instead of a 7k since I don't have that resistance on hand...