It's out to get me,

I would love to catch a break in this house right about now. I'm not talking about chores or house work or anything... I'm talking about the house itself! The night we moved we discovered that the fridge was broken. Lovely. Luckily maintenance considers that an emergency and sent someone out. After initially telling me it was all my fault, the tech took the motor back to the shop and returned with a huge apology and a brand new fridge. Does it stop there? Oh no... Im just getting warmed up.

The spiders are ridiculous. Not just huge, but by the plenty! All the black widows and brown recluses' you could want. I even had one spring out from under the folded pillow cases on my night stand. We sprayed for them after we bought some stuff that came highly recommended. Wouldn't ya know, it didn't work. Just light night, a quarter size brown recluse charged me as I folded laundry on the floor. My trusty flip flop took care of that funny business.

There are vents in each bathroom, as in most bathrooms anymore. The difference with ours is that when you turn it on, it sounds like you just started up a '67 Nova in the bathroom. If that were actually the case, I might not complain. So if I am in the downstairs bathroom, and the kids are in the living room, I cannot hear a DARN thing. Then when Boats has his man time in the bathroom, the vent has to run forever and you have to jack up the volume on the TV to hear over it!

On the same note, the air conditioner is crazy loud too. At our old house, you could hear the unit kick on and the air blowing out a bit, but nothing disruptive. The unit is so loud, I actually do everything I can to avoid turning it on at all! At least it cools the house down fast and I can shut it off.

Then there is the hall closet door. It is a bi-fold door, and a few days after moving in Bug opened it to get her shoes out. The whole dang thing fell OFF the hinges and on top of HER!! That call to maintenance was not so nice, but at least the girl on the other end was very understanding as to why I was so ticked. The guy came out and fixed it and said he was going to order a new door because our was busted (duh) but we never heard anything else about it. Today it fell off again. Luckily I was the one opening it and I caught it before it actually fell. But really??!? Come on! Give a girl a break. I don't want to call and give them this crazy long list, but lets be real here... they are getting a crap ton of money in rent, the least they can do is a few upgrades and make sure there are not life threatening bugs in the house!!

So while I am loving getting my Cali color back in the 80+ degree weather, I would also enjoy having a house that will not make me go gray before I turn 26 next month! Once I get a little more time, Ill put up some photos of the house :) Even if it hates me, I still made it all purdy on the inside.

Mrs. J.