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Jun. 30th, 2006 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenStupid apartment. Just when you think you're getting the upper hand, it bitch slaps you with a surprise left.
My new plan for graduated settling in has been to start doing dishes and then putting them away. I usually try to do some in the morning, put those away at lunchtime when I come home, and then do more that I put away when I get off work. This has had obvious results, as we now have all plates, bowls, and utensils in cabinets and drawers. I have to find all the pieces that belong in the kitchen, then give them a rinse and that's it. I even started to cart down the recycling (a lot of Diet Pepsi bottles, mostly) and the boxes that were emptied as a result. And I grabbed the garbage while I was at it.
Then I noticed that water was leaked out in a pool behind the garbage can and fridge. When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran and I called the super, I heard her telling him on the phone that, no, it wasn't because of the freak rainstorm. Freak showers do not create puddles six feet from a window. Pipes with leaks might though. If the leak is behind the cabinets, that would undo most of my dish-settling work.
Plus, I got up super early to cover the first two hours of waiting for the cable guy, and the super was supposed to come between 9 and 10 as well. Surprise surprise, I left for work, no super. This is after yesterday when I was on my way home for lunch and I called to see if he could come up to see the shower and toilet, and had to repeatedly state that I would be there in minutes. I called three times in the space of an hour, until finally I got the super himself (I was calling his house, but his daughter-in-law handles calls, apparently) telling me that, no, contrary to what she'd been telling me, he wasn't imminently on his way, he'd be there tomorrow morning--this morning. You know, the one where he wasn't there.
All I need is for the cable guy to flake, too, and this will be a perfect start to my weekend. Just perfect.
My new plan for graduated settling in has been to start doing dishes and then putting them away. I usually try to do some in the morning, put those away at lunchtime when I come home, and then do more that I put away when I get off work. This has had obvious results, as we now have all plates, bowls, and utensils in cabinets and drawers. I have to find all the pieces that belong in the kitchen, then give them a rinse and that's it. I even started to cart down the recycling (a lot of Diet Pepsi bottles, mostly) and the boxes that were emptied as a result. And I grabbed the garbage while I was at it.
Then I noticed that water was leaked out in a pool behind the garbage can and fridge. When
feiran and I called the super, I heard her telling him on the phone that, no, it wasn't because of the freak rainstorm. Freak showers do not create puddles six feet from a window. Pipes with leaks might though. If the leak is behind the cabinets, that would undo most of my dish-settling work.Plus, I got up super early to cover the first two hours of waiting for the cable guy, and the super was supposed to come between 9 and 10 as well. Surprise surprise, I left for work, no super. This is after yesterday when I was on my way home for lunch and I called to see if he could come up to see the shower and toilet, and had to repeatedly state that I would be there in minutes. I called three times in the space of an hour, until finally I got the super himself (I was calling his house, but his daughter-in-law handles calls, apparently) telling me that, no, contrary to what she'd been telling me, he wasn't imminently on his way, he'd be there tomorrow morning--this morning. You know, the one where he wasn't there.
All I need is for the cable guy to flake, too, and this will be a perfect start to my weekend. Just perfect.
