I have the best "tenant" ever

And this will be a good test to see if she ever reads this :)

So, we've been in this condo for just over 3 weeks. In those 3 weeks, we've had to deal with no hot water for 10 days; no Internet for probably 7 days; and now no ceiling fan in Lauren's room.

Amongst all these sufferages, she's been able to be home when the gas man came, a plumber has come (twice), and the cable guy has come (twice). If she wasn't here I don't know how the hell I'd get anything done. Its not like I can just leave work at the drop of a hat and be home for these guys to come during the day. Not to mention can you imagine going with hot water for 10 days and not bitching to YOUR landlord about it. I dont remember her complaining once. Hell, I complained daily! Next, our internet wasn't working. Friday a guy came out and told her that the cables coming into the house were "leaking decibels" and we should call an electrician to fix it. Alright, her boyfriend knew what that meant, so he thought he could fix it. He couldn't figure out which wires from the outside were coming into my place, so we needed to call the cable company again. We had an appointment for Monday between 5-7pm...so that I could actually be here and she wouldn't have to worry about it. Well, i'm not sure what happened in between but the cable guy called me around 2pm to see if he could come early. I couldn't go home, so Lauren spoke to him and agreed to be here. But after complications, he said he'd be here at 5pm. Well, the fu*ker never showed. Lauren bitched to the cable company, and allegedly got us a $20 credit at least. And a guy was to come out first thing Tuesday morning. Another day for Lauren to stay home waiting on a cable guy. Well, he showed up, talked sh!t about Friday's cable guy and fixed our internet. Yay!!!!!

Now tonight, I went and bought 2 new ceiling fans, 1 for my room, 1 for Lauren's. I had my ceiling-fan-experienced friend Shea come over to help out with the "installation in minutes". About 2 hours later we gave up. We lost a washer, we couldn't get 2 screws to fit in where they're supposed to fit. I don't know why I expected it to work smoothly! Nothing about owning this place has gone smoothly! So, now Lauren's got no ceiling fan, I feel really bad about it. Her boyfriend may give it a shot tomorrow night. Luckily we're both out of town this weekend, so its not a big deal. I'll have someone out here Monday to take care of these damn things.

Ughhhhh, everything has to be so frustrating!!! Anyways, I'm just glad to have such a good, understanding roommate. Hard to believe that just a few years ago she was known as "Failure" :)

Anyways, I've gotta go...I've got HOMEWORK!!!!!

Why I'm Dumb (Parts 288-290)

I'll incorporate my dumbness into my weekend tale...

So, Friday night me and Lauren were finishing up packing. I got her boyfriend (who I named Re-Todd, you know, since she's already dated a guy named Todd before) to help me carry stuff to the dumpster. Said goodbye to the couch, somewhat broken recliner, my dresser and night table. So sad. But I learned its more fun to move furniture when it doesn't matter if you ruin it! But that was still exhausting, we eventually just dragged and pushed the couch and dresser up a hill and to the dumpster. The movers were supposed to be coming between 7:30-9am Sat morning, and of course we decided sleep was more important and we could finish packing while they were moving our big stuff. Wrong! When the movers got to our place, he seemed pretty surprised that we weren't completely ready to go. He also proceeded to tell us these long stories about all of his moving-people experiences. We pay these bastards by the hour and it turns out the "clock" starts when he got there, so, less stories, more moving our shit please! It took almost 3 hours to load the truck (compared the 26 minutes to load Courtney's truck!). We got to the new place and the guy said he'd just charge us for 4 hours (it took over 5 overall). He kept bragging about how great he is and how he saved us so much money by not charging us for little things like mattress-protection? WTF? Anyways, onto my dumbness...

Why I'm Dumb, Part 288

This should probably count for more than 1. But, I won't. So, in my new place, I've got a gas stove and (apparently) a gas water heater. And as of Thursday, the stove worked just fine. As of Saturday...not so much. So, we've got no stove/oven and of course...no hot water. Until Thursday. I've had to take 2 cold showers so far. It SUUUCCCKKKKSSS!!!!!!! Its been almost 3 hours now and my feet are still cold. And I'm wearing a jacket...indoors...at work right now.

Why I'm Dumb, Part 289

Saturday night, after moving all day, I decided I needed to do SOMETHING fun, so I went with Matt to another sweetwater-related house warming party (same house as last time actually? Thats weird). It didn't occur to me that all day I only ate a chic-fil-a sandwich. I had about 4 beers and was absolutely hammered. Luckily Matt was driving and I crashed on his couch. I did notice a distinct improvement in my flip-cup abilities though!

Why I'm Dumb, Part 290

Sunday morning I came home to find out that the key I had to unlock the doorknob didn't work. I could've sworn I tested it, but, well, nope! So I had to go find Lauren and get her key. Oh, did I mention I was somewhat hungover? On my way home, I stopped at Arby's (because it had been about 20 hours since I last ate, seemed like a good idea. It was about 11:30 so it was pretty empty, I ordered my food, got a drink. Went to go get ice and there was none. I went back to the counter to tell them they had no ice and the dude at the register couldn't possibly care less. He asked me if I tried BOTH ice dispensers. I did. He just stood there. Another girl at the counter yelled, "Go get that boy some ice, fool" (I may have added the "fool" portion). He still just stood there, so she gave me a cup of ice. On top of that when i got to my car, I realized the soda was flat. 5 minutes after that is when I found out I was locked out. D'oh!

Bitching about packing and other ramblings to help procrastinate

T-minus 15 days til the move. I packed THREE boxes tonight...doubling my output of 6 total boxes packed. Of course, 2 and a half of those boxes were pretty much all CDs that I never seem to listen to anymore but have a hard time giving them up. You just never know when I might have a sudden desire to pop in that old Bell Biv DeVoe album I guess. You'd think I'd be good at this...since I started college I've moved 11 times (and I just counted, I've had 18 different roommates during that time - fun with procrastination, I'm the king!) But anyways, you'd think I'd be good at this whole moving thing by now. I'm not...its the worst. Last time I wasn't even halfway done packing by the time moving day came. I had people just throwing shit into boxes as people were taking my stuff out to the truck. I really hate packing, but I vow to at least be done by the time moving day gets here!!!!! I promise!

Other short stories from this past week...

Got a pretty good review and raise at work last week, so thats always good.

Hung out with my new friends at Sweetwater this weekend. Went to the brewery Friday after work then to a BBQ afterwards at Erica and Peter's house. We got to tour the house being built next door, which is still very much under construction, but on sale for a cool 750k. Thats crazy! They don't even have any doors or windows in that house! Maybe its in the plans, but its risky.

Saturday night was a housewarming party, again with the sweetwater crowd. Played some darts, oh...they had an old school atari system, I definitely need one of those!!! Then i learned how to play flip-cup. Something you're probably supposed to learn in college...its a drinking game. Needless to say I slept on Matt's couch that night and spent most of Sunday sleeping as much as possible.

Monday I tried to watch the home run derby, but good lord, it took over 3 hours!!!! I consider myself a pretty big baseball fan and I lost interest in a hurry.

Tuesday night was the All Star game, and it was a pretty good one. Comcrapstic's DVR screwed it up for me though, i missed an inning while I was helping Lauren fix her router.

Wednesday was a big day. I know I'm retarded, but I was very excited that the 2007-8 Thrashers schedule came out at 2pm. The home opener is Friday October 5th at 7:30pm vs the Washington Crapitals - who apparently have some new gay looking uniforms. Wednesday October 10th the Thrashers play Ottawa, which is the first time I get to hear my favorite National Anthem next season. They play home games against teams from Canada 9 times next season!!! Thats just about one-fourth of all home games. Very exciting for this wanna-be-Canadian!

Wednesday night was me and Matt's weekly Sweetwater beer tour gathering. One of the guys I know who pours beer there, I chat with and asked him about his girlfriend twice apparently. The second time he told me they broke up last night. Yeah, so I felt like an asshole. A group of us went out afterwards to help cheer him up.

Thats about it, I've been pretty tired all day today, gotta rest up for the weekend. Tomorrow is Lauren's birthday and I'm sucking it up and going to a bar I really don't like. It'll be fun though, the band playing she says is pretty good (its her boyfriends' brothers' band). So she's probably biased. I'll be sure to let you know!

Alright, thats enough procrastinating for one night. Night kids!