Your apartment complex might want to look for mouse holes.
If your apartment complex wants to look for mouse holes, they might move your washing machine.
If they move your washing machine, they might not put it back right.
If it doesn't get put back right, your apartment might start to flood.
If your apartment starts to flood, you might freak out! And then write a slightly-upset email to your apartment complex. (The mouse wasn't their fault! But this actually kind of is.)
If you write to them, they may try to help by coming in the next day while you're gone, moving all your furniture around, ripping up your carpet, and putting huge noisy fans in your apartment to dry it out for 24 hours. (24 hours!? I don't think so! We need to sleep in here, people. It's one room, remember?!)
If that happens...you may find yourself writing a MORE upset email when you get home at ten pm.
Which is what P and I are doing right now. Well, P is doing it. I'm writing this. To you. And thinking about cookies.
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I won't tell you too many details about why this was particularly hard to deal with today, but one is that I had my first physical therapy appointment this afternoon to address this mystery health crisis that I have, and though it makes me hopeful that this will eventually get better, in the meantime it freaking hurts!! :-( Other, less dramatic reasons -- this particularly busy season this happens to be for both P and me. He had a big (but exciting!) work event tonight, and my final papers are due next week. It just means that being able to put health and home crises on hold would be so nice!
In other news, my dad is pointing out that two religion scholars ought to be able to tell signs from God when they see one. DC earthquake? Then hurricane? Then pests? Now flooding?! What more do we need before we move home to California already? ;-)
Basically, P and I are doing fine. We are still (mostly) healthy and very happy, but we have some annoying things we are dealing with, and we are really looking forward to that Christmas vacation coming up!
#firstworldproblems
#butstill.
Basically, P and I are doing fine. We are still (mostly) healthy and very happy, but we have some annoying things we are dealing with, and we are really looking forward to that Christmas vacation coming up!
#firstworldproblems
#butstill.
#butstill, for sure. Reading this reminded me of the apartment I lived in my third and fourth years of college, which had a collapsing roof, leaky radiators (and when I say "leaky," think Old Faithful), a mouse, etc. etc. Apartment disaster stories are so funny after the fact, but they are so stressful while they are happening. Hang in there. Sending you and P. lots of love and healthy wishes from Chicago!
ReplyDelete@Susie -- thank you! ;-) It is nice to be reminded that these stories ARE really funny later on! (Hopefully "later on" starts soon!)
ReplyDeleteHope you're feeling better, too!
xo,
Kim