February Can't Come Soon Enough For Me

This is why I want to move:

This is the ceiling in my kitchen. Lovely water damage from our holey roof. We have asked numerous times for it to be fixed, but nothing has been done in probably eight months. The management company doesn't care that I live with buckets on my floor when ever it rains. I have to put out three in my kitchen, one in the living room, and one in my bedroom. You would think they would be more concerned about the Roofing on this duplex, because it is destroying the inside ceilings and walls, as you can obviously see. Eventually they are going to have a black mold problem. I wish they would hire some Roofing Contractors to come in and fix the problem once and for all, instead of just patching it.

Because the "patching" isn't working anymore.

The people next door are having a harder time than us, though. They have a mouse problem, on top of their leaky roof. It seems their kitchen sink leaks, and it rotted a hole in the cabinet underneath, which is leading to the outside somehow. Paige, my neighbor, was telling me how they lay in bed at night and can hear the mice running around. I am very thankful that the wall we share is well insulated, because I haven't seen any mice, knock on wood. I think it might be partly because we have the cats, too. In fact, yesterday morning I found a dead mouse right outside my front door. I love when they leave me presents like that.

Anyway, I will be so happy when February comes around. I am not wanting to start trouble while we are living here, but once we move, Junior wants to report them as slum lords.

We'll see what happens.

More Water Damage

Remember me telling you about standing at the bus stop during a thunderstorm last week? It had been raining pretty hard for a couple of days, and as usual, my stupid roof was leaking. I am really getting tired of this. Luckily, the spot over Kasi's bed was fixed, but my kitchen is a mess. This time, it leaked into my clean laundry, and I had to rewash everything. I really wish the landlords would call a professional roofing company and have the roof fixed properly. I am sure they could get a good deal on GAF Roofing instead of paying the guy who has "fixed" it about 10 times since we have been here. He is obviously doing something wrong.

There is so much water damage to the ceiling and walls in my kitchen. It's embarrassing, really. I am ashamed to have people over. For all I know, there is black mold growing. I will be so happy when we finally move. I think we are going to try and find a regular landlord, and not a management company. Regular landlords seem to be more willing to keep their properties looking nice, or at least that has been my experience. And trust me, we have been renting for a long time.

Our Lease Is Up

Tomorrow Junior and I have to go and resign our lease on the apartment. I am pretty sure we are going to resign, just not for a full year. We have the option of signing for six months or a year, and I am thinking we are going to do it for the six months. That way, if they don't want to do the Roof Repair this apartment desperately needs, we can move in February, when we have our tax refund to help with moving expenses. I have a feeling they may just suggest Roof Cleaning but I don't believe that will fix the problem. I think we need to have Roofing Contractors who know what they are doing come out and take a look. The maintenance man they have sent out in the past patches the hole, but it never lasts long. I don't understand why they don't just fix it properly, and then there won't be any more problems.

I also want to request that they send in someone to paint over all the water damage, or reimburse me for buying paint and doing it myself. I have water streaks all over the ceiling and walls, and to be honest, it's kind of ugly to look at. I hope they will make these repairs, because as cramped as we are, I don't want to move right now. I like our yard, I like the kid bus driver, and I don't want to pack up all of my elephants again. Do you have any idea how long that takes?

A Long Day

I am so tired. I think I finally fell asleep around 2:30 this morning. Del didn't call for Ryan, but I heard the guy hammering on the roof aroung 7. Brandi was right, that freakin' guy was loud. But our roof is finished, and that is the important thing. I was at Del's by 9:45, and left there around 5:30. The girls, even Faith, were so good. Ryan stayed here with Junior helping to pick up our yard and stuff. I set the girls up in a little area between the building, tables, fence, and myself. There was no way they could get to the road except through me. I know, Nicole, you were a little nervous, as I would be too, but I hope you saw that they were safe. I wouldn't go up there if I thought they weren't. Anyway, when we got home I was so hot. I was dying to get in the pool. That lasted about 2 seconds. I can't breathe. My cold is settling in my chest and I'm wheezing now. Not good, I know. My nose is so red I look like Rudolph! So being in the pool with all the chlorine didn't feel too good. It made my chest hurt worse. I'm supposed to go back in the morning, but I think I'll wait to see how I feel. Hopefully I will be able to fall asleep early tonight. I know I was rambling last night. Probably didn't make too much sense. I promise if I'm up tonight, I won't write! I did find those cute little smily guys. How funny is the ipod one! Anyway, I'm off to fix a simple supper, ham and cheese crescent rolls. Until tomorrow...