-Maintenance man lighting the kitchen on fire
-Peeing in the shower
-Moving into this apartment alone (oh, I didn't tell you? Quinn had 24hr duty the day/night I moved in...)
Pretty awesome, right?
First of all... I should have taken "before" pictures of this apartment- can you say DUMP?! I literally scrubbed our personal bathroom, dusted all the floorboards, and swept the entire place before I fell asleep my first night here. The bathroom took 2 full hours! DISGUSTING. We were so frustrated with the way the landlords left the place... honestly, it would be nice if it were CLEAN! I just don't understand, but I guess this is Hawaii... you pay for being 1.5mi from the ocean and not for the cleanliness, ugh... there goes $2,000 a month on rent.
Anyway, back to the guest bathroom, we hadn't used the bathroom and had all the boxes waiting to be donated sitting in it (hey, we were used to sharing a bathroom!). So today I decided I'd had enough. I removed the boxes and started scrubbing away, first I dropped a blue lysol toilet disc in the tank. Once I got to the mopping I noticed a small green ring around the toilet and thought "that's pretty raunchy" and mopped it up. In my final act (almost 2hrs in!) I cleaned the toilet, and flushed... oh man....
My thought is that the last renters didn't notice because obviously they didn't really care about anything seeing the state they left the apartment in (ie: how on earth did anyone live like this?!) and that the normal clear toilet bowl water would run around the edge and then towards the tub. Remember how I'd added the blue tablet though? Hah! Talk about blue water flood!
I mopped it up and called the landlord (praying they call us back... we've already re-sealed the a/c units, replaced 2 missing venitian blinds, and sealed the window screens on our own dime!) describing the problem. I think it's the wax seal. I however- do not know how to drain a toilet, cannot lift a toilet, and don't have plumbing tools to remove the current seal and scrape away the silicone then replace it with a new one!
This is a picture POST mop, it was still leaking, the water is turned off now...
Between the neighbors [4:30am & Fights] and the money we've put into this apartment... it's turning into the "apartment from hell."
**Good news for the day! That ice cream maker I invested in has already been used to make a batch of vanilla and I just finished chocolate and placed it in the freezer... can't wait to see how it tastes!

1 comment:
Think positive, God loves you! I think your current situation is for sure a life lesson, not bad not great a mediocre chapter in your life. It's going to get better!
Love you, Dad
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