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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-02-14 11:00 am
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-02-14 11:00 am
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Mess of a week!
*screaming into a pillow*
It's been a hectic week.
Monday the apartments were doing random inspections, supposedly of only ten units. We drew the short straw, again.
They inspected part of the unit, but did not go to the bedroom/bathroom part of the unit. Then they gave us a "failure to comply with lease" warning, saying that we have two weeks to make the rest of the unit accessible or face eviction.
But... it all is accessible. The kitchen area was cluttered, but nothing was blocked from view or access. (It is far too much stuff for too small a space. Alex's model collection is extensive and I wish we had an alternative, but for now it does mean a lot of plastic tubs. But they are clean and stacked neatly.)
The apartment is divided with a half-width wall that splits the kitchen from the bedroom, which has empty space to either side of the wall section. Bella's crate is on one side in that empty space, which was never expressed to be an issue to us before. The other side is open, but they claimed it was too cluttered to allow them access to inspect the remainder of the unit. The only thing between the kitchen and the bedroom/bathroom on the front side is... a dog bed on the floor. It's not an impassable barrier!
We did spend basically all of Tuesday trying to sort and clean up those boxes in the kitchen to make them less visually glaring, and to wrangle loose items into boxes of their own. It helped, and did end up clearing out some floor space, which was helpful anyway. I'm worried that their primary complaint is going to be the dog kennel, and I don't have another place to put it. I could slide it up next to my side of the bed, I guess, but that would actually make things far LESS accessible.
I spent some time last night tackling a couple other spots as well.
I'm hoping that maybe we can get someone to come by next week for an unofficial look to tell us if there are still any things that need to be changed in order for us to pass the second inspection. If the kennel is their point of complaint, then we can remove it until after the inspection is completed, I suppose.
My mom has offered to allow us to store some things at her house, but I'd want to get some of the old storage of mine that's already there cleaned up before moving new things in. There's old stuff from high school and college that I don't need. Childhood keepsakes that I wasn't ready to part with, but may need to. But to do that, I need to find more time to go over there to do the cleaning out and sorting, and it's hard to want to spend my days off doing that. When I do go over there to spend time, generally it's to spend time with Taylor.
Then we had to replace our TV.
It utterly crapped itself repeatedly over the last week, where it just mysteriously couldn't connect to the wifi anymore, even after a factory reset. Typically between four and six hours later, after doing repeated factory resets/unplug entirely/leave off and unplugged for thirty minutes/etc. it would finally work again... but often only for somewhere between twenty minutes and six hours before failing again. (No other devices have difficulty finding the network.) It's apparently a common issue with lower-end Vizio TVs, and ours is five or six years old at this point, which is about three times longer than they're expected to last, apparently.
We bought the cheapest Roku TV that was available (in part because cheap, and we didn't love this last Vizio which has had issues for a while, and in part because OMG I DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR A GIANT THING, and the small 32" screens are only available in the cheap lines, it seems like. I remember a "small" TV being like, a foot across at most!) I had a gift card that went toward part of it, but the rest of the expense still wasn't something I'd beenhoping to need to pay... but the TV is about 80% of our entertainment, and not being able to use it sucked. It's also on about 100% of Alex's time at home, and he was already noticing how difficult he found not having background noise.
I ordered a gift for Alex for Valentine's day, and it made it to Denver last week... before mysteriously being sent to Pueblo, where it's now been stuck for days and days. So... I probably need to get him something else while I start a postal claim for the lost item. But since I didn't get paid until today, I wasn't able to do that in advance...
Further limiting... I am flying out of town today.
The company that Taylor works for does an annual "holiday party" that is actually generally a weekend vacation of some variety. They get to bring a plus one, and I've been Taylor's for a few trips, now. :) Several years ago was when we went to Austin. Last year was a fancy hotel elsewhere in Colorado. This year is scenic Scottsdale, Arizona! The trip is today through Monday.
I'm excited to hang out with Taylor and my mom (who works for the same company,) but I am less excited to have to fly.
Now I'm just hoping I can find something nice for Alex while I'm in Scottsdale. :/ Which I was going to do anyway, but now it has to do double duty of souvenir and belated Valentine's day gift.
We'll celebrate on Tuesday once I'm back, but... now we also have to spend that time on apartment nonsense. (I was hoping that we'd be back at a reasonable time on Monday, but we won't be back until evening. :/ And when we have to deal with that apartment stuff is not ideal timing for me to then be gone for four days.)
My heart is breaking for a coworker going through some horrible health stuff: his own, which involves leukemia coming out of remission, and the drug they want him to take to treat it costs $16000 per month, and then his wife "feeling unwell" and going to the doctor turned into a stage 4 liver cancer diagnosis for her, and they've now been in the hospital for nearly a week with her.
Plus the apartment worry has kept me up almost all night multiple nights in a row with just churning anxiety, and I've had a headache that I can't quite shake for the last few days, and considering how badly it spikes every time I move and how many times I've just been unable to say words or express complete thoughts over the last few days I'm afraid it's a migraine (even though I haven't been totally incapacitated), AND on Wednesday morning I had one of the worst nosebleeds I've had in years, followed by an even worse one on Wednesday night that I was *almost* concerned wasn't going to stop... I feel like I'm a mess!
I am looking forward to the trip, but am also painfully worried that I will struggle to enjoy it, because I'm so anxious about everything else! I'm going to try very hard to have a very fun few days away, then a very fun belated Valentines with Alex (the plan right now is Indian food!) and then really try to get all the unfun nonsense dealt with.
It's been a hectic week.
Monday the apartments were doing random inspections, supposedly of only ten units. We drew the short straw, again.
They inspected part of the unit, but did not go to the bedroom/bathroom part of the unit. Then they gave us a "failure to comply with lease" warning, saying that we have two weeks to make the rest of the unit accessible or face eviction.
But... it all is accessible. The kitchen area was cluttered, but nothing was blocked from view or access. (It is far too much stuff for too small a space. Alex's model collection is extensive and I wish we had an alternative, but for now it does mean a lot of plastic tubs. But they are clean and stacked neatly.)
The apartment is divided with a half-width wall that splits the kitchen from the bedroom, which has empty space to either side of the wall section. Bella's crate is on one side in that empty space, which was never expressed to be an issue to us before. The other side is open, but they claimed it was too cluttered to allow them access to inspect the remainder of the unit. The only thing between the kitchen and the bedroom/bathroom on the front side is... a dog bed on the floor. It's not an impassable barrier!
We did spend basically all of Tuesday trying to sort and clean up those boxes in the kitchen to make them less visually glaring, and to wrangle loose items into boxes of their own. It helped, and did end up clearing out some floor space, which was helpful anyway. I'm worried that their primary complaint is going to be the dog kennel, and I don't have another place to put it. I could slide it up next to my side of the bed, I guess, but that would actually make things far LESS accessible.
I spent some time last night tackling a couple other spots as well.
I'm hoping that maybe we can get someone to come by next week for an unofficial look to tell us if there are still any things that need to be changed in order for us to pass the second inspection. If the kennel is their point of complaint, then we can remove it until after the inspection is completed, I suppose.
My mom has offered to allow us to store some things at her house, but I'd want to get some of the old storage of mine that's already there cleaned up before moving new things in. There's old stuff from high school and college that I don't need. Childhood keepsakes that I wasn't ready to part with, but may need to. But to do that, I need to find more time to go over there to do the cleaning out and sorting, and it's hard to want to spend my days off doing that. When I do go over there to spend time, generally it's to spend time with Taylor.
Then we had to replace our TV.
It utterly crapped itself repeatedly over the last week, where it just mysteriously couldn't connect to the wifi anymore, even after a factory reset. Typically between four and six hours later, after doing repeated factory resets/unplug entirely/leave off and unplugged for thirty minutes/etc. it would finally work again... but often only for somewhere between twenty minutes and six hours before failing again. (No other devices have difficulty finding the network.) It's apparently a common issue with lower-end Vizio TVs, and ours is five or six years old at this point, which is about three times longer than they're expected to last, apparently.
We bought the cheapest Roku TV that was available (in part because cheap, and we didn't love this last Vizio which has had issues for a while, and in part because OMG I DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR A GIANT THING, and the small 32" screens are only available in the cheap lines, it seems like. I remember a "small" TV being like, a foot across at most!) I had a gift card that went toward part of it, but the rest of the expense still wasn't something I'd beenhoping to need to pay... but the TV is about 80% of our entertainment, and not being able to use it sucked. It's also on about 100% of Alex's time at home, and he was already noticing how difficult he found not having background noise.
I ordered a gift for Alex for Valentine's day, and it made it to Denver last week... before mysteriously being sent to Pueblo, where it's now been stuck for days and days. So... I probably need to get him something else while I start a postal claim for the lost item. But since I didn't get paid until today, I wasn't able to do that in advance...
Further limiting... I am flying out of town today.
The company that Taylor works for does an annual "holiday party" that is actually generally a weekend vacation of some variety. They get to bring a plus one, and I've been Taylor's for a few trips, now. :) Several years ago was when we went to Austin. Last year was a fancy hotel elsewhere in Colorado. This year is scenic Scottsdale, Arizona! The trip is today through Monday.
I'm excited to hang out with Taylor and my mom (who works for the same company,) but I am less excited to have to fly.
Now I'm just hoping I can find something nice for Alex while I'm in Scottsdale. :/ Which I was going to do anyway, but now it has to do double duty of souvenir and belated Valentine's day gift.
We'll celebrate on Tuesday once I'm back, but... now we also have to spend that time on apartment nonsense. (I was hoping that we'd be back at a reasonable time on Monday, but we won't be back until evening. :/ And when we have to deal with that apartment stuff is not ideal timing for me to then be gone for four days.)
My heart is breaking for a coworker going through some horrible health stuff: his own, which involves leukemia coming out of remission, and the drug they want him to take to treat it costs $16000 per month, and then his wife "feeling unwell" and going to the doctor turned into a stage 4 liver cancer diagnosis for her, and they've now been in the hospital for nearly a week with her.
Plus the apartment worry has kept me up almost all night multiple nights in a row with just churning anxiety, and I've had a headache that I can't quite shake for the last few days, and considering how badly it spikes every time I move and how many times I've just been unable to say words or express complete thoughts over the last few days I'm afraid it's a migraine (even though I haven't been totally incapacitated), AND on Wednesday morning I had one of the worst nosebleeds I've had in years, followed by an even worse one on Wednesday night that I was *almost* concerned wasn't going to stop... I feel like I'm a mess!
I am looking forward to the trip, but am also painfully worried that I will struggle to enjoy it, because I'm so anxious about everything else! I'm going to try very hard to have a very fun few days away, then a very fun belated Valentines with Alex (the plan right now is Indian food!) and then really try to get all the unfun nonsense dealt with.
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Thank you.
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Could you take photos to document how the apartment looks to fight the ruling? And did they give you specifics about what the issue was? (Aside from generally saying 'access'?)
So much suckage about the tv.
And the lost gift! Sheesh!
What a weird time for the company thing. Valentine's weekend?
I hope you manage to have a good time despite the ugh going on with the apartment and money and lost gifts . . .
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I don't know if they'll care about pictures. I offered to let the woman who dropped the notice off take a look, but she wouldn't come inside. (Which I guess is maybe in general a safety precaution.) I'm frustrated by the lack of specifics, because I don't know what thing they're objecting to! (Our best guess is that the dog bed plus a wedge pillow that Alex uses during the day but not at night were both on the floor, so they thought it looked blocked? But like... a dog bed and a pillow!?)
The TV thing sucked, but at least so far the new one has been a nice upgrade.
And the gift finally unstuck! It sat in Pueblo for six days, but finally arrived on Saturday.
The company picked the later time in part because it was President's Day weekend, but I don't know why, because they don't close for that Monday! Taylor had to work a half day from the hotel, haha. (Apparently the later time was also in part because one of their employees gets debilitating cluster headaches that hit him every year specifically in January, so he's been unable to go on any of these trips for years. So they pushed it to later to try and let him come along, which was kind of them!)
I did have a good time, though the instant we got back it was freezing and miserable and all the stress came back, haha.
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Yay, I'm glad the gift finally arrived!
And that you had a good time. Even if it didn't last through coming home to the cold. (At least you have heat now. I hope you still have heat, anyway. o_O)
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And yes, at least there's heat! So glad there's heat, haha.
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So glad you have heat!
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I'm hopeful the apartment stuff will resolve, but am terrified it won't. Alex got a lot of stuff cleaned up and looking better. We think maybe the dog bed + a pillow that was on the floor made it look like the pathway was more blocked than it was? But still... a dog bed and a pillow?! Wtf.
The trip was very nice! It was hard to come back to the frigid temperatures and stressors, though.
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Glad the trip was good!