Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Is a working toliet too much to ask

Apparently this is the case because I currently have niether a working toliet or shower. I mean I guess technically speaking I guess they both function in mostly the way they are suppose to except for the part when they don't really drain. And that other part were any time anyone upstairs in the other four appartments uses the bathroom or toliet everything comes out my shower and toliet. Which let me tell you is the super most awesome thing in the world. If you thought there was something out there that was better than just not being able to use the toliet well then look out because having someone else shit come out of your shower is just soooooooo much better. I hardly think you will be able to contain your own excitement.
When it first started yesterday morning I didn't think much of it. I was in the shower and the water wouldn't drain, but ah no big deal right. Its a little gross to me but whatever I'm late for work anyways so no time for that. Well that was until I got turned the shower off and was like why is there still water running. Of course those of you who know me know I can't see without my glasses, and though I used to take a shower with my glasses on I found I had to stop after awhile because its harder to was your face that way. So what I learned once I could see what that the water that wasn't drainging was actually overflowing out of my toliet. good times right.. I asure you it was. So first though is fuck now i'm really going to be late for work (though I'm not really sure why I think it will take my only 20 min to shower and get dressed anyways because it never really works)..
Anyways I went to my room to you know get dress and away from all the water, and by the time I came back it all went away. I don't know where it went but I think well shit I really didn't have time to clean it up anyways, so fuck it, I don't own the place. So I make it work and call the landpeople. I get a call out that says someone will be out at some point which was in fact not yesterday.
Moving on.. this morning I wake up to bubbling water sounds, and since i don't have an automatic bubble machine making bubbles while I sleep I was a bit concerned. So turns out someone upstairs was showering and everything was comming up my toliet and shower again, only much more gross looking with browness and chunks of stuff. Very pleasant. Needless to say I could not shower which rocked because my hair was literally sticking straight up. Anyways I bursh my teeth then I throw up, because it was nasty in there, and I might have forgotten to take my allergy meds yesterday. Got dress, sported some pigtails, and went to work. Called the apartment people and was like yeah someone needs to fix this today.
So I get a call on my way home from work. Its the guy who fixes the stuff, and something about the plummer was there but he left. He thought he was going to come back but apparently didn't. So great now I can't even use the shower or toliet even a little bit. Mostly at this point the toliet was what was worry some cause I had to pee. So what did i have to do but go knock on the neighbors door and be like "hi I'm brandi. I live downstairs can I use your bathroom" It was great really really great. I don't even like people. Ugh. Well I don't know what his name is but he turned out to be very nice which isn't bad. He does have a nicer stove than me which I learned he doesn't use. Its still small though, so that made me feel better.
Anyways if you ever want to hang out and not have a place to go to the bathroom then really my house is the place. Well even though its after ten the guy who fixes things(I think his name is ryan are you seeing a pattern here) called and said someone should be out in like a half hour, so maybe it will be fixed tonight.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

A trip to france

I know that you've all been wondering what exactly I've been doing with this my week and a half long vacation. I know your all very interested because I get asked like 57 times a day what my plans are. As no one seems to be down with my plan-less vacation.
Well today M and I took a little trip down the French Rivera. We rode bike down nice coble stone parkways. It was a very enjoyable way to spend a few hours. Ok maybe we were only gone for like an hour, but either way it was a good time. Really nothing compares to riding your bike for the first time (even though you bought it six years ago), in the nice calming breeze of the French Rivera. It felt kind of like in a movie. I wanted to go to Italy or maybe England in the late 1800's, but alas there now that I got my bike back, and well lets face it put some air in the tires, there will now be lots of bike trips around the world. I even went wearing a dress, because well what else would one wear to bike the beaches of France. Well I'll keep you posted on where else I travel on my plan-less vacation

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

A clash of cultures.

Ok there seems to be this little riff going on at work. See we bought all these games for the break room, like jinga, monopoly, checker/chess etc. I was crabby at work so I was eating in the break because there were too many people in the office. So I said to recetionist that we should play a game. She picked checkers becuase it would be the easiest and the quickest. Well it turns out there are some, well I'll call them made up, rules to checkers. So we are playing and S makes her way to my side of the board and gets a King. I'm all no big deal, though she won't move any of her checkers out of her side so I can get in, they still aren't going anywhere. Well then she tries to move like three spaces with her King to Jump me. I'm all what the hell are you doing. You can only move one space at a time. Well its starts this whole big thing where in we need to break out the rules. Half the people at work though really thought thats houw you play the game. There really seems to be a divide along the lines of where you grew up. Thats the best I can figure. Seems a little crazy to me though as what would be the point of the game once a king has been made if it can do whatever it wants. There was actually quite a big of discussion about it throughout the day. I'm happy to say that we did break out the rules, and i was right. I can always live with that.