The To-Do List From HELL July 30, 2009
Posted by katie @ k.c.i.d. in Uncategorized.2 comments
As you might have gathered from my last post, the move did not go quite as smoothly as I had hoped, and I have yet to sip a Mai-Tai by my pool. When I arrived (after a leisurely six and a half hour drive in a 26′ truck packed to the brim and towing a car behind it) I quickly discovered that the air conditioner in my lovely new house is broken. In Florida. In July. OH and did I mention the 26′ packed to the brim truck that had to be unloaded? Not cool. Literally. So that was “issue” number one. Number two was that I had a cooler full of food that I was trying to salvage and SURPRISE! There’s no fridge. And no washer and dryer. You know what… let me just save some time and type the list that I gave to the landlord.
Dear Landlord,
Things That Need to be Fixed Before I’ll Ever Sign a Lease
1) Fix A/C
2) Master Bath shower needs faucet (literally there was just a hole in the wall)
3) hall bath faucet neeeds to be turned right side up
4) pool needs new pump (old one overheats every 15 minutes)
5) remove water from dishwasher
6) bolt dishwasher to counter
7) guest bedroom door needs to be turned right side up
8) need FRIDGE (for some reason it won’t let me type an “8″ with a thing behind it without making that ridiculous smily. sorta takes away from the pissy tone that I am intending this list to have…)
9) finish grout in master bedroom floor
10) Master bedroom door doesn’t close
11) Fans in living room and bedroom wobble to the point that I fear decapitation
But other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?!
So the first night, I have to admit, I was borderline hysterical and thought that I may or may not have needed to be sedated and admitted to a mental hospital. I was sweaty and tired and pissed. But the next day, I got up with a “Let’s do the damn thing!” attitude and got it ALL done. Well, I got it all done with some help from the A/C guys and the weirdest plumber you’ll ever meet – who, by the way, had to cut into walls in two locations in my house to fix the showers. Seriously this guy was so strange. And he was here all. day. long. At one point he literally just popped his head out of the door and looked at me and said, “Picture me ROLLIN”, and then went right back to work. I looked around for a minute like, “did I just hallucinate that?!”…
Anyway, so I have an A/C that’s kickin, a clean pool with a new pump, a shiny new dishwasher, fridge, and washer and dryer, fans that aren’t going to decapitate me, a bedroom door that closes, a beautiful master bath shower that you can actually USE, and a finished bedroom floor. And now? Dare I even say it?! This place is actually really great. Just needed a little (and by “little” I mean “a shitload of”) TLC! And the best part is, along with a beautiful beach sunset, I see a Mai-Tai on the horizon…
p.s. Although everything is fixed, I still haven’t signed the lease. Sorta like unloading a truck in the Florida summer sun with no A/C, I wanna make that landlord sweat just a little…
