Posts Tagged ‘Wyoming’
Un-neighborly Neighbors?
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Do I ever do anything but whine on this site? 
Anyway, yes, more unhappiness, with pictures this time.
I snapped this pic of the butt-can outside the front door of our building a few weeks ago. This has since been cleaned up, but by the maintenance guys and not the jerks who left the mess.
The trash only gets dumped twice a week. The week before Memorial day, they dumped it on Thursday.. this is how it looked by mid-weekend.
Last weekend, we came home and discovered this lovely park job. The green car is my Bonneville. The photo is a bit of an optical illusion, I could not have physically walked between the vehicles, nor opened the driver’s door of my car.
Yesterday, Barton caught one of the residents of our building using our patio area as his own for a smoke break.
Smoking... on our patio.
More Apartment Woes
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
The apartment above us is empty and the maintenance crew is apparently working up there to fix it up for new tenants. While I was making the stew, I heard a WHAM when they dropped something heavy on the floor. A little while later, I’m sitting at my desk writing up my previous post about making the beef barley stew, and there’s another WHAM.
This time, it jars the floor so hard that the light fixture, that is above and slightly to the right of me, breaks loose. One of the rods that holds the glass bowl of the fixture broke free and it was left swinging by the remaining 2 rods.
Needless to say, this pissed me off. The glass bowl, while not completely broken, is in no shape to go back up there, even if the rods that hold it in place are able to be screwed back into the fixture. The holes where the rods go through the bowl are chipping away. While taking it down before it fell down on me, I got showered with little shards of glass.
Pictures to follow (once my camera battery charges).
Stuff
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
When we moved from Lansing to Grand Rapids (technically Wyoming but I think that might confuse people because one usually thinks of Wyoming as a state first, and not as a city within Michigan) and again, this last couple of weeks – I really got a good overall picture of the fact that we have so much Stuff. We have about 10 toothbrushes, aside from the ones we actually use daily (thank you Dr K, for providing most of those free with dental cleanings), a dozen or more cartridges of dental floss, a horde of this, a gazillion of that, etc. Most of which is not being used. We brought a plastic 3-drawer cart full of “stuff” from Lansing, and for the 10 months we lived in our first apartment here, it was never opened. I don’t even know whats in it anymore (toiletries of some kind I’m guessing, but beyond that, no idea). Cutting the tape open on that sucker is going to be like Christmas.
CLOTHES. OMG clothes. I know, just offhand, there are 3 fairly large plastic totes full of just clothes. Some are mine, some are Barton’s. That we’re not wearing now. That we might never wear. In the fall we took a couple of boxes of clothes to my Dad’s (along with boxes of other Stuff).
I don’t know why this happens. I’d like to think I tend to be frugal in my purchases. I don’t go on “shopping sprees” very often, maybe twice a year. I spend hours in the store(s) looking for just the X thing that suits my need. I have a coupon or its on sale. I buy it, bring it home, BUT.. (like in the case of the damned clothes) I re-decide later that it doesn’t work. The clothes that DO work for me though. I keep wearing those for years. Looking at my ‘wardrobe’ now, honestly, most of the stuff I wear daily looks kinda shabby. :/
“Damn, the legs on these jeans I just bought are too tight. But they didn’t feel that way in the store? Well, shit. I washed them now, they probably shrank. I’ll throw them in the closet and maybe in 6 months I’ll lose some weight and they’ll fit.”
But does that ever happen? Fuck no. And so, the Stuff Grows.
We’re going to be in this new apartment at least until May 2011. Between now and then, the extra, unused, unnecessary Stuff must shrink, and be gone. Really gone. Donated, trashed, sold – not just stored, but really and truly gone. It will be my mission.
Moving, part tres
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
We got everything out of the old apartment in Lansing a week ago today. I’ve still got some stuff in my car, hopefully I’ll get that cleaned out this weekend now that the weather is nicer. Here is a crappy pic of our new place taken this morning with my crackberry. We still have a lot of unpacking and organizing to do.
livingroom boxes