hello maintence, our apartment broke...

So, a few months ago, the sink in our bathroom began draining slowly. Then it got worse, then, maybe a month ago it stopped draining at all. For some reason, we just kept dealing with this, like, didn't do anything like call maintenence or anything, just kept bailing out the sink three times a day or so...yeah, we're crazy, but a lot of stuff was going on, obviously.

Then a few weeks ago, I was pulling down or up or something one the shades in the living room and one the ends of the rod snapped and the shade fell down. This is not a big deal, except that it is the window right behind the sun conure cage, so, even with their cover, they saw the sun the second it peeked over the horizon, and woke up early every morning. and yet, ok, whatever, we didn't do anything about it.

Then on friday, the toliet seat snapped in half...yes, in half, biting me in the ass when it did. It was old and crappy but i think snapping in half was a bit excessive. So yeah, as we could not use the toliet, we made a call to maintenence and luckily they were able to come by that day. He snaked the sink, which apparently had something rather solid like a bottle cap or something jammed in it almost ten feet down. He replaced the toliet seat. He had brought the wrong size of shade so he came back the next morning and put that up. While he was here, he asked how the fridge was behaving because about a month after I moved here, the defroster in the freezer malfunctioned, freezing up the fans that move the cold air from the freezer to the fridge, therefore leaving the fridge at room temperature and the freezer full of ice. It was a three day process to fix it as there was some mix up with the part replacement, so we were living out of coolers. I told him, yeah, its fine.

Saturday morning, the freezer was making weird noises, like rattling. I opened it up and tapped the back panel and it stopped. I figured a frozen pea or something fell back there and was rattling around. No. It came back and got worse. We said, what the fuck? oh well, its still working so we'll call on monday. So we went shopping, and bought frozen stuff and eggs and milk and soy milk and lots of produce and tofu and other perishables. When we got home, the freezer was even louder and sounded vaguely like one of those old plane engines, the put-put kind. So i had to rearange it anyway so the new stuff wouldn't fall out. SO I took everything out and tapped around on the back panel some more and the noise stopped. I also scraped some of the ice off the back of the freezer. Then reloaded it. It sounded fine. About an hour later, one of us went to the fridge to get something and noticed that it wasn't all that cold in there. Great. And it continued to be less-than-cold. So i made veggie soup ad katie called maintence.

Then, to top it all off, I was doing the dishes later that night, since the kitchen looked like a dirty-dish bomb had gone off in it, and I but an apple core and some onion skins in the garbage disposal, and switched it on...all i heard was a vague whir. I turned it off and reached in and adjusted the few things that were in there (yummy) and tried again...nothing but the whir again. fabulous. So katie called maintenence again.

Hopefully they will get here soon. All our frozen food and perishables from the fridge are in a pile on the living room floor wrapped in pretty much every blanket in the house, since, according to my mother, that works better than most coolers. I'm going to go buy about 3 bags of ice later today for the veggies and not-so-perishable stuff in the fridge.

this is a bit ridiculous...does the apartment self-destruct after 6 months or something? thank whoever for good maintence people.