Our kitchen has this uncanny habit of continuously filling up with unclean dishes that never seem to ever get completely done... When we first moved in here they were done almost daily, if not every other day... but lately things seems to have slacked... well... tremendously, in the way of washing dishes. It always seems that we must wash our dishes in order to cook supper or eat or anything, really. I'm constantly washing my own cups just to grab a drink.
So, I started marking dates on the calendar. Each day has a name beside it. Rhem's and mine. Rhem's got Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I've got Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Right now he doesn't seem to have an issue with this. I also made the statement that whoever's doing dishes that day is also the one that cooks supper. This way it's not a constant battle after work as to who's making supper, what's being made for supper, and no longer can he make the excuse for supper being late as "Well I have to do some dishes first".
I don't want to be sick anymore. The doctor said I'm eating too late in the evening. He said no eating past 7pm. I think I can push it to 8pm considering the times I usually go to bed. But I don't believe supper should ever be at 8pm. Even when I get done work at 6pm I could still get home and be able to have a meal cooked and on the table by 7. It just takes planning.
Today I also got tired of seeing the huge pile of laundry in the bedroom and on Rhem's side of the bed (seriously... there's a hamper right beside the bedroom door... 5 feet away... put your clothes in it dude lol). So I opted for going to the laundromat instead of getting laundry done for free downstairs (because we never seem to get it all done). Rhem argued and said downstairs was cheaper (free). Turns out the tools we need for the washers & dryers (so they're free) were not available and the resident managers were out visiting relatives and wouldn't say when they'd be home. So.. in the end... laundromat. We brought a shit ton of laundry, including our blankets.. because I *really* wanted my blanket washed after having been sick the other week with a cold.
At least things are starting to get straightened away. It'll be nice. I need a little organization in this place otherwise I'm soon going to go insane. I need *everyone* to help me out, it's just a matter of getting them up off their asses to do it...
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Rant - Responsibility
Rhem and I are assistant resident managers of two apartment buildings (one of which we live in, the other is next door). By taking on this position we were given $300/month off rent and free utilities. Our responsibilities include doing a little cleaning work inside our building (mopping stairs & entranceways), snow removal at the entranceways, and taking the cell phone every other weekend from the resident managers (who are also a couple).
I've started questioning the managing capabilities of the female resident manager. When we first started living here in December she told us the things we needed to do. We did them, and then she would mention other things we didn't know about and complained to the company about us. This happens every couple of weeks and I don't understand why she does it. Apparently they've only been resident managers since October... so a grand 2 months before us.
Anyways, on to an issue that happened today. I left from work early due to the huge snowstorm we had and when I got home and tried to get into the parking lot, one of the tenants was stuck in the parking lot trying to get out. So I hop out of my car and help her shovel around the wheels and try to push her. She doesn't budge. She called the resident managers asking if the snowplow would be around soon and if they had any salt or sand so she could try to get out of the parking lot. The female manager told her that they don't have that kind of stuff here and the snowplow has been called and will get there when he gets there.
So I go over to the building entrance and get a container full of salt and bring it out to her, explained that I'm the assistant manager and we have salt. Now... what I don't understand is that this girl was frantically trying to get out of the driveway and couldn't. The resident manager had no thought to come out and see if she could help us get her out. She basically blew her off entirely! Now she's on the phone with Rhem talking about it saying she didn't have to do anything and complaining because the girl called in a complaint about her.
On to other things, she told me Sunday that when we wash the floors & steps that we're now to use vinegar & water instead of soap & water. However, there's no vinegar here. So I emailed her asking about it and she hasn't gotten around to getting any vinegar yet. I mentioned the snowbank that's in front of the entrance around our side of the building and they were supposed to have someone come out and remove the snowbank. After today's storm it's now blocked in the entrance as well as a tenant's car. Now, the snow in front of the entranceway is now considered a fire hazard because no one can get in or out of that door. And she said someone will eventually come, they have a request in. Wow... Simply wow...
Being a resident manager is a huge responsibility. And requires you to be a responsible person and make responsible decisions. They get free rent, free utilities, and are paid weekly for what they do. And they do nothing. *sigh*
I've started questioning the managing capabilities of the female resident manager. When we first started living here in December she told us the things we needed to do. We did them, and then she would mention other things we didn't know about and complained to the company about us. This happens every couple of weeks and I don't understand why she does it. Apparently they've only been resident managers since October... so a grand 2 months before us.
Anyways, on to an issue that happened today. I left from work early due to the huge snowstorm we had and when I got home and tried to get into the parking lot, one of the tenants was stuck in the parking lot trying to get out. So I hop out of my car and help her shovel around the wheels and try to push her. She doesn't budge. She called the resident managers asking if the snowplow would be around soon and if they had any salt or sand so she could try to get out of the parking lot. The female manager told her that they don't have that kind of stuff here and the snowplow has been called and will get there when he gets there.
So I go over to the building entrance and get a container full of salt and bring it out to her, explained that I'm the assistant manager and we have salt. Now... what I don't understand is that this girl was frantically trying to get out of the driveway and couldn't. The resident manager had no thought to come out and see if she could help us get her out. She basically blew her off entirely! Now she's on the phone with Rhem talking about it saying she didn't have to do anything and complaining because the girl called in a complaint about her.
On to other things, she told me Sunday that when we wash the floors & steps that we're now to use vinegar & water instead of soap & water. However, there's no vinegar here. So I emailed her asking about it and she hasn't gotten around to getting any vinegar yet. I mentioned the snowbank that's in front of the entrance around our side of the building and they were supposed to have someone come out and remove the snowbank. After today's storm it's now blocked in the entrance as well as a tenant's car. Now, the snow in front of the entranceway is now considered a fire hazard because no one can get in or out of that door. And she said someone will eventually come, they have a request in. Wow... Simply wow...
Being a resident manager is a huge responsibility. And requires you to be a responsible person and make responsible decisions. They get free rent, free utilities, and are paid weekly for what they do. And they do nothing. *sigh*
Rant - Snow
I am a Canadian and I hate snow. In fact, I think most Canadians hate snow. I don't know anyone who actually looks forward to more than the first snowfall of the year. lol
Either way, I hate it.
And not so much the cold part of it all, that I could deal with. But it's the annoyances that come with snow that I can't handle.
Shovelling - now that I'm an assistant resident manager of my 2 buildings of apartments, I have to shovel the entranceways. That's no big deal except the resident managers don't help. Rhem requested that they take care of their building and we'll take care of ours but I haven't seen it happen yet. We're still shovelling all 5 entranceways. Bleck.
Snowplows - the city snowplows are pretty sucky. They don't put the blade all the way down so as to not ruin the roads... However this leaves a couple inches thick of snow & ice build up. Ice build up = sliding = accidents = more money in insurance brokers' pockets. That and the fact that where I'm in an apartment building the road plow will go by and plow the road decently but our apartment plow guy won't come until shortly before 8am, not caring for the fact that maybe some people work at 8am and have to *get* to work. Twice I've shovelled from my car to the road. This is no small task, I assure you. And my back is paying the price for it!
Bad Drivers - our city is well known for their bad drivers. However, it seems that in the wintertime it doubles. People don't know how to slow down, how to start braking early, how to inch their way out of roads where the banks are too high and you can't see... I'm constantly jamming on my brakes and swerving to avoid bad drivers and some day I'm worried that I won't think fast enough and end up in an accident -_-
Wet Feet - in order to get to the kitchen from the living room I have to pass the entranceway for my apartment. And vice versa to go to the living room. I think I'm the only one that knows how to use the shoe rack so that if my shoes drip from melting snow, it will drip onto the floor underneath the shoe rack. But everyone else leaves their shoes right in front of the shoe rack. Right in the path I need to walk through to get anywhere. Which normally wouldn't be a problem except snow on shoes melt and then I end up walking through it and getting my feet wet and dirty. I've mopped the area countless times but it never seems to stop more snow water from showing up.
Bleck. Winter. Go away for a few months, eh?
Either way, I hate it.
And not so much the cold part of it all, that I could deal with. But it's the annoyances that come with snow that I can't handle.
Shovelling - now that I'm an assistant resident manager of my 2 buildings of apartments, I have to shovel the entranceways. That's no big deal except the resident managers don't help. Rhem requested that they take care of their building and we'll take care of ours but I haven't seen it happen yet. We're still shovelling all 5 entranceways. Bleck.
Snowplows - the city snowplows are pretty sucky. They don't put the blade all the way down so as to not ruin the roads... However this leaves a couple inches thick of snow & ice build up. Ice build up = sliding = accidents = more money in insurance brokers' pockets. That and the fact that where I'm in an apartment building the road plow will go by and plow the road decently but our apartment plow guy won't come until shortly before 8am, not caring for the fact that maybe some people work at 8am and have to *get* to work. Twice I've shovelled from my car to the road. This is no small task, I assure you. And my back is paying the price for it!
Bad Drivers - our city is well known for their bad drivers. However, it seems that in the wintertime it doubles. People don't know how to slow down, how to start braking early, how to inch their way out of roads where the banks are too high and you can't see... I'm constantly jamming on my brakes and swerving to avoid bad drivers and some day I'm worried that I won't think fast enough and end up in an accident -_-
Wet Feet - in order to get to the kitchen from the living room I have to pass the entranceway for my apartment. And vice versa to go to the living room. I think I'm the only one that knows how to use the shoe rack so that if my shoes drip from melting snow, it will drip onto the floor underneath the shoe rack. But everyone else leaves their shoes right in front of the shoe rack. Right in the path I need to walk through to get anywhere. Which normally wouldn't be a problem except snow on shoes melt and then I end up walking through it and getting my feet wet and dirty. I've mopped the area countless times but it never seems to stop more snow water from showing up.
Bleck. Winter. Go away for a few months, eh?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Birthday Post - Part 2
My 2:00 plan didn't happen. LOL Actually, to be honest, not once have I picked up my book to read yet. However, I did have a good afternoon and evening.
Roommate woke up late so it was only around 1:00 that I started my cake. Then had to wait for it to cool. THEN realized "I have no frosting!!" But that was quickly fixed because I had a bag of icing sugar in the cupboard so made that. Which was awesome because I made a very colourful cake! Green icing with blue trim and purple letters! It was a lemon cake. And it was good. ^_^
Started supper around 4:30. Rhem came home while I was still getting it prepared. I asked him if he could do up some dishes while supper cooked. He said he felt kinda bad since I had to bake my own cake and make my own supper. I have no problem with this, though, because it gave me the opportunity to make a pretty epically coloured cake! We had brocolli & cauliflower chicken casserole that turned out very yummy and there was even enough left over for me to bring to work tomorrow for lunch! Yay me!
Rest of the evening has been spent in front of the laptop playing WoW. I honestly haven't played much since the expansion came out... Well, to be honest, I haven't played much since we moved to the new apartment. So I was happy I could get a few hours in to the game and have some fun. :)
And now, it's 11pm and I think I'm going to turn in for the night and try to get a full night's sleep.
Night!
Roommate woke up late so it was only around 1:00 that I started my cake. Then had to wait for it to cool. THEN realized "I have no frosting!!" But that was quickly fixed because I had a bag of icing sugar in the cupboard so made that. Which was awesome because I made a very colourful cake! Green icing with blue trim and purple letters! It was a lemon cake. And it was good. ^_^
Started supper around 4:30. Rhem came home while I was still getting it prepared. I asked him if he could do up some dishes while supper cooked. He said he felt kinda bad since I had to bake my own cake and make my own supper. I have no problem with this, though, because it gave me the opportunity to make a pretty epically coloured cake! We had brocolli & cauliflower chicken casserole that turned out very yummy and there was even enough left over for me to bring to work tomorrow for lunch! Yay me!
Rest of the evening has been spent in front of the laptop playing WoW. I honestly haven't played much since the expansion came out... Well, to be honest, I haven't played much since we moved to the new apartment. So I was happy I could get a few hours in to the game and have some fun. :)
And now, it's 11pm and I think I'm going to turn in for the night and try to get a full night's sleep.
Night!
Birthday Post - Part 1
This is Part 1 because I'm sure I'll have more to say later this evening when my birthday is finally coming to a close.
So far it's a good day. I woke up around 11am and laid in bed for about 30 minutes reading facebook posts to my wall on my phone :) I actually find facebook funny when it comes to birthdays. There's a lot of people added to my facebook that I don't talk to often, if at all. But when my birthday comes up it seems to completely light up with posts from various aunts & uncles, cousins, best friends, regular friends, online friends, and then the people that are on my facebook only due to the fact that when I remove them they keep re-adding me LOL Let me summarize this a bit, because I'm a math geek and I love math and I want to show exactly what I have for 'friends' on my Facebook page:
I have 157 'friends'.
Boyfriend - 1
Immediate Family - 2
Coworkers & Ex Coworkers - 12
Cadets - 6
Rhem's Friends - 14
Online Best Friends - 4
Online Regular Friends - 4
Real Life Best Friends - 4
Real Life Regular Friends - 6
Real Life Acquaintances - 4
WoW Best Friends - 3
WoW Regular Friends - 13
As you can see, the percentages are as follows:
Family - 40.1%
School & Cadets - 16.5%
Regular Friends - 14.6%
Not Really Friends - 11.4%
Work - 7.6%
Best Friends - 7.0%
I kinda like the fact that my percentage of best friends is the lowest. There really are only a few people that I allow to be close enough for me to consider them as a 'best friend'. It involves me knowing them for years, staying in contact with them throughout that entire time, them being there for me when I need it the most (and vice versa), etc. These are the people I would take a bullet for without so much as a second thought.
Anyways, back to birthday now that I've had my math fun and realized how pathetic my friends list on facebook really is LOL
After my roommate gets up and heads off to work I'll be baking my cake. Yes, you heard it right, I'm baking my own cake. I had opened my mom's birthday gift last night (technically I opened it on my bday as it was 12:30am lol) and it was a mixmaster and I joked to Rhem saying "I can use this tomorrow for my bday cake!" and he was all "Yeah!" and then I made mention of needing to find batter and he commented with "There's 2 boxes in the cupboard..." -_- Which made the sudden realization that I was, in fact, going to end up baking my birthday cake. Bleh. But that's alright because I'm also making supper today because he's at work and I'm home. But it's going to be a very yummy supper, I'm making brocolli, cauliflower & chicken casserole.
*** Off Note *** I can hear my resident managers arguing in the office beside my apartment... ugh.
But yes, this is so far what's happened today. My next plan is to play a little WoW and around 2:00 I'm going to start reading my book from cover to cover :)
So far it's a good day. I woke up around 11am and laid in bed for about 30 minutes reading facebook posts to my wall on my phone :) I actually find facebook funny when it comes to birthdays. There's a lot of people added to my facebook that I don't talk to often, if at all. But when my birthday comes up it seems to completely light up with posts from various aunts & uncles, cousins, best friends, regular friends, online friends, and then the people that are on my facebook only due to the fact that when I remove them they keep re-adding me LOL Let me summarize this a bit, because I'm a math geek and I love math and I want to show exactly what I have for 'friends' on my Facebook page:
I have 157 'friends'.
Boyfriend - 1
Immediate Family - 2
Aunts & Uncles - 18
Cousins - 38
Future Inlaws - 4
College Friends - 3
Old High School/Cadet Friends - 17
Parents of Above - 4
Coworkers & Ex Coworkers - 12
Cadets - 6
Rhem's Friends - 14
Online Best Friends - 4
Online Regular Friends - 4
Real Life Best Friends - 4
Real Life Regular Friends - 6
Real Life Acquaintances - 4
WoW Best Friends - 3
WoW Regular Friends - 13
As you can see, the percentages are as follows:
Family - 40.1%
School & Cadets - 16.5%
Regular Friends - 14.6%
Not Really Friends - 11.4%
Work - 7.6%
Best Friends - 7.0%
I kinda like the fact that my percentage of best friends is the lowest. There really are only a few people that I allow to be close enough for me to consider them as a 'best friend'. It involves me knowing them for years, staying in contact with them throughout that entire time, them being there for me when I need it the most (and vice versa), etc. These are the people I would take a bullet for without so much as a second thought.
Anyways, back to birthday now that I've had my math fun and realized how pathetic my friends list on facebook really is LOL
After my roommate gets up and heads off to work I'll be baking my cake. Yes, you heard it right, I'm baking my own cake. I had opened my mom's birthday gift last night (technically I opened it on my bday as it was 12:30am lol) and it was a mixmaster and I joked to Rhem saying "I can use this tomorrow for my bday cake!" and he was all "Yeah!" and then I made mention of needing to find batter and he commented with "There's 2 boxes in the cupboard..." -_- Which made the sudden realization that I was, in fact, going to end up baking my birthday cake. Bleh. But that's alright because I'm also making supper today because he's at work and I'm home. But it's going to be a very yummy supper, I'm making brocolli, cauliflower & chicken casserole.
*** Off Note *** I can hear my resident managers arguing in the office beside my apartment... ugh.
But yes, this is so far what's happened today. My next plan is to play a little WoW and around 2:00 I'm going to start reading my book from cover to cover :)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Reference - Names
I've decided to try my best to keep the names of my friends, family, etc. anonymous to a certain extent. So I am using aliases (or ones I think best describes them). To help everyone further understand who is who:
Sham = Me
Rhem = My Boyfriend
Deadcell = Rhem's Friend / our Ex Roommate
I will be updating this as I use names.
:)
Sham = Me
Rhem = My Boyfriend
Deadcell = Rhem's Friend / our Ex Roommate
I will be updating this as I use names.
:)
Ramble - My Birthday
I booked off 2 days so I could have a long weekend to celebrate my birthday and actually *do* something.
The original plan was to go to Halifax Friday the 21st and come home on Sunday the 23rd. While in Halifax we were going to visit some of my relatives, visit my sister, and find a way in past the fence in Shannon Park so I could take a picture of my old apartment before the park gets bulldozed in the spring. This ended up not happening because I realized 3 weeks earlier that we were not going to be able to afford it plus the fact that we had the on-call phone for our apartment this weekend.
So I thought "Hey, maybe we'll hit up a movie!" But again, idea shot down because we had the on-call phone for our apartment. So no movie.
Now, I've been getting used to this birthday plan disappointment. Last year plans involved going out for dinner and watching a movie. Of which I mentioned to Rhem a week or more before. However, the morning of my birthday and through the day I didn't get so much as a mention of it being my birthday. So I thought he forgot. The day of my birthday I went to the grocery store and bought my own cake mix, icing, etc. and baked myself a cake. I was not having a birthday that didn't involve cake. Turned out... Rhem *did* know it was my birthday and had gone and bought me a really pretty cake with rainbow icing. I felt so bad! :( Dinner plans got pushed to later because he was running late so the movie idea got cancelled. Then my friend wanted us to stop by and say hi to him and his girlfriend (before she headed back home, 4 hrs away) and give them cake. So we stopped in there before going for supper. Then my friend wanted me to drive his girlfriend to the gas station her friend was meeting her at to pick her up. So, with much frustration, I agree and then he hops in the car too. He wants to see her off, and then get a ride home. I drove them both down and then drove him to a bus stop and gave him $2 to take the bus home. I had a very bad birthday last year and I cried about it... but not in front of anyone.
This year, it's pretty much looking the same way. I picked out what I want for supper. Rhem and I are trying to do the 'stay home and don't eat out so much' thing so I decided that I want to have chicken brocolli casserole. Which I will be making myself because Rhem will be at work. And that's honestly all that I have planned. Because if I don't plan anything, I can't get disappointed when plans fall through... right?
These 2 extra days off were so I could be home and relax for once. Already for Monday I have a huge list of things to do. I have to drive Rhem to work, I have to get groceries, I have to get supper ready, I have to bring the work cell phone to work so my supervisor will have it for the week. I have cadets at 6pm. And I intend to do laundry because none has been done yet.
Tuesday? Rhem will again be at work. I will be making supper. And I intend to read, front to back, "Paper Towns" by John Green. I'm already 8 chapters into it and I do not intend to do anything except read for the day and make supper in the evening.
Happy Birthday, Sham, Happy Birthday.
The original plan was to go to Halifax Friday the 21st and come home on Sunday the 23rd. While in Halifax we were going to visit some of my relatives, visit my sister, and find a way in past the fence in Shannon Park so I could take a picture of my old apartment before the park gets bulldozed in the spring. This ended up not happening because I realized 3 weeks earlier that we were not going to be able to afford it plus the fact that we had the on-call phone for our apartment this weekend.
So I thought "Hey, maybe we'll hit up a movie!" But again, idea shot down because we had the on-call phone for our apartment. So no movie.
Now, I've been getting used to this birthday plan disappointment. Last year plans involved going out for dinner and watching a movie. Of which I mentioned to Rhem a week or more before. However, the morning of my birthday and through the day I didn't get so much as a mention of it being my birthday. So I thought he forgot. The day of my birthday I went to the grocery store and bought my own cake mix, icing, etc. and baked myself a cake. I was not having a birthday that didn't involve cake. Turned out... Rhem *did* know it was my birthday and had gone and bought me a really pretty cake with rainbow icing. I felt so bad! :( Dinner plans got pushed to later because he was running late so the movie idea got cancelled. Then my friend wanted us to stop by and say hi to him and his girlfriend (before she headed back home, 4 hrs away) and give them cake. So we stopped in there before going for supper. Then my friend wanted me to drive his girlfriend to the gas station her friend was meeting her at to pick her up. So, with much frustration, I agree and then he hops in the car too. He wants to see her off, and then get a ride home. I drove them both down and then drove him to a bus stop and gave him $2 to take the bus home. I had a very bad birthday last year and I cried about it... but not in front of anyone.
This year, it's pretty much looking the same way. I picked out what I want for supper. Rhem and I are trying to do the 'stay home and don't eat out so much' thing so I decided that I want to have chicken brocolli casserole. Which I will be making myself because Rhem will be at work. And that's honestly all that I have planned. Because if I don't plan anything, I can't get disappointed when plans fall through... right?
These 2 extra days off were so I could be home and relax for once. Already for Monday I have a huge list of things to do. I have to drive Rhem to work, I have to get groceries, I have to get supper ready, I have to bring the work cell phone to work so my supervisor will have it for the week. I have cadets at 6pm. And I intend to do laundry because none has been done yet.
Tuesday? Rhem will again be at work. I will be making supper. And I intend to read, front to back, "Paper Towns" by John Green. I'm already 8 chapters into it and I do not intend to do anything except read for the day and make supper in the evening.
Happy Birthday, Sham, Happy Birthday.
First Post!
I wonder how many people actually type "First Post!" as their first post? Hmmm
So this is my first blogspot thing and I think it's going to take me a little while to get used to it lol
So this is my first blogspot thing and I think it's going to take me a little while to get used to it lol
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