I attempted to lock my door that leads to the garage the other night, but when I pulled on it, it opened so I assumed the lock didn’t work. This assumption almost lead to a disaster! Monkey had taken her back pack with her to Kendal’s doctors appointment yesterday and upon returning home she left it in the car. A while later she asked me where it was and I told her it was in the car and she asked me to go get it, so I did. I guess I pulled the door too hard and it closed. I got the backpack and tried to open the door. No luck, it was locked. I started knocking but no luck. Then I started to panic, my children were in the house, my keys were in my purse on the dryer, my cell phone was on the desk, and the only neighbor I know was at work. So, I opened the garage door and made my way to the front door in the snow, with slip on shoes and no socks. By the time I got to the front door, my feet were wet and freezing! Now, any other day Monkey would fall all over herself trying to get the door if the bell rang. Apparently, yesterday, was not one of those days. So, I started ringing the bell and I could hear Monkey saying “Mommy, the bell is ringing.” I continued to ring the bell and pound on the door. “Mommy, there is some peoples at the door.” “Mommy, where are you, the bell is ringing,” As I stood outside pounding on the door and bell, I was yelling, “Monkey, it’s me, open the door.” I finally gave up and came back into the garage. I pounded on the door, “Mommy, where are you?” “Monkey, I’m in the garage, open the door.” “Mommy, what?” “Monkey, I’m in the garage. The door is locked. Open the door.” Finally she opens the door, pajama pants on, both legs in one pant leg. I came in the house and she said “Mommy, I couldn’t find you. The bell was ringing.” “I know Monkey, it was me.” “There were some peoples at the door.” “No, Monkey, it was me at the door trying to get in.” “Well, I thought it was Mimi.” “Nope, it was me.” “Well, Mommy, I had to get my pants on.”
The Great Flood
February 3, 2009 at 1:02 am (Military Housing)
This morning before going to get Monkey from preschool, I flushed the toilet and it made a strange popping sound. I left to go get Monkey and run to the post exchange. When we got home the toilet sounded like it was running so I went to check it out. I rounded the corner and the bathroom was flooded. Water everywhere. I called the maintenance number and told them what was happening and I was told that they would try and send someone out today, mind you, this was around noon. I had towels all over the bathroom trying to get the water up and keep the water from flowing out the bathroom door. Eventually I cut off the water. Then I went downstairs to discover that the water was seeping through the floor and flooding the area in front of the basement door. So I called the maintenance number again, explained the situation, and was asked if it was getting worse. Umm, yes, it’s getting worse! The woman told me they would page someone and get them over here. When the maintenance crew arrived they discovered that a hose in the tank had broken and it was just spraying water! They fixed that and then brought in the shop vac to try and get the water up out of the carpet. Then they told me there was water in my wall, they had sucked out some of it, but there was no way to know how much was in there. I was told to get the towels up quickly because that would help keep more water from getting in the wall. Well, in my opinion the damage has already been done. Now, my question is, will there be mold growing in my wall and am I just supposed to live with it??
It’s SOOOOOO Hot!!!
June 16, 2008 at 4:13 pm (Military Housing)
OK, we live on the border of Texas and Mexico. It rarely rains and it starts getting warm in March. My neighbors and I joke that this is the only place where you go from frostbite to sunburns in a two month period of time, oh and don’t forget the 60 mph wind storms that stir up all the dust! Well, in May it was 90 degrees. It’s June, and today it’s 106 degrees. It’s so hot here that it’s hard to breath and guess what??? Our swamp cooler (our a/c) stopped working! Yesterday, it was 104 during the day and at 10:30 last night it was 77 degrees outside and 83 degrees in the house and the swamp cooler was on high. This morning when hubby came in from PT he put in a work order with our community. They came about an hour ago and I don’t know what they did, but now we can feel the cool air! Needless to say, Monkey and I will be spending our day in the house, because it’s just sooooooooo incredibly hot and sticky and miserable!
Improvements and Work Orders
June 3, 2008 at 6:31 pm (Military Housing)
The housing department at the base we live on has decided to try and make improvements to the housing that we live in by installing new dishwashers. They came and installed mine yesterday.
We all question why they are doing this since they are supposed to tear these houses down in the near future. They were built in the late 60’s or early ’70’s and are literally falling apart. But, I don’t complain because it’s a roof over our heads. Now if they’d only decide to replace my 1970’s oven!
Speaking of our housing department, Hubby put in two work orders today. One for our bathtub that refuses to drain. We have problem with our bathroom plumbing at least once a month! Half the time our toilet won’t flush, but the day my Monkey decided to flush her underwear it worked fine! The other order was to take care of the ant infestation that has recently taken over our home. There is a crack in the tile in the bathroom that we watch the ants crawl in through. We walk around with a can of Raid to take care of the problem, but it can only do so much. Sunday the ants were in Monkey’s room, on her bed, on the wall, everywhere. Hubby went out to spray the outside and watched them crawl through the Masonite that our house is made of and then we discovered that they were coming up through the carpet. So, we used our Raid and vacuumed her entire room, even moving the bed. Yesterday I got up to make breakfast and my counter was covered in ants. I am very careful to put up all food and clean the counters, dishes go in the dishwasher at night, and yet, there they were. All over the place, climbing up the wall, and behind the oven. Today they are in the hall. Why are they in the hall?? Hopefully, GMH will come soon and take care of the problems. I can deal with a non draining bathtub, but I don’t know how long I can live with the ants!
