9.16.2009

Can't we all just get a long?

I feel like there is a sign on our door saying "Apartment Managers... but also someone you come complain to when your roommates are bugging you, and someone you go to when you put liquid dish soap in your dishwasher instead of Dishwasher detergent" With how this week has been going, I wish the old people were back. Yes you read it correctly! This batch of students are keeping us busy. Like yesterday some girls decided that liquid dish soap was an okay thing to put in your dishwasher... if you weren't aware now you are. Liquid dish soap is not the same as dishwasher detergent. It causes A LOT of bubbles that come out of your dishwasher. They were not aware of this fact, so they told us there dishwasher was broken... nope just lots of soapy bubbles! Luckily Clark was home and had to deal with it. I was at my other job watching 12 kids! Then today I have a knock on my door and it is a tenant and his Father (it is never good when the parent shows up on your doorstep). Anyway they were there to tell me about the problem the other 2 roommates were having with each other. Apparently grown men (one of them is honestly over 30) can't get a long. I sersioulsy missed one of my classes today because I was dealing with these guys! And to top it all off, in the month that the students have been here 2 of them have already moved out (not anything we did wrong--one girl moved in with her boyfriend and the other guy just up and left) leaving us with empty rooms, and the hassle of filling them up. Since apparently signing contracts don't mean anything to these people! They just think they can "cancel" their contract and leave with out paying rent. Sorry doesn't work that way, you have to sell your contract people! Clark, myself and the owner Sonya are about ready to scream. This seriously is the worst month as far as the apartments go. Sorry this post is me venting.

But in other areas of our life we are doing great! I really like my other job and it is the perfect amount of hours and it works great with my school schedule. It has really helped having that extra pay check every 2 weeks even if I am just getting paid minimum wage! We actually have some savings again, yay! Oh and we splurged and bought 2 new computers... but before you judge us we sold our old Mac desktop to Clark's mom which paid for 1/2 of our new one and then Clark saved up his lawn mowing money from this summer (no he is not a 12 year old boy) and he bought a mac book! We love our Macs and now Carolyn is loving her Mac as well. She can finally ichat with all of her kids in different towns, states, and countries. We also got a free ipod touch which we sold to Clark's brother and a free printer which is way nicer than our old one. So we do have an hp printer for sale if anyone needs one. We are willing to give it away at a very low price!! It has a scanner and is actually not that bad of a printer. My dad is running the TOU marathon along with some other family members this Saturday so that is always fun to go out and cheer them on! Plus my Grandpa makes homemade peach ice cream that is delicious, and we will be enjoying some this weekend. So to sum up we dislike the apartments right now, but everything else is going great! School is starting to get busy and we have tests and papers due so that might change how great we are doing in the next few weeks! Hope everyone else is well and that I didn't bore you too much with my post!

6 comments:

A and M said...

Vent away! I love to hear about your lovely apartment stories. You need to write them all down - oldies & Aggies - & compile them all when you are done. It would be fun to read over years down the road.

One of my roommates in college put dish soap in the dishwasher too! Parents are doing their children a HUGE disfavor when they don't teach them how to do laundry & run a dishwasher before college...really people, common sense here!!

Anonymous said...

Even though you have been having a few challenges, don't give up - things may well get worse in the future! It is comforting to know that you can tell the difference between right and wrong or dishwasher detergent and dish washing liquid.

YPR said...

"Hey, come over to our apartment; we're making bubbles!"

Love the tales.

adrienne said...

Sorry about the students...wow. But exciting news on the new computer...you guys are so high tech!

jenn + michael said...

There's a computer deal like that at BYU right now too and Michael is seriously contemplating buying it because both of our computers are starting to die. I've known some people that have used dish washing liquid too. Not too bright. Lucky you! It's almost October! Hopefully things settle

falslev family said...

I love your blogs about the "rents". I like Melissas idea about "oldies and Aggies"... so clever. And dads comment about "making bubbles". So funny!