days slip by again

with the distraction of the construction inside and outside of my living space and the outer wall to my bedroom full of wholes and the bed and everything in the bedroom piled up against the opposite wall and living and sleeping uncomfortable in the living room for more than a week (and the back is hurting tonight), writing has not been on my mind much... that rarity is a sign of just how much the construction has intruded and how unhappy i am with the management here... every day since last week there is something different in the bedroom, more holes in the outer wall, more tape, more nails on the carpet - yes, nails left on the carpet of the bedroom...

remember last friday?... we locked the kids in the bedroom and the construction guys never did come into the apartment so i packed up the bedroom and put the mattresses up against the wall (and locked up the kids) for nothing... wtf?... typical of the delays and lack of respect... it was nerve-wracking to go away for the weekend and enjoy the softball tournament last weekend not knowing what they might be doing in our apartment... so i stopped thinking, shut down, and surely did not feel like writing...

one evening i got home late and the power was out in the bedroom and as i am trying to figure out why i find out they cut the wires in the apartment next door and the maintenance guy said they may have done that in my room as well... after a while i found my way to the circuit breakers and found they tripped the breaker to my room... so they are either incompetent or vindictive since i have complained about their mess outside and their disrespect and disregard for the people paying to live here (a neighbor is talking about a petition to ask for a free month's rent for our inconvenience since the construction for each apartment is taking a month or more)... anyway, i turned the lights on and realized how lucky i was as i found, inches from the base of the light and outlet i was trying to turn on in the dark, a board with a rusty nail sticking up ... they pulled off one of the baseboards and left it there, carelessly or intentionally, right where i could have stepped on it... i took pictures and called the police to file a report and have it on record... a lawyer would have a field day with the negligence if i actually did step on it in the dark... the owners are very lucky i am not looking to sue...

so it has been a frustrating distracting not-wanting-to-think or be here week...

but i still love you, so here are a few words...

narf :}