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Guess where we’ve been the past 2 hours? If you guessed “outside in the 10 degree (-3 w/ windchill) weather”, you’re right! We were all gathered up by the cops pounding on the door because there was a fire in the building. Turns out, similar to the last time this happened, it was a furnace (this time on the 2nd floor). The fire department let us back in, but they’re still downstairs trying to get it all taken care of. Here’s some pics:

The entire apartment smells like smoke now, we’re cold, Mishka is upset at being taken outside (we couldn’t get Kisa in time, sadly… yes, she’s okay, but she wouldn’t get out from under the bed!!). It’s very annoying. They’ve turned off the furnace and now one apartment is without heat (they’re moving the family). I really wish this complex would take care of their apartments instead of waiting for them to break down first.

In other news, aside from all this fun tonight, today was a great day. I bought Jess some flowers, we went out to dinner, it was just nice (until this). So, let’s leave you with a nice image, a cellphone pic of the bouquet I got for her!

Until next time!

It’s been awhile since I’ve complained about the apartment in which I live, but this morning after a pretty big rain storm I heard some weird noises coming from the kitchen. What were they? Drips… of water…

(If you notice the brown square… those watermarks are the border of the leak… looks nice, huh? The pot you see is one of 2… the other is catching water on the floor.)

That’s right, after months of telling the management that we can hear dripping when we stand in the kitchen, and them saying they’ve fixed it, the water that’s been slowly rotting the roof broke through right next to the light on the ceiling (I’m sure that’s good for the wiring). Nice. So here I sit, missing work, waiting for the roofers and the maintenance crew to get their collective butts up here to fix this. Sigh They’d better get here soon, seriously…

Did you guess “Water”? Well if you did, congrats! This is about the 8th time in the past 3 months that we’re without water. Reason this time? Water Heater burnt out. It’ll be hours before we have any water, and some point after that (when the electrician comes) we’ll have hot water. Yay for us. :angry:

Is it really that hard to keep water running in our apartment? They managed just fine the first year we lived there. As it is now (after 5+ “fixes”), the water (when it’s on) comes out white… looks like skim milk, has almost no water pressure, and I can’t use it in my fish tanks, cause it’s full of diatom loving silicates. ARGH!

Anyways, I needed to rant, isn’t much more I can do about it.

Well, it’s only two weeks till Jess and I take off to go to my parent’s house for the holidays! I sure hope the weather will be better than it has been lately.

Let’s see, what else? I was forced into taking a math class this semester… ugh. I hate teh math classes! Also, my mom is recovering from open chest surgery, she just got back home yesterday, so hopefully she’ll be feeling better by the time Jess and I get there.

Also, we changed our fish setup (and got two more fish)! We now have 6 fish tanks in our apartment! We have:

1 28 Gallon tank - containing a school of 4 Neon Tetras, a school of 6 Glo-Lite Tetras, 3 Glo-Fish™, 1 Dalmation Lyretail Molly, 1 Black Sailfin Molly, 2 Albino Cories, 1 Oto, and Ugly the Colombian Ramshorn Snail

1 10 Gallon tank - containing Levi the Lobster (he’s really a blue crayfish), and a yet unnamed Ivory Snail.

1 1 Gallon tank - containing Potato, our Red/Purple Veiltail Betta

1 1 Gallon tank - containing Cotton Candy, our Pink/Blue Veiltail Betta

1 1 Gallon tank - containing NoName*, our Green/Blue Veiltail Betta

1 1 Gallon tank - containing Grumpy Gus, our Red/White Crowntail Betta

I swear, in a years time we’ll have enough fish to call the apartment an aquarium and charge an entry fee. lmao

Okay, well that’s all the news for now! Catch ya on the flipside.

*NoName isn’t his name, he’s a rescue fish and is very sick, if he lives, he’ll get a name.