Inconvenient Annoyances

I wouldn't feel badly about refusing their offer, TamaMoo.  You can always say someone else has already paid you x amount for them which is more what you were looking for.

That is a better idea. Just close the door on the whole situation gracefully. We don't want to be rude or demand more than they have and that it be up front, because we do have to work with them, and like them both. At the same time we don't want to tell people who can't manage money to 'pay when you can', since it probably would be bits here and there or just never quite happen.

My kid getting made fun of...it just leaves  me gutted   

Poor thing! Kids can be so mean.

I updated the operating system on my laptop.

I hate the font, it seems squashed and too wide. I can't stand the new icon designs and the color of the dock background.

Stupid, I know. It works better then it did... I just hate the way it looks.

Irritation- I had to get my luggage out of the shed because I put the Christmas cards in there about six months ago. Nevermind every time you have to get in the shed it's piled with my room mates things. So whenever you take something out you have to empty half of the shed. I was expecting that but apparently he's been in there lately. He's stack everything about six feet tall, including the lawn mower on top of this stuff. All this stuff on top of my luggage. Why can't I just put my luggage in the nearly empty attic? Because it has no insulation and has had a hole in the roof for over a year the land lord won't patch. You can literally stick your arm outside! I didn't want my things wet and ruined and no place inside for them. Because, again my room mate has every storage area of the house except the attic full of his junk.

We finally get to the luggage, which my room mate has been through while looking for his LARPing clothes and left open. So we open my three bags of luggage. All the clothing we had in there are covered in mold. I've never seen mold like this on clothes before. Pure green. It looked like the sunken titanic. Hubs threw away most of his stuff. I had one major thing ruined - a lacy steampunk coat with bustle. I'm going to try to hand wash it tonight and repair it

So in short, I already knew getting in the shed was going to be a hassle because of irritant room mate then to find he made it even harder to get in there = more irritation. Then finding our luggage moldy inside with almost everything ruined = crushed. Then I think... why can't the hole in the roof get fixed = just angry.

Any way the irritating room mate could just disappear? In some unexplained, mysterious manner? A 'no, officer, I haven't seen him in months' sort of way? A storage space hog with no respect for other people's stuff is above and beyond annoying.

I hope you can salvage the steampunk coat. It sounds like pure awesomeness!

Oh I wish he would disappear in that mysterious way...

Neighbors: "I wonder why she's digging a hole in the backyard at two in the morning?"
Me: Muahahahaha! *Insert other maniacal laughter*


I washed the coat and it still stinks. I read I may need to wash it again in vinegar then again in detergent to get the stink out, so I will do that.

Still keeping my fingers crossed. Awesome clothes should never be mistreated by idiots who don't understand the value of awesomeness.

Try to hang your coat out in bright sunshine, if possible, after you wash it in the vinegar.  Also, if those suitcases are salvageable, better make sure they are thoroughly brushed out, swabbed inside with vinegar, bleach or boric acid and air them well outside.
Bummer.

I hope you can save the coat!  Vinegar is miracle stuff so hopefully that works.

My IA:  My daughter has started crawling...  She can spot danger from 100 yards and makes a beeline!

Thanks for the tips No sun in the forecast this week, but I will still give it a wash in the vinegar, dry it and wash again if needed and try to hang it out for some sun if it decides to show up. Yes, vinegar is pretty awesome. I got an expensive rug free off craigslist years ago because the owner's dogs peed all over it. I mean it REEKED! I ran vinegar through a carpet scrubber over the course of two weeks - about five to six times and the smell was completely gone.

I'm going to clean the suitcases tonight with vinegar and run a blow dryer over them. Hopefully that helps some. It's irritating but I am so grateful I took a box of posters out of the luggage this summer and brought them inside. They would have been completely ruined. They are artwork blown up to poster size from my last job and signed by the artists. It was a one time sale. I had them in the attic of our last place with no issues, but even though the shed looked water proof I was like nah... I should bring them inside. Thank goodness I did!

KFdancer: Sounds about right! Got to love kids when they are at that stage. On the bright side if you've lost any earring backs or misc small items they will probably be found very soon! Kids are wonderful at finding lost items and trying to eat them! 

Well many annoyances but I think the top two today are finding out that our car we just bought in February is totalled. DH wrecked it last week, we got a rental car and now heard back from the insurance saying it must be written off. Not sure what we would get from the insurance company but we can't afford to buy another used car. Our savings was to move not buy another car! DH's work requires him in a car all day.

Second gripe. I come home and find a six foot brown water stain down our bedroom wall and in the corner it is starting to mold. My guess is there is either another hole in the roof or the same one that has existed over a year. The house is a constantly balmy 40 degrees even with the heating on. I'm tired of no hot water (except for maybe a full minute when the radiators are on and only then) and everything broken. I'm going to have to forgo my afternoon job tomorrow so I can go to the citizen's advice bureau and see what can be done. I really hate stirring the pot when now we may not have money to move, but this is ridiculous! As the part that is saturated is attached to the neighbor's wall it's a good time to go talk to them about the hole in the roof.

I hear you about the leaks and stains!  Our house is nearly 150 years old -- no insulation, high ceilings, big windows with no double glazing.  DH had to replace the aging boiler a few years back, which meant putting in 'modern' radiators which do not hold the heat.  At the same time he had the plumber do a new bathroom with shower, toilet, hot water tank and a lot of the piping.  Sounds great, huh?  Since then we've developed a mysterious leak in the front hall (roughly under the shower) which has made all the molding crumble off.  Plumber has investigated several times and says it is not the shower (?)  Now we have a problem with the overflow which won't stop and runs down the outside of the house and has seeped through to make a damp stain in one of the bedrooms.  And also the header tank is doing something stupid and was dripping through the ceiling into the airing cupboard and wrecked the paint work on the door and also made a stain on the ceiling of another bedroom.  Plumber was supposed to have come last weekend ... still waiting.  Oh and DH still insists that we boil the kettle to wash the dishes as it takes so long for the hot water to get down to the kitchen. 

Since then we've developed a mysterious leak in the front hall (roughly under the shower) which has made all the molding crumble off. 

Is the shower tiled? Or a unit? It just seems that if it is under the shower, then it's probably the shower's fault.

My husband and I ordered furniture from IKEA a couple weeks ago and it was finally delivered last night. We were their last stop so they got here at 6:30, right as we were sitting down for tea. The guy came to the door and had my husband sign some papers. Then just stood there, my husband asked if he was going to get the boxes and the guy said "Will you help?" He told us that it isn't part of their job to bring the boxes (I think he was just being lazy as we have 2 flights of stairs. My husband and I both threw on shoes and coats and helped the delivery men. The second guy who was at the truck complained to my husband about the first guy saying he was slow and the language barrier didn't help (I think he was Polish?)

Anyway, so we help them with the boxes, which made me on edge as my husband just got the cast off for his broken thumb and wrist 4 days ago and really shouldn't be lifting anything. The English guy thanked us for helping out, so I'm pretty sure the other guy just told us we were supposed to help. It wouldn't have been as annoying if my husband's hand had been okay, but I could tell it was really hurting him afterwards. 

And on top of all of that.... I always forget how annoying it is to put together IKEA furniture.