Today sucks so far.
Got up to go to the gym and went out in the hallway of our apartment building and saw smoke. The neighbor across the hall was also standing in his doorway. I freaked out. Alex called 911 from our apartment phone, and I called our super from my cell. I packed up my laptop, my camera, my phone, my ipod, some of my jewelry, and the insurance information for the apartment. I put together the cat carrier and grabbed my teddy bear (which Alex rescued after our last apartment burned). The fire department got here and started to go through the halls to try and find where the smoke was coming from. I wanted to cry – one of the guys saw me and said, “everything’s ok”. I hate that I wear my emotions right on my face all the time. They determined that someone two floors above us was cooking hot dogs or something stupid like that. Seems insane that she was cooking and it filled the hallways two floors down with smoke. She didn’t want to let them in her apartment. I’m sure she’s got drugs in there or something. We live in a building with a bunch of scumbags. I can’t wait to get out of here.
We went to the gym because I couldn’t stand to be around the fire trucks and the smoke. When we got there, the super called me and told me that I shouldn’t call the fire department when there’s smoke – just call him. Well let me tell you what, I went OFF on him. I told him that I’d had an apartment burn down on me before and I’d lost everything and I am NOT going through that again. I told him that when I see smoke, I call the fire department and I’ll do that no matter what he says. I am SO pissed off. We are TOTALLY moving. The people who live in this building are irresponsible, creepy people. And I’m sure that there is shit not up to code if the super doesn’t want me to call the fire department. I mean, three floors, at least, were filled with smoke and no smoke detectors went off. WTF?! We can afford to live in a much nicer place than this, but we’ve been staying here because I can walk to work from here and we only have one car right now. I’m not staying here any longer. I mean, we found out this AM that even the super moved out recently. It’s such a shame, because the neighborhood is super cute. Whatever. It’s not worth staying here anymore.
We took the day off so that we could relax a little bit and start looking for other places to live. (Also, I want to go dress shopping again.) I actually brought some data home yesterday so I’ve got some stuff that I can get done for work today from here. I hope we find something soon…
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