The Sound of Water and the blast of gospel music

 

 

 

 

Don't ya'll hate when the night before you go to bed and you say to yourself Ohh you know tomorrow is Sunday...Good I will sleep late.. AND THEN the morning comes and everybody and their mother wakes you up???

Well this is exactly what happened to me this morning.....Last night I went to bed late because I knew the next day was Sunday and I really didnt have anything planned and I could wake up at whatever time....

NOTTTT! I wake with a THUMP THUMP on my door and the rythm of some very livley gospel music vibrating odd my ceiling.... I say to myself who the hell can be knocking on my door at 7:00 AM and doesnt anybody sleep in this building????

Easy part first my lovely neighbor (she really is a nice lady) decides she couldnt make it to church this morning so to compensate for her absence she decides to just bring church to her house..NOW dont get me wrong I love church and I love gospel music but pleasseeeee not so early and sooo loud!

ANyway there is nothing I can do about that ... I am not going to ask her to shut if off..So on to interruption #2....Other Lovely neighbor of mine decide she wants to do laundry at this time ...as I can hear the bang bang of laudry cart coming down the stairs.... On her way down she notices that the radiator in the hallway is leaking and there is a pool or better yet an ocean of water on the first floor....WHY she knocks at my door I don't know because I am certainly NOT the landlord(although I wish I was) But she wants to let me know this way I CAN CALL THE LANDLADY....UMMM dont we all have phones and landlors number on speed dial..Hmmmm ....So here I am at 7:00 in the morning rouse from a nice dream(Shit LOL) and I have to call this landlady and hope she doesnt curse me out for calling her this early...

I make the call .. SHE tells me there is really nothing she can do , she can just give me the number to the plumber so I can call him ..NOW DID I JUST INHERIT THIS BUILDING WHILE I WAS ASLEEP CAUSE LAST I KNEW IT WAS THE LANDLADY'S RESPONSIBILTY TO CALL...But I dont want to argue so I take said number and call this man who basically tells me he will be here in about 1-2 hours.. GREAT I just got myself a job... I now have to mop up all this water and also add a bucket and tie a shopping bag around the valve to prevent this water from covering the floor again...

OK I'M DONE...maybe I can get a few hrs of shut eye till he comes knocking on my door....NOT! KNOCK KNOCK......WHO IS IT NOW???  It is my Rastafarian neighbor under me... He wants to know if I have water leaking from my apt because his ceiling is about to collapse.... I say no there no water coming from here .. HE says are you sure I SAY Yes I am sure.... I say and just to prove how sure I am I will check.... OHHH shit were did this water come from ?? LOL I am left speechless because right in fromt of my eyes is a small puddle of water... I tell him I'm sorry there is water leaking from my radiator I just didnt see it because it was behind my desk... He says.. I knew it.. Soooo I proceed to clean up another puddle of water and I know at this moment my dreams are over.. there is no way I am going to be able to sleep.... I call landlady again .. to once again have her say CALL THE MAN>.....This time I am not so nice and I tell her Listen I did call the MAN and he isnt going to be here for another hour and 45 mins and we can not just sit and wait because what we have here is not just a drip it is a splash I mean if it was summer we can just put on our bathing suits

and swim in the shit... SO she says give me a min I will call him.

She calls me back and tells me that she called him and he is on his way and if I dont want so much water to fall then maybe I should go down and turn off the heat(YES We are already getting heat)... SHe goes on to say... You know its not going to kill anyone if you turn off the heat... I tell her... Listen I dont care about not having heat if thats what it takes to stop this water from leaking... BUT do I know how to turn of heat NOOO So she says why dont you go down and ask SO AND SO to do it..SO AND SO happens to be my Rasta neighbor .. SOthrough a thick smoky cloud of  (another entry) I finally reach his door KNOCK... OMg when heopened that door I felt like I was being taken on a groovy ride ... you can only imagine the thick cloud of smoke (and NOO I am not exxagerating!) that enveloped me... trying to hold my breath and talk at the same time was not esy but I managed to tell him what I needed to say and all I could see was his red bulging eyes and with his thick jamacian accent he let me know that he would do it ...(YEA MON I CAN TAKE CARE ITT).

 

1 hr later Plumber comes takes a look at the boiler and says problem is that the boiler got filled up with water instead of steam and since water had nowhere else to go it came out through the valve... He drains boiler and says he'll be back during the week....

Now that I can actually go back to sleep it is too late my kids want breakfast .. So my day has begun..

 

 

I give kiddies something to eat ... clean up... check email.... give kiddies something to eat for lunch.... found a movie for them to watch(Jack ..it is such a cute movie for children) came online to play a few rounds of Gin... put kiddies to take a shower..helped kiddies with homework.... cooked dinner... cleaned up kitchen...etc etc.... do you get it yet..Today was a typical mommy sunday....

 

I FINALLY got to see my baby niece in person.... She is adorable..AAAWWW ..She is tiny with head full of hair..Boy is she lazy though.... She practically slept the whole time we were there.. My bro and Sis in Law were mad lol because they said she sleeps all day and then at night she wants to be up .. I told them welcome to PARENTHOOD..... She thought I had an answer to help her keep the baby up but I had to break the news to her ..THERE IS NO ANSWER LOL....I told her that the baby will eventually start sleeping all night once she's a lil older..She not even 2 weeks yet..... I feel sooo sorry for them HEHEHEHE I have some pics of her that I will post soon...

I went over to my mother's house yesterday(thats where my brother was) My mother has kind of calmed down alil but I am not going to hold my breath I know she will break again....

 

I am looking for another job so that I can tell my boss now to Kiss my you know what!... They still have not given me the money they owe me.

They are procastinating...This Damn Human Resources chick is looking for me to curse her out..... SHe has the nerve to tell me AM I sure that I worked those hours...WHAT DO YOU MEAN AM I SURE...

DO I LOOK LIKE A LIAR... I MEAN CMON WHO LIES ABOUT STUFF LIKE THIS. All they have to do is look at past recordings and see that I was there... I mean if the work was done then obviously I was there because nobody else does a damn thing.

So I think I am going to have to take this up to the Labor Dept.

I didnt want to do this but I guess I will have to.

 

 

 I just received a letter in the mail informin me that I make too much money therefore my foodstamps and remtal assistance are going to be reduced WHAT THE HELL??

I make 7.35 an hr maximum hrs are 30 hrs..SOO how is that considered a lot of money.... In NYC 7.00 an hr is NOT alot of money..After paying 1250 for rent.... 135.00 cable,phone and internet, 100.00 for electric. 35.00 for Gas plus basic nessecities (soap toothpaste, shampoo, dishwasher liquid, toilet paper, and things the kids may need we are left with NOTHING.. SOO NO I do not make a lot of money.... You know what I think.. I think that the government wants to keep people on P.A. because the minute you get a job they want to bring you down... I mean would they prefer I quit my job stay home and watch Tv all day this way I can live off P.A. and wont have to worry about struggling to pay these bills because bottom line is if they reduce the help they give me we will up shit's creek....

Yea I can go get a better paying job(because my husband makes about 14 dollars an hr and still that isnt enough) but a better paying job will not be able to give me the type of flexibility of hrs that I get now..

I am able to go to work and be back in time to pick up my kids after school and also have an occasional weekend off to take them out...

Another job will not give me this so easily. SO WHAT DO I DO NOW??

If it's not one thing its another...... At least we get up every day go to work and do what we have to do when there are people who abuse the system and just sit at home fully capable to work but are just lazy....Srry but its true.

I guess I'll see how much they are going to reduce it and then see what happens..

 

Well I think I wrote a mini novel here so I will let ya'll go rest your eyes lol..

Take care and goodnight...:)