Current mood:

pissed off

grrrrrrrrrrrrr
I am ever so pissed right now. Let's delve into Cristie's bad day, shall we:

1. I stopped smoking today. It didn't get bad until this afternoon. First came the shakes. Then this evening I was a raving bitch. Felt like I was going to come out of my skin with wanting a smoke. The nicotine gum isn't much of a help so far. I just hope it gets better.

2. My parents and their shitty house that I'm renting from then. I knew this would happen, it was the reason why I hesitated moving in. Sure, the rent's great, but that doesn't make up for the problems. First one, the oven doesn't work. Stove top does, but no oven. I can't even bake brownies. It was broken when I moved in and I was reassured it would be fixed. Wrong. My mother asked me recently when I was going to buy a new one. *seethes*

The overhead light in my daughter's room quit working over a month ago, something to do with the switch. My father has the parts to repair it, but he hasn't made time. He got off early from work today, but said he "didn't feel good". When he does have time, he's too busy playing video games.

This weekend, the plumbing backed up when I did the wash, the water from the washer coming up into the bathtub and toilet. My parents said, pour some Drano down it. I did. Twice. Now it's even worse than before today, with us being unable to even shower or use the toilet. My father comes over and pours even more gunk down the clean out thingy out back; it allows the bathtub to drain, after twenty minutes. My mother offers to let us spend the night but I, stubborn and quite ticked off, refuse. I'm not sleeping on a couch or a futon and I'm not leaving my dog or driving back and forth in the morning. Of course tomorrow I also have to be in early and work overtime. Yay me.

If my parents were renting to anyone else, meaning not family, they would have to get this stuff fixed quickly. That's the law. Or the renter can hire someone if the landlord hasn't responded in a reasonable amount of time and take the bill off of the rent. But since I'm their daughter, it's all right to take advantage. I am so stupid. I told mom I wanted a rental agreement and she blew me off. This is exactly why I needed one. Oven broken for over four months, light broken for almost two months and now the water lines. They're calling a plumber in the morning, but it still pisses me off because if they had checked it out this weekend when there was initially a problem, instead of expecting me to fix it for them, we could've had it repaired yesterday.

If it's not fixed tomorrow I'm renting a hotel room and buying a large amount of booze for dinner, that's how irritated I am. I knew this would happen. The whole time my parents lived here, they didn't take care of the place and put off repairing things as they should've. Now they're trying to put it off on me and I refuse to be saddled with a money pit.