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I have a new house to live in, it is VERY exciting. I just signed the lease last night and will move in two weeks from now. It is going to be so much better I can just tell. My lesson learnt from the past experience is the people are everything in a shared house, no matter what you must like the people!
This house is heaps nicer too as well. Modern 2 storey townhouse, with the three bedrooms upstairs and my room isn’t next to the bathroom. I am seriously getting sick of everyone having there shower just as I am falling off to sleep, and just making no effort to try and be quiet. I just get my revenge by being loud in the kitchen at 7am every morning.
Back to the new house – has a great downstairs open plan living area. modern kitchen and nice size courtyard with plants around it. Only downside is no car space as 2 girls in it already both use the garage. so will have to park on the street.
Last night when I went over to sign the lease they were cooking quails. I have never even eaten them before. And they were telling me they painted all the pictures on the walls too. So I will be able to hang up all my pics too which will be great.
I have 1hr 45 mins until finish work. we have work Christmas party on this afternoon, and it mostly counts towards our time sheet which is great. but my work is dead boring so I am trying to do stuff but just not interested.
I broke the news about moving out. The girl was really nice about it. I was a bit surprised as I thought she wouldn’t be very happy, but maybe she is happy to get rid of me too. I probably ask too many questions and complain too much for her. On Sunday when I went into the kitchen there was a note. it said ‘ A girl will be moving in this afternoon’. I was like, thanks for all the info. A girl, no name or anything. So when i saw her I said who is this girl moving in. It is a completely different girl to who she said she gave the room to. Are you confused? I was. It is a Burmese girl who she knows through uni. So I was like great, a complete stranger who is her friend! I was just imagining another person coming in late, keeping odd hours as uni has now finished!
So was ironing when someone was trying unsuccessfully to get in the door. Opened to find this girl bringing her stuff in. Her name was different so i have completely forgotten it already. But she dropped her stuff off and then left. so said Hi! but that’s about it. we’ll see. I guess I’m just thinking I don’t know her and she will be in the house all day…
In other news, i bought a $10 vacuum cleaner a few weeks ago. but hadn’t gotten round to buying bags for it. Finally got some on Friday. went to put them in and realised people had been using it so the area was full of dust and hair which i had to clean out. Got bag in, plugged it in and went to turn it on and the on button was broken. This is like the first time I used it and it was broken. So pissed off as I know it was fine when I brought it home! It can turn on but you have to hold the button down to keep power which is a bit hard when you are trying to vacuum as well. I don’t know. might be able to get some electrical tape and see if that works…
So after a few weeks of interesting work to keep me awake I am back to my boring task. Which means I am back to wasting as much time as I can. However writing and typing this blog with a publication open infront of me and using my word editor program makes it look like I really am doing work, when I’m not.
Thought I would continue the house sharing story. But lots of good news today. First however, since the girl wrote me the note, I haven’t seen her. Her and the bf don’t seem to come home until 11 at night by which time I am in my room trying to sleep. So I am not sure if she is trying to avoid me, but it means i haven’t been able to tell her I am looking at other places. I think I really can’t leave that in a note. (Also I think I secretly want to see what her reaction is).
The good news however is that I spent my morning at work emailing potential housemates. Found quite a few potential houses and housemates so I sent a stack of emails off. And now already have about 5 lined up to go and visit! So it is all looking much better. And most of them are in the same price range as what i am currently paying. Actually have found more single guys or 2 guys advertising and have decided to look at a few of those. Last time I wanted female only, but I think guys might be more friendly. Just the issue of cleanliness really. So I am certainly feeling happier about everything. It is like I can now see light at the end of the tunnel.
I am dead bored at work. the curse of being too efficient sometimes is that i finish off the interesting work, which then leaves me with the really boring work to do. Which is the situation I am stuck in now. I have 1 hours and 11 minutes until home time. I am hoping writing this and updating my house woes will take up a good chunk of that time.
So the last issue was not being told about the people who had looked at the house and then her not even telling me she had given the room to someone. Once she told me the bf was staying until the end of February, I told her I think he should pay rent as he is living here permanently for what will be a period of 5 months. She said she would think about it. In the meantime the girl who was leaving was packing stuff up on Tuesday when i got home from work. On Wednesday i got a long note under my door from the girl. Basically it said my rent does not change no matter how many people are living in the house. She then went on to say it is unfair for her bf to have pay anything because he is only living in her room. As it is only a single room in the house that he is ‘living in’ he doesn’t need to pay rent or pay for any bills, although he doesn’t mind paying for the electricity. So basically the bf isn’t using lights in the rest of the house. or having a shower or using the toilet or cooking any food, even though he is living here for 5 months.
She then finished the letter off by saying if I have any concerns I should write her a note because she is very busy with work and she cant talk to me at home.
Plus i realised that the other girl must have left on Wednesday, because all her stuff was gone and the internet router was gone. But no goodbye when I saw her on Tuesday or a note to let me know why the internet had gone. Which I got quite pissed off about because I had just paid my share of the months net bill and thought crap, when am I going to get internet access back. (After leaving a note as required the net appeared back this morning so I suppose that is one consolation).
So it is really not getting any better and I am now looking for somewhere else to live. Plus I don’t really want to see her because it is going to be all awkward, and next time I see her I have to tell her I am leaving which is much sooner than she will like.
And talking to a guy I work with, who is a little bit weird, his house is being sold so he needs to leave in 2 months time. And he asked me if we wanted to find a place and I had to lie and say I don’t want to live with someone I work with, but really he is just weird and I really wouldn’t want to live with him.
So the goings on of me in the last day or two. its been…keeping it interesting.
i want to hit something really hard. house sharing sucks, well with the people i live with it does. One of the girls is moving out, so the room is available late November. I find this out because I saw the ad on the Internet – no one told me. So that was the first issue, then on Saturday I’m lying in bed and get a knock on the door, there is a girl here looking at the place and do I want to meet her. Some warning please I am in my Pj’s. After she leaves I find out 3 other people have looked at the room although did i get told this – NO! So I had advertised at work and received an email today from someone who was interested. I sms’ed my housemate to see what was happening and she replies i have already given the room to Lucy! who the fuck is Lucy! I am so pissed off. i think its another Chinese uni student which I really didn’t want because they are never home and the last one had really bad English and sat in her room the whole time, never communicating with me! I am so annoyed and just want to bitch but I’m at work.
I’m not on the lease but I signed something saying I would stay 6 months but the whole situation is completely dodgy. The boyfriend moved in without anyone telling me, he is going to be here for 3 more months – rent free! I have never been introduced to him, I think his name is Jack. it just sucks big time and I don’t know what to do. I think i should just be really loud or dirty at home to get back at all her shit.
