Day 42

This morning was the fumigation, so I had to wake up early. Their arrival time was "9am to noon". ARE YOU SERIOUS? You are arriving ANYTIME in a THREE HOUR WINDOW. Slick, fumigation people, SLICK. So I run downstairs to throw the bedding into the washers and go back upstairs to get ready for my day. After I get kicked out by fumigation, I'm supposed to chill out at my mom's work. I get upstairs to drink the Dirty Bird peach tea in the fridge, and the exterminators are in. It's only 9.

There is a stout black woman and tall European man. The lady tells me that they aren't contracted to treat everything in the bags soooooo we have to close them all up, because my parents opened them all up thinking they would fumigate the bags. So we close up everything. We proceed to have the following conversation; she starts:

"Your re-entry time is 4 hours after 1 hour from now."
"You mean.... in 5 hours?"
"Yeah."

Should I really be entrusting them with the apartment? Eh. I get packed and get the crap out.

Of course, as always, I get lost trying to get to my mom's office. It really is stupid how building numbers go on Broadway. REALLY stupid. And it doesn't help that most of them look the same.

So I FINALLY make it there. Mom is busy she's got to run to a meeting. I whip out my laptop, take her Ethernet cord and get connected. She comes back briefly, and I return her internet. I go over to the break room and make myself a cup of tea. They have almost exclusively Bigelow teas. Ehh. Grab 2 English Breakfast bags, throw some hot water in it, 2 Coffee Mates and somewhere between 4-8 packets of sugar. They don't have brown :( I go back to my mom's office and read a book that I brought, Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. It's kind of like my neuroscience class all over again. Not dull, but you need to be awake to read it.

Throughout the day mom goes to 4 more meetings, 1 of which lasts for 3 some-odd hours. It's because she just came back from a month-long business trip in Asia and her superior is about to go on a business trip himself, so they need to get up-to-date on their progress. Also, her umbrella company decided to merge like 4 of the other companies, hers being one of them, sooooooo the office is a real shitstorm.

We went to Hale and Hearty for lunch. It's like this soup place, that also has sandwiches and salads. Errrr... think an urban Panera Bread with no... well, pastries. I got the soup/sandwich combo with sweet tomato corn chowder and a BBQ chicken sandwich. I also grabbed some oatmeal raisin cookies. I don't usually like them, but if I see them I might want one. I just really like the oat texture in those. But sometimes they're too nasty :( Anyway, HALE AND HEARTY IS DELICIOUS AND EVERYBODY SHOULD GO THERE! GO! GOOOOO! Ahahahah.... Yeah, so it was good, and I think people should check it out sometime.

Ohohoh. Dove chocolate makes hot chocolate. I know Kristin will be jealous when she reads this. My mom's office has a Flavia machine, and that's like.... K-cups SQUARED. You have the option to make lattes. So I had a Dove hot chocolate Milky Way chocolatte-whatever. You put in the "topping" Milky Way packet in first, then the Dove hot chocolate in when it tells you to.... and TAADAAAAAA yummm. Best. Hot chocolate.. EVER.

When we went home that night, we had no idea what to expect. The house was.... the same. Except that our couch was turned on this back, and the bottom layer was ripped out. And there was a knife lying around. OUR knife. OUR KNIFE THAT WAS IN A DRAWER. THEY TOOK OUR KNIFE AND USED IT TO CUT OUR COUCH OPEN! The nerve of them.... Other than that the apartment seemed to look the same. Maybe slightly less bed-buggy. They have to come back in 2 weeks.

For dinner I ordered the turkey meatloaf from Big Daddy's. I got veggie soup with it, but I didn't really want it since I had soup earlier that day. They had veggie chili but it wasn't an option /: So it came... and it came with mashed potatoes and carrots too! WOW! Yumm. And BY GOLLY PETE, IT WAS SOOOO GOOD. I ate half and gave the rest to my mom.

Crew tomorrow morning, so I gotta go to bed. I was pretty CAPSLOCK-happy today haha.

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