Hi!

Apparently I haven't blogged since around G's birthday, and that was in July and it is now November. Oops. Good stuff and bad stuff have both happened since then.

Probably most significantly was the bad stuff we had to deal with concerning our apartment. Ever since moving in I would sporadically find bug bites on my body but since it was summer I didn't give it a second thought; I just assumed it was mosquitoes. When my bestie (and next door neighbour) discovered she had bedbugs however, I started to pay closer attention to what was happening. I inspected every inch of my apartment and could find no sign at all of an infestation. Yet bites would continually appear on my body. And then TWICE I found actual bedbugs on my body. Both were in different spots in the apartment.

We contacted management on Monday Sept 16 about the bugs and were told an inspection would be forthcoming. We didn't hear back all week. On the Friday, building managers went door to door just to make sure all was well with the tenants. I was asked if we had roaches (we do) or bedbugs and when I said yes and showed my bites, they didn't believe me. So I grabbed the jar where I'd been keeping the bugs I found on my body (KEEP ANY BUGS YOU FIND IF THIS HAPPENS TO YOU!) and THEN she believed me. That weekend we moved into B's parents house for what we thought would maybe be two weeks tops. It turned into 6 weeks.

Days stretched into weeks in part because after we left the apartment due to the bugs, our kitchen sink clogged (with food that was absolutely NOT ours) and our kitchen, dining room, and entryway flooded with nasty greasy water. B went into the office nearly every single day while we were not home to find out what the deal was with everything. The office would give vague answers and it was clear they didn't know what was going on. It turned out the extermination company they worked with was dropping the ball. They would book jobs despite being short of staff, which was completely unacceptable. When we finally got sprayed for bugs October was almost over. We were told they would either clean or replace or flooring, and it wasn't until the day before we moved back that a manager ACTUALLY FINALLY LOOKED AT THE FLOORS. No one had taken those few minutes to check. If they had, they would have told us we can clean it ourselves easily enough and that no replacements had to be made. And if they had told us that, we would have been home way sooner. Fortunately throughout the ordeal, we didn't have to pay full rent.

Living with B's parents was a nightmare for me, but I won't go into that today. Suffice to say, I'm ECSTATIC to be home, despite the fact that we have no living room furniture and are living in mild paranoia of bugs returning.

Now. I have two new blogs to recommend:

http://www.geekyhostess.com/
Tips, DIY, Recipes from a geeky girl. Even if you're not a geek, it's a blog worth reading. She hosts fabulous parties and has inspired me to try hosting an event of my own. (Perhaps at Christmas time!)

http://www.freckled-fox.com/
A mom blog, but different from any of the other ones I've found. She has great hair tutorials, and I love seeing her pregnancy fashion.