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Apr. 23rd, 2010 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_trannySo as you all know (or should know), I live with my dad and stepmom. He is a slob of the highest magnitude and she's a disabled hoarder. He can't be bothered to put the butter knife he just made a peanut butter and jelly sammich with in the sink, even though he made the sammich on the counter not even 6 inches from the sink, and he routinely blows his nose on paper towels and then just drops them on the counter. She basically can't/won't do anything, collects mail order catalogs (and the things you buy from them at times) and refuses to throw things away because she "might use them for something." And because I pay "cheap" rent, I'm expected to clean up after them, at least to some extent. Essentially, I'm supposed to be all sunshine and unicorns farting rainbows over the idea of paying them $400 a month for the privilege of being their live-in maid.
Well, I'm not. For one thing, I hate unicorns, especially the ones that fart rainbows. Unless they're set to Erasure. But anyway, I'm pretty much fed up. So much so that, despite all my efforts to avoid having to incur any debt in my scholastic endeavors, I've actually applied for student loans to supplement my unemployment enough to where I can afford to get an apartment of my own. And in a quick online search yesterday followed by some additional digging today, I think I've found a perfect place. $700 a month including water/sewer/garbage, 1 bedroom 1 full bath, washer, dryer, dishwasher, disposal, they accept cats, and it's not in the ghetto.
Now I just have to wait the 4 to 6 weeks for my loan application to go through.
In the meantime, joy of joys, my dad is having his gastric bypassed on Tuesday. I'm not sure why he wants to have a highway put into his abdominal cavity, but senility does run in our family. But of course, while he's under construction for the next 5 or 6 weeks, that means my "duties" will be expanded to include the handful of things he does, like change the cat litter and drive his lump of a wife to her 78 weekly doctor's appointments. And I better smile happily whkle I'm doing it, or it'll be thrown in my face for the 5687th time that my continued cheap rent depends upon my continued cooperation.
Dear God, please give me the student loans and GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!
Well, I'm not. For one thing, I hate unicorns, especially the ones that fart rainbows. Unless they're set to Erasure. But anyway, I'm pretty much fed up. So much so that, despite all my efforts to avoid having to incur any debt in my scholastic endeavors, I've actually applied for student loans to supplement my unemployment enough to where I can afford to get an apartment of my own. And in a quick online search yesterday followed by some additional digging today, I think I've found a perfect place. $700 a month including water/sewer/garbage, 1 bedroom 1 full bath, washer, dryer, dishwasher, disposal, they accept cats, and it's not in the ghetto.
Now I just have to wait the 4 to 6 weeks for my loan application to go through.
In the meantime, joy of joys, my dad is having his gastric bypassed on Tuesday. I'm not sure why he wants to have a highway put into his abdominal cavity, but senility does run in our family. But of course, while he's under construction for the next 5 or 6 weeks, that means my "duties" will be expanded to include the handful of things he does, like change the cat litter and drive his lump of a wife to her 78 weekly doctor's appointments. And I better smile happily whkle I'm doing it, or it'll be thrown in my face for the 5687th time that my continued cheap rent depends upon my continued cooperation.
Dear God, please give me the student loans and GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!
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Date: 2010-04-29 01:28 am (UTC)I think paying out the extra $300 a month is WELL worth not having to live in a pigsty and clean up after a couple slobs. I pay $500 here at my brother's house and I have to clean up after him all the time. He's not a hoarder or as slobby as your father though. Just think - your own clean place! Good luck with the application, dude.
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Date: 2010-04-29 02:33 pm (UTC)Also lol@Firefox. Evidently unless it's in all caps, internets isn't a word.