The Boy and I had a lovely Christmas in Pittsburgh. We exchanged gifts (for him, a nice indestructible watch, a sweater, and seasons 1&2 of Dirty Jobs; for me, The Slanket, Sex and The City movie, Chanel Chance perfume, a Jack Vettriano calender, and a sweet in-dash gps!) and drank wine and played a lot of trivial pursuit. I love his family more every time we see them. I also met his best friend Ben, had that famous sandwich with the coleslaw and the fries (strangely delicious), and made out like a bandit at New York & Co.
Then we ventured back to my side of the state to visit my fam. My brothers received the Wii for Christmas, and my mom got a Wii Fit. I heart the Wii Fit. So does The Boy, we may get one in the future. SO MUCH FUN! We drank, played more trivial pursuit, Wii-ed a bunch, and had a grand time.
Then I went to get my car from my apartment. I opened the door to a strange smell. I thought I’d forgotten to take out the trash. Then The Boy went to use the bathroom, and discovered that sometime that morning the sewage went haywire.
The shit doth hit the…everywhere.
It was majorly gross. I just stood there saying, “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God,” until The Boy suggested I actually do something about the gross and call maintenance. Thankfully my aapartment (now dubbed “poo-partment”) has 24 hour maintenance. Things are now (two days later) semi-back to normal. There’s still funky smell. But I think that’s from the disinfectant/deodorizer. At least I hope. It may be something awful like the plague or dysentery or something.
If I drop dead from dysentery, tell them I want one of these.
Also, just an FYI, Christmas Eve was my Blogoversary! Happy One Year to ABOHO! It’s been a wonderful, wonderful adventure. I have met so many wonderful people through this little hobby o’mine and I can’t wait to see what the next year will bring.
Now I must ready myself for The Boy’s Visit: The Sequel. More action! More fun! More Wii! No more Poo!
Oh you poor, poor girl. I’m glad you survived this. It sounds like other than the shit storm that took over your apartment, Christmas was good, so hooray for that!
Hope you have a wonderful New Years lovely!
Wow…besides being robbed, I’m not sure there’s a worse thing to come home to.
Glad you enjoyed your time in Pittsburgh!
Congrats on your blogoversary!
I can’t believe what happened with your bathrooooooom! eeeeks!
eww for poop! During my freshman year some asshole put something in our toilet that made it completely back up and it flooded the place. It was SO GROSS.
I’m so glad it’s back to normal(ish) and if you do get dysentery, you’re getting that t-shirt. We may get it anyway in celebration of our poo-partment.
And I am so glad to hear positive reviews of the Wii Fit. I’ve wanted to try it forever!
Also, I miss you.
Also, this entry made me laugh. Thanks for being an awesome writer, as well as roommate.
Oh, ew. Thank God for 24 hour supers.
Once upon a time, about five days after The Gambit was born, I was with The Chef in her apartment when the toilet started running. As in, all over the floor. Constantly. Thank God it was fresh water.
The Chef was really sick from her C-section, and had to go to the hospital. We had to call The Organizer to drive her, so that I could stay with The Gambit. Problem was, the toilet had to be bailed every three minutes or it overflowed again, so I *also* had to call The Pierogi to come do bailing duty, because you simply cannot bend over a toilet and fish out mixing bowls of water then dump them in the sink while holding a week-old infant.
It was a long day.
I got a slanket too! I love it. That’s so sucky about your apartment, I’m glad you had the 24hr service to take care of it!!
Happy New Year!
happy one year, mine is today. woohoo.
oh yeah, and happy new year!
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