When there is nothing urgent to do at the office, or when I don't have a full day of work ahead of me, I sometimes linger around my apartment in the morning with Timmy. He's been so much fun lately and he's always in his best moods right when he wakes up. So today we snuggled a little bit, ate waffles together and sang silly songs that he makes up while getting dressed. We left the apartment at 7:40am and I dropped him off at daycare on the way to work.
Every morning he takes off running the minute we enter the building, racing to give his teacher a hug and kiss. He talks about his teachers and the hugs and kisses he is going to give them all weekend and then takes it very seriously Monday-Friday. After completing his affection duty, he happily says goodbye to me, gives me a wet kiss and says "I love you, Mom."
How can the day not be good when it starts that way?
I left his daycare at 7:55am. Sat in traffic almost the entire way to work. Pulled into my parking spot at 8:50. Looked on the floor in front of the passenger seat and realized my work laptop wasn't there. Oh shit, realized that I had left it in a hidden corner of the living room, which is why PJO hadn't seen it and taken it to my car like he usually does in the mornings. Gave up on the day. Put my key right back in the ignition and drove home. Pulled into my garage at 9:30. Promptly changed into shorts and a t-shirt and mentally prepared to work from my bed all day. Lamented the fact that I could have easily skipped the 1 hour of getting ready and the near-2 hours of driving and been in the same spot as I was now in.
But what can you do?
Our landlord emailed us last weekend informing us that he is raising the rent. I wanted to respond that we're great tenants, he should just be glad to have us because we take care of his place, we pay on time every single month, no one complains about us and we fix things that need repair without bothering him. I wanted to say, screw you, we're moving out and you can deal with finding a new tenant and eat those months of your mortgage while you have an empty apartment. But the truth is, we can't move. We won't know until the end of the year if we're even staying in LA or moving to the 'burbs (if my firm ever lets me transfer) and we're not going to move only to potentially have to move again in 6 months. And the truth is, even with the rent increase, we probably still pay below-market for LA and it would be pretty damn difficult to find a cheaper option. Plus, really, we need more space and just can't justify spending X% more on rent until we absolutely have to. So we sucked it up, agreed to pay the additional monthly rent and asked him to fix a few annoying things in the apartment since we knew he'd do it right now.
What can you do?
2 comments:
I hear you on the rent increase. M is applying to another out of state job, and so even with the $200/month, we're still not paying that much for our area - I won't even think about moving! (M wants to and I'm just like, dude. Give it up!)
just this morning, when i reached into my bag for my work laptop, i had a moment of panic when it was still at home. way to roll with it. hope you had a nice day at home :)
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