older, and not yet wiser.

I wonder when I will "arrive". You know, to the place when you are cool with doing the tough things. And by "tough" I mean letting your landlord know that, no it is not okay for green & black mold to be growing on the window frame, shoes & clothes.

As I wondered through Wallmart looking at bleach, cleaning products & brushes I was totally wishing that I had a man to take care of all of this junk. Slow down femenist Franny, I'm not your every day Sally that needs a man to take care of my needs... BUT it would be nice to have one around to help pick out bleach products, to scrape floor boards & to wear the mask to scrub the icky black mold off the frame. AND to kick my landlord's lazy butt into gear. I hope my "strong" email did the trick with that guy, you decide:

3 December 2009

Nick,

Thank you for coming by to look at the mold that is growing in my room. I am disappointed though that you would be so lack luster in looking at it for less than 1 minute & coming to the conclusion that it is all from the dryer. All the windows are fogged, yet only one window frame that is a science project with black mold is the one directly under the basement door (the basement door, which has a hole in it too).

I can appreciate wanting to “go the cheap way” in fixing this matter, but this is a serious problem that I would like handled before it turns into a bigger issue. The water in the basement needs to be removed immediately. I am bleaching the window frames and removing all of the black & green mold (and throwing away my shoes & washing all my clothes that have mold on them).

I am documenting your visit along with requesting a need for maintenance on the windows so that they can be opened and screens to help ventilation.

I would like to be kept in the loop on how you are taking care of the water in the basement, cleaning all mold spores (both green & black) down there & how you plan to maintain a dry/ventilated basement.

Best,
J. Arellano

I do know one thing for sure though... that I have a God that goes to bat for me all the time. And friends that with pinch hit for me & steal bases. Now if only I could embrace the mask & mold scraping I'd be all set.