Bella Italia

ok, so obviously i'm not a very good blogger. i never kept a diary so maybe its some inherent personality flaw. or maybe its because i'm sure no one is going to read it and i'm too damn busy. on top of it, i'm slightly paranoid that if i post every rant about every tenant somehow one of them will read it and sue me.
anyway, too much has happened since my last entry to not post. It actually deserves at least two separate posts. Is that even allowed in the blogosphere? whatever who cares.

so, in April, Attic Tenant gave his notice he was moving out. I think sharing the place with a couple who had redecorated and cleaned was too much for his hermit-macho-man sensibilities. ok, fine. So he paid his rent and kept to himself, but there were the occaisonal 3 am arguments with his buddies from the bar that we could do without.

it took about 3 weeks to find a replacement- and actually The Couple found her while we were on vacation, so thats good. based on her name and looks she could be an Italian model slash actress. pro: she's quiet and nice. con: she's only staying for the summer. The only snag with the moving in process came when she realized that the room was not furnished. oops, sorry, but you didnt ask. So i got her a desk and a chair from our basement, which she was grateful about and she went and got a used mattress and box spring off Craigslist. (Please god dont' let it have bedbugs-- thats a subject for a whole other post). anyway it looked clean. problem there was that the boxspring wouldnt make the corner at the top of the stairs. oops again..what can i tell you. If you told me you were going to buy it i would have warned you to get a futon frame instead. Well, if she's aggravated she's good at hiding it. So far, i guess all is 'simpatico'.

clean sweep

ahh... out with the old, in with the new! Spring cleaning!. fresh start!.. and all that happy crap. Mr. DbT moved out last night officially. I even have his set of keys. No, we never recovered several hundresd + in back rent and other money we've lent him, but..i'm ok with that. and his unregistered car still sits in our driveway, but i'm even ok with that.. for now. now, if spring would hurry up and actually get here that would be nice...

Never a dull moment.. Wednesday a contractor came to rip out the second of our two old oil tanks taking up space in our basement since we converted to gas. On the plus side, it was quick and clean, and now we have about 250 gallons more of usable storage space down there in 'the dungeon'.

On the downside- they pulled the fill pipes too. But they neglected to fill in these holes. The fill pipes were drilled right through the sills of the foundation. Leaving two 2-inch diameter holes pouring cold air into the basement. So i stuffed them full of insulation for the time being but...geesh.

back to my last post.. wonder if there has been any moving action upstairs today. Today should be his last day...but its been deathly quiet up there the past few days.
I have a bad feeling I'll be getting angry phone calls from the new tenant over this weekend asking why Mr. D.'s stuff is still there.