Gah

[llywela]

Have finally cracked and written a letter of complaint to my landlord about Him Upstairs. This stupid guy keeps on waking me up by playing loud music in the middle of the night, and it isn't even good music. It isn't every night, nor even every week, but it does happen on a regular basis, and I am way beyond sick of it. It is extremely anti-social and, frankly, I have better things to do at 3am than listen to someone else's horrendous taste in music! Last night was a good example. The music woke me up at about 2.30am, and I spent about half an hour trying to tune out the thumping beat and tuneless caterwauling and get back to sleep, to no avail. Then at 3am I gave in, went upstairs, and thumped on his door as loud as possible until he finally couldn't ignore me any more, and then fumed at him to turn the music off. He didn't, but did turn it down, although it was still on the edges of my hearing. And this never stops him doing it again - he doesn't always even open the door when I knock. Then, between me being thoroughly woken up and him stomping around in a snit, I couldn't get back to sleep all night. Dozed lightly between 5.30 and 6am, but that was it. And I have a job interview this morning, which I now have to go to with my brain feeling like tapioca.

Yep, letter of complaint to the landlord going in the post this morning. Along with a list of long-overdue maintenance issues for his attention, including that security light out the back that he assured me would be fixed after I spotted that prowler back in the spring, but never has been.

Yeah, I'm feeling kind of curmudgeonly this morning. Need to channel some zen before the interview, I think!

Edit - oh, but in other news, one of my cousins and his partner had their second son yesterday, congratulations to them. He's called Evan, which...doesn't exactly go with Luca, which is their older boy's name. Taking both sides of the family into consideration, that is now 15 babies in 12 years - and 12 of them have been boys! Where did all the girls go? Madness.

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[bowtrunckle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you have a horrible neighbor and an absent and slower-than-molasses landlord. How frustrating. He needs to fix that security light, appealing to his sense of self-preservation might do something ... I'm sure he doesn't want to be staring at legal documents if (God forbid *knocks on wood a million times*) something terrible were to happen as a result of his negligence.

Good luck with your interview!

15 babies in 12 years - and 12 of them have been boys!

O.o Busy family. ;)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Busy family. ;)

Big family, is what it is! Very, very big and sprawling. And prolific.

In fairness to my landlord, I had only previously told him about two of the four maintenance issues in my letter, and those verbally. But he hasn't ever done anything about them, and he knows I was really freaked out by the prowler back in the spring. So I decided to put it all in writing this time, so there would be a record! Heh, I did actually threaten him with legal action once upon a time, many years ago, when the fire alarm was out of action for about six months. I wrote to complain and said that if the house burned down and I survived I would sue him for every penny he had for being in breach of health and safety regulations...he's been nice as pie to me ever since! But this past year since he's no longer been living locally, things have been slipping again.

Really, I need to move out. But that means finding a job, and although I've had loads and loads of interviews since the redundancy, and they all tell me how much they liked me and how appointable I am, no one has actually made me an offer yet. Gah. Someday, my luck will change...