Our Crazy Life

So it's been a while since I've blogged. Things have been pretty crazy around here.
It started last week. I was working and kept hearing these scratching noises. We have a dog and two cats that are always into something. I didn't think a whole lot about it.
On my break I headed out and found Maggie sleeping on the bed, Boomer looking out the back door, and Phoenix snoozing in the corner. Okay, must have been Boomer. So I sat and ate lunch and watched the news. All was well until I heard it again, but this time everyone was asleep, and Maggie came racing out of the bedroom staring at the ceiling. My little heart dropped into my stomach. I imagined all kinds of little creatures infesting my attic. Ohh it was bad. I didn't even want to go back to work. I was ready to pack up and move out. To make it worse Richard was working and not answering his phone. I left a desperate sounding message.
Sooo, we ended up calling the landlord and they assured us they would take care of it as soon as possible. Almost a week later we got a call and someone came out to "take a look". He affirmed what I already knew, we have visitors in our attic. He didn't have anything with him so it would have to wait. Gee thanks. And we needed someone to come out and confirm? So we wait.
Monday was my next checkup. I was having a glucose test for gestational diabetes, so I thought. I was up at 6:30 forcing myself to eat this huge breakfast. Seriously thought I'd never make it. I got it all down and managed to keep it down and we headed to the office. I got all my vitals checked and we headed in to make sure everything else was okay. I asked about my blood test. "Oh we'll do that next time. It has to be done at 24 weeks." Ughhhh! Since we thought I was further along there was a mix up. It didn't get unmixed after my ultrasound. So I'll be eating all that at 6:30am again. At least I have a month to recuperate! As for me and baby, we're doing just fine. I'm measuring right and babies heartbeat is still good and strong. Although baby is still more interested in moving about. As soon as she put the doppler on baby moved. Little booger.
Meanwhile, this past Wednesday our AC went out. It's October, still hot, I'm pregnant, these do not make for a good combination. Thursday was torture. It would work for a while, then go out. We had called that morning and they said they'd send someone out. Finally called back to see what was going on and were told it couldn't be fixed until Friday. Umm, excuse me...I think not. Didn't matter what I thought because that's what happened. Friday afternoon, the tech showed up 30 minutes late, but he fixed it darn it! I am pleased, and cool.
At the same time we let the landlord know about the AC we asked about the creatures in the attic moving out. "Oh, that's your responsibility." Well thanks for not bothering to get back with us and just letting us sit here. Never mind the fact that they wouldn't be in the attic in the first place if you'd have fixed the screen like we'd asked. But now it's our problem. "Oh, unless you want to pay us $420 to take care of it". I don't think so. My brain might be shrinking because I'm pregnant but I'm not that stupid! What's so funny is that when the guy was out here, he told Richard all he does is put a cage up in the attic with a piece of peanut butter laden apple. We both agreed, for $420 those must be golden apples. Hah!
So our visitors are still here, overstaying their welcome. I hear them from time to time and shudder. As long as they stay up there we'll be fine. Not that they'd last very long if they did decide to come down. Phoenix and his sidekicks would see to that.
Now our neighbor is having a new roof put on. All we heard today was bang, bang, bang. I hope they hurry. The screaming kids out back were enough. It's hard to drown out all that noise!
I'm waiting for more crazy things to happen!
Well, Phoenix has been patiently waiting on me to finish so I'm wrapping it up. He learned that pushing the keyboard in does wonders.