↑ (Our bathtub after being cleaned, and filling up with poo water.. Lovely.) ↑
For starters, I can't use my bathroom in our apartment. Why, you ask? Oh, because it's been spilling poo water for the past day and a half. Yes, Poo Water. Don't worry, it's been coming up from our bathtub too. No showering for now. It all started yesterday in the morning when David and I were still in bed when we heard loud gurgling sounds coming from the bathroom. At our inspection, we noticed the water was rising and falling in the toilet bowl and still gurgling every once and a while. Suddenly, we hear the water rushing and brown, dirty water was spilling everywhere! We ended up calling the on-call maintenance guy for the weekend to come fix it. It took an hour and a half, maybe two hours before he had finished. All of the dirty water in the tub, drained.. but ALL OVER Cal's bath toys and washcloths. Gross. Like, seriously, the maintenance guy couldn't move a few baby toys from the poo water all over it. Ew. Well, after he fixed the problem temporarily, everything working fine and all. This morning, a familiar gurgle sound emerged from the bathroom. I go in only to see my bathtub is half full with poo water again and the toilet too. Oyyyy Vey. All my hard work cleaning up that bathroom all gone down the drain... or come UP from the drain, rather. I literally, had to clean poo off the walls.
Needless to say, David and I have decided to do whatever we can to get out of our lease here. After having dead mice in our walls, water pouring in from our ceiling, cockroaches that STILL come out, we've had enough.
In other news, Cal got some more shots today, including his H1N1 flu shot. Apparently, Utah County will be hitting its 3rd big wave of the Swine Flu. No bueno. No harm in being prepared. Especially for the dreaded Swine Flu. It's hard watching Little Cal get stabbed with all those needles, though. What a trooper. I think the needles are easy to handle. It's the feverish, achey, sick feeling that comes from those shots that gets me every time. Yuck!
Angie, some of that has to be against building code of some kind, in which case you can call them on it. Also, there is a piece of legislation called the "Utah Fit Premises Act" maybe you can find something there that is in violation. Also, if your housing is in any way affiliated with the university, you should be able to find an avenue there. You guys are tough! Good luck! ---courtney
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