Daily Mood Quote

June 16, 2012

Never trust anyone who says, “Trust me, I'm your friend.” Actions speak louder than words.

~Unknown Author

My husband says this quote is harsh and to a small degree, I agree with him. But, for now this is how I feel and only time will heal the hurt that someone I once looked up too, trusted and admired (more than any member of my own family, the family I grew up with) created. I have forgiven people who have hurt me, or my family if it was an accident; but what this woman did was no accident, it was with malice- it was deliberate, intentional, and shameful. I wonder if theses are the lessons she teaches the children in her religious education program? Lessons like: It's okay to lie, cheat, spread rumors (without knowing the facts, asking the questions, or just simply ignoring the truth) about people, as long as you give money to the church, or go to confession each week. Is that what it takes today? Sorry to say this, but that is hypocrisy. Saying one thing but doing another. People tried to warn my husband and I about her, they tried to tell us she was a hypocrite, a liar, she said one thing but did another, was never a person of her word. They tried to tell us, but oh no, we didn't believe them. In fact we vigorously defended her. She was a friend, a trusted friend. Well, “with friends like that, who needs enemies” right?

Now, back to our discoveries... Upon entry of the home through the front door, we noticed that the house was dirty, walls had been scraped up, carpets had been stained and vinyl in entry way was scraped and torn. There was also a yellow stain on the floor, where the entry way carpet used to be. Who lets a carpet sit that long? This was at first glance. Then we proceed to the laundry room and found no reason for concern (yet). Ran both the washer and the dryer, they seemed to both work for the brief tryout.

The hallway from the entry way has a closet, filled with things that belonged to the previous tenant, our new landlord. This hallway which lead to the kitchen includes a doorway to the laundry room and a doorway to the garage, which has a screen door on it (unusual) but nevertheless both doors work, although latch is rusty and loose on the screen door. There were dirty marks and scratches from the move out on the walls and floors. The vinyl flooring in front of the refrigerator has dark scrapes and tears.

We then moved to the kitchen, and noticed on the counter top there was only one remote for the garage door opener (this is a concern because normally an automatic garage door has two openers). A microwave was also left on the counter, this was be placed in the garage for the landlord, who said she would return for her things. We continued with the inspection and noticed the refrigerator was the same refrigerator we saw several months earlier. When you opened the refrigerator doors (noticed during the viewing of the home several months earlier) the bottom was still torn up, rusting and separating from inside the refrigerator and freezer doors. The bottom of the refrigerator (underneath the drawers) looks as if it had never been cleaned; this one was going to take time to clean (at least three to four hours of serious elbow grease). Then we checked the burners of the stove and they seem to be in good working condition. We are excited about this stove because food cooked by gas stoves seem to taste better than food cooked by electrical stoves (that is just how we feel). We did not run the dishwasher, we had no reason to at the time, no dishes, yet. Anyway the landlord said, she never used it because she lived alone, didn't have a lot of dishes to wash. We believed her and assumed it worked. Why would she lie to us? Then we opened up all the cabinets and discovered many missed items, we boxed them and placed them in the attic for our landlord to pick up. We then turned on the water and got sprayed from the water purifier, which was exciting. The sprayer had to be removed. Upon removing it we noticed it had mold, so we disposed of it, and replaced it with a regular aerator.

Then we opened up the windows in the kitchen and found mold and discoloration on the trim. We took pictures and then checked other windows; they were also discoloring, molding and rotting. We didn't know if this could be fixed; we would have to look it up.The kitchen bay window on the (east) right side had a broken closing mechanism, cannot open the window to full extension, or the mechanism separates from the window. Screen also has multiple holes. Looking at the kitchen floor, we noticed stains, dings, and dents. Along with a few centipedes, and a couple of potato-bugs. Bugs will have to be taken care of right away, because we have a very low tolerance for bugs, especially our youngest daughter. Upon an initial view of the kitchen walls – they seemed fine, no glaring holes or other problems. Although looking at the dining room walls, we asked the question, “who moved her, the CareerBuilder.com monkeys (well, okay, chimps)? They were marked up with dirty pencil marks and small holes.

By this time my husband and I were remembering the movie The Money Pit with Tom Hanks (Walter) and Shelley Long (Anna), when Walter said, “Ahh, home crap home!” And we haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet...Want to see why my daughter could never sneak out of her room at night? See more tomorrow.

Here's something novel; writing about this is helping reduce the hatred demon. Like Shrek in the movie Shrek (played by Mike Myers) always says, “Better out than in, I always say.”

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