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.”
Tune in tomorrow to read the daily mood
quote
Thank you for reading
