Chloe Discovers A Ladder

Here is where we stand on my list of outstanding stories for those of you who care/who are keeping track/or who are like me and just like crossing things off lists:

• Easter
• Washington DC with LC and JC (not the JC in the sky)
• Culture Thursdays with S
• My 30th Birthday weekend with Kristina in town 
• Friends and Fundraisers 
• Virginia weekend wedding vacation
• Baby Shower-ing
• Mother's Day Snippets
• Chloe discovers a ladder
• College besties reunion weekend 
• Las Vegas

This brings us to a lovely afternoon of ridiculousness entitled Chloe discovers a ladder.

About a month ago we had about 4 things that needed to be fixed by maintenance in our apartment….

Sidenote: We have realized that in lieu of a house anytime in our near future, we are going to focus on this little gem that is the beauty of an apartment- they fix things for you. 

Now these various requests did not all accumulate on the same date. It was a process….

• first one light when out in the kitchen…
• then two, then four out of six, then we were practically in the dark making cereal (because that is all we cook in that kitchen)…
• then the cosmetic holder piece of the blinds fell down (not the actual blinds)…
• then the shower needed to be drained and was getting much worse...
•  then the fire alarm started chirping….you get the picture. Typically a fire alarm chirping will send the maintenance request over the edge for us. We spent one too many nights almost resorting to this:

This is not a joke. Gregg had to get out the step ladder and take the fire alarm off the ceiling in the middle of the night to hit the button to reset it, which in fact sets it off loudly as if there is an actual fire. This leads to mass midnight chaos- Chloe flying off the bed; Me sprinting out that we are going to wake up the entire building; And then after pressing it enough times it stops. And so this goes on all weekend since this also always happens on a weekend when maintenance is not working….

The real reason it takes longer to submit these is because maintenance requests are now a bigger ordeal because we have to stick Chloe in our bedroom all day, and I feel like she is traumatized and going to hate me when I return home. Gregg on the other hand could care less since Chloe spends all day in our bedroom anyways. Someday I am going to be the worst mother because of this..I am already very aware. 

So Thursday afternoon after calling in this laundry list of requests, I came home on my lunch hour to see if maintenance was done and I could let Chloe out. What did I find instead of anything fixed? I found a ladder in the middle of my kitchen and no maintenance worker in sight. Okay. So I called the leasing office and they told me they were at lunch and probably just brought the ladder up to fix everything after lunch. Okay that makes loads of sense. So now I have a cat locked in the bedroom and a ladder in the middle of the kitchen. 

What did I do? What any other normal cat mother would do….I opened the door, let Chloe out and she proceeded to have the adventure of a lifetime…and I proceeded to document it…. 

Checking out this new giant contraption in the kitchen.

Having a paint splattered ladder in my kitchen is the most DIY I've ever been in my life

Hello. 

I am never moving. Or I am not moving until you walk over here and carry me back into the bedroom because maintenance is coming back after lunch. Then I guess I am going to have to move.

And that my friends is fondly remembered as the day Chloe discovered a ladder. This is also why my Mom rolls her eyes at me and tells me I need a kid.