Looking Ahead
Today is my last day of solitude. I've been on my own in this house since Sunday when one of my housemates left for the summer. The other housemate went away on Thursday but is returning tonight. It's all so convenient the way people seem to disappear when it comes to the time the house has to be cleaned. The housemate who has left for the summer has hardly lifted a finger all year. Once he cleaned the bath, and he's hoovered the living room a couple of times... and it's mainly because he never seems to be here when it comes round to doing the big jobs.
And one of the big jobs came a couple of days ago when I had to clean the upstairs toilet. I suspect it hadn't been cleaned for a year... and this is the toilet the Evil housemates and his girlfriend had been using all this time. It was a nasty job... but it's remarkable what a bit of bleach can do. It's almost useable now. I say almost because when it rains things tend to get a bit wet in there thanks to the dodgy, rotting windows. Good job there's another toilet downstairs...
But the legacy of the Enemy lives on. I can't remember if I mentioned he left tonnes of rubbish behind. Well... today the bins were emptied, and no sooner was it taken away it was filled up again with the final few bags of his rubbish. We're nearly through it now, but we still have the question of what to do with his two irons which don't work (why anyone needs two irons I don't know), his coffee machine which stinks to high heaven, his microwave which is filthy and a lot of weights under his bed. We can't put them in the bin because they'd break the bin lorry when they come round to collect it, and neither can we take them to a rubbish tip because we don't have any transport. This is one we're going to have to think about.
In the past couple of days though I have cleaned up both the Enemy's room and his Lackey. They are beginning to lose the smells they developed - at last. I doubt it will ever go, but it's fading. Both rooms are now habitable again. I'm pretty impressed with the job I've done! I'll need to start thinking of them as the rooms of my new housemates soon. They're going to be moving in over the summer.
Meanwhile, I'm starting to get nervous. My passport and visa have returned from the US embassy, and my flight is a week on Saturday. I still can't believe this is happening. There is a lot of stuff I need to buy, which is unfortunately going to increase the amount this whole business has cost me even more. I'm going home this Saturday for good and I won't be returning to Hull until late August with a bit of luck.
I'm sure it'll be great. My friends are all trying to get jobs for the summer, and I can't help but feel a bit smug that I'm out of that whole loop as they trawl around McDonalds, B&Q, Subway and the endless other retail employers around here looking for work. My summer is already planned. I'm looking forward to it.
And one of the big jobs came a couple of days ago when I had to clean the upstairs toilet. I suspect it hadn't been cleaned for a year... and this is the toilet the Evil housemates and his girlfriend had been using all this time. It was a nasty job... but it's remarkable what a bit of bleach can do. It's almost useable now. I say almost because when it rains things tend to get a bit wet in there thanks to the dodgy, rotting windows. Good job there's another toilet downstairs...
But the legacy of the Enemy lives on. I can't remember if I mentioned he left tonnes of rubbish behind. Well... today the bins were emptied, and no sooner was it taken away it was filled up again with the final few bags of his rubbish. We're nearly through it now, but we still have the question of what to do with his two irons which don't work (why anyone needs two irons I don't know), his coffee machine which stinks to high heaven, his microwave which is filthy and a lot of weights under his bed. We can't put them in the bin because they'd break the bin lorry when they come round to collect it, and neither can we take them to a rubbish tip because we don't have any transport. This is one we're going to have to think about.
In the past couple of days though I have cleaned up both the Enemy's room and his Lackey. They are beginning to lose the smells they developed - at last. I doubt it will ever go, but it's fading. Both rooms are now habitable again. I'm pretty impressed with the job I've done! I'll need to start thinking of them as the rooms of my new housemates soon. They're going to be moving in over the summer.
Meanwhile, I'm starting to get nervous. My passport and visa have returned from the US embassy, and my flight is a week on Saturday. I still can't believe this is happening. There is a lot of stuff I need to buy, which is unfortunately going to increase the amount this whole business has cost me even more. I'm going home this Saturday for good and I won't be returning to Hull until late August with a bit of luck.
I'm sure it'll be great. My friends are all trying to get jobs for the summer, and I can't help but feel a bit smug that I'm out of that whole loop as they trawl around McDonalds, B&Q, Subway and the endless other retail employers around here looking for work. My summer is already planned. I'm looking forward to it.
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