Ding dong housemate F is dead π.
It seems that the wanted housemate’s lock has been replaced!!!
I just went out the front of the house and saw a couple of discarded door locks on a shelf by the front door πππ.
He’s already been barred from the house!!?? Probably had an actual court eviction order too I imagine.
Holy fucking shit that would be great news!!! It would remove 99% of the stampeding through the house. I will have to check my camera recordings over the next day to be sure.
Though if a house viewing caught on camera the other day is anything to go by (letting agent with 5 boisterous young guys) it may not be for longβ¦
I actually wonder if the letting agent was advertising my room too? Expecting me to be gone soon π.
This house is basically the Wild West,
But with mould.
Update: they are definitely fucking gone!! Their windows which have been permanently open since the day I moved in (both successive housemates A and F kept them open 24/7 throughout the year even when out of the houseβ¦I meanβ¦), are now closed and the lights are off (which housemate F kept on 24/7). No more room shaking today so far.
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Im a little confused. What type of living situation do you live in? Do you have
lots of roommates ? Sorry if I’m being to personal. Do not answer if your not comfortable π
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Yeah no worries, I would’ve asked too haha.
Yeah it’s a shared house with 5 rooms in total, so I have up to 4 housemates. I’ve only had 3 for some months. I’ve been reliant upon housing support since 3 years ago when I stopped living with parents and unable to work since a year before that, so I don’t have a choice in it. There was 7 months of living in my car between parents and living in this place.
Soβ¦I was the first to move into this place which was clean and renovated. Then nobody but me did any communal cleaning and it deteriorated. Then I gradually figured out ways to do everything within my room so I could just keep the door closed and live self-contained which I’ve been doing for the past year. All of my plants are in my room. The dog photos are from parents’ house spanning several years, some taken by me some by the one brother I’m in contact with.
So it’s this weird mix of having built a fort within which everything’s fine, whilst outside of my locked door is complete chaos. I have to venture out a few times a week to fill up water containers, or when leaving the house altogether.
It’s quite a remarkable situation that I CAN do everything within my room and that there were solutions, and I had enough financial support (mostly from parents) to be able to do it. It has its own challenges, but life would’ve been totally impossible if I hadn’t been able to do that. Since I fall through every gap in terms of any kind of support, this has been my only option.
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Thank you RoBIN for filling me in. π
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Haha nw, sorry for the essay! π
Thanks for reading btw, it helps!
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Well, that’s a win! I can feel the relief!
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Wellβ¦I did notice him again last night on the camera. The window’s been fogging up lately with the colder weather so it hasn’t been picking everything up. I’ve built a shroud around the camera now and changed camera settings so I’m detecting all movements again :).
So yeah, that worried me, though it appeared as though he turned up with a friend, couldn’t get in, and left again? Which would make sense haha. Haven’t seen him since last night since fixing the camera. Soβ¦yeah, prob need to wait a week to have confidence!
I also should not get hopeful about improved state of the house, because as long as nobody else is cleaning up that rotting mess in the kitchen which already exists, it’s not gunna changeβ¦.π. It will stay there through house viewings and everything. I justβ¦cannot imagine how the letting agent/landlord think that’s acceptable?
There are two girls who live here who look respectable and one goes out to workβ¦and they are living amongst that. They do their cooking in the kitchen despite the filth and dirty pots and garbage everywhere. I now have a gas mask for leaving my room which has helped considerablyβ I can’t smell anything through it!
Salvation Army person is coming soon so will give her a tour of the mess.
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This is simply incredible. I hope you get out of that situation ASAP
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It really is mind-blowing even after two years here. Thanks! The delay is them waiting for a ground floor place, meanwhile I can’t get any formal recognition and support for my physical disability π. But yeah π.
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Yeah they are definitely not gone π€·ββοΈ. Well I will never understand it.
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Nooooooooooooo
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Yes the mistake was trying to expect rather than just treat the chaos like the weather π.
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I love that–treat the chaos like the weather
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Yes! It’s been an invaluable perspective. It’s kind of like a Buddhist approach too (the meditation retreat I went to in 2019 was one). And it’s the way I view the decisions and factors out of my control. I just don’t let it change my goals and what I need. It’s just random π€·ββοΈ
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Letting go is so important for one’s peace of mind. I tend to get very worked up and indignant to the point of hysteria when things aren’t “fair,” so to be able to sort of shrug would make my life much better.
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I like being able to share it neutrally and have other people tell me how unfair it is, whist just numb inside π. And it’s like, I wonder how much more ridiculous this can get? π€
It’s satisfying after experiencing many unfair things. So the more that happen the more vindication is possible. I guess yeah I tend to not panic in the moment with most things, I just look forward to the blog post about it. Like last week my car broke down a mile from home. And of course it took them 3 hours to get to me. And 6 mins to finish the drive home. LOL. Well that happened π€·ββοΈ.
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Sometimes it IS oddly gratifying to have bad things happen when you know it’s great material.
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Yes :). The power of having a blog π
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Having validation vs gaslighting is the key for me though. When I know I have a place to go for validation it makes all the difference in the world, vs many previous years of no validation/empathy.
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It’s like, well you can decide I’m capable to work or not disabled if you want, but this is what I’m capable of and here’s what I need. I am fatalistic enough to be all in or nothing. And it has worked so far. Politely, resolutely informing people of these things knowing I have nothing to lose.
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