Santa lives....In Toledo

Okay, so the past two mornings something completely unexplainable is happening in my apartment complex. Sunday morning I woke up to what sounded like a party on top of me, normal maybe, but not when you live on the TOP FLOOR. Then, this morning, I walked outside at 7:30 to de-ice my car and the only thing I could hear was jingle bells.

The only logical explanation I can come up with is that Santa and his Reindeer are on my roof!! That would explain the party on my roof and the sleigh bells in the yard. I can't think of any other explanation.

It is so exciting, Santa Claus is living in Toledo, maybe he's stuck, I don't know, but either way he is here. Maybe I should put some food up there for them so they don't starve. I wouldn't want to be blamed for children not having a Christmas next year because no one bothered to feed Santa and his Reindeer while they were stuck on an apartment building in Toledo.

Okay, enough fantasizing, now onto reality. Last night, my sister and I came back from a visit at our parents house to find that we could not get into our door. The lock wasn't stuck or anything, the door just would not open. So, we had to call the emergency maintenance guy and he came to fix it. We waited in the hallway with 2 laundry baskets and a few plastic bags full of wet laundry, plus my sister's bookbag. We were waiting for 20 minutes when he finally comes. He buzzed the door for us to let him in (hello, the reason we called you was because we could NOT get into the apartment, how are we supposed to buzz you up?) Anyway, he asks us for the keys, we try to explain to him that the door is unlocked, that it looks like the wood has split in the frame. So he fools around with it for a minute and realizes that we are correct. So, he simply rams the door with his body. The lock flies out of the door and there are wood splinters all over the floor. He is supposed to come over today to re-panel the door. By the looks of things to me, he is going to have to replace the entire door, I don't see how a new panel will allow the lock to be put back into place. Who knows, all I know right now is that it's a good thing we have a deadbolt because without the deadbolt being locked, we cannot even shut our door. That's nice, real nice. So, soon we will have a new door, a new refrigerator, and a new dish washer. If we keep this up, we'll have a brand new apartment in no time at all! I'm sure glad the maintenance guy is so nice, or else he might hate us by now. We've been there for 3 weeks and he's been over to fix things at least a half dozen times!

Other than the Santa Claus excitement and our door situation, nothing really interesting happened this weekend. My sister entered a karaoke contest at Bootleggers and made it to the next round, so if you don't have anything to do next Friday, come to Boots to cheer (and vote) her to the next round!

Have a great and productive week!