Day 16 of 40 Torn

This morning the alarm went off for an hour or so. Thanks to the snooze button I delayed getting up until it was 8:15 AM. Then I finally could drag myself out of my bed put some clothes on and get myself a cup of tea. I had an appointment at 9:00 A.M. in the new house with two different men. One was from the housing agency, for the delayed inspection of the house and the other one was the locksmith to replace the locks. I could barely recognize my face in the rearview mirror of the car with such dark shadows under my eyes although I had slept sound and good. Because I snoozed that long I had no time to put some eyeliner and mascara on my eyes but I didn’t care, my bed was too tempting this morning.

Anyway, I arrived still ten minutes early and that was just enough to eat the sliced melon I brought with me. At 5 minutes past 9 I got a call from the inspector. Asking me if I was in the house. Of course I was, I thought he had been ringing the doorbell and that didn’t work. But no, he said that he was on his way, it would take him another 5 minutes to be there. That’s done it, this cost him some more points, I was in time there. So, I snapped to him that it was okay and hung up on him before he had said goodbye. It was not only because the early hour that I was acting grumpy, it was because I had been trying to talk to him or one of his colleagues for several times since the end of August. The secretary was very apologetic for him, she said that it was normal that he didn’t call me back or answered my e-mail because he was soooo busy. Because I mainly wanted to know about making a stair to the attic I had asked then if I could call him on his cell phone. She said: “Noooo, that is only for intern purposes. We cannot give his number, otherwise he would not have a life at all”. At that time I thought well, don’t make a fuss about it, I’ll wait and see. However, that didn’t leave him with very much credit as turned out when he eventually turned up 15 minutes later than the deal was. Of course I was torn because I had other things to do today, like preparing an exam.

My businesslike manner helped. He agreed to having fixed the dark stains on the ceiling of the bathroom. And the shower. And to remove the big bushes in the backyard. Not to my much wanted staircase. However, he gave me permission to have it done by myself. In the meantime the other guy had arrived. Also too late but he wasn’t blamed by me. That one changed the locks and pointed out that for the lock of the backdoor there needed something more being done because the lock didn’t fit well in the woodwork. It turned out handy that both men were there at the same time because mister-superintendant-with-hardly-a-life-next-to-his-work needed to give permission for that job. Mister locksmith said apologetically that he didn’t have time to fix that this day but I was only thankful for that. No more house matters today. I need to find my way in the brain and I feel pretty lost in that department.