Rotting Food

Nice title, eh? That is what I discovered when I started looking through my new kitchen yesterday. VERY GROSS. And very not cool. I guess I'm extra perturbed because when I rented my flat out, I ran around like a crazed lunatic my last day stateside cleaning, so that the tenants would have a nice arrival. Lol, I was horrified when I realized at one point last week that I'd left my very used loofah sponge on the shower caddy and that it might gross out the tenants. If only I had known. It seems that my landlord has a very different idea of tenancy.

I've emailed the estate agent and hopefully it will get resolved, but I really can't bring myself to clean it myself for two reasons. First, of course, it isn't my responsibility to do so...this place is not cheap and I think I can at least reasonably expect a lack of rotting food (and dirty cleaning items in the bathroom) upon move in. Second well, it's gross and I don't want to touch any of it.

Basically, the place wasn't really cleaned after the last tenant moved out.

But I digress, the point is, I'm moved in! The location couldn't be more perfect: literally, right outside my complex is shopping, restaurants, etc. 2 pubs and the kebab place on the corner and more as far as you can see. I'm currently typing to you from a sizeable shopping centre (mall) less than a block away from my flat.

And rotting food aside, the place is great...quite a bit bigger than my flat in the states and aside from the sometimes loud surroundings, I love it. I'll love it more when I have net access and more than 3 channels on TV though!

The TV the flat came with is comically tiny, but really, the point in my being here isn't to watch TV, so it'll do for now. The items to cook with are very minimal...so I'll be in heaven once I can ship my stuff. But again, I can make do.

I went for a nice long run this morning (got lost, of course) and though it was raining and cold enough to see my breath (nope, not kidding!), it felt good to just be out.

Anywho, it's Sunday, people here don't do much on Sundays, so here I sit, relaxing the day away until my battery dies and I have home to go charge it again.