Friday, January 16, 2009
today.
well, today has been fun. i walked to the gym which is a little more than half a mile. it's freezing here. and by freezing i mean below zero. and then i did an hour long pilates class - my third this week! then i ran over to walgreens to pick up nail polish remover and some cereal. then i came home at sat down at the computer to email. while at the computer, my door buzzes and so i go to my intercom and find out it's ups and there is a package for me. since i'd only planned on running down and grabbing it and running back upstairs, i didn't put on any shoes. ugh, then i ran out and shut the door behind me. oh yes, it was locked. i can't believe i did that! i was so mad at myself. are you kidding?! and i literally was just talking to someone about how i was afraid i'd do that some day and was hyper aware of making sure the door is unlocked. well, i guess b/c the cat was wanting out and b/c i just wasn't thinking, i shut the door behind me and locked myself out. luckily my downstairs neighbor was home and let me use her phone. we chatted for about half and hour and then the locksmith showed up. he tried his special tools - that he told me come from home depot, wow, that makes me feel safe - and then those didn't work. so he had to drill out the inside of my lock and i was all oh fabulous, how much more is that going to cost me!? but, at that point i didn't care - i was frozen and my feet were blocks of ice. yes, i have an interior entrance/stair area, but it isn't heated and it's cold! so he drilled it out and i got it. it cost me 85 bucks today. and it'll cost me another 15 tomorrow b/c he has to come back and replace the core that he drilled out. yay! so there goes 100 bucks for a stupid stupid mistake. now, you might be thinking doesn't someone else have your keys?? and yes, they do. but alice, kim, and nicole are all at work and i have no idea what their phone numbers are b/c they are just in my cell phone. and the cell phone was in my house. behind the locked door. i will be giving my downstairs neighbors a set of my keys stat. geez.... it better be a good something in that box!!!
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yikes, so sorry!
there is a stairwell that leads down to our garage that we often park by in order to unload the car before squeezing into our very, very tight parking spaces.
well one day while patrick was out of town, i put some bags by the stairs and when i went back to the driver's side door, it was locked! the car was RUNNING in the MIDDLE of the garage, blocking other people's spaces, with my HOUSE KEYS and CELL PHONE inside.
patrick had recently used our spare house key and did not put it back. at least if i could have gotten inside, i could have grabbed the spare car key ... but no!!!
i went up to our lobby and finally someone came through and let me use their phone so i could call a locksmith for the car. i was worried about carbon monoxide, even though the garage is pretty big, and worried about blocking other people's parking spaces.
but it sure cost a lot more than $100 bucks. i think it was like $285 or something crazy.
so now i wonder if i should have called a locksmith for the house instead, would that have been cheaper? grr, so mad even though this was over a year ago!
okay that's just scary. i worry about locking myself out all the time too but i don't have to worry about the freezing cold. jess has a spare set of keys (in san diego) and i put a spare set in my desk at work. cross fingers i don't need to use them!
give a set to Devon!
courtney, that's hilarious
1) i love pilates! i haven't found a place near here that i like yet, but i miss it like crazy
2) i have locked myself out twice since being here, and its awful :( i'm glad you made it back inside!
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