I think I'm smelling smoke from roommate who I hardly ever see's room. Does this sound non-mean enough?

Lately I keep smelling cigarette smoke in the apartment. I don't know if you're smoking in your room or if its one of the neighbors or something else entirely (J___ smokes outside).

If you've forgotten since the ad and the roommate interview that there's no smoking in the apartment its no big deal, just don't do it anymore. If not, sorry to bug you.

Thanks,

Trudy

I don't want to discuss it with him with his Girlfriend here (I think she's the one smoking, actually), and I just about never see him. Oy.

Fuck that noise Trudy--especially if it IS the girlfriend who's smoking. Bust in on them--"Oh no, I thought something was on fire, because I smelled smoke, and OBVIOUSLY you wouldn't have been smoking in the room since that's against the lease. But I guess you were..."

And then I realized I could do some Christmas shopping because I was next to a mall! In Pleasanton

StoneRidge! I am so happy to have finally found a decent mall in the East Bay (that doesn't have me driving all the way to way-too-white-for-my-taste Walnut Creek!). I only discovered it a few weeks ago, and it's only 12 minutes from my house.

Fuck that noise Trudy...

Heh. The non-buffista I just asked thinks its a bit presumptive.

I can't bust in on them, they're having sex. They're always having sex. Which, good for them. (This is the roommate who only lives here about half the week. Pretty much any night he's here they're cheerfully screwing like mink. Or something noisy if mink aren't noisy.)

HAH! Even better. Maybe they're burning candles! "I'm sorry, you sound...ahem...BUSY...in there, but it ALSO SMELLS LIKE SOMETHING IS BURNING. IS THERE A CANDLE, or an ILLEGAL CIGARETTE BURNING???"

Cute hair!

trudy: just bust in with a fire extinguisher next time you smell it, all freaked out, and scream something about calling 911 for the smoke. maybe spray down the smokey gf if need be. No smoking in the house means NO SMOKING IN THE HOUSE. (seriously: your note is overly pleasant IMHO.)

Hah! I'm glad erin is with me! :)

You guys really seem to want to see my roommate have sex. Or at least for ME to see my roommate have sex.

I honestly think it slipped his mind. Or they're doing it with the window closed now that its getting cold out...

Can i bitch about a massage i got today? because it was terrible. the worst massage i have ever gotten, by a LOT. the "masseuse" (and i use quotes because i have serious doubts as to her training) managed, during trigger point work, to miss EVERY trigger point she tried for. Instead, she just pushed really hard on random parts of my body that weren't muscle connector points. I never would have through that possible, since the FMS tends to leave me feeling like me entire body is one big trigger point....but she managed to find every point on my body that was not a trigger point. The amount of pressure would have been perfect...if it had been targeted at all, instead of spread out over her full lower arm, basically the length of one of my ribs. Ugh. like being steam rolled. She also pressed down really really hard on my sacrum. Like, directly on the bone. An hour massage that was neither relaxing nor therapeutic. Of course it was at a chain (massage envy....where at least everyone else i've dealt with could FIND my muscles) and i was quite clear and pointed when checking out that i wanted to NEVER be scheduled with her again, but no one wanted to know why. *sigh* I'm annoyed at the waste of time and money. And now i need to wash my hair tomorrow because it has oil in it. Hair washing is still complicated and time consuming with the wounded thumb. Super annoying, in a truly minor way.

Jeez, erin_o, that does sound like a crappy massage. You have such a stressful job, you need good ways to de-stress, and throwing down money on substandard massages ain't one of them.