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So my roommate just scared me half to death. I was cleaning my room earlier today. I took all the clothes and sorted them, rearranged boxes that I should really put downstairs. During this process I found some dark black-ish tinted small clumped together spots on the wall towards my base board. It was by my desk and dresser and I hoped it wasn't mold but I wasn't worried because I wasn't entirely sure what it was.
Then tonight, I asked my roommate (Jessica) to look behind a larger picture resting on the floor near by desk. She does and get grossed out entirely! She made me freak out. She said, "that's mold. I'm worried.." etc. So she got her computer and started researching it. Looks at BLACK mold sites...so I go online and type in black mold! Its disgusting. Please do it because Tyler I know you might find some of the pictures artsy. I didn't enlarge any of the photos because I know they would freak me out. The pictures were giant amounts of mold, but some of them look kinda artsty...if it wasn't MOLD! So I don't have black mold--at least not in theory do I have TOXIC BLACK MOLD. But when I made my bed tonight (I finally washed my sheets) I pulled out my bed from the wall and found MORE MOLD, by my head!!!!!!!!!!! (In theory when I am asleep/in my bed). I don't like it one bit. Of course my other roomate says, this is seattle, its nothing to be worried about...its just mold. And her fiance wasn't worried either.
Even though it was late I called my parents. Robin wasn't worried one bit. He said, you just go to the store and buy mold killer spray and follow the directions. He assured me I likely didn't have that much and that I will have enough left in the can to use for next time I see MORE MOLD. Understand this, I don't want to see more mold! I don't want this mold! I hate condensation...but only because it causes MOLD which is NOT my friend. It won't ever be no matter how unchristian that is. It is a living thing, but it is in no way human.
Jessica's dad knows lots about mold and he wasn't worried I guess. He just said I would feel sick or get sick or have flu like symptoms. Guess what? All today I have been feeling tired! I went to sleep last night about 11 and got up at about 8, so I shouldn't me tired...but I was almost ALL day today. So what does that tell you? SOMETHING at least!
OK sorry, but I have to RANT about the mold because now I don't want to sleep in my OWN bed right now. Not when its by my head or near me or in the same room or near ALL my stuff! At least I don't think there is mold in the closet where my close are. But I guess they SPORES can spread easily with the wind and I need to seal off areas so it won't spread and remove contents through a window. But this was according to toxic-black-mold-info.com which John (Grace's finance) said was like finding a tiny little spider in my room and looking up information on black widows or terranchulas. But the information on cleaning mold didn't sound terribly sensastionalist. It seemed msotly legit. I just don't know if I would clasify my mold as "Toxic Black Mold". At least I hope it isn't.
I kind of want to call the landlord and ask him to fix it for me. To clean the mold. But Robin says they will likely take a while and I don't want to wait so I should probably just kill the mold now (tomorrow when I go to the store and buy some KILLER) and do it myself and potentially not mention it to the landlord. Oh I want to mention it all right! Stupid old house with condesation problems! Of course Grace slept where I did last year and she had no problems with the mold. She thinks its all my stuff pushed against the wall, but what else can I do about that? Nothing really at all! How do you keep a frameless bed three feet from the wall. How much stuff do I want to loose in the crack between the bed and the wall. No wall to lean against either.
What to do, what to do. I'll clean it of course, but not tonight. Tonight I sleep. But where? The head of my bed? Would really rather NOT and say I didn't. The foot of my bed? Perhaps. The couch? not sure I would get a good nights sleep as I usually wake up often in the night on couches. Jessica's room? (Probably not her room...its rather messy in there right now).
I honestly think I never would have found it if I hadn't cleaned today. It was behind things. And if I hadn't shown it to Jessica I wouldn't have been prompted to look behind my bed and if I hadn't looked behind my bed I would be asleep by now! Peacefully and restfully sleeping the night away! In my OWN bed. But no here I am like a freak, scared, little kid, up ranting on my live journal about MOLD! You can laugh. I can't find this funny right now, but I won't mind if you laugh. It's normal to laugh when someone such as myself is being as rediculous as I am being now. I understand this. I fully realize this. But it doesn't change the fact that I have to go to sleep so I can wake up and kill mold and there is MOLD in SEVERAL places in MY room. It's not on Graces side at all! It is all MY SIDE!
Maybe my mother can spare some time to kill mold tomorrow? She likes gardening...and I think cleaning...so she should like mold right? It would be quality time together...something I wanted to do on my spring break this week!
OK well I only have till 1 I think to clean the mold if I still get together with Chelsea before her 2 pm class. I have class tomorrow at 4:30 and then again at like 6 I think it is. But thats all I have. The rest of my week is spring break from my elementary school.
I have to figure out seat/desk arrangements, carpet arrangements, a Time For Kids lesson, Math lesson, and I think that is it. At least I hope that is it. We will have to see about that though.
OK well I don't think you want to read anything more abotu MOLD. So I will spare you more MOLD discussions for a later time.
Off I go to attempt to sleep..but where is the question. I hope I don't have terrible, awful, no good, very bad, dreams tonight! That wouldn't be fun. OK night everyone. Have great weeks!
Meg
I honestly didn't expect I would ever freak out like this over MOLD. But here I am freaked out, while my one roommate laughs at me and the other apologizes for freaking me out and tells me it will all be OK. This is not cool. so NOT cool. I mean seriously. SO unhealthy and disgusting! And might I add that I can handle mold on food. It is still gross on food. But you can cut it off and I know that kind won't make you that sick if you ingest it or breath it or something and you can just THROW AWAY the CONTAINER in the TRASH. I can NOT throw away my wall...or do anything but deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep clean it with bleach and spray and stuff.
As If I didn't have something better to do on my supposedly RELAXING spring break! Haha. Now that's funny...or NOT!
So my roommate just scared me half to death. I was cleaning my room earlier today. I took all the clothes and sorted them, rearranged boxes that I should really put downstairs. During this process I found some dark black-ish tinted small clumped together spots on the wall towards my base board. It was by my desk and dresser and I hoped it wasn't mold but I wasn't worried because I wasn't entirely sure what it was.
Then tonight, I asked my roommate (Jessica) to look behind a larger picture resting on the floor near by desk. She does and get grossed out entirely! She made me freak out. She said, "that's mold. I'm worried.." etc. So she got her computer and started researching it. Looks at BLACK mold sites...so I go online and type in black mold! Its disgusting. Please do it because Tyler I know you might find some of the pictures artsy. I didn't enlarge any of the photos because I know they would freak me out. The pictures were giant amounts of mold, but some of them look kinda artsty...if it wasn't MOLD! So I don't have black mold--at least not in theory do I have TOXIC BLACK MOLD. But when I made my bed tonight (I finally washed my sheets) I pulled out my bed from the wall and found MORE MOLD, by my head!!!!!!!!!!! (In theory when I am asleep/in my bed). I don't like it one bit. Of course my other roomate says, this is seattle, its nothing to be worried about...its just mold. And her fiance wasn't worried either.
Even though it was late I called my parents. Robin wasn't worried one bit. He said, you just go to the store and buy mold killer spray and follow the directions. He assured me I likely didn't have that much and that I will have enough left in the can to use for next time I see MORE MOLD. Understand this, I don't want to see more mold! I don't want this mold! I hate condensation...but only because it causes MOLD which is NOT my friend. It won't ever be no matter how unchristian that is. It is a living thing, but it is in no way human.
Jessica's dad knows lots about mold and he wasn't worried I guess. He just said I would feel sick or get sick or have flu like symptoms. Guess what? All today I have been feeling tired! I went to sleep last night about 11 and got up at about 8, so I shouldn't me tired...but I was almost ALL day today. So what does that tell you? SOMETHING at least!
OK sorry, but I have to RANT about the mold because now I don't want to sleep in my OWN bed right now. Not when its by my head or near me or in the same room or near ALL my stuff! At least I don't think there is mold in the closet where my close are. But I guess they SPORES can spread easily with the wind and I need to seal off areas so it won't spread and remove contents through a window. But this was according to toxic-black-mold-info.com which John (Grace's finance) said was like finding a tiny little spider in my room and looking up information on black widows or terranchulas. But the information on cleaning mold didn't sound terribly sensastionalist. It seemed msotly legit. I just don't know if I would clasify my mold as "Toxic Black Mold". At least I hope it isn't.
I kind of want to call the landlord and ask him to fix it for me. To clean the mold. But Robin says they will likely take a while and I don't want to wait so I should probably just kill the mold now (tomorrow when I go to the store and buy some KILLER) and do it myself and potentially not mention it to the landlord. Oh I want to mention it all right! Stupid old house with condesation problems! Of course Grace slept where I did last year and she had no problems with the mold. She thinks its all my stuff pushed against the wall, but what else can I do about that? Nothing really at all! How do you keep a frameless bed three feet from the wall. How much stuff do I want to loose in the crack between the bed and the wall. No wall to lean against either.
What to do, what to do. I'll clean it of course, but not tonight. Tonight I sleep. But where? The head of my bed? Would really rather NOT and say I didn't. The foot of my bed? Perhaps. The couch? not sure I would get a good nights sleep as I usually wake up often in the night on couches. Jessica's room? (Probably not her room...its rather messy in there right now).
I honestly think I never would have found it if I hadn't cleaned today. It was behind things. And if I hadn't shown it to Jessica I wouldn't have been prompted to look behind my bed and if I hadn't looked behind my bed I would be asleep by now! Peacefully and restfully sleeping the night away! In my OWN bed. But no here I am like a freak, scared, little kid, up ranting on my live journal about MOLD! You can laugh. I can't find this funny right now, but I won't mind if you laugh. It's normal to laugh when someone such as myself is being as rediculous as I am being now. I understand this. I fully realize this. But it doesn't change the fact that I have to go to sleep so I can wake up and kill mold and there is MOLD in SEVERAL places in MY room. It's not on Graces side at all! It is all MY SIDE!
Maybe my mother can spare some time to kill mold tomorrow? She likes gardening...and I think cleaning...so she should like mold right? It would be quality time together...something I wanted to do on my spring break this week!
OK well I only have till 1 I think to clean the mold if I still get together with Chelsea before her 2 pm class. I have class tomorrow at 4:30 and then again at like 6 I think it is. But thats all I have. The rest of my week is spring break from my elementary school.
I have to figure out seat/desk arrangements, carpet arrangements, a Time For Kids lesson, Math lesson, and I think that is it. At least I hope that is it. We will have to see about that though.
OK well I don't think you want to read anything more abotu MOLD. So I will spare you more MOLD discussions for a later time.
Off I go to attempt to sleep..but where is the question. I hope I don't have terrible, awful, no good, very bad, dreams tonight! That wouldn't be fun. OK night everyone. Have great weeks!
Meg
I honestly didn't expect I would ever freak out like this over MOLD. But here I am freaked out, while my one roommate laughs at me and the other apologizes for freaking me out and tells me it will all be OK. This is not cool. so NOT cool. I mean seriously. SO unhealthy and disgusting! And might I add that I can handle mold on food. It is still gross on food. But you can cut it off and I know that kind won't make you that sick if you ingest it or breath it or something and you can just THROW AWAY the CONTAINER in the TRASH. I can NOT throw away my wall...or do anything but deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep clean it with bleach and spray and stuff.
As If I didn't have something better to do on my supposedly RELAXING spring break! Haha. Now that's funny...or NOT!