Dear Awkwardness,

It's a good thing that our landlords love my roommates and I, but still... If it were just the fact that in the past year the landlords paid for a new fridge (after the chunky milk disaster), hired maintenance to fix our door (which is starting to break again), and covered the cost of fumigation of the apartment (courtesy of the bed bugs) then I wouldn't feel terrible, but that is not all. In addition, this week, our dishwasher completely died and two days later the washing machine followed suit. I'm not too surprised that some of our appliances should have problems because they haven't been replaced in over a decade or since the fire that half burned down the apartment two years ago. (Don't judge. My apartment is actually pretty great...) Having to ask our landlords to pay for all of this is the truly embarrassing part of it all. I'm just glad that they're understanding.

Here's to hoping nothing else breaks down this year,
Rachel