Places for Rent

Looking for a new place to live?
Here is a map with a variety of different apartments and town homes throughout the Topeka area. Be sure to check out my other page in case you're looking for a new roommate, I have posted a few links there where people post about looking for roommates.

Final Countdown

Here are some photo's I have used throughout my blog so far. I am going to add more soon. The plan is to eventually have a picture to represent every post in my blog.

Messing with the Wifi

We're always messing with each other in our house. Whether it's waiting for someone to walk up the stairs at night to scare them or hiding their food somewhere else in the kitchen. We all mess with each other in different respects. One way that I have found to be the funnest way to get back at my roommates when they mess with me is to kick them off the wifi.

When I moved into this house their was no router because the people who lived here before took theirs with them when they left. When I brought mine over I set it up in such a way that I would be able to easily access it whenever I wanted to. I was able to see who was using the wifi and on what devices through their IP addresses.

Whenever someone would mess with me, usually by scaring me when I come home, I would block them from the wifi. The first few times I did this stunt, it was hilarious. B-fresh was the first victim of my plan. It was late on a school night and he had just finished all of his homework for the night and wanted to start playing a video game before going to bed. Earlier in the day, B-fresh hid my toilet paper from me, which gave me a terrible stomach ache. I decided it was time to unleash the Wifi blockage on him. He was in the middle of a match on Destiny when I decided to turn off the Wifi to his Xbox. His instant reaction was anger. He started screaming at the Wifi as if it were a person who had just harmed his mother. I was in my room dying of laughter.

Eventually I left my room and asked him what was making him so upset. He told me that the internet kicked him out of his game and that it only stopped working for his Xbox. I asked him if he tried unplugging it and plugging it back in, he said "yes like 5 ****ing times!". I couldn't help but burst out in laughter. He figured out that I was the one messing with him and got extremely pissed and told me to unblock him. I felt kind of bad, but it was still a hilarious prank.

Lesson to take away from this: Pranks are great fun, as long as you know don't take it too far and know when to end the prank.

Meetings and Group Texts

Living with other people requires you to communicate with each other or the place you live in will quickly fall apart. My roommates and I are constantly talking to each other about whose dish is in the sink or whose turn it is to take out the trash. 

We're able to stay in constant communication with each other through our group text message. The text group started because B-fresh needed a way to tell all of us how much bills are going to be for the month. It has turned into a much more useful tool than we've expected. 

The best part about the group text is being able to send out a text to everyone asking someone to ask if anyone would want to do dishes, and then coming home to clean dishes. Any chore that needs to be done around the house can be done whenever because we're able to ask each other to do stuff while we're gone. Our house has actually been clean the past month because of our group text. 

Our constant communication with each other has not only improved the cleanliness of the house but has also helped our relationship as roommates 

What Not to Flush Down a Toilet

With all of the other common sense issues I've had to deal with at my house, this one takes the cake. Only because B-fresh and I had mentioned to our other two roommates, on multiple occasions, not to do this. They had been using paper towels for toilet paper. They had been doing this because they kept forgetting to go buy toilet paper for themselves to use. We all agreed, before we moved in, that we would buy our own toilet paper. We didn't want one of us always being the one person responsible enough to buy it, so we decided to put it on each other to buy our own toilet paper. 

Eventually, we came to regret that decision. I remember one week before the accident happened, I saw Markie Mark and Kaveman leaving the bathroom with paper towels in their hands. Each time i mentioned to them not to be using paper towels as toilet paper because they don't dissolve like toilet paper does down the drain. Both of them acted like I was just trying to be rude and trying to control how they wipe their ass. 

They obviously didn't heed any of my warnings. One day while Kaveman was taking a shower, he said he heard the toilet starting to make a bubbling noise. The toilet had taken in too many paper towels for it to handle and now everything that had been flushed was getting stuck in the pipes. That is until their was no room left in the pipes. The bubbling noise he heard was the pipes pushing out all the feces and urine from the past couple days out onto our bathroom floor. 

The smell was overwhelming. Imagine driving by the water treatment plants during peak hours and sticking your nose right where they bring in the sewer water. It was horrendous, words do not justify the stench was pouring out from our bathroom. Thankfully, B-fresh acted quickly and called a plumber. 

When the plumber was finished snaking the toilet, he found the source of the problem. Just as we suspected, there was a giant glob of paper towels clumped together, creating a impassable bottleneck in the pipes. 

Lesson to take away from this: Do not use paper towels as toilet paper!

Bed Bugs Are Disgusting

The most recent disaster befalling upon my house is a disgusting one; bed bugs. They were discovered initially by Markie Mark. He decided to pass out on our couch in the living room one night and woke up the next day with bites all over his right arm and shoulder. He told us about it but we thought they were oak mite bites. Until the other night B-fresh found one crawling by our router. 

Once he found that one, we looked up on the internet how to get rid of them. There were so many different ways to get rid of them. We went out and bought about $60 worth of different stuff to kill these pesky bugs. We pulled the couch apart and threw away all the cushions and pillows. We steamed the entire couch along with spraying bug killer in the corners and lining of the couch. We read that these bugs don't like to travel more than 15-20 feet to find a host, so we knew where to look to find the source. 

 When we finally called the exterminator, we had two ideas as to where they originated. Markie Mark and Kaveman room's were the two closest rooms to the living room. We had him look all throughout each room. In Markie Mark's room he only found a single bed bug. We had him check my room and B-fresh's room for safe measure. Thankfully he didn't find any bugs or any signs that they had been in our rooms.

 When he checked out Kaveman's room, he found the source of the bed bugs. He lifted up Kaveman's box spring and it was just riddled with bed bugs. The exterminator said that they had to have been living there a while for them to get as bad as they were. He also mentioned that some people aren't really affected by their bites and some are. Thankfully Markie Mark noticed the bites on himself or else we could've had a full blown infestation on our hands. Once we figured out they were coming from his mattress and box spring, we instantly took those two objects outside for trash. 

We asked Kaveman how he thinks he acquired bed bugs. He said his friend stayed over a couple months ago and brought a blanket with him from home. Kaveman said that he found a bug on that blanket that night but didn't think anything of it. 

Lesson to take away from this: don't underestimate the power of small bugs in your house. If you think you've seen a bed bug in your house, look them up on the internet and see if that's what you have so you can take care of it ASAP.