{"id":2379,"date":"2012-07-11T23:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bottomless.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2014-10-15T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T20:42:00","slug":"break-the-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"BREAK THE MOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always had a Psycho fear of showering when home alone, but now I’m afraid I’m showering with<\/em> something, and it is much scarier. About ten months ago we noticed that mold was taking over our bathroom<\/a>, and the mold has only continued to do what it does: grow and grow. We can no longer ignore its presence and we’re starting to worry that our apartment is actually contagious.<\/p>\n

I have been reading about a condition called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), which is a combination of ailments from a place of residence. (I know Bri, I need to stop Googling symptoms.) BUT I am convinced that we have SBS and that our apartment is in need of a lot of treatments. Our place now needs a doctor, an exterminator and a facelift (this is the Upper East Side, after all). This condition isn’t really a surprise because I guess we get what we pay for, and in NYC we get a quarter of what we pay for.<\/p>\n

This mold, however, is not a laughing matter. We have taken action and we had a mold doctor in yesterday to give our bathroom a check-up. The exam seemed pretty routine and we have now officially had our first guest over. I hope we were good hosts, although our bathroom appears to be the hostess with the mostest.<\/p>\n

Now we must sit and wait for our lab results, and it’s like watching mold grow. And, actually, I want it to be mold. While I don\u2019t want to have to battle our landlord, stay at a seedy hotel or go through another bout of adventures in apartment hunting, I could maybe give NYC a little slack and I could blame the fungus for my whining and our kennel cough (which will be renamed to studio cough).<\/p>\n

If there is, in fact, toxic black mold taking over our apartment, in addition to the general malaise I feel in NYC, I\u2019m going to go ahead and blame the mold for the following:<\/p>\n