Friday, January 2, 2009

Loathing Houston

I am very  happy in Houston with the exception of 2 things. I absolutely hate 
1) the humidity (it kills my hair. For a reference picture see the 'Aquarium' post below) and
2) they do not come to pick up garbage or recycling on or after a holiday. There is no make up day! 

I have two garbage days each week so that's not a big deal. Recycling however comes every Thursday and for the past two Thursday's it has been Christmas and New Years. And with Christmas we had enough recycling PLUS Shannon and Jared left town so they brought over their recycling too. It is driving my absolutely crazy in our garage! Can someone throw me a bone please? I am getting ready to load it all in my car and drive it to HEB and sort it out and recycle it myself. I have one more week to wait if I am waiting for the city. Help me! I am drowning, literally. 


So, the scooter is just resting on all the mess and the lawn mower lives there but the boxes and all three totes are full of recylclables. And I love how the garbage is exploding out the top of the can. Lovely.

3 comments:

Christy said...

I feel you on these ones. The hair thing I have mostly figured out... if it's going to be a really humid day I will do my hair curly or pull it back... never straight on a really humid day. Also be sure to put some kind of product (the waxy kinds are better) on the days when it isn't as humid.

I wish I had a solution for your recycling. Before we lived in this neighborhood I used to drive my recycling up to a place in the Woodlands to drop it off. One day I went up there and the place was over run by bees and it scared me so much that I didn't recycle until we moved to this neighborhood and they pick it up for you. My garage is over flowing with it too :(

TakeAJourneyWithMe said...

well one good thing about living in the stix is that we HAVE to take all of our garbage OURSELVES so theres never any confusion or delays, lol JUST KIDDING!! Well just hold on one more week and they will pick up all that junk!!

Kristin said...

I thought the same thing when I piled another box on top of my recycling bin. It's out-of-control! Looks like you've had a fun break. I'm so glad--I know you needed it!