Recent content by Missy Johnson

Wow! What a wonderful story. Great job!

Ah the good old 'disposable pet' routine. I foster for Anjellicle (we pull cats from the ACC). I watched a woman surrender her entire collection of pet birds yesterday to turn around and try to adopt a cat from us. Please put up some pics. Did you find out if she is spayed? How is her health...

The Aventinus is too spicy for me. Cloves or something, I dunno. I tend to like the heavier stuff but only when they stay away from that. :) Haha - I just saw Paoli. I grew up in Boyertown (near Pottstown, PA).

Some of my favorites off the top of my head... I am a big fan of the Rogue Brewery - their Chipotle Ale and Smoke Ale are amazing. Dogfishhead makes one called Raison D'Etre that is delightfully complex. This time of year I get excited for all the Oktoberfest offerings to come out. IMHO...

I'm involved with a cat rescue here in the city and was reading the Bengal thread and realized that since there are so many animal lovers on MR - this would be a great place to post my fosters looking for homes. Here goes my plug for Mr. Mystic :) Mr. Mystic is a 1.5 y/o healthy neutered male...

Not sure if I'm too late on this one, but recovering your security deposit (if it's under 5k) in small claims court is simple and pretty much a slam dunk. If you need help doing it, let me know. I filed a claim against a former landlord there and had a check for the full refunded deposit in my...

Okay, as if the previous problem wasn't enough...last Thursday I came home to find that my radiator had malfunctioned and cooked my entire apartment with hot steam for 1-2 days. Fire dept had to turn it off b/c you couldn't get near it. Cabinets and art falling off the walls, wine bottles...

Here's the deal - when I go on vacation I usually rent out my awesome UES apartment (with huge patio!) to help defray the cost of my trip. I'm going to Palm Beach from 9/7 (tomorrow) through 9/16 and (not surprisingly given my recent luck) was screwed over by someone who will now not be taking...

Although it was SO MUCH FUN moving the original 120 into that apartment, I will unfortunately (?) be diving with Dave in Palm Beach, giving me no choice but to miss the moveout. Goodluck!

not impressed with lombardi's - but i really enjoy grimaldi's just over the bridge into brooklyn.

got home last night and the stove works, yay. thanked my new super on the way out this morning and he told me that these pipes should have been replaced 20 years ago. that made me feel great. went down to housing court today and they told me it is a civil problem. going to talk to a civil...

the landlord was replacing the pipes because one of the tenants smelled gas and coned shut the **** off in 5 minutes. we didn't have hot water for half a month and i think he was receiving threats from other tenants. i am not going to bust my ass scrubbing spackling out of my carpet that should...

Thanks everyone. It is not the damages that I am concerned about at this point because I know that I can sue for them in small claims. I want a rent abatement for the period of time that my apartment was consistantly accessed on weekdays and also for not having gas. I know I can win a claim...

Here's the deal. I live in a non-rent controlled/stabilized apartment. Three months ago, right after I renewed my lease through 7/08, a gas leak was discovered in the basement of my walkup. Coned shut off the gas and I was without hot water and gas for 16 days. My landlord gave each tenant 50%...

I would have been more impressed if he'd tried to say a few words on being the recipient of the MVP award. I thought it sent a poor message to everyone watching.