Procrastination

is exactly what I am guilty of as I sit here typing this.  Ugh.  The next thing on my list today is to pay the bills and I hate, hate, HATE that job more than any other!  So far I did one and it was actually a slightly pleasant surprise since it was the cable/phone/internet bill and for whatever odd reason, it was about 20 dollars less than it usually is.  But the gas bill is in this bunch and that’s the major bummer, $463.  But the upside of that is that after this payment, I will have paid off the remaining balance of what I owed them for the last year and I am thinking (hoping/praying) that I will get my new monthly budget amount next month and it will be lower.  Please?  We’ve really turned down the pool heater this year (although it remains refreshingly pleasant to get into) and, since it’s ridiculously cool here this week, we aren’t even running the thing.  No sense in letting it run when nobody is going in until the air warms up again. 

Okay, here is my 401k quarterly statement.  Let’s open this one up together shall we?  Here goes.  OH!  Boing!  That was nice!  Even with this insane, topsy-turvy stockmarket and lousy economy, I managed to gain just shy of $2,000 on there.  Not bad.  I seriously thought I would be looking at a loss.  I am the eternal pessimist….always expecting the worst and being surprised when it doesn’t happen.  But enough about this junk.

Hmmm…I guess I don’t really have anything else much to say.  Rosie loved her Cheer Camp last night.  The meeting with her therapist was bittersweet.  It will be the last time we see her as she is taking a new position next year in order to not have to travel from school to school.  The gas costs were killing her.  I don’t blame her in the least but we will miss her.  She was such an interesting person and she had such great insight into child psychological development.  She would really get me to think about things…their causes, reactions, etc.  And on top of all that, she was great fun to talk to, very positive and supportive of what we are doing with our kids and our non-traditional family structure.  Very encouraging and complimentary as well.  She told us that, knowing all the kid’s history that we told her, she is amazed that they are all as well adjusted as they are at this point and that we have done “an incredible job” up to now.  I’ll miss her but we will still get a new therapist at the start of the next school year.  I’m thinking of enrollling Chris in this program as well as certain behaviors continue to pop up that I’m not very pleased with. 

Speaking of Chris, his 10th birthday is on Friday.  We will have family over on Saturday after dinner for cake.  I’m leaning toward a Dairy Queen cake this time as I don’t feel like baking one again.  Weather is supposed to be much nicer too so there will probably be swimming too

I can’t believe we are leaving for the beach house next Friday!  I’m actually not trying to think too much about it since I know how quickly it will be over once we are there…I want to savor the entire trip.  Of course the stress level will begin building next week as I race around like a retard to get things in order before we go, not to mention packing for all the kids and hoping I don’t forget things.  Oy!  We will leave here Friday around 12:30 in the afternoon since I have to go into work that day but will leave an hour early.  Then it will be a drive to Patsy’s house where we will spend the night and all of us head to the beach on Saturday.  It’s going to be fun fun fun. 

Unlike this post.  Sorry peeps, I’m just tired and blah lately.  Not really depressed or anything, just…well, blah.  Perhaps ARRC (or anyone else) will leave one of those zany, madcap, long comments that are basically a blog post about their own lives which I do enjoy ever so.  In the meantime, I need to go and watch the bank account be depleted.  Au revoir!

The Weekend That Was

I have a couple of minutes here before Rosie’s therapist comes over for an end of the school year home visit so I’ll try to fill you in on the details of my exciting life.  We had a wonderful weekend, if just a bit too hectic for me.  The weather on Saturday afternoon turned out to be spectacular with cerulean blue skies.  I felt suddenly transported to a cliffside in Greece, overlooking the Aegean Sea!  Except that I was really in fantesticle Cleveland!  It was all very breathtaking.  So we had 12 of us here for cocktails at the bar (Mexican Mudslides, Strawberry daiquiris, Banana Dreams, yummilicious!) and swimming.  We also grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken on the grill with homemade macaroni salad and baked beans.  I ate too much so I forced myself to swim a LOT of laps in the pool yesterday to make up for it.  But all in all, it was a really nice day filled with a lot of laughter and good conversation.  Days like that are the ones I miss most when it comes time to cover the pool in the fall. 

Sunday the kids and I ran a few errands in the morning.  I had to buy a new laundry hamper since the old one started to unravel (it was wicker).  Go figure…not even a year old.  We all got new gloggles for swimming too.  I really needed them since I wear contacts and can’t open my eyes underwater without the gloggles.  I put on my old pair the other day and the head band snapped!  See?  Even my head has gotten fat over the winter.  Spent the afternoon planting Kolancho’s on the sunny, hot side of the house that never gets any rain and we never bother to water.  They’re drought-loving, desert flowers so that way I don’t have to give them a second thought, plus we got 36 of them for free and I can’t pass up a free plant of any kind!  It pays to have friends in the floral industry.  After that was done, I jumped in the pool. 

My oleander, who I have named Blossom, is looking very stressed and I’m worried about her.  All of her leaves are turning yellow.  I suspect that she wasn’t too fond of the miracle-gro we tried to feed her and now she is rebelling.  If she commits suicide, I shall be heartbroken as we have had her for quite a few years now and she is part of the family.  I lovingly carry her from the patio to the sunroom when the weather cools in the fall, and then from there she acclimates until it gets really cold at which point I carry her into the family room for the winter.  And this is how that bitch is going to repay me!?  Just because I tried to give her Miracle-gro!  Plants can be such ingrates!  But on the upside, Blossom has a few new shoots coming up at her base so maybe she won’t kill herself after all and things will work out just swell. 

Okay, time to wait for the therapist.  Another dull post under my belt. 

Overslept

Just a short update since I was up for 21 hours straight yesterday before finally going to bed at 1 a.m. only to sleep longer than intended this morning.  I don’t have time for lying around in a bed, wasting the day!  Especially since we’re having a few guests over this afternoon for frozen blender drinks outside by the pool.  Currently it is dreary and gray…everything has that post-rainstorm drip going on since it thundered and lightninged most of last night.  However the forecast is for partly cloudy and mid-70’s by drinking time so I’m keeping fingers crossed. 

Hey, finally I was the BIG WINNER at poker last night!  I tripled my investment.  Not bad.  I actually started to feel guilty towards the end and was kind of trying to lose some of it back to the pot.  Pretty stupid, I know, especially since I doubt ANYONE was feeling or doing that the last time we played when I lost every penny I had started with.  I guess I’m just a more gracious host is all.

To answer those who asked, yes I did indeed watch the premiere of “Swingtown” online but have the second episode “dvr’d” and will probably watch it this evening.  I actually really liked the first show but have refrained from commenting on it since I kind of wanted to see where they are going to take this story.  The possibilities are certainly there to do some velry interesting things….but we’ll see what network tv opts to do.  They usually manage to ruin their own shows.  Okay, I have to get moving here.  Later

Japernese Vagina Willows

Hey hey hey you buncha filthy whores!  How’s it be goin?  I’m back, at least for today, from my short blogging vacation.  Oy!  I have to make this fast, short and totally unsweet as their is a deliciously warm pool just waiting to embrace me in it’s amniotic splendor.  So yeah, I took a couple days off.  Some of you need to get your panties out of bundles…I told you I would tell you if I decided to go on hiaturds, it turned out that I didn’t go on hiaturds so therefore, I didn’t tell you that.  But with the summer upon us, I’m not sure I’ll be blogging everyday like I had been (except Sundays usually).  It gets a bit more difficult with the kids being home after today, the siren call of the pool and the cocktail bar, the water hammock with my name on it, you know how it is.  Sometimes it’s just really hard being me.  I spent the last two afternoons floating in the pool after work, didn’t give this thing a second thought.  It was very nice.  But I knew I couldn’t disappoint my rabid fans so it was inevitable that I come back and give the people what they want.  What is it that you want anyway?

I’m taking a brief break from a mad cleaning frenzy here.  The husband wants to have people over tomorrow evening to play poker.  I have absolutely no desire to host anyone or anything as I seem to be the one who gets stuck with all the work that needs to be done in advance.  And it’s all completely unappreciated I might add.  Anyway I would have much rather had a few people over for cocktails and pool time rather than the poker crowd.  Now I love playing poker and I always have a great time…win or lose.  But that crowd is a bit less, what’s the word I’m looking for here….ummm…a bit less zany, a bit less appreciative of sarcastic humor, a bit less refined.  They wouldn’t be my first choice for spending an evening with, lets put it that way.  I always try to get a couple of the people I consider to be more fun to get in on the poker but it always ends up that there are already too many people coming so I just grin and bear it.  Does anyone else out there have these different sets of friends or is it just snobby me?  I like both sets, it’s just that one set is good for this stuff and the other set for that stuff.  I’m probably making no sense but I know what I mean.  So I wanted to invite the other crowd over on Saturday for cocktails and swimming but now the weather forecast looks crappy.  It looks like I won’t have my way at all.  Story of my life.

There was major drama at Auschwitz last night!  One of the night shift girls in my dept. went tranny-hooker ballistic on the third shift manager and attacked him in the parking lot!  Seriously!  I guess she must have left her butterfly knife at home or something because she ended up using her keys on him and slicing up his face and hands.  My faux cuz works that shift and reported it all to me…apparently there was blood all over the employee entrance door that they had to wash down with bleach.  It was crazy!  See?  You people who thought I was kidding about the soul-killing ways of Auschwitz…this is what that place can drive you to!  This girl was the quietest person you could have imagined which lends further proof to the old saying that it’s the quiet ones you have to watch.  I told people this morning that I could understand completely how she reached that point and I expect there will be others following in her footsteps.  I guess charges were filed against her and obviously she isn’t coming back.  For all I know, the poor thing is locked up behind bars now.  Flash forward to today…they had this stupid brief meeting with our dept. and customer service and actually TOLD US that we are “Not to discuss this amongst ourselves.”  WTF???!!! Now they are telling us what we can and can’t talk about there!  Sweet tranquilized tranny, how I HATE that place!  But what got me even more during that meeting was that some of the people didn’t know who this girl was since she was 3rd shift.  So the manager speaking said, “She was small, dark hair, Filipino…” and I was aghast!  I turned to my friend Audrey and said, “She was NOT Filipino!  She was Laotian (which she wasn’t but I’ll say that to protect her)”.  Then I told her, “What?  If I ever flip out they’re going to have a meeting and say for my description, not that I was German, Slovak and Polish, but rather, “I think he was from West Virginia.  He was Appalachian”.  I could just imagine that kind of injustice being done to me.  Have I mentioned how much I hate that place?  They can’t even give your nationality description correctly!  Filipino!  Indeed!  That’s as appalling to me as idiots who can’t tell the difference between the Japernese and the Chinese.  Christ child on a tranny, there is no hope!

Alrighty moronivitches, I really need to finish up this cleaning and go jump naked into the pool before the chill’uns get home.  Dang me it’s hotter than grits on a griddle out there.  Which reminds me of a retarded story I can tell you next time.

It’s Running At Last!

I don’t know, I’m seriously considering taking a week, maybe a month off from blogging.  Don’t freak out at this point, I haven’t really decided yet but I just haven’t had much to say and then when I see that a total of 12 people showed up yesterday, 15 the day before and 14 on Friday…eh, what’s the point?  So I’ll give it a day or two…see how I feel.  Who cares anyway? 

I spent pretty much the entire weekend finishing the pool project Part 1.  As of today, it is up and running, we’ve got about 2 more inches of water to put in and I can shut off the tap.  I came home from work today and vacuumed the bottom…what a mess!  It’s been almost three weeks since we opened it and in the meantime, so much crud has fallen from trees and settled to the bottom as well as silt from the grout and concrete bits that dropped in there.  But it’s looking faboo at this point and I LOVE our tile handiwork!  There is still some more tiling to be done but it isn’t affected by the water level so we will work on that at our leisure.  Then yesterday we were out and about and discovered a paint product that can be used on concrete swimming pools and costs $50 LESS per gallon than the pool paint we were going to use originally!!!  We were so excited about that as it just saved us between $700-$800 when the time comes to paint.  As it stands now, the most expensive part of that project will be refilling it so we have tentatively decided on draining and painting when we get back from the beach house vacation.  I am so eager to see the fresh paint job up against the tiles…it’s all turning out much better than I had anticipated right now.  Exciting for us, I know nobody else gives a crap.  Anyway, as hot as it is today (currently 93) we still cant’ go in yet as we just dumped all the chemicals in and there are still mosquito larvae floating around on the top.  Probably by tomorrow when it will, of course, no longer be hot, we should be able to get in.

How boring is this post so far?  Superdeeduper boring!!!  What else…I took all four kids to get haircuts on Friday afternoon.  What a drastic improvement!  Now I won’t be embarrassed for Aunt Patsy to see them in SC in a couple weeks.  Even Rosie got about 5 inches hacked off the back and a really cute style.  It’s so hard to get her to maintain it though…she hasn’t quite reached the age of caring yet but she’s getting there. 

I made a delicioso beef stroganoff in the slow cooker for dinner tonight but I need to go and cook some rice to have it over.  Sorry so dull.  Blah.  I’ll let you know if I go on hiaturs or not…I just feel very uninteresting lately.  Maybe I need to slice up some faces with a butterfly knife.  That always helps.