I’m showered and dressed - quite the accomplishment for me today, considering it’s rainy, dreary, and I wanna go back to bed. **FCD **and his dad are somewhere in NC. The truck is being repaired, very expensively <sob> and I’ll get it back some time today. Eventually, I’ll go work in my studio. Maybe. We shall see…
Happy Firday!
Happy Sah-son Birthday! He’s 19 today.
It’s a wet rainy 57 degrees with a projected high of <Swampy snerk> 69 <Swampy snerk>.
I’m up and awake kind of sort of.
I’m going to try to sneak in some laundry today since its just the son and me here. We’ll probably order some pizza too since it’s his birthday. He is the hardest kid to buy gifts for, he’s pretty happy with not much more than a lap top. He wants a couple of games but they aren’t out yet. His family party with cake and ice cream will be Sunday. He will be thrilled - not.
My mother’s bf survived his first round of chemo with no ill effects.
If it’s all the same to you Vorlon, I’d like to skip the boiling water and rat poison.
I am hoping for this http://umm.edu/programs/diagnosticrad/services/patient-conditions/conditions-we-treat/uterine-fibroids?gclid=CJuHrrG1sL4CFcUDOgodxgIADA
Now I guess my summer plans include recovery time.
**Rosie ** the blue tape is for winterized properties. There is no power, no heat and no water so they don’t want anybody putting anything into the plumbing system. I don’t know it they flush/pour antifreeze into the pipes or something else. Antifreeze is what my uncles used to winterize their vacation farm house.However that was back in the olden days and back in the middle of the bum phuck nowhere hills of WV.
It was a strange old house. It had belonged to my great great great grandfather and his first wife. She died in childbirth. There was a family plot off to the side of the house with a big old dead tree right by it. Everybody would do a little jump and a double take at the tree because it looked like a man with a shotgun standing guard over the graves.
I’m supposed to be putting in an offer on another house today. I think. I thought we were doing it last night but the realtor never got back to me and the mortgage company never got back to me. I had to send myself a few emails to see if there was something wrong with my email because none of the promised paper irk was arriving in my in box.
Swampy I’m glad you got over the shingles so quickly. I debate getting the vaccine, I don’t ever want shingles but I am a huge baby about needles. I’m way over due on a tetanus shot and I just can’t bring myself to go in and get one.
I hope FCD and FCDD have a safe and mostly dry trip.
We have kittens! They just got here last night, so no chance to take pictures yet. They are still hiding behind the couch.
They are both black & white. I was a little deceived by the woman I got them from. They were supposed to be short haired females. She said they were identical twins.
They aren’t identical, one’s a boy and their hair is fairly long.
Of course, they are already loved so no chance they’ll be sent bacj!
**sari **- eons ago, a friend of mine was dealing with fibroids. She had surgery. Then she got pregnant. :eek: Hope you have a less reproductive outcome. And good luck with the house - I can’t imagine your frustration with the whole process.
I don’t know about winterproofing a house, but on our boats, we always filled all the plumbing lines with antifreeze. It was a specially formulated kind that wouldn’t poison the river when you dumped it in the spring. One of the many chores I don’t miss since we have become boatless.
From the radar, it’s looking like the rain should be wrapping up here pretty soon. We got a good night of showers without the deluge that had been promised. So yay for that! Here’s hoping my grass seed grabs the moisture and runs with it! 
Awwwwww - kittehs!! Can’t wait to see the pics!
I know how you feel. I’m facing $1500 in repair bills for something in the suspension that decided to go POW. Hello, maxed-out credit card. :mad:
I hate my car. It’s a money pit. Can’t afford to buy anything else right now, though.
Happy Birthday Sah-son! Also, yay for mom’s boyfriend gettin’ through the first round of chemo. That ain’t easy so I wish him the best.
Nurse! yay for new kittehs! We anxiously await pics.
I’ve been productive already. I have found a place for Mr. I Put My Hand Down Garbage Disposals to be. I shall meet him there at eleven to make the transfer (that means play with paperirk) so he can begin Moanday. However, there is an extensive list of ways he must behave and things he must do in order to continue in the program. Remember, above all, I am a meanie.
Ok, back to irk. Gotta get the paperirk stuff ready.
FCM BITE YOUR TONGUE!
If I were to get pregnant I think I’d shoot myself. I cannot believe I haven’t gone through menopause yet and the doctor told me it could be another 5 years.
Stupid body off mine, it closes off the arteries in my heart and opens up the ones in the uterus. This will be basically the same procedure except instead of opening the artery up the doctor will be shutting it down. He won’t go through the wrist though (which actually sounds a little weird anyway) but he uses a different kind of closing for the groin so I won’t have to lay flat for six hours, only one. Unless I’m in a lot of pain or there is some kind of complication I can go home the same day.
I just want to get this done and over so I can get back to living. I really just don’t have time to be laid up.
Operating the wood chipper for a tree trimming crew? :dubious:
I have no summer plans. Unfortunately we don’t have any money. Literally daycare how to check that bounced and it caused us to go over on our bank account. Then another payment went through which causes to go over on a bank account even more. So now we are about 74 dollars over on our bank account with a $150 check that still has not posted. So I am getting extremely nervous I am sick to my stomach I can’t even think about summer plans right now because to me I can’t see my hand in front of my face I’m so deep in depression in despair. That’s why I haven’t been on the boards in a really long time. I feel like I’ve pretty much exhausted all of my resources when it comes to asking people for help. & I feel like I’m becoming one of those people that always beg people to help them. I don’t know what we’re going to do right now. My husband graduates on the 30th but he doesn’t start work until the 2nd and we’ve already got bills piling up on our end table that haven’t gotten paid and are extremely past due. I feel like the ground is caving in underneath me and the roof is about to fall on my head.
sorry for any typos. I am typing from my phone and I’m a bit hysterical.
Morning. I’m up and caffeinated. It’s cool and damp out. Gordie finally went out. We are both relieved.
{{{{{Apes}}}}} Welcome back, and vent as needed.
picu, yay kitties!
{{{Apes}}} we’ve all been there at some point. Things do get better. Like doggio said, feel free to come in here to vent or whatever ya need.
Ok, leavin’ in a few to meet Mr. IPMHDGD at his new place. Spidey this place will have nuttin’ to do with woodchippers or garbage disposals. He’ll have to find a new way to chop off a hand.
I need money. :p. Like the Beatles song. Lol
So the current situation is daycare is not getting paid like they should. He had to have somebody at church go out and buy a food for 2 weeks so we can make it. None of her credit card bills are other between payments are getting paid except the automatic payments. And the auto payments are the things that are over drafting us. I am terrified that I won’t have enough money for gas next week when I’m going to be traveling. I’m also worried that I won’t have any money to get food for my family. I know that other people been where we are right now. But being in the middle of it it’s really hard to find comfort in knowing other people can just as miserable. I don’t want to be a whiner I don’t want to be a bagger I don’t want to be somebody who feels like they’re always not measuring up to what they should be measuring up to. My husband feeling the same way sorry too miserable adults in the house is not a healthy environment. I’m trying to put on a brave face for everybody around me and not let them know what’s going on. But it just makes me feel even worse because I am too scared to ask people for help. Like I said church is helping us with rent this month, so my husband can take his pharmacy licensing exam which is close to $1000 to take the first one, and then Walgreens want him to take the exam for two other state so that is an additional couple hundred dollars per those exams. I just don’t know how we’re going to do it. The little things are not getting taken care of like gas and food and daycare and everything. I have relatives coming into town on the 30th for my husbands graduation, the baby is turning one on June 5th or having her birthday party the same weekend of graduation, my husband and my night wedding anniversary is on the 6th of June, and obviously we won’t be able to do anything for that. My grandfather died on March 18th which was my birthday and ever since then it just feels like everything is just piling out of control. I don’t think I’ve even had time to properly morning my grandfather passing away because he been so worried about money and it makes me feel awful.
9th wedding anniversary
those kittehs better come out soon. Have you tried toona?
again, sorry for the typos and incoherent babbling. Stupid phone
Happy Annivesary!!
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A trip to see my wife’s family in Vermont over the Independence Day week; a trip to one of my favorite places on the planet, on the beach in Nags Head, N.C., in mid-August. Otherwise I’ll be sticking around home, pretty much. I hope to get in a lot more reading.
All I know of Vermont is that it is a lot like New Hampshire, where one may become lost and end up in a Foreign Country.
:dubious:
I’ve managed to accomplish a little bit here - the dishwasher is running a full load of dirties and I stripped the guest bed and tossed the sheets and towels my FIL used down the stairs. And I scooped the cat box. So there’s that.
The temp has dropped to 55° and it’s still damp, so I’ve closed a bunch of windows. However, it looks like the sun is trying to come out. That’d be nice.
Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on the truck.