Cupid works for the devil

So, I was mowing my lawn today, and when I got out there, there's 2 people standing there talking. One on the sidewalk and one in the middle of my lawn, then they got pissed at me because I was mowing my lawn. Someone's gotta explain the logic in that to me, cause I don't understand
I think I have a lack of sleep hangover, if that makes any sense. Sunday night, my friend Kevin came over about 10, we watched a movie and continued to talk until 5:30 AM. So yesterday, after he left I went to bed, got about 4 hours of sleep. And then was going to go to bed at 10, until Kevin called me and we talked about an hour. And today, my body is just tired. Course pair that with the fact that I haven't had anything substantial to eat since about 7pm on Sunday. And of course George has been visiting since Friday.
After I mowed the lawn, I was eating ice cream. I forgot how good ice cream tastes. I haven't had any in awhile due to the fact my freezer won't work. But I'm getting a new fridge today, so maybe that can change. And maybe the stuff in my fridge will be cold. Not that it was really warm, just not so cold. I was talking with Karli yesterday, and she was commenting on the fact I seem to be getting a lot of stuff lately. It's not my fault everything seems to be at the end of its life. Course we've lived here about 21 years, so I guess that's a good life for a lot of things. Unless you're a person.
Speaking of new stuff, I finally made the appointment to get my countertop in for my bathroom sink. The sink/vanity has a 3 to 4 inch gap on the north side between the sink and the wall. Now we all knew that was gonna be there (I was informed after the sink was put in), but the counter/sink is supposed to go over to the wall, there's supposed to be a spacer stick put in to match the cabinet and there's supposed to be side splashes to match the countertop on the walls, so it kinda looks built in. Yes, I will post a pic, when it's done. I'll stick 2 up so you can see the difference. Hopefully that's supposed to be done Thurs before I go to work. Cross your fingers and hold your breath.
So I broke my granite table yesterday. I was upset (no idea why) and I wanted to beat something, but not fuck up my hand (since, I seem to be real good at that), so I took one of my many empty alcohol bottles and was trying to break it (cause that would show I was really pissed). Glass bounces off of wood, and granite, who knew? I didn't do too much damage, I just have to rotate the top, so you can't see the gouge in the side. I figured the table would break teh bottle not the other way around, oh well.
And of course on my walk (before my fun with the bottle), I got some new blisters, which also don't make sense in the world of logic. My toes were rubbing together, who gets blisters from their toes rubbing together (other than me, cause I'm just talented, or fucked up, pick one). By the time I got to city hall, one of them was bleeding, city hall is about 3 blocks from home. And it took me 15 minutes to get home. Now that's fucked up.

Save me from this nothing I've become

I'm so in the dumps lately. I think it has something to do with me not taking my walks since Thurs. I know walking's good for you, but it also lifts my spirits, I know it has something to do with endorphins which make you happy. I don't know, look it up.
Anyways, I didn't take my walk on Thurs or Fri because the electrician was supposed to come at 2, and then I just waited until about 5, hoping he'd still show up. I didn't go out for one yesterday because it rained practically all day. Today, I'm thinking about wandering over to Karli's cause I wanna drop off her b-day present (her b-day was March 7th, I haven't seen her since March 2nd, and she said she didn't want it early).

So, last night I had a great dream, featuring Dream Guy (no nothing sexual, you people have dirty minds). We chatted, something I wish I could do with him all the time. I wish he were a friend, sigh. So, a For Rent sign popped up in front of his duplex this past week, but I think it's for the people on the 2nd floor (or at least that's what I'm telling myself, so I don't freak out). Course I won't really know until Aug 1st (when the leases flip over here).

No post for cops last night. It was an hour of repeats and I went to the student-run fashion show, and I didn't feel like taping an hour of reruns. Also, I've decided to cut back on my statuette awarding. I'm only giving them to people on new eps (sorry Officer Pilutik). I'll still comment on the old eps if I'm watching, but I won't be awarding the statuettes to officers on the old eps.

More pics

This is my sink. Once the new top comes in (see previous post), it will go to the edges and cover up the gap of the towel cubby on the left there
My towel cubby. The new countertop will cover that little lip where the plywod meets the wall
toilet paper holder. all the fixtures are this brushed chrome color
Towel holder. Once the bathroom is done I'll put my new towels which match the shower curtain there.

pictures first

After toilet was installed
Molding added Friday
Molding added Friday
molding added Friday

See that little gap on the left side of the vanity? That's not supposed to be there. They're ordering a filler strip (a little piece of wood matching the vanity) to stick there and a new counter top to cover up the gap. Also that trim on the bottom (the white between the wood and the floor), my mom finds that really ugly. I don't mind. More pics in the next post

Chartreuse paint

Sorry, didn't know it had been three days since I last posted (which isn't a long time, except that you must consider I pretty much update every day). I'm not quite sure what I have done since I last posted.
I have been going on my 2 mi (+ or - ) walk each day, I didn't take it today because the electricians were supposed to come and look at my bathroom fan. I haven't seen them. Meaning I won't be taking it tomorrow.
Cross your fingers and hold your breath, hopefully by this time tomorrow my bathroom will be completel finished. They finally got the vanity in, so the carpenter set it up today, and the plumber attached the water. So, I have a sink. Tomorrow, the carpenter's supposed to come back and put up the medicine cabinet, finish my towel cubby, stick trim up, and attach the tp holder and some towel holders. I'm excited. Not that you can tell, my mom will probably tell me tonight, "You should be more excited" Sorry, mom, but I don't show my emotions, not even the happy ones.
I'll post pics tomorrow, so you can see everything finished. Oops, forgot, I won't have a bathroom mirror, we're taking care of that ourselves, and mom doesn't have time to go look at mirrors until Monday morning, plus we're thinking about getting some kind of towel rack/cabinet to hang above the toilet for more storage, and we don't have that yet. And, some day, I'm supposed to get a new door. But, I'm excited because I'll be able to do all my morning crap in the bathroom, rather than in the kitchen, and the bathroom.

I have a toilet

UGH. So, the first thing my mom does when she comes up to see the lights and toilet. You need to clean up, there's grit on the floor, you need to clean out the shower, paint over the glitch in the wall, yada, yada, yada. She groans at me because the electrician said the fan blades (their celing fan downstairs) got bent from the way it was sitting on the floor and they should get a new one, because I didn't notice the tiny bit of wall that was missing around the outlet in the bathroom, and because the carpenter didn't come today. Obviously cause it's my fault. And she groaned at me, cause I'm not as excited sounding as she is about this project. Just cause I don't look excited, so obviously I'm not excited. HELLO I HAVE A TOILET AND A SHOWER I'M JUMPING FOR JOY!!!!
I also love it how when she comes I have to stop everything I'm doing and chat with her about this stuff. God forbid I be doing anything, cause it stops when she comes in that door, and I better talk with her about this.
Today, I did walk off cause I was watching TV and I wanted to watch it. So, I did.

Black ol' sun

Alright, a couple pics for y'all.

The view of my bathroom (at the moment) from the door. That's my frog bathmat (he's cute, isn't he?) and my nice shower curtain, and you can kinda see the walls are painted now.
This is my phone (more about this below)
My phone open (you can't see it real well, but that's a pic of one of the cop cars in my city)

So, my brother says I can have an upgrade on my phone, says I can pick any one of these phones. I like my phone, course it's a hand-me-down from my brother (typical) but I've grown attached to it (and I've never quite figured out how to take the pictures off of it, there's quite a few bike pics, and a couple from FL a couple years ago, and a few from Chicago).

Though I do like the blue ones.

I must be strong and carry on

OK, first of all I would like to apologize to my readers about my lack of posting material and how I'm complaining about snow shit. But, that's what's going on in my lack of a life right now, if you don't wanna read about it, LEAVE.
So, today, my mom's in a bitchy mood, and I just know, I'm gonna experience it head on later. We went out to get flooring for my bathroom, and paint and towels and floor mat and all that other fun shit.Well the flooring place didn't open til after 10, we were there shortly after 9, wouldn't you check on that first? So, we went to Target to get shit, she was gonna pick up a pay as you go cell phone, because she's going to NY a week from today, and she can't figure out how to get her voicemail messages on her phone. So, instead of calling the customer service people, she thought she'd buy one of these phones. She decided they're too much, because you buy the phone, and then you have to buy minutes. WELL DUH!!! Isn't that how all phones are? So, she decided that people will just have to leave a message with the other person on the trip.
And then we were figuring out color schemes for my bathroom as we're painting this weekend. And she's gotta have everything match, which doesn't bother me so much, but she was saying "I think this looks better etc" I guess it's a good thing it's your bathroom. So, I got me a frog bathmat (cause it's no fun being grown up all the time) and we based it off that. Got me striped shower curtain, towels, soap dispenser (which I think we're taking back, cause I don't like it), and green towels to go with the shower curtain. And beige walls (which is what I suggested in the beginning cause its a small space and it would be too much color otherwise).
We picked up the floor, and then went to get paint (cause the flooring place gave us a special % off card at the paint store). We get to the paint store, tell them the paint and they fill up a can, and then proceed to tell us the card we have doesn't apply to this paint.
And mom decided that since she's got a 1pm meeting me and dad get to work on snow. She complained to me that her hands hurt from using the snow shovel the other day. I was tempted to say, "Yea, mine hurt too the first time I used the damn shovel this season, it just means you have to use the shovel more" And dad complained about already doing 2 hrs of work outside, which I'd like to know where he did it, cause everything looks the same from when I did shoveling yesterday. Guess he forgot that I did shit yesterday and that excuse won't work on me, cause I know how it looked when I was done. I'm so sick of them complaining about it. Not like I don't do all that shit anyway and you don't see me complaining to them. And mom thinks because its sunny it's gonna be warm enough to be able to melt crap, it's not gonna be that warm. Ya gotta wait til tomorrow or Mon when it warms up. And you can bet I'll be out there doing it cause I'm so annoyed with them whining at me to get it done.
Work will not come soon enough tonight.

sitting on the porch drinking ice cold cherry coke

Another funny for y'all to get your day going.
WOW! So everyone's getting all excited about the next winter storm. Last I heard they weren't even sure we were gonna get hit that heavily. Wouldn't that be great? Everyone stocking up on food, batteries and everything else, all the schools are closed or getting out early today, and then we get hardly anything. Course with our luck lately that won't be the case. I guess I'll just wait and see. I do have to go to the store as I don't have any food, I might actually be smart this time and buy shit that will be cheaper and/or not frozen. Cause we all know if we lose power, I'm not gonna be able to cook that food and it will thaw in the freezer, I'd be screwed either way. Course I'll probably get to the store and all that shit will be sold out. Oh well.
Well shit, I just heard one of our major highways in the state has been closed from my town up to the state above us, that's pretty damn major, guess we know the north's getting it.
OK, by now everyone's probably heard of that new mastercard Paypal. Well, I was thinking last night (while watching the commercial) doesn't it make it that much easier for a thief? This way they don't have to worry about forging the signature. Course I'm sure someone somewhere thought of that before it was made, right?
So, my bathroom project, I have drywalled walls all ready to be painted, which me and mom are doing this weekend to speed things up, course I still don't have a toilet, sink or any plumbing hooked up (at least not on) in there. And mom heard from the floor people yesterday, it's gonna take a week for the floor, well they can't put the toilet in before the floor, cause I guess its easier to cut it out without the toilet than with it. Ya know if this were their bathroom, my guess it would be done pretty damn quick. I don't mind the shower and using my kitchen sink but it sucks to go downstairs everytime I have to take a piss.

So, if y'all don't hear from me tomorrow, don't panic. It probably just means my power got knocked out. Wile my laptop can run on batteries, my dsl cannot. So, we'll see.

Rrruffles have ridges

OK, well I was in a good mood. My carpenters ran away around 2 this afternoon (they generally work til 4 or so) and took the trailer that's been a permanent fixture in the driveway for the last 3 weeks. Then I read this post which gave me a nice laugh.
Course, then I heard this on the radio: "winter storm watch from tomorrow night through fri, with a possibility of 40 inches of snow" Good feeling's gone

A couple bathroom pics

my toilet
my shower
shower
toilet
my towel holder

A couple bathroom pics

Wall pictures

After adding the new studs, this is the end of the wall where the shower is
insulation
And drywall

A couple bathroom pics

I'm starting with pictures of the floor.

Here it is with the actual floor ripped outEverything is gone except the floor joinsts
My plywood floor. Pretty cool, huh?

I'm giving up on love cause love's giving up on me

UGH! George decided to show up yesterday morning, right on schedule, he couldn't wait 3 days, or be early, no he had to show up and get in the way of life.
But, hey I've got walls now. It actually kinda looks like a bathroom now. Course they kinda forgot to leave a hole for my light on the south wall, and they stuck a hole for the light in the ceiling, but they didn't snake the wires over to the hole, so I'm kinda miffed about that. But I decided before they started work on this project, that I wasn't going to bother them. At least not with work stuff, we'll let mom do that and get her on their bad side. I decided they probably already have enough shit on their minds and they don't need me to get in the way as well. Plus, I can't really do anything about it, so I'd let it go. I think I've been more mellow since this thing started than I have in a LONG time.
So, basically the first thing mom said to me this morning after I went downstairs was: "You need to vaccuum" Well, thank you very much mother. Actually, it looks pretty good this time. The guys vaccumed the hallway and the stairs before they left yesterday, I think the only thing that really needs vaccuming is my bedroom, basically because it has lighter carpet, so you can see the dust and shit. And since I believe they will be done by the end of the week, I wouldn't mind just working maniacally next weekend, with moving stuff back into my bedroom/bathroom, and vaccuming and shit. Course it would be nice to get together with some friends afterward.
So, the weather sucks. Yesterday it rained, hailed, rained, hailed and then rained some more. All in that order, so everything is frozen and the wind is nasty.
We were kinda worried last night of whether Cirque would make it here today or not. But last I heard they are here and the show will continue tonight and tomorrow afternoon. I'm excited. I've heard it should be a different crowd. Now whether that means less messed up, or more messed up, I don't know. Let's just hope we have a few more cops there tonight.
So, you all read about how I stripped a piece of fake flooring of it's faux wood grain. Well I thought it would be cool to do that to another piece, but strip the back off and leave the wood grain. Well, when I was trimming the extra 'jigsaw' bit on the side, I nicely lost a hunk of the wood grain, and stripped off that inside. Yesterday, I decided to take the back off too. Bad decision. I nicely sliced my finger deep with a hunk of this shit. Someday, I'll invest in some work gloves, someday. My plan was to carve a neat design in the particle board underneath, then paint it, I think it would be cool.
By the way, people, I really feel unloved when you all don't comment. I know I don't write anything THAT interesting, but even a little "Hello, I'm here reading your blog" makes me feel better. But, of course I'm not trying to make you comment, cause that's just rude. It just feels sometimes that no one's reading.

He gets up before the dawn

Ya know I was all excited cause I got a shower today. But leave it to mom, to bring down my mood. She was all pissy because there is no insulation in the wall behind the shower, or the north wall of the bedroom, which they "can't" get to now because of the shower. I stuck the can't in quotes, cause if you look at it, one can still get in there, but mom says they can't. And why if she's in a pissy mood does she have to be snippy at me? I didn't do anything, go be bitchy at someone else.
I got to come home from work and vacuum, cause the electricians were here today, installing an exhaust fan, and hooking up wires for the fan and lights. Well to put in the fan they had to go up in the attic and drill a hole in the roof, so there was nasty black insulation all over. So, I got to vacuum the hallway, and then the stairs, which is not fun because the stairs are so narrow that you have to hold on to the vaccuum cleaner so it doesn't fall on you and then bend and use the hose on the stairs. So not fun. And now I'm extremely tired, so I'm going to bed soon.

The hotel bar hangover whiskeys gone dry

UGH! I am so sick of waiting for this bathroom project to be done. I'm sick of being mellow and reassuring myself that it will be done soon. It's not gonna be done by Friday, my mom told the guys that they didn't have to work last Sat, basically meaning they didn't have as strict a deadline as before. When they were tearing up the floors/walls last week they found a pretty big hole in one of the pipes, so today they were replacing the pipe, but apparently something happened where they had to call the plumbing inspector to make sure they could cut so far (whatever, I'm not really sure), and that delayed them hooking up the pipes for the shower drain. They did finish the piping for the toilet, plus there. But as of now, all I have is a plywood floor, 2x4's as a wall where the end of the shower is gonna be, and some wall supports. THAT'S IT!!! I'M SO SICK OF HAVING TO GO DOWNSTAIRS EVERYTIME I HAVE TO TAKE A PISS!!! I was already used to having to go downstairs for a shower, though that's annoying too. Is it so bad to want to come home from the Dierks Bentley concert Saturday morning and use my OWN DAMN TOILET?
My mom figured while we had the wall opened behind my bed, she'd get an electrician to add some outlets in the wall, since there aren't any at the moment. So, once I got home from work, I stirpped down to my tank top and underwear and had to move shit out of the way. Course while I was in there I dug out my motorcycle helmet (cause one of my work buddies said we might go for a ride on Thurs). I figured since I would just be changing into my pajamas and I didn't want all the shit from the floor to get on my pajamas and into my bed, I'd just work in less clothes. I'd have to say it's pretty comfortable and its not like anyone but me and my pig are seeing me.

Take your love and hit the road

DAMMIT!!!
OK, so the carpenters put in a makeshit wall where the end of the shower is, and stuck a box in the wall where the medicine cabinet is going to be. Now the bad news. Somewhere in the line of tenants in this apt SOME IDIOT put a couple holes in the tiny north wall between the bathroom door and the end of the eaves. So, when the carpenters put in this box, they had to nudge what THE IDIOT stuck in the hole to cover it up, back out into the room, so now there are cracks in my wall. Now, THIS IDIOT covered up these holes by nailing a full length (or almost) mirror to the wall in front of the hole, so you couldn't tell. I wish we could figure out who THIS IDIOT is so we could charge them, cause basically it's their fault that we may have to replace the wall. Now, I'm hoping that its just causing cracks in the paint as I can't see the wall underneath the paint, that shouldn't be too hard to fix, hell we'll probably just ignore that (I got cracks in the paint all over the apartment). But one of the holes has a patch of drywall in it, nicely cut to the size and painted over (that might not have been a tenant, it's pretty nicely done).
Also, the carpenters had to level the floor, well in doing that the wall on the other side of the doorway is cracked in the corner where my bedroom doorway is. This is bad.
The other thing I'm pissed about (I'm not really pissed about the above, I know my parents aren't gonna be too happy though) is Kenny Chesney's concert schedule. So, last night KC was on 60 minutes (they had a tiny clip on him) so this morning my morning show was talking about him, and said that all next week you can win tickets for his concert, when he comes to the area. I was crossing my fingers and hoping that he would come here. But, no, he's going to DM in April, just like Keith Urban is in August. I'm so sick of people going there instead of coming here.

when you finally fly away

CANCER:. The Cutie MOST AMAZING KISSER. Very high sex appeal. Great in bed!!! Love is one of a kind. Very romantic. Most caring person you will ever meet! Entirely creative. Extremely random and proud of it. Freak in bed. Spontaneous. Great tellin stories. Not a fighter, but will knock your lights out if it comes down to it. Someone you should hold on to.
So, I guess when some guy actually decides to be my boyfriend, I'm gonna give 'em a run for their money.

So, the guys actually started ripping out my bathroom yesterday, by the middle of the day you could see into the 2nd floor. And then today at lunch there were just a few floorboards in there. I took pics but they're on my parents computer, I'll post them later. I hope they're working as fast as they can, because I am itching to have my own fully functionable bathroom again. Me and mom went and picked out a shower, vanity, fixtures, toilet, and a sink yesterday, I'm almost excited. The next thing is the floor and little things like towel bars and toilet paper holders, but those go on after everything else.

In Limbo

UGH! So, it snowed last night, it only took me about 2 hours to shovel everything this time, yay!
Now, referring to the title, my bathroom project is in limbo. The plumbers came today, took out the sink, bathtub and toilet. Then the carpenter came, looked at stuff (to get an idea of how to set up his stuff and plastic), then left to get stuff and talk to the plumber contractors. So he comes back about 11:30 and tells me that the plumbers sent the plan to the building code inspector person at city hall. And the guy that approves this stuff is gone til Thursday, and they're not even sure he'll approve the plan when he comes back. You think the plumbers could have checked on that BEFORE they took out my toilet? But, no.
So, I wonder if this will be all done before mom gets her surgery. My best guess is she just doesn't wanna worry about this after she's had it, a little less stress is always nice. Also, it's just getting annoying to go downstairs for a shower.

By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground

So, I was washing my bedclothes today, and while they were in the washer, I was keeping the TV company, and I stumbled over a show called Cowboy U. Where 8 people go to a ranch and get trained to be cowboys and all the stuff they have to on ranches. And at the end, 4 of these people get to compete in a bull riding contest for $25,000. And as I was watching this show, I thought it would be the most fun to go and have to do that. Now, I watch a couple reality shows: Cops, Survivor, and the Amazing Race, and I've told friends and family the only one I would really want to be on (maybe) would be the Amazing Race, but I would love to be on this one. Click on the name above for more info on it. Unfortunately the show is on CMT so I won't be able to watch it any more.
Well, that pork roast I made last night, just doesn't taste good to me. It's way too sweet for a meat, guess that's what I get for buying the honey mustard seasoned one. But it was that, mequite barbeque or regular. And I felt really sick after eating it, personally I don't think it was the roast because it usually takes a couple of hours before I get sick from food. I'm thinking it was something in the brunch I ate earlier in the day. It was my dad's birthday yesterday, so we went to a local outdoor garden that has a conservatory and had a brunch special for that day. They had Eggs Benedict, and the yolk was somewhere inbetween soupy (like it's supposed to be for eggs benedict) and all the way cooked, so I think it was that (at least I sure hope it was that and not something else I ate during the day).
After brunch, we went to the Lowe's store to look at bathroom vanity's (the cupboard thing the sink is on) sinks, showers, floors, and lights, just to see what was out there. I don't think the contractor is ordering from Lowe's (not sure though). So, we found a nice one (for the space, 30") with a door underneath, 3 drawers on the side, and a wide drawer under all that. Also a nice blue sink, made with some kind of material that's supposed to better withstand wear and tear and easier to clean than just porcelain, I get a 36" shower, which is about normal size single shower (they had one there that someone had sort of ripped the plastic out of so you could climb into it, it was a nice fit, but the plastic hanging out over the sides kinda made me claustrophobic), mom wasn't sure if I would get a door (not sure if there is going to be enough room for it to open), though we looked at some nice glass patterns. We're looking at wall sconces for lights, as they don't want to rip up the ceiling if they don't have to. And we found some nice flooring patterns. Mom said they're ripping the walls and floors right down to the studs and building up from there. I wish they'd start just so I could see them working on (also to get the damn thing done I WANNA SHOWER IN MY OWN BATHROOM).
I'm so excited I get to sign up to work Dierks Bentley tonight, and Cirque Du Soleil, I can't wait. I'm crossing my fingers that I get all the hours I want. I usually call in right at the start time for my level, so I should be ok (plus the next level up from me is supervisors, so I should be ok).
And I'm sitting here eating a bag of potato chips, yummy