Category Archives: Misc
One of ‘those’ days
You know how sometimes you want to kill him, but you aren’t some sort of sociopath, so you just yell at him?
Yeah. One of THOSE days.
After the yelling I didn’t speak to him for the rest of the day, for my sake not his.
I did it to lower my stress level. Not his. He has no stress level, he just sits and watches his TV.
After he went to bed I noticed a complete drop in my stress level.
When he came wandering down later he managed to jack it right back to the top all over again.
I swear it does stupid stuff to set me off and it amuses him.
I, however, am not amused.
Cool nights
For the last few nights we’ve had cool weather. It is so very nice to turn off the AC and open the house, too bad I cannot use the whole house fan in the attic and pull the cool air through faster and more efficiently.
To use the fan, I need to get the attic cleaned of the mess left behind by the not so great of a roofer who did our roof. He, knowing what a mess removing a slate roof incurs never bothered to tell us to tarp everything or do it himself.
I cannot even walk through the attic now without running into insulation that has dropped down from the weight of slate crap on it. Or crunching across the floor…ew I hate that.
What I have to find is someone who is willing and able to clean the attic, redo insulation properly, and figure out how to ‘screen out’ critters when the fan is off. The fan is so strong it blew our window screen to ribbons.
Added to my collection
Oh, yes I did!
I added to my Tee shirt collection!
I also added to The Curmudgeon’s
And Lucy got a new blanket.
They’re not going to believe it
Back on July 19th I wrote about how the guys at the car dealer’s were shocked at the low mileage on my van.
Yesterday I got a note from my insurance company wanting to update a few things. 2 questions is all.
- How many miles did I expect to drive in the upcoming year? Um, if I drive a lot maybe 80 miles?
- What is the current mileage on my 2012 van? You’re not going to believe it…okay, here goes… 4063 miles.
I sent it back today. Can’t wait to hear from them, and I’m sure we will. LOL
The aches and pains of growing older…suck.
With the wet weather we’ve had, the horrible weight gain I’ve had over the last few years, and the damages done lifting The Curmudgeon from floor far too many times, my back and knees are shot.
To top that off my Achilles tendons are screaming in pain all the time, and my feet are constantly cramping up.
It sucks to get older.
Well, it’s officially 44 years now…
Yep, we tied the knot 44 years ago. Lately that knot feels more like a noose than anything.
Tell you the truth, if I knew then what I know now, I never would have married him.
If I’d known he had MS and how our lives would change so drastically because of it, yeah …second thoughts, third thoughts, never doing it, or doing it differently.
Plans, we would have had better plans.
Home improvements done early on, house sold, and the move made to a single floor dwelling done many years ago.
Staying in PA all these years, probably not.
So when I say MEH in response to all those ‘Oh, happy anniversary’ wishes from people. You know why.
I do love him, it’s just most days, I don’t like him very much.
He took away my best friend when he retired on disability and replaced him with an old Curmudgeon who sits in a chair and drives me crazy.
So the guy at the car dealer…
So the guy at the car dealer, where I get free inspections for the life of my car since I bought it there, laughed when he saw the mileage on my van. Yes, he laughed.
I admit it, I don’t get out much. My 2012 van has a mere 4,060 miles on it.
Poor girl is dirty and I haven’t the energy to wash her properly. With a good wash and wax and a vacuuming out I’d bet she’d look brand spanking new too.
The dealership is literally drooling over her wanting me to trade her in. However, I don’t have the money to make car payments and she’s free and clear.
*Hecuba*
Dang it!
Somehow managed to schedule my car’s inspection and our food order at almost the same time.
Food order at 1 and car at 2.
I hope our 5 Star Home Foods rep can get done fast so I can get to inspection at 2. Otherwise I’ll be leaving while he’s still here.
Now what?!
I almost broke my ankle.
I stepped into a hole in the yard tonight. The hole is deeper than my pruning stick is long. Wonderful.
Fortunately the hole was not big enough to catch my foot bad enough to break anything.
Nevertheless there’s this hole a few feet from my back door that I have no idea how I am going to fill in and make it safe to walk out there.
More rain…
We had so much rain that when I got dressed in the morning I put on my ‘I am not going anywhere and I don’t care’ yoga pants and a Tee.
I had to take Lucy out between rainstorms.
The basement has water in it once again.
Sigh.
Today’s Tee
One less expense if…
So I paid our vehicle registrations today.
You can now pay for a two year registration. The cost to register my van for two years cost a mere 12 dollars more than his truck’s registration for one year.
Another reason for him to consider selling the truck.
Other reasons:
- He drives the truck maybe once every 4 months or less.
- The cost of the insurance
- The cost of filling his tank
- The cost of inspections
- We could rent out his parking spot on the driveway.
Today’s Tee-shirt
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Need to find a handyman
What we really need around here is a handyman, not just for my home but for G’s as well.
We find we’re both in the position of needing to have things done around the house that we cannot do these days.
Our ‘oh, I wish someone could do this with skill and at an affordable price’ lists grow longer with each day.
Today’s Tee-shirt
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