Good Times!

Today has been very eventful! The seller's called me this morning. Yesterday Time Warner was installing a fiber line in the area and ended up putting a hole in the gas line to the house. She smelled gas and called WE energies. Sure enough they confirmed it. They put a temporary shutoff clamp in and gave 2 options. Since they are no longer the owner she called us to make the decision. We're having a new line installed up to the house and the new meter will now be outside instead of inside.

Later on I call my Mom. Tell her closing went well, and we move in on the 15th. She busts out something about a letter she received regarding the chapter 13 bankruptcy my ex and I filed 3 years ago. Apparently the attorney is filing an application for obtaining an additional $2,000 in attorney fees. My Mom did not know about the bankruptcy previous to this letter. Anyways, I did not get the letter as they don't have my correct address. They called and got it from me this morning. Come to find out it's about this crap.

Another surprise my Mom sprung on me all non-nonchalantly: Dad was in the hospital for 2 weeks. 2 weeks and no one told me? WTF! Maybe she figured that it wasn't a big deal, it was only cellulitis, but still.

Next she fills me in on my Grandma. She's been staying with my parents for 2 weeks. She wants to die. She asked my Mom to put her in a home so she could die. I guess she has these heart attacks, which aren't really heart attacks, she looks like she is, feels like she is, but gets to the hospital and there's nothing wrong with her. She has done this at least 3 different times now. Since Grandpa died 2 years ago, she just feels like a burden and is lost. I feel bad for her.

We were supposed to go up to visit this weekend, but with all the recent drama and the car not acting right, I think I'm going with my gut and staying put. My gut is right most of the time!

TTFN! Have a great weekend everyone and be safe!

Update on life

Wow, I have really been slacking on my blogging lately!

Not a whole lot of excitement going on for me. Work is insanely busy and stressful. I swear I need a clone of myself and my knowledge. I am usually completely exhausted when I get home from work and want to do nothing but eat dinner and veg out.

One day this past week I decided I would walk home, well at least until the point where Rick would find me when he got off work. I get off about 1 hour earlier than him, so I get a decent head start, then if he's late getting off then I have more time. This particular day I walked about 5.2 miles an an hour 48 min. Not bad for me at all. Aside from the blister on the bottom of my toe caused by little gravel pieces all was good and will be doing this one day a week until it gets too cold/yucky out.

I have gone no where with my weightloss. This week I will be mixing it up a bit and doing half cardio half strength training workouts. We'll see if that helps. 60 lbs to go....it seems so far away. Meanwhile, Rick works out maybe 1 day a week and has lost another 10 lbs, putting him within 10 lbs of his goal. He sucks! Yeah, I'm just hatin' cause it is so hard for me.

Rick is almost done with school! Yay! That means that we can have our weekends back! No longer will we have to rush and get homework done, or do nothing on Sundays cause that's homework day. :D Tomorrow is his final (capstone) presentation. As soon as he's done putting the entertainment center back together we'll be going over his part then tomorrow it's all done!

We've had a couple weddings lately, one was his Mom's and one was his cousin's. I had a bit of a hard time at his cousin's just because it broght back memories of my wedding. Much was the same, bride's side (white) on one side and groom's side (black) on the other...someone complaining about the music. I must be getting old or something not so fun, I had 3 beers, 1 Mike's hard Cranberry, and 3 or 4 Smirnoff Twisteds and did not even get anything close to resembling a buzz. Then we went to another of Rick's cousin's house's and I had 3 more beers and a lemon drop shot. Still no buzz. Rick said he got a very slight buzz for a brief time period, but was also disappointed. Yet I can make one Appletini at home and be wasted! Go figure!

This morning I went to a baby shower for Rick's Step Sister. It was fun. I still felt like an ass because I said something to Rick about me not being invited last weekend. Then magically the day after he sees his Mom his Step Sister called me and appologized for not inviting me. I met Rick's Mom at her house then we car pooled out to the shower. It was a good time. It's amazing how much melted candy bars in diapers really does resemble poop!

Well, Rick is almost done with the EC so I'm calling it a day. Not sure when I'll make another entry, but I'll try to be better. I promise!

Sadness

Via Myspace this afternoon I found out that a friend of mine for High School's husband died. I sent her my condolences then checked the Hudson news paper Website. The first article I saw was in regard to a 34 year old man jumping off an overpass onto I-94 below. My immediate thought was NO this can't be. Continuing my reading I found his name. It was him. He jumped from the over pass and was then struck by 3 cars.

I feel horrible for his friends and family. They have 2 young children under the age of two that will never know their father. It is such a sad story. On this Website they allow comments on articles ~ most comments were postitive wishes for friends and family. However, some punk ass bitch named Steve S. from River Falls WI was making comments about shit on CCAP from years ago where charges were dropped by the prosecutor and making comments like good riddance, people like that should all be dead. What kind of person is this Steve guy? Besides an asshole!

Anyways, I am keeping my friend and her family in my prayers. I can only imagine what she is going through.

You call this parenting?

Yesterday Rick and I were eating at Subway inside Walmart in Franklin. When we were ordering we noticed a little girl maybe 5-6 years old sitting at one of the tables and playing with a nearby cart. There was an older gentleman at a table near that one who appeared to be watching her.

As we were eating at the table next to hers a woman came up with a baby in a car seat carrier. She told the little girl "I'm going to go get baby some food you sit here". o_O WTF you're going to leave a child sitting by herself at a table in the front of a Walmart store? The little girl protested and told the lady she wanted to go with. By the Mc Donald's Happy Meal bag sitting on the table I had the feeling the poor little girl was sitting there the whole time while this lady was doing all of her shopping. After the lady left we kept an eye on the girl and the guy who appeared to be watching her. Then he left, confirming the fact that this little girl was sitting by herself at that table with no adult supervision.

When the lady came back (with the baby food and all of her stuff checked out) she fed the baby from one of the cans she bought and yelled at the little girl for getting the baby's toy in the food. In her yelling at the little girl (who did VERY well sitting by herself) we found out that this was her Grandma! We had just finished eating and got out of there ASAP I had enough!

Although I am not a parent myself I find this completely appalling! You DO NOT under ANY circumstances leave a child of that age alone by themselves in public! It would have been SO easy for a stranger to walk up and take that girl out the door without anyone knowing any different. Big fricken whoop if the kid bothers you because she wants something...or everything...there's a response to that: NO! And I bet if something did happen to that little girl the "Grandma" would be all upset and whining.

When did this happen????

I've been noticing certain aspects of my personality lately that have become less than desirable. For instance, I've become extremely anal about certain things. One thing is toilet paper. It HAS to be facing the right way ~ waterfall. I understand that this is anal and usually just flip it if it's on the wrong way ~ no biggie. I will also not change it at friend's houses. I'll leave it be...but work and home I hold no quams about doing it.

The other one that is driving me nuts is I am anal about being on time for things. Tonight Rick and I have an appointment at 5:30. He informed me that a project he had to do this morning got pushed back to 4:00 this afternoon. I am totally flipping out because it takes about 35 min. to get from his work to our meeting location. Therefore, if his project runs a little late we will be extremely late for our appointment. Times like these I wish we had 2 cars!

When did I become so anal? Or maybe I was just always this way and I'm just noticing it now. At least I recognize it, therefore giving me a slight chance of changing...right?

Chicago part II

So are second day in Chicago last week was the funeral for Rick's Great Grandma. I was able to get around 5-6 hours of sleep that night, Rick only got 4 if he was lucky! Just thinking about the cleanliness and what happens in those beds is enough to make you crazy. I could only imagine getting crabs or something! So we get ready, check out, and head out for breakfast. After a quick breakfast at BK we were off to the cemetery.

Once there we called his Mom who said they (her and her fiance, Shawn) was there, looking at the deer. Deer in a cemetery in Chicago o_O? She drove around and met us so we could follow them over to where the deer were. As we were pulling up I was so surprised...a big heard of deer were just sitting in the middle of the cemetery. I dug my camera out of my purse and started snapping some shots. (I will post them at a later date...I haven't gotten around to pulling them off my camera yet) That was pretty neat and totally unexpected. Then we found out that the others were arriving shortly, so we made our way over to the reception area.

I finally got to meet Rick's biological Grandma. She seems nice. It was hot out that day, so we headed inside. Inside was neat. There was a big waterfall/plant section in the middle, a kitchen to the back, and a service area to the right. As we were standing around talking in the kitchen I noticed an empty bird cage, then low and behold, a parrot in the plans! I was surprised they actually let the bird stay out while people were there.

She seemed interested in all the people, she hopped out of the plant area and stood in the walk way for a min. Long enough to poop right on the floor! That was kinda gross! Then he proceeded to his cage to eat. What a mess!! Then she must have gotten bored or threatened by Rick's uncle because she climbed down walked over to him and grabbed his pant leg with her beak until he backed up. Then she went back to eating. A little while later she did the same thing, but was more aggressive. This time the funeral worker was around and she put the bird back in it's cage. That didn't last long. While the worker went to find twist ties the bird opened the cage door. We held it shut with a big stick until the lady got the twisties on the cage.

Then the viewing started, first they started calling all the family in one by one. I thought that was odd...why not call all family in together? Eventually we all were in and everyone talked for a while. They had some pictures of the family up. Some of these pictures had Rick in when he was a little baby, probably about 1 year old. I can honestly say he was the cutest damn baby ever!!! If we ever have a baby I certainly hope that it is that cute!

The rest of the day went on as usual. There were many conversations going on and some were more interesting than others. One that Rick and I really liked was about real Italian food. One of his extended family members started talking about a dish called Polenta. He told us good stories about making it and all the different things you could put into it. It sounds very good and we are all going to be invited down to have this member of the family make it for us! The pastor got on a lot of the family's nerves. He would just blurt Amen out in the middle of sentences and as Rick's Mom said he sounded like he was trying to sell church to everyone. After the burial we were kind of rushed back to the reception area as the workers were standing right there waiting for everyone to clear out so they could bury the casket. That was kinda tasteless I thought. And during the service out there they were standing there talking to each other. Not cool!

After returning to the hall everyone started to clear out. As everyone was preparing to leave I got to talk to Rick's Grandma alone. She informed me that she wanted a "real" Great Grandchild. She told me that she will have Shawn's daughter's baby as a "foster" (I think she meant step) Great Grand baby, but she wanted a real one that came from Ricky. I told her we'd see about that. Then she told me what I need to do:

1. Have lots of sex
2. Enjoy the sex
3. Don't worry about it because she had a conversation with the Lord and told him to give us a baby because she wants a real great grandchild

I got a kick out of that conversation!

By this point my feet were killing me. This was the first time I was wearing these shoes, and they were heels. Much taller heels than I am used to. So I headed to the car to change into my tennies! As we were saying our goodbyes we got to talking with Rick's aunt Tina. She's so sweet! She told Rick she was so glad he met me and that I was so nice and how she couldn't wait for us to get married and have babies! Kinda felt a little pressure that day! Then we all said our goodbyes and went on the long journey home. We sat in stop and go traffic for about 3 hours until we got to WI. Once we hit the last toll the sky got really dark and it started pouring really hard but we made it. Then had a nice dinner at Olive Garden with Rick's Mom and Shawn. All in all it was a good day ~ nice people, nice conversation, and no work!

The great housework debate

It appears as though you must point out the obvious when it comes to housework and men. A while back Rick and I had an argument/discussion about dishes. I would always get pissed off because I'd end up taking care of the dishes while he sat there watching TV/playing games/on the computer. His response was that I have to ask him to do things or he does not know that they need to be done.

I thought this was just him. Apparently it's not. My co-worker said her and her bf had a similar discussion and his response was the same. I tend to agree with her....we would like you to do it on your own. If there's a pile of clean dishes on the counter just put them away without our asking. It was comforting to know that this was a discussion other couples (or at least one) have had. :)