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OK, from the slightly kinky (yet nonetheless fun) department; Check this post out about "Love Hotels" in Osaka. I especially like the furniture with a purpose and the directions that depict how it should be used! OK, I admit it, I have way too much time on my hands, I'll stop linking from blog to blog and get back to work. Looks like a nice day, kind of breezy and not as humid as they said it would be. Have to vacum the pool when I get home and maybe take a little float in it for awhile. Alright, back to work for me. Later posted @ 01:03 PM EST [link] [Karma: 15 (+/-)]Long Time... Since I've posted anything, sorry 'bout that. But if your life is so lame you actually look forward to reading my latest posts to see what has been happening in my life, well, do I have to even say it? In any case, I'd love to say tons of cool shit has been going on, but that's not gonna happen. Really my life has gone even more down the crapper. Work is really good, relationship stuff is good, the kids are good, that's about it. But I'm so far behind financially I don't know how or if I can dig myself out this time. Like three months behind in the mortgage, I finally start working, and I'm gonna make my first payment. I go to check my bank account online last week and it's MINUS four thousand dollars. Like what the f**k? How can that be? I call up my bank to see what's up... Well, turns out I owed Sears two grand from like four years ago, things were going to shit in my life, out of work, and other stuff, so I chose not to pay them. Keeping a roof over our heads and some kind of food on the table was, in my mind, a little more of a priority than paying Sears. So, they went and filed a judgement against me, and then they went in my bank account to get what they're owed. Well since there wasn't enough to cover it, my account is frozen. For a week now... Yup, that means no access to any funds, at all, so things have been really tight. They turned my cell phone off, but it was only 48 dollars past due so I got it turned back on. The internet is getting turned off any day now, and they already stopped picking up my garbage. Oh, and to top things off I'm almost out of fuel oil and I owe them money too. I don't know what to do, and the main part is I'm geting tired of struggling. I'm tired of trying to keep that house, carrying it all by myself, and every year and a half having some catastrophe happen or being out of work and falling behind to this point... On the other hand, if I sell it I'll walk away with practically nothing, I have horrible credit and would never get a mortgage again. Plus I like being a home owner, I like tinkering around the yard and trying to keep the place from falling apart. And it's a really nice chunk of property. I guess what I'm getting at is I'm sick of being in this situation, feeling like the whole world is falling in on me and not knowing how to get out from under it... I think I should be freaking out, but I'm not, I'm almost at the point of being numb. Thank God I can go to work every day and get my mind of all this stuff. You know, I just want to be able to catch up and not have to worry every night what the next thing is that's gonna be turned off. I dunno, actually writing this is getting me more bummed out. Lemme get going and I'll update y'all soon and hopefully something will have changed for the better. posted @ 10:44 AM EST [link] [Karma: -16 (+/-)]sky rockets in the night... Please don't tell me if that title got you singing a certain 70's fluff song, OK? Hope everyone had a good 4th of July and a nice day off (if indeed you had yesterday off). We didn't do a whole lot. Like I said, I didn't have the big barbecue this year. It was just family and then a couple friends came by for the fireworks show. I had a few things to light off in celebration. Well maybe more than a few! And here's a shot of the whole gang. Yeah, the girls are getting so big, seems like every time I see them they're an inch taller... Sam and Danny enjoyed the show big time, as always. I had some three inch mortars we lit and they were incredible, I'm talking a two hundred foot spread in the sky and they climb to almost three hundred feet! I'm definitely getting a lot of those for next years show. Maggie seemed kind of bored by it all. I guess it starts to seem the same after you've seen it year after year. The boys have fun lighting the stuff so they're more involved with it. Sam is going upstate for a few weeks to work at his Aunts and Uncles motel and spend some time at the lake with his grandparents. I'm going to miss him, the house always feels empty when he's not there. Even though sometimes it seems like we only talk when I'm checking to see if he's done his chores or say "yes, you can go out, don't be too late". Plus now I have to feed and water the dog every day and mow the lawn, but it won't kill me to push a lawnmower, I did it for a lot of years when he was younger. The garden is growing like crazy! I picked a couple bell peppers and a few hot ones to make some home fries for breakfast yesterday. This is the first time I've grown "Portugese Hot Peppers" and they aren't bad. I had a hard time finding any jalapeno plants this year. Everyone was sold out for some reason. I have a whole container full of habanero's for making hot sauce and that's it for hot peppers. I skipped the cayennes this year as I really don't use them for cooking so why bother... I took some pics of the garden and will post them when I get home tonight, a progress report kind of, and I'll put the pics up next to them of when I planted it so you can see how big everything has gotten. OK, I need to take a walk around here and see what's going on. Have a good one. posted @ 08:23 AM EST [link] [Karma: 29 (+/-)]Workin' Again Whew, It's nice to be working again after an almost two month break. Not that I didn't keep busy with stuff around the house, getting the pool open, planting the garden, keeping my R/C cars running, you know, exciting stuff like that. Today will probably go by fast as it's the Friday before a three day weekend. I just have to write a couple reports and send them up to the home office, walk around and take some pictures of the progress and conditions, sounds like an easy day. For the first time in a lot of years I'm not having a big 4th of July bar-b-q... Being out of work so long I'm just too broke and behind in all my bills so I can't afford to buy all the food and supplies to feed thirty or more people this year. Going to keep it to just family and then have people come up later for the big fireworks show. I hear through the grapevine it's going to be the biggest one yet! Last week Grace and I drove down to North Carolina as planned and helped my Dad move into his new place there. Oh my God! What a long miserable drive, only to unload a ton of stuff, and then drive back on the third day. Definitely too much driving for such a short while. We did drive around the town though, Asheville that is, and it looks like a cool place. The neat thing is they have all these fast food places I haven't seen since I was a kid living in Michigan. And of course all the gas stations have moon pies and goo-goo clusters on the counter for munchies. I heard they even have Vernor's Ginger Ale in the markets down there! If you don't know about it, Vernors is one of the oldest soft drinks made in this country and unlike any other ginger ale you've ever had. Go to bevnet.com and read their review, they give it four stars, myself I'd give it five in the glass bottle, 4.5 in the can. So the nice thing about this job is I'm in the trailer onsite with the government guys, so we have a lot of luxuries you wouldn't expect on a construction site. Like high speed internet, satelite TV, a Keurig coffee maker, a real bathroom, and more office supplies then your local stationary store, to just name a few things. And of course since they're with the federales, what they say goes, so they kind of always get their way if they really want it, not a bad thing at all. And the air conditioner kicks in this place. It was 60 degrees in here when I opened up this morning! OK, I'm outta here, have to make a cup of coffee and walk around the site. My internet at home has been broken but supposedly it's coming back up today, so I'll post some pics from down south and take some more this weekend. -later posted @ 08:17 AM EST [link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)] |
