After strattelling an alligator last night(going to try to get some pixs, cause I know it may be hard for some to believe, but if you have ever lived in Louisiana, its not too hard), worked in the horrible heat to clean and paint my sister in laws house to put it up for sale so she can move into her mother's house and take care of her.
But all she does well is smile, complain and smoke cigs. That's not a critic but an observation. She can drive, so that's a plus. She is really good about smoking cigs.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
I'm busy trying to clean a spot so I can do some quilting. I've picked out fabric for two medium sized wall hangings.
Started back to work after two weeks of limited work and two weeks of no work. My legs are killing me. I didn't know you could get out of shape so fast.
Mine sucked, as well. I could have gone to the Ron Paul gathering in South Carolina today, but I was committed to a previous engagement, which completely crapped out. I'd drink, but I'm too tired to pick up any bottle, even one full of good imported beer.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
what do you do with dozens of quilts? .. Im trying to purge shit from my house not make more shit to have to get rid of.. *you can tell Im in a super mood tonight :P
I can't stand accumulating 'stuff'...I have a 'packrat' neighbor that drives me nuts...basement, garage, barn; just full of, as you put it so succinctly; sh*t.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
I give a lot of mine away such as the baby quilt I show above. I'm not a prolific quilter so it hasn't been a problem yet. My intent is to decorate with them. I hope to have seasonal and holiday related ones. I have no real place to quilt so it's hard for me to get anything done.
..my ex..now deceased .. was a packrat.. when he moved out.. I asked him to take his shit of course he didnt.. the judge had an order at the divorce that he had to get his crap out of my house or it was then mine to do with as I wanted.. well then he passed away so Im stuck with all this crap.. he saved everything.. after he died.. I got a shipment of coats.. yes COATS ... there were a dozen freaking coats he had purchased b/f he passed away.. oh and I didnt mention the shipment of HATS he ordered.. dozens of caps.. it goes on and on.. UGH..
Boring day. I kept thinking it was Sunday. The day had that sort of feel to it.
It's 97 degrees here and that is horrible. Most of the windows are puttied shut on the house. The real effort goes into keeping out the cold and wind. When it's hot, everyone is kind of lost.
Will play the fiddle with some people down in Boulder tomorrow. Haven't played the thing in public since since about 1994. Been practicing and sweating from the heat all day.
I have more shit than I know what to do with.. and Ive been trying to purge .. and Ive been doing it off and on for months.. I still have so much crap .. I'll never be rid of it all..
I had one of those. He had a 4 bedroom house with little paths. After he died his nephew came with his wife to work on cleaning the place out. He opened the kitchen door to the garage to look for the battery charger and his wife exclaimed, "I thought you said there was a car in here". There was, two of them. Couldn't see either of them. He kept stacks of old school desks in the back yard. I guess he had a twin brother who was the same way.
If it helps I am looking at dealing with six quarelling children of my recently deceased father in law who transferred $100,000 to her account ten days before he died.
I is not going to be pretty or fun. Like reading and understanding Louisiana legal documents?????
It is Louis the fourteenth kinda stuff. Completely designed to bamboozle the non lawyers.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
..I'd rather pitch it.. Ive given more stuff away to St. Vincents.. TONS .. Ive had weeks on garbage day ..the crap tossed out in front of my house, looked like the WTC wreckage there was so much shit.. I still have tons!
.. I could..good idea..I have tons of tools.. I had 4 cars of his to get rid of.. thankfully Im now down to 1 truck.. I can give ya a good deal if you need a truck..
Oh gawd.. nothing worse than that crap.. thank gawd Im an only child.. dealing with two deaths in the last 8 or 9 months was not fun.. if I had to deal with that Id want to eat a bullet..
That't the problem here. No a/c anywhere. The place isn't set up for heat. It's going to be miserable from now until the end of August.
There is a river here where they do white water rafting. Really swift with huge rocks and stuff. Evey0one was swimming in it today. I was surprised. I always thought it would be too dangerous, but no one seemed to have a problem.
I had no desire to ever deal with any of that...poor as church mice parents didn't leave anything; and I don't have kids. Anything I have left will go to cats.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
..my mother's estate isnt settled yet.. on that I am glad Im an only child :P .. I have 2 kids.. thank goodness they've been a God send really.. helped me a lot thru some very trying times..
I'd keep the truck. I almost sold my old van last summer and now I'm really glad I didn't. I seem to use it about once a week for hauling something or camping. I just have liability on it and that doesn't cost much. Less that renting a truck a couple of times a year.
If its not your primary vehicle it will last the rest of your life and you'll always be glad you have it. I just spent a thousand bucks having my old van rebuilt with this in mind. I never drive it now except when I need a truck.
what do you do with dozens of quilts? .. Im trying to purge shit from my house not make more shit to have to get rid of.. *you can tell Im in a super mood tonight :P
Zipporah posted on 2007-07-21 23:12:16 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
We must have one ton or more of useless books, dollies (whatever they are), assorted crappola, cerramic clown figurines not to mention just plain ole garbage that SIL accumulated from her ill starred life in the house her hopeful parents bot her.
Now her utterly dispicable 24 yo son is living there for free, ignoring his six yo son, (educated by the TV) trying to kill himself with pharmas. Some stolen from his grandmothers pain pills.
My wife and I were there yesterday and today loading their crapploa out of the house, scrubbing the counters, priming and painting the exterior of the house and soon the interior, the son's bedroom is court's evidence of mental illness,smells of garbage, IS GARBAGE, AND>>>>>>>>>>> I find a bag with about 15 playstation games in it, but he has no money.
And as we were there cleaning up the rats nest they have created over twenty years, he comes in . lights a cig opens a beer and says hes going to the river, cause it's too hot to do anything.
Yes we are sweating like fountians, and off he goes.
Still have a house to paint. Seems we should do a blog together.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
.. good lord..I feel your pain~ didnt ya just want to wring his neck??! OH I took photos of my ex's room after I finally got him to move out..if you could see them, you cannot imagine.... gack!.. I never went into his room.. it was so disgusting.. Ive finally gotten it cleaned out.. in the process of repainting etc.. everything in that room had to be pitched..
Good for you. Mine have put me through some trying times.
.. they've honestly never gave me a moments worry.. minor things but nothing more. they've been really protective of me... and still are .. its funny.. whenever I've dated a man more than a few times.. my youngest son if hes here.. just happens to show my date his gun collection :P
.. Oh lord do I know this! It just boggles the mind .. how inept and obvious they are.. one man I went out with.. actually said to me.. FIRST date.. "I like to travel and have sex.. " .. Uh I said ...hmm doesnt everybody?
#60. To: who knows what evil, Zipporah, farmfriend, tom007 (#12)
i'm the opposite of a packrat. in fact, if i'm not using it today, it goes in the trash. it's really gotten me into trouble a number of times with my husband. he says i've thrown away half of his net worth and that he's spent half his life digging through our trashcans trying to retrieve his stuff. i can't tell you how many times whatever it is is under coffee grounds. every time he can't find something now, i panic. :P
i'm the opposite of a packrat. in fact, if i'm not using it today, it goes in the trash. it's really gotten me into trouble a number of times with my husband. he says i've thrown away half of his net worth and that he's spent half his life digging through our trashcans trying to retrieve his stuff. i can't tell you how many times whatever it is is under coffee grounds. every time he can't find something now, i panic. :P
Egads that's me. I just bot some paint roller extentions to paint the house when I drive to the house and Dear Wife is oblivously throwing roller extentions in the trash.
Gad I spend so much time digging around in the garbage cans after DW straightens up the house.
(Course that beer bottle full of piss prolly is ready to be ditched)
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
oh and another one took me to a very upscale restaurant..at first i was impressed.. I mentioned that they had a very nice lobster bisque .. well we sat down ..first we got a nice bottle of wine.and then he said...lets order hor dourves .. well he ordered: crab dip, scallops, mussels and another (I dont recall what it was) TONS of food.. I told him oh gosh I cant eat all this..!! then he ordered the lobster bisque. I said this is too much..~ .. then to the entree.. I told him.. there is plenty of food here..I dont want an entree.. He then ordered us both an entree.. it was UNREAL the table was loaded with food.. He then asked for a box to take home the leftovers. I thought good lord.. but it gets better .. he scraped all the food.. into several boxes AND then he scraped MY PLATE into a box for himself! Then the check came and it turned out he had free dinners there b/c they had messed up an order he had there previously.. he only wanted to give the waitress a $5 tip!! Needless to say.. that was my first and only date with him as well.. gawd.
Egads that's me. I just bot some paint roller extentions to paint the house when I drive to the house and Dear Wife is oblivously throwing roller extentions in the trash.
My husband cleaned the garage and found a bunch of tools he had lost and rebought. Now he has at least 3 of everything and I think the paint roller count is up to 5.
en the check came and it turned out he had free dinners there b/c they had messed up an order he had there previously.. he only wanted to give the waitress a $5 tip!! Needless to say.. that was my first and only date with him as well.. gawd.
Don't give it away for free ------ write a book.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
en the check came and it turned out he had free dinners there b/c they had messed up an order he had there previously.. he only wanted to give the waitress a $5 tip!! Needless to say.. that was my first and only date with him as well.. gawd.
I have almost every tool a fool could need. But I can't find em. Which led me to the profound revelation, if ya can't find it, ya don't really have it.
(This is a freebie, no credit card charge)
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
Good God, I hate to ask where you are meeting these guys. Sad thing is I'm sure the guys could tell us just as many horror stories.
.. I suppose but they're idiots.. I never in my wildest dreams thought that men were such morons.. Oh I have a few even worse stories.. these are the G rated ones :P
..I should.. these are just two of many.. Im not dating anyone now.. I needed a breather... for awhile I was dating a LOT.. but I've had my fill for awhile.. as I said Mr. Right doesnt exist.. I wasnt looking for perfect just semi-normal..:P
. Sad thing is I'm sure the guys could tell us just as many horror stories.
Haven't followed the story in adults, but in college was amazed that some of the men who I knew to be the good guys, smart, clear thinking full of good ideas, good looking, ( engineers, mountian climbers) well spoke talented multi-lingual sensitive and cultured, were shunned by women.
And yet they flocked to me. It never made any sense.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
..you know for me it's not looks.. it's not wealth.. it's intelligence and personality.. good conversationalists..and being self-assured.. intelligence is a powerful aphodesiac for women..well at least for me.. :P
it's not wealth.. it's intelligence and personality.. good conversationalists..and being self-assured.. intelligence is a powerful aphodesiac for women..well at least for me.. :P
Zipporah posted on 2007-07-22 1:10:49 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Well now it's clear why you are having problems. Get with the program, be normal, and superficial. Watch lots of TV to tell you what's important in your tv centered life.
(It is not always easy to be one of the aware folks, but you already knew that).
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
Well now it's clear why you are having problems. Get with the program, be normal, and superficial. Watch lots of TV to tell you what's important in your tv centered life.
Well now it's clear why you are having problems. Get with the program, be normal, and superficial. Watch lots of TV to tell you what's important in your tv centered life.
(It is not always easy to be one of the aware folks, but you already knew that).
.. this could be the problem.. but most of the men I dated were truly intelligent men.. but inept.. superficial in other ways.. saw me as a divorcee/widow and well.. like the one that told me ... that he missed the feel of a woman's underarm.. (I was like did I just hear what I thought I heard him say? :P )
Yeah I think if I knew then what I know now I would have done things differently.
I was joking about they flocked to me.
But yes FF I think a lot of the girls might wonder what they were thinking. The young men I hung with became the men that hold their society together as older men, the ones other come to seeking seasoned hard earned advice.
And the young boys that attracted many of the girls ..... I'll leave it at that.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
Doing okay, thanks. Just got back from a week in Los Angeles, and my home's looking pretty good to me this weekend.
I have a son I could offer you who's single, and smart, and isn't a loon, although he does have his eccentricities. But then, he's 27, and that would seem a little creepy, I guess.
I would ask how you're doing, but after reading the thread, it looks as if you're having a frustrating time. Give yourself a big old hug, and I'll try to pretend I had something to do with it ...
- - - - - - - - - - - Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken
Hey, I've seen your picture, so I'm not surprised that there'd be a 24-year-old in the crowd of men who'd like to enjoy your society. One thing that does surprise me is the "feel of a woman's underarm" guy ... that is pretty bizarre. You wonder what's in some folks' heads. But like my old dad used to say, "some things it's better not to know."
- - - - - - - - - - - Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken
It's nice and cool here in Chicago. Actually, chilly. I have a leather jacket on since I have all the doors open. By the time Lollapalooza comes, for sure, it will be 98 and humid, but I get to see the Stooges again, so I'll live. The down part is I have to suffer through Pearl Jam, because I have a friend coming here for a week, mainly to see them and hang out (we haven't seen each other since the 70s). I loathe Pearl Jam. I guess it could be Dave Matthews.
When his bus driver dumped their toilet on tourists boating on the Chicago River, my immediate response was, well, it COULD have been the Dave Mathews Band instead.
I laid 2200 square feet of ceramic tile, built a walkin cooler, ran 60 feet of 2 inch gas line with connections to 10 pieces of restaurant equipment, wired telephone jacks, DSL shit, and probably another 10 or 15 miscelaneous items in the last 10 days. I need a happy week, not a measely hour. hehehe
00 square feet of ceramic tile, built a walkin cooler, ran 60 feet of 2 inch gas line with connections to 10 pieces of restaurant equipment, wired telephone jacks, DSL shit, and probably another 10 or 15 miscelaneous items in the last 10 days. I need a happy week, not a measely hour. hehehe
Dow Jones will be 2% just to you alone on Monday.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
It is, really. My knees are shot, back is shot, and I haven't slept much in ten days, but my brother is down here in NC by himself, opening an italian restaurant and needed help putting it all together. Once I get done with the kitchen and baths back home in NY, it's back to NC for finishing touches, then a week of R&R on the beach, bikini hunting, and fishing in the gulf stream. :)
Back in '00, when our mother went to Heaven, we called for a forty cubic yard roll-off to get rid of "stuff," had to do the same last year when our father joined her, and still had enough "stuff" left to hire an estate seller company to come out and sell the rest.
I sat in the back, smoked a cigar, drank a glass of white wine and watched my pug run in circles in the backyard. Everyone who passed by laffed and laffed and laffed at him.
Chickenhawk: the weakest link that squeaks the loudest.
To: Zipporah I can give ya a good deal if you need a truck.. I need one. Where is it? What is it? How much? Can I trade you uhm... errr... adult favors for it? ;)
Damn, and I had to go to bed last night.....
It does appear we are all working ourselves like crazy this summer. Hey, is the restaurant going to have decent food? ;-)