May 12, 2006

The picture is a view of the newly remodelled, remodelled bathroom. LOL Story to its existance below.

Well Hello there

Yes, I know... I haven't updated for awhile. We have had some freaks of nature occurances in our house lately and time has been a bit... diverted. First of all, to answer the age old question of "Has Bill cooked yet?" Well, kind of. His version of "I'll make dinner tonight sweety, you don't have to do a thing" Was making baked potatos with chili and cheese. Ok folks... I'll take what I can get.

Ok, I have officially "lostamind" as Joe used to say... As I was typing the above... I felt a tickle on my arm, look down, see something brown, with brown coloring and what looked like legs. Anyone who knows me knows that I am horribly spider-phobic... so of course I start slapping and freaking out. What do I come out of this experience with? A red arm from a piece of fuzz off of my couch.... Jeez do I need therapy. Now I feel all itchy... spiderphobiccrawlysensation itchy. EEK.

Right after my last entry, we had a disaster here at the house that has kind of ruled every moment since then. I went and took a bath. Now folks, in a perfect world, it would have been a normal thing and I would have gotten out all clean and relaxed. Instead, in my world.. I wind up standing in the bathroom butt nekkid... cleaning up a flood of water out of my floor while screaming and cursing at the top of my lungs. Apparently a pipe that connects to the drain on the bathtub burst and flooded my bathroom. Now, picture this if you will... an inch of water on top of the new flooring we just got done with not two months ago... and after I get that all cleaned up.. thinking maybe someone would take mercy on me... I step on the floor to take a towel out and water SPURTS UP out of the seams in the flooring. So, burst pipe, ruined flooring, which by the way is now not only that new "floating floor tile" but is now FLOATING in water literally. Somehow I do not think that is what the tile makers had in mind. Anyway, we wind up having to take all the cabinets and the sink out, the toilet, etc... rip up the flooring and baseboard that we so lovingly just finished... and then let the floor dry for a week to ensure it was all dried out good before putting down the new floor. The pipe cost about five bucks to fix... the problem it caused... About $150 for the wasted flooring, $160 for the new flooring, the grout for the new tile... $60 and over a week of having all my cabinets, sink etc.. sitting in my living room for gosh's sake! But, the bathroom is fixed, I like the floor a lot better than the old flooring and I have all my stuff just about put back to rights ( I did put my border up while I was at it... Finally). All we have left to fix is putting the baseboards back up, which I will do in a day or so. Just goes to show, Anything can happen at anytime and when you own your own home.. you can't call someone for free to come fix it... God I miss military housing!!!

Dustin's Eight Grade Gradution was on Tuesday. He is moving on to High school. Am I feeling old? Yep! Am I scared to death that he will get into high school and he will be picked on or go through the hazing stuff or all that other High School drama bullshit? Yep! Am I scared to death over having to deal with.. is he fitting in? Is his clothes in style? Should I make him get his hair fixed this way or that way? Is his cologn ok? Yep, Yep, and Yep!!! Am I scared to death over him having to ride on the bus for a half hour, then connect with another bus for another half hour ride, and then ride over Buckhorn Mountain in the snow and ice when I don't even like to drive my four wheel drive Rodeo over this crazy windy, steep and dangerous road? Ummm YEP! But, I must put aside all crazy motherly instincts and let go of the umbilical cord. For God's sake... someone give me some Paxil! On the other hand, we got some pictures of him in his cap and gown and all that.. and he is soooo grown. Wah!

Sitting at dinner this evening, we had Joe say the funniest thing ever. We had Bill's parents over for dinner and Daddy said something about Joe being a little Hillbilly... to which Joe replied... "I'm not a Hillbilly, I don't have one short leg and one long legs and Hillbillys have one short leg and one long leg." This kid is hilarious.. I tell ya!