Confessions

I have a few major faults that I feel the need to confess. I am always, always late. I am a habitually late person. I do not know why, I simply am. I tell myself to get ready early, set clocks wrong to fool myself, change the times in my datebook, and any other way that you can think of in order to fix myself. Nothing has worked over the years and you can be assured that I am the one behind you on the road tapping my steering wheel while checking my watch and screaming “Come the Fuck ON!!!” even though I am also thinking… “God, why can’t you just be on TIME for once Carol!!”

I am also what I call ‘an empty promiser’. I keep promising to update and I don’t. I forget, lose track of time or am just too damned lazy. So, here is what I am going to do to fix that. I will update when I do. And I wont worry about the fact that I promised and lied. There.. lol.
My last fault that really, really bothers me is that I am so forgetful it is not even close to funny. I will take a phone message and literally two seconds later, I have forgotten that call. I can write it down and forget where I put the message. I make plans and promptly forget about them. I have errands to run and get all the way in town and forget half of what I went there for. I blame it on menopause because I was never like this before. It has gotten so bad that I write notes to myself on my damned rear view mirror. I feel like a goober half the time and the other half can’t remember what it was that I felt like!

The house is coming along really, really well. We will start putting up drywall in the first room in the next few days. Right now there is just the odds and ends being done to the outside and the porches. The roofing was done a week ago and the siding went up this week. I actually love to put siding up. I feel useful because it is something I know how to do and can actually do well. The gravel went down on the driveway yesterday and the windows and doors were put in a last week. The door is gorgeous! We had gotten an estimate from Lowes and they wanted $1400 for it. Good Grief!! We found a guy here that sells them and he sold it to mom for $400! Talk about a price difference. It is the same damned door! I got a new door for my house for $100 and the door that I bought last year from Lowe’s that isn’t nearly as pretty was almost $300. I wont be buying doors at Lowe’s anymore. I still can’t believe that the house burned down just two months ago. The fact that it is as far along as it is just amazes me. Now it is slowing down since the funds are starting to tighten, the donations from friends and family was astounding and got them to the part they are at now with their savings.. now they will be doing it check by check. Mom is just happy to have the house where they are now and a place to stay where they feel welcome and wanted. We love having them here with us. She is the best laundry fairy a girl could ever hope for! My laundry room is off of their bedroom and she goes in there and I will think she is sleeping or resting and the next thing I know… poof! All my laundry is clean and put away. I told her I was thinking about nailing the door shut on her new house so she couldn’t leave and go home!!