Morning all. I think it is just going to be the same old stuff for me today around here. Just going to try to make it through the day.

Work on.

Sounds like the stress id just wearing you out Woo. Dealing with stuff, and then some of it over and over will wear you out. I hope they can fix all the issues quickly.

Morning all. Depression lurking around me today. I am on a clear liquid diet ALL DAY. This doesn't leave room for a happy Pambo. But...what's coming up this afternoon tops it all. I'm having surgery tomorrow so I have to also...um...clean the pipes, so to speak. Talk about depressing.

This day blows.

Last night the Cubs were in town, and so parking on the streets around the stadium was just insane. I saw soo soo many tickets being issued. Driveways blatantly blocked, cars blocking crosswalks, cars on eachothers bumpers, I have no idea how any of them were gonna get out......
One guy was right up on my girlfriends bumper (she lives by the stadium), and the front of this guys car was blocking a driveway. Luckily when I went over there, the parking checker guy was just around the corner. I pointed it out to him, he said "ok, thanks", and headed right over there to write the guy a ticket. I'm betting the car got towed too, cuz you can't be blocking a driveway like that.

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Good Morning, Last night we took AC's Grandpa to dinner at the Sugar Shack for his birthday. Basically it's a shack 30 or so miles up in the hills that has the best cheeseburgers and chili around. I had the Kraut burger. It had kraut, onions, jalapenos and green peppers on it. Yummy! Not so good on the tummy though!

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not so good on my nose either.

Sorry you're still having so many apartment problems, Woo.

Sorry you gotta have surgery, Pam. Hope it goes well. Ugh, the clean out thing . . . been there, done that, twice and didn't even get a T-shirt. Its no fun.

My wife got mad at her brother last night. They were packing up stuff at the other house and he was whining and crying about being tried, too hot, thinks he is getting sick etc. She was like "cowboy up man, we gotta get this place empty by tomorrow so we can clean Thursday for the closing Friday". But he continued to continually list off his ailments to her. She has done 90% of the packing and I've done 90% of the hauling.

She came home about 9:30 and sat down. The longer she sat, the madder she got. She said "I won't be able to sleep like this, I just as well use the anger to go get more done". So she went back and worked until midnight packing.

This morning, I went over and loaded up what all she packed last night. I ended up with the van stuffed full and most of it had to come up out of the basement. I was wringing wet with sweat when brother shows up with a crew of six guys (his two boys and their construction helpers) to get the piano and safe out of the garage and so they could also finish his packing and hauling for him.

I was ready to go and brother told me "You should have waited and let these young guys haul for you, thats what their paid for". I said: "Ah, I'll do my own work and the exercise is good for me." He said: "Well, as long as you want the exercise . . . see, my problem is that I've just worked too damn hard all my life and I've worn my body out, blah, blah, blah". Typical brother stuff.

I just about lost it with him at that point. The only jobs I know of him doing was sitting behind a parts counter at NAPA, then he sat behind a parts counter at the Chevy dealership for MANY years, then he opened his retail hunting and fishing business where he sat waiting for customers to come in, then he switched to a mowing business once his kids were old enough to push mowers for him, then he sat on his butt and didn't do anything for about 10 years while he sponged and swindled money off his mother, and now he's spending his inheritance building a cabinet shop thinking he's going to make it big as a cabinet maker. Good luck with that, man.

So anyway, I bit my lip and left and went home and unloaded the van and took it all down to our basement so it can all be sorted out when we have more time.

I was going to mow last night but I couldn't keep the mower running. The grass was already too tall and when I dropped the mower off at the mower repairman, he said it would be two days before he could even look at it. I talked to a neighbor down the street who does mowing and he said he could do it tomorrow. Yay! One week off from mowing!

Let's all hate relatives today, k?

I'm mad at my kid.

last night we had these awesome stuffed chicken breasts. plenty of left overs for today too. I swear just one could easily fill 2 people. They're stuffed with ham, mozzerella and asparagus. each was almost the size of a stuffed pork tenderloin. the ham especially was out of this world good. I grilled these up over the coals.

They're from this butcher that I used to go to years ago that was down the block from me. they moved in the early 90s, not too far away, but far enough that they were sorta out of the way. Certainly couldn't walk there anymore.

But back then, I'd get these chicken breasts frozen. they were still really good. but the ones last night were fresh, and indeed were even better than I recall back in the late 80s early 90s. we'll definately go back now.

My mom has a fun memory about me being a little kid in the old butcher shop. I was hanging around the gumball machine, and one of the tops was not locked on, so I filled my pockets and face with gum. just sat down on the floor and feasted. even the butcher guy was laughing.

I feel for you. My father's house has been empty for 4 years now. My mom, my brother, and I packed up all of his things shortly after Donald passed away. My brother then decided that he wanted to move his then girlfriend into the house so he started remodeling it. My mom decided that she didn't want that to happen, so after much hassle my brother gave up. Unfortunately, that included not finishing the remodeling he had started... the house is now unliveable and unsellable.

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Oh nothing specific. She just lives in my house. Treats her brother poorly. Is a slob. Isn't grown up.

Typical stuff. I just get pist about it sometimes.

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I've known plenty of people like that.  How old is she?

I'm not really mad at my husband, just frustrated.  He likes doing maintenence, but not grounds work.  But he's the low guy on the totem pole and a temp worker, so he's been doing grounds work.  He comes home all mad about it, and stays mad the whole night, and it drives me nuts.  It's a temporary job, he only has to stay until the end of the month, and soon they'll probably need him doing maintenence for turnover anyway.  So I don't see why he can't just suck it up and deal with it.

 

MzHartz wrote:

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Pambo wrote:

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Oh nothing specific. She just lives in my house. Treats her brother poorly. Is a slob. Isn't grown up.

Typical stuff. I just get pist about it sometimes.

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I've known plenty of people like that.  How old is she?

I'm not really mad at my husband, just frustrated.  He likes doing maintenence, but not grounds work.  But he's the low guy on the totem pole and a temp worker, so he's been doing grounds work.  He comes home all mad about it, and stays mad the whole night, and it drives me nuts.  It's a temporary job, he only has to stay until the end of the month, and soon they'll probably need him doing maintenence for turnover anyway.  So I don't see why he can't just suck it up and deal with it.

 

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She's 22. I know she's trying but I remember when I was 22. I just wanna shake her & say "At least be NICE about it."

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AC: bring altoids and then slap him.

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for some reason I dont think he would like it if I stuffed an altoid in "uranus"

Good one AC.

Get the strong peppermint and coat with icy hot for greater ease.

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Good one AC.

Get the strong peppermint and coat with icy hot for greater ease.

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I think this is a job for superweb