Tuesday, June 07, 2005
no, you can't escape The Lists.
Okay, y'all, it's time for another freaking list, because I am apparently too lazy to make timely posts. Timely posts are for antelopes.
As a side note, I deeply regret ever reading Pink is the New Blog because every time I say "y'all" now I feel like a Britney Spears imitator. KHAAAAAN!
So here for your non-pleasure and my blog-fulfillment-satisfactionism is another list, only to make it more fun this one has no theme. A stream-of-consciousness list. I know, I don't know how you've lived this long without it, either.
* Yesterday morning I was driving to work and I realized . . . it's summer. How did I know this? 1) 70˚ at 7 a.m. and 2) so humid I didn't have to take a shower because I could just walk outside, turn around a few times, and it would have the same effect. This is how we do it in the VA, bitch.
* Did I mention that our a/c is hooked up now? I don't think I did because I was afraid of jinxing it. Some kids decided to vandalize an a/c unit at Ben's worksite so the company had to replace it. And his company was thinking about selling it to us, but found out they wouldn't have even been able to use it for parts, so they gave it to us! Sweet, yes? The only thing we had to pay for was the hook-up, which was about $300. And then Ben had to clean off the house paint the kids poured in it, but that took him all of five minutes. Sweet squared. Now I'm just paranoid that it's going to quit and I will have been too spoiled by it to survive.
* Rabbit has another effing cold. You can't cure a cold, right? Don't tell the four medications I have to give her each day about that. She has a steroid inhaler, a "regular" inhaler, saline nose stuff, Pediacare so she can sleep, and if she starts to get warm, there's Tylenol. Poor baby girl. Luckily she has come to enjoy the spacer (for her inhalers) instead of screaming the entire time like she used to.
* The helicopter company (whom we owe $6500) has informed us they can only accept our $50/month payments for three months, after which we will have to give them at least $250/month, because it costs them over $50 just to process the payments. WTF? It was nice of them to tell us that when we originally set up the payment plan, huh? OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T. Asscats. That's like a freaking car payment. I'm still not sure how we're going to be able to afford it -- if we just don't pay it, it will only stay on our credit report for seven years, right? Isn't that the way it works?
* We're going to Florida for vacation. To visit the grandparents. However, I got the dates of the week I can take off mixed up and this week we realized that they aren't going to be there the week we're in Florida. I suck. They're letting us stay in their house, but the idea was to go to FL so that they could see Rabbit and C. Now there's no point in going to Florida, right? Except Ben HAD to tell C we'd take her to Disney World. You can't see it, but I'm crying on the inside.
* So the Washington Nationals are number one in the NL East standings. It's times like this I wish I cared about baseball as much as I do about football. But I don't. It is fun to hear DJs bitching about how the Post cares more about the Orioles than the Nationals, though.
* If you don't want me to think you're picking a fight, don't address me by saying "um" before you make your point. "Um," to me, means, "you're a moron if you really think that but let's assume you do think that, now here's why you're obviously wrong." All that from those two letters, yes. And yes, I know that's overreacting, that's why I usually give the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was just meant as a spacer. I use it that way sometimes, so it's not impossible, right?
I haven't really been getting much accomplished the past couple of weeks. The heat and a little annoying sickness conspire to make me feel supremely lazy. That and the internet drama, which always fascinates me. The way people interact is so interesting to me, I like to study it.
Now I should probably clean up before Rabbit wakes up. It's much more fun for her to throw all the toys around when they're on shelves at first.
As a side note, I deeply regret ever reading Pink is the New Blog because every time I say "y'all" now I feel like a Britney Spears imitator. KHAAAAAN!
So here for your non-pleasure and my blog-fulfillment-satisfactionism is another list, only to make it more fun this one has no theme. A stream-of-consciousness list. I know, I don't know how you've lived this long without it, either.
* Yesterday morning I was driving to work and I realized . . . it's summer. How did I know this? 1) 70˚ at 7 a.m. and 2) so humid I didn't have to take a shower because I could just walk outside, turn around a few times, and it would have the same effect. This is how we do it in the VA, bitch.
* Did I mention that our a/c is hooked up now? I don't think I did because I was afraid of jinxing it. Some kids decided to vandalize an a/c unit at Ben's worksite so the company had to replace it. And his company was thinking about selling it to us, but found out they wouldn't have even been able to use it for parts, so they gave it to us! Sweet, yes? The only thing we had to pay for was the hook-up, which was about $300. And then Ben had to clean off the house paint the kids poured in it, but that took him all of five minutes. Sweet squared. Now I'm just paranoid that it's going to quit and I will have been too spoiled by it to survive.
* Rabbit has another effing cold. You can't cure a cold, right? Don't tell the four medications I have to give her each day about that. She has a steroid inhaler, a "regular" inhaler, saline nose stuff, Pediacare so she can sleep, and if she starts to get warm, there's Tylenol. Poor baby girl. Luckily she has come to enjoy the spacer (for her inhalers) instead of screaming the entire time like she used to.
* The helicopter company (whom we owe $6500) has informed us they can only accept our $50/month payments for three months, after which we will have to give them at least $250/month, because it costs them over $50 just to process the payments. WTF? It was nice of them to tell us that when we originally set up the payment plan, huh? OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T. Asscats. That's like a freaking car payment. I'm still not sure how we're going to be able to afford it -- if we just don't pay it, it will only stay on our credit report for seven years, right? Isn't that the way it works?
* We're going to Florida for vacation. To visit the grandparents. However, I got the dates of the week I can take off mixed up and this week we realized that they aren't going to be there the week we're in Florida. I suck. They're letting us stay in their house, but the idea was to go to FL so that they could see Rabbit and C. Now there's no point in going to Florida, right? Except Ben HAD to tell C we'd take her to Disney World. You can't see it, but I'm crying on the inside.
* So the Washington Nationals are number one in the NL East standings. It's times like this I wish I cared about baseball as much as I do about football. But I don't. It is fun to hear DJs bitching about how the Post cares more about the Orioles than the Nationals, though.
* If you don't want me to think you're picking a fight, don't address me by saying "um" before you make your point. "Um," to me, means, "you're a moron if you really think that but let's assume you do think that, now here's why you're obviously wrong." All that from those two letters, yes. And yes, I know that's overreacting, that's why I usually give the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was just meant as a spacer. I use it that way sometimes, so it's not impossible, right?
I haven't really been getting much accomplished the past couple of weeks. The heat and a little annoying sickness conspire to make me feel supremely lazy. That and the internet drama, which always fascinates me. The way people interact is so interesting to me, I like to study it.
Now I should probably clean up before Rabbit wakes up. It's much more fun for her to throw all the toys around when they're on shelves at first.
