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Okay, so the bad mothering is in my own family too – my stone fox nephew is in jail because of some drug dealing – and QED – here’s a boy who was taught from the getgo that he is so adorable there are no consequences for his behavior – he got by on a wink and a smile up until now. It’s like feeding your dog too much – they get fat and it’s…
Today at the podiatrist – my foot got tweaked at Madonna in Chicago back in June and it wasn’t healing – I was chatting with the nurse – she had a photo of her son up and I asked how old he is and she said he just started kindergarten and had just received a note from the teacher because he rolled his eyes at her. I laughed. She said her son is too smart…
Progress: Randy from LaMaison is coming to install the wood windows in the master bathroom Saturday morning – HOORAY! Richard – the glazer gave me a quote of $8500 to put glass in in the three large windows up in the office – OUCH – Lyn in California who manufactured the metal frames got me a quote from a California company for $1800 plus $1000 shipping. YEAH! Vic got the fascia board up and the…
G called on her way to Angola to say Happy New Year – I was tied up – I took C to the Home Depot to get materials and came back and K still wasn’t at the house. C’s worker S was undoing the entire framing for the shower that K had built earlier. In the other bathroom, he is stripping out the sheetrock that has been taped and floated because Hardee Board needs to…
N’s student from Madrid sends her an email that says while she is doing her laundry she thinks of Nancy and the pain she must be remembering on this day, and as she separates her clothes, she wonders how Nancy is separating reality from nostalgia and how her strength comes from having stayed and being here. And N calls me, crying from the kindness that her missives all carry. Yesterday, I too received many an…
I remembered the name of Moron #2 – Ronnie. Orion and Ronnie, Kim Saunee’s, with Schild Construction, project supervisor and carpenter. Save us from consumer terrorism!
The commemoration last night was most excellent. We had a good turn out and old friends met new friends and the chilled wine flowed and lots of tasty food was eaten and songs were sung. Bill and Nancy performed their Katrina song with the help of Ernie and Ham. Then Ernie sang his song he recently wrote – which caused everyone to call for an encore – something about he’ll take insanity over anything else…
Joe just called – he was in jail – that is why he wasn’t returning my calls. I asked him why he was in and he said “interfering with a police officer” – said he was there from 8 to 11 at night on Saturday. I told him, well what do you know I was kicked out of a bar the same time as he was sitting in a jail cell. Whatyagonnado? He’s coming by…
Last night G told me that she was going to try to go clean up the trash can in front of Cabrini on the footbridge because it was overflowing with dog poop bags. The city in its infinite wisdom picked up all the trash cans after Katrina because no one was around to pick them up. So it’s been a real pill. Not to mention no one has cut the grass in the past couple…