Let’s sum this up: Giovanni showed up on Friday to do one day’s worth of work – I accumulated things to make it worth his while to be here one full day – long story short on Monday he is still here and had had my truck all weekend and the $100 I gave him to rent a pressure washer to get up the paint that HE dropped all over the Trek decking – turns…
G and I were talking about how much we like that song by Iris DeMent – Our Town – and we were talking about how much it resonates post-K. I was speaking to the new lender the other day while soaking in my tub and telling her a little of my backstory and I laid it out for her in simple terms – I left California after 15 years of wanting to be in New…
The other night I fielded a few phone calls from the tub. I got in to relax after a long day’s journey into the usual – a long to do list and a lot of jigs and jags in different directions – one call was interesting because it was from someone I know well who was telling me a situation that involved a young boy and how the boy was fearful and this person told…
I started this blog a couple of years ago as a way to vet family experiences as all who knew me said that I was doing a disservice to the world by not writing about my eccentric family – then my life took over and I rarely write a word about my family. Well, there have been entanglements – a friend who dissociated herself from me for writing about her or our experiences together in…
The Bean started puking on Wednesday and was in the hospital by Thursday – quite a scare because of her pancreatitis – made me very nervous with me going in for surgery – and at the end of it – $275 later – her bloodwork came back fine and she must have just had a bad stomach and gotten into something bad – like a chicken bone someone left under the house. Thankfully she is…
I am going with a local lender and feel much more optimistic then what was going down with USAA. This lender understands that I have a unique property in a unique location and that the appraisal has got to be sensitive to the fact that post storm, there just aren’t comps around here and that we need to work on this a little bit more than normal – like find the right comps and price…
I’m not doing any kind of rolling right now – laid up like a rag doll with two feets in bandages and Frankenstein shoes and my computer dead and now Apple supposedly shipping on Monday. G has been taking care of me all day – she brought me in for surgery and worked from here all day and so now that she ran home to take care of her dogs, I am making use of…
So B has done wonders with the Alcee Fortier fest and last night was proof in the pudding what a community can do and how great a community we live in. It was also my last night in high heels for a while. After the storm B’s company asked how they could help and ended up donating $1200 for which B was going to put plants into the Alcee Fortier park. Instead he donated $600…
Well, foot surgery today has both of my feet in weird Frankenstein shoes and yes, my computer is still waiting for Apple to ship the hard drive, which died on Tuesday, and yes I have felt bereft of my umbilical cord as I have waited for all of this to happen. Monday – preop for surgery Tuesday – hard drive dies Wednesday – Arlene begins puking – suspected pancreatitis Thursday – blood work on Arlene…
I’m getting used to the day being shanghai’d but there are times when you just count your blessings – like today after being walayed at the doctor’s office interminably for my pre-op and then tapping my foot at the drugstore waiting for the four people behind the counter to finally do something – I arrived home to find the Bean wandering the front yard!!!!! Gadzooks – she had gone through the doggy door which she…