the price it takes

You know when you see something and it catches your eye and without a thought you to go to paypal? No? Crap. Anyhoo I found an illustration and just purchased a copy. I had to have it. It’s drawn by Maddie Fabbro an illustrator based in Brooklyn. Oh my first art purchase, yeah its a copy but what isn’t.

Women go through alot to try to keep up with the ‘beauty’ standards, have for centuries. But there comes a time, a time in my life that I just say ‘fuck it’ and just try to stay clean. Yeah I might slather oil of lady on and use deodorant (always) but then I am done. If you don’t like hairy legs or armpits? You can just lump it. I have no one to impress but myself. Oh yeah I am still a clothes horse and have to have last years or the year before fashion. In fact right now I think my blouses are less than 5 years old. Of course this might be a whimsical idea, I am after all a female subject to change.

This happened at work this week. I am at my desk taking calls when all of a sudden I get this instant message. ‘What does a solenoid do on a motorcycle’ what? I see it is from one of the peds nurse. OMG!! I know this. So I typed back that it is a device that makes an electric spark to the gas that causes the pistons to move in the engine. Or something like that. I sent it off. I get a reply, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I can’t believe I typed this in IM. I wrote back, I was wondering how you knew I owned a Harley. So the conversation just went on all day long. Geez, who knew one of the nurses was an avid motorcycle rider, must have harley oil in her veins. I haven’t talked to one of those in ages. She did cause me to think about my bike and wishing it was fixed so I could ride. It took 2 days and I got over it. Someday.

I have finally put the canvas cover and curtains on my awning frame. Now I am going to focus on getting some plants and put up 3 more fence posts to surround the deck to keep Betty out of it. It is not a buffet. She does help me eat my gargantuan salads. I buy these chopped salad kits and eat it out of a Jethro bowl. So I can see where she thinks it is okay to eat the plants, no no young lady. I am also training Betty on the treadmill and there seems to be an issue. Not long after she starts walking, static electricity develops. It hurts. I am basically straddling her to keep her on and I am getting zapped. She starts walking funny so I know she is too. I need to think about what will fix this.

I have made a decision to stop asking for help. Now that Charlie and Mary moved the treadmill to the garage. HA. Everyone I know is old or older than me. So if I can’t figure it out I have google. Or I will call a plumber or the handy guy who advertises on face book and pay. So if you stop in to visit? I won’t put you to work.

I love you and can’t wait to see you.

it be that way sometimes

This is way cool.

Very busy in spits and spots. Or I remember Royce saying way back when she was packing up to move. ” I start then have a fit then I stop”. I am slowly trying to get stuff ready for spring. Move plants out. Fence is done. Was going to have Jeff the tree guy trim up the maple but he said it was too soon. So I agreed, woo that’s done and I am clear to put the cover on the awning. Still raking up random piles of leaves. The new rule for sanitation is that they only pick up bagged leaves in October. I put all my leaves around my plants. So every week I put yard rubbish in the 90 gallon trash can with my household stuff. They take anything that fits in it. Nice. It will probably be the end of August until that is all cleaned up but I ain’t going anywhere. However I can pay extra to have a large items picked up. The first one is free and then they charge by size. This week I am getting rid of the 8ft couch that is in the garage for $20.

Refinancing the house and hoping to get a smaller rate. It is looking good. I have an excellent credit score of 818 and I always pay my bills on time and pay extra every month. An appraiser contacted me to let me know that ‘Kevin’ will be here this week on the 22nd. Then I get like 4 huge letters from the mortgage company each describing an issue that could cancel the process. um? You are telling me now? So we shall see. geez get a kids hopes up. And take my money. But my fingers are crossed and if it falls through for whatever reason? I will just fix whatever the issue is and try again. I think the appraisal is good for sometime? I will find out.

I was rude to an IRS agent, I had talked to her earlier in the day. I was checking on a couple of addendums for 2018 and 2019. A where’s my money type of deal. I had sent them in August 2020 and I knew it was going to be late = covid. But their website has a deal where that you can check on stuff such as this. After checking at least every month I read the addendums were received in August. Yes I know. But this time I was to call such and such number with ext blah blah. Oh for the love of mike. I call and promptly get an automatic message that call volume is up and to call back another time. ‘CLICK’ wth? This at 8:01 am, they open at 8:00. I dialed again and did not enter the extension and was routed to a real honest to god person after one hour and a few minutes. So never follow the rules you will get nowhere. The lady told me I had 2018 and 2019 addendums in my chart. Yes? ok. She then said that I had been sent a letter on the 2018 because of a need for more information. Yes, I did receive it and sent in the necessary information. She asked to put me on hold to see what else was going on, of course. After six minutes of some really bad music, she comes back on and lets me know the 2108 1040X form had been waiting too long, over 16 weeks and she would have to send in a referral. To who or what it was never said. Could be to someone who could write me a check? Hope so. Then she asked if she could put me on hold to investigate the 2019 1040X form. Of course…..seven minutes later (said in a french accent) She comes back on to tell me the same thing; the 1040X form had been waiting too long, over 16 weeks and she would have to send in a referral for this one as well. But to not expect a reply for 30 days. Sure why not. I didn’t know I could do this in the first place so what’s a few more months? The rude part? I am driving back from work, had to go get a monitor. The phone rings. BALTIMORE, baltimore? I hesitated then I thought why not, who do I know in Baltimore. I hit the green button. WHAT DO YOU WANT? Asked this in a not very friendly voice. I got dead silence, then ‘hello?’. I said hello. It was the IRS lady from this morning. She was following up and wanted to let me know what was going on and to be patient. I said I would be but when I had checked the website and was told to call. I said I did because who wants to ignore the IRS. So there, I will continue to answer with an unfriendly voice because I still don’t need an extended car warranty.

Betty is enjoying her training. She looks forward to wearing her leash everyday. She is picking up everything she is being taught and at this point it is just repetition. Drum it into her head. YOU WILL LISTEN AND OBEY. I am slowly getting her used to the treadmill. And that is why I am getting rid of the couch, I need the treadmill to be by a wall and an electric socket, plus be able to park my car in the garage.

My next project will be the bathroom. I want to wash the walls and fixtures. Then paint. Maybe replace the mickey mouse shower curtain. MAYBE. The moneys that the addendums will generate will go into purchasing a new floor for the kitchen. Such plans, such time, no energy.

Love you – why you no call. lol

stop thief

And did you say the title in Gene Wilder’s deadpan voice? Me neither.

I brought home from Royce’s’ a robin egg blue purse. Lots of pockets, zippers and a scratch. rats!. But seeing that it is Easter I decided to use it on my day out with mom on Friday. We went to Walmart to reorder my prescription sunglasses and then off to Hobby Lobby. I was looking for popsicle sticks to make stuff for the fairy house. Mom was looking for patriotic themed material for a quilt project. Then off we sailed down the aisle where the paint was, mom paints and maybe she had another project. Well the project was my purse. She eyeballs a couple of tubes of paint, opens one. Takes a dab on her finger and swabs it on the offending mark. I was half expecting some kid in a jacket with a manager’s pen, but nope. I love Hobby Lobby. They have so much stuff. Stuff I covet. There was this cool little side table of three metal legs and the table itself was a paint pallet. Me like but as eclectic as my taste is, I just couldn’t see it in my house.

I am more than half way finished with Betty proofing the backyard. I felt I needed to get the chicken wire fence up before she ate all the delicate spring starts. Plus for the most part I don’t know the names of most of my plants and don’t want to poison her. There is still plenty of room to play and be obnoxious. Dig holes and chew on everything.

My dog trainer is a very young gal, who trained with method K9. I guess they are pretty famous if you are into dogs and training. She is moving but not until we are finished with class. They called her and asked if she could come be one of their trainers. They are based out of Post Falls. And their classes are booked out one year if not longer. They also have online classes, so I might look into that. Betty is learning to take commands and understand that I am the boss. She seems a bit more subdued, but if you were to come by and visit. You would still see she is a complete goofball without a thought in her head. We are working on it.

My wood splitter was delivered. I let it set in the garage for like 2 weeks. I just had too much other stuff I needed to do. After the plumbers left, who replaced a bathtub spout, kitchen faucet/sprayer, and outdoor faucet. I set to work. I moved the huge ass box as best as I could to the middle of the garage and unboxed. It was packed in the box surrounded by styrofoam. So much styrofoam that it filled 80% percent of my 90 gallon trash can. I read the instructions on how to assemble. what? I re read the instructions and looked at the key to see if I had all the parts. Cool thing? The bolts, nuts and washer? Had the exact size of each in a picture, this helped. It was rather overwhelming but Rocky helped, it was like ‘WWRD’. I got about 85% done when Rich showed up, I was hoping to get it all put together because I wanted him to help me figure out how it works. Well he finished it up and tighten bolts while giving advise on how to make sure I didn’t maim or kill myself from flying debris. So it works and it is way heavy. Probably something like 150 pounds, but? wheels. cool right? Plus it is on legs so I am not killing my back. So that is done.

My next project is to get the tree guy out and give me a bid on topping my tree. It just keeps growing. I had one guy out last week who gave me a bid of $2600. gulp. I texted Jeff the tree guy and he will hopefully stop by this week.

I went and kidnapped Charlie and Mary yesterday. I needed help getting my treadmill out of the house and into the garage. My trainer is going to teach Betty to walk on the treadmill. Yesterday we were training Betty to place. She has a raised dog cot and that is her safe place and she needs to learn to go to it when I say place. And stay there. I have lots of tools to use while working Betty thanks to Amazon. With big dogs comes big stuff. I had the trainer teach Betty how to jump up into the car on command. She would get all excited about going somewhere in the car then stop. I had to lift her front feet up then her butt. It was ridiculous.

Today? I am finishing up a few things then heading up to Carol’s to work on our house. I will be building stuff. Not sure which project Carol will be working on, this time I am not bringing beer.

Happy Easter.