Updates on My Life

Things in my little world have been crazy. Lance and I are settling into being home owners with all the joys *insert sarcasm* that go along with it.

This weekend we woke up early on Saturday morning to clean the house and do the yard work before it got too hot…yea…too hot…its only June and we are already in 30’C temperatures…someone kill me…that’s about 86’F for my US pals who cant be on a normal temperature scale like the rest of the world …I dunno if I can handle 3 more months of this. I am already longing for winter *lol*

Anyway…as I was saying…we woke up early and decided to do the yard work – mow the grass, edge trim, weed whack, fertilize, weed the flower beds, water the flower beds…all that lovely stuff…and then we decided to clean the house and do laundry.

It was as I started to do laundry that I came to an important realization. My dryer is possessed. I swear to god. It is possessed. The stupid machine suddenly hates me. Whenever I put a load in the dryer it squeaks so badly and vibrates so roughly that it sounds like it’s trying to ram through the wall. Whenever Lance puts a load in the dryer it is calm and happy until I go anywhere near it and then it goes off its rockers and starts to scream again.

Just a tip…when you call an appliance repair man and ask them if dryers can become possessed expect to get laughed at and hung up on. *sighs* I called a different repair place and explained to them what the dryer was doing and the noises it was making – being very careful not to make any reference to it being possessed – and the repair guy said it sounded like a broken drum bearing or something…anyway, this guy figures it’ll probably cost more to fix than if we just replaced the dryer so the hunt is on this week for a new appliance. Why couldn’t the stupid thing break 2 months ago when it would’ve been someone else’s expensive problem?!!? *sighs*

Lance and I decided to have friends over for a BBQ and fire pit on Saturday night so we went out and finally replaced the cushions for our patio deck furniture and bought a new umbrella (the old one got snapped in half during a wind storm…it was lovely *sighs*)

After going to SIX different places for matching patio chair cushions we FINALLY found them. We rushed home and got our backyard all set up and had friends over and drank and BBQ’d and sat outside in the gorgeous 33’C weather in front of a ginormous fire that Lance (aka Paul Bunyan the Mountain Man) created…yea, I know it’s kind of ironic, its 30’C and we have a bon fire…everyone enjoyed themselves though. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday we went to a driving range. Yes…GOLF. Lance’s Golf Staff Texas Scramble Party thing at his work is coming up soon and he really wants to play in it and he really wants me to play with him because the person he wants to play with (Rob) is bringing his girlfriend (Nicole) and she’ll only come if I go... So…I learned something on Sunday. I learned that I CANNOT hit a bloody golf ball. It really wasn’t for lack of trying. I even busted out the Happy Gilmore moves. I couldn’t hit the stupid freekin ball of the top of the little stick thing. Lance laughed his ass off…hell, everyone at the driving range laughed their asses off. I was having flash back visions of me trying to learn how to roller blade and ice skate and then I finally gave up and started using the golf club like a baseball and HOLY BIBLE! That ball FLEW!!! *lmao*

oO(if any of you missed the truly hysterical though thoroughly embarrassing story of me trying to learn how to skate on roller blades and ice skates, click September 2006 on the right hand side and look for the entry called "Skating Anyone?" )

After the humbling, embarrassing, and outright ridiculous 2 hours at the golf range I decided that Lance and I should stop at Home Depot and get some paint for the fence, trim and decks of our house - *smirks* Just a tip Men…NEVER laugh at your woman, she WILL get EVEN!!!! *smiles sweetly*

The fence, trim and decks were in DESPERATE need of paint. We came home, changed into ratty clothes and proceeded to spend the rest of the day painting our house. It was too damn hot out to even pretend we were happy. We sniped at each other all afternoon until I made the decision that only one of us can be on one side of the house at a time *lol* After 8 hours and too many arguments to consider we finished and the house looks AMAZING now. It is all fresh and clean. I cannot believe how much work owning a home is. I really want to paint the guest bedroom but Lance hates the color I want…we are still negotiating *smirks* Next weekend we are going camping at the lake just so we can get away from this house and do nothing. If I am at home I KNOW I will find something else to fix up *lol*

I’ve decided that I am having a garage sale this summer. Lance and I have so many duplicates of stuff. We each had a full house full of things when we moved in together and most of the duplicate crap was just put back into boxes and has lived in storage in various parts of our house for almost 2 years now. Enough is enough. So as I am not able to do laundry because my dryer screeches like that thing from the Grudge every time I go near it, I am starting to go through all the crap in storage and moving what I want to sell into the garage. Lance is not so thrilled with my latest adventure. I told him to kindly shut up or I would sell his Golf clubs *lol*

My health is the same as it was the last time I updated ya’ll. The clots are still in my lungs. The pain meds are still being offered though I am not taking them. I am reliant upon an herbal tea that I got from my Chinese herbalist for pain management. It SMELLS so freekin funky and you have to boil it in 16 cups of water until it reduces to 8 cups and then you strain the …ick…and continue boiling until it gets down to 4 cups and then you can drink it and you have to drink it ALL in 1 hour…really, the preparation has too many rules, and I don’t follow them all to the letter, but it seems to be working. Please don’t ask me what is in the tea. I lost my herbalist when he started talking about tree barks *lol* he was just tossing random bits of dried brown clumps into a bag and I was just following him around nodding like I had a clue what he was talking about *lol*

Life is pretty good. It’s totally crazy but it’s good.
I’ve gotta rock on outta here, Lance is dragging me back to the driving range tonight…oh joy oh bliss…what did I ever do to deserve this?! *lol*
Hope ya’ll are doing good!!!
Ciao