Back in the saddle

So I made my return to work today.  It was not easy nor was it fun.  Traffic was a bit of a mess and there was more than one occasion where I could have wrecked.  One of my co-workers wasn’t so lucky and got plowed rear-ended.  There was and is plenty of stuff to keep me busy.  I’ve been at it since I walked in the door, so I thought I’d take a little break.

Had a great time with Bear last night.  He fell asleep with his head on my leg.  He tried to fall off the couch but I wouldn’t let him.  He’s such a ball of joy.

Speaking of good news a lady I used to work with here, she was one of the people let go with the RIF event.  Well she messaged me today and told me she found a job.  I gave her all of the advice I knew to give.  She had 2 interviews, they re-wrote the job to tailor it to her needs and she will be in charge of 6 people.  She thought she blew it because they didn’t jump right away and make an offer  I told her that people travel and companies love to drag things out, they don’t move fast unless it’s to their benefit.  Sure enough the person who made the final decision was out on a weeks vacation.  They offered her the job earlier today and she of course accepted.  Very happy for her and to hear that information I passed along actually helped someone.  I made a phone call on her behalf and that got the ball rolling.  Why something like that couldn’t have happened for me when I was out of work, well I guess it just wasn’t my time.  Unemployment is near and dear to my heart, so if your out of work and you need advice ask away. 

I woke up with an itching stomach, kind of odd.  I took another shower and put some lotion on by the time I was ready to leave I had to go back and put on some hydrocortisone cream.  It settled down for a while but started back up after lunch.  I of course thought right away that I was allergic to yet another antibiotic, but I’ve kept a watch and while I have itches in other places there are no welts or hives.  My face is a little red but outside of that I’m okay.  So I am just monitoring it.  My boss called this morning to tell me that if I needed to take more time, let him know he was okay with it.  I told him that I didn’t want to abuse the system and he said well if your sick then your not abusing the system.  Just plan on leaving early if you feel bad, give me a call first though.  That was a nice gesture.  Honestly, unless I am next to death I’d rather be here, it’s boring to be at home sick. 

I blamed this on the swing in temperatures and think that has some play here, but the real culprit I think is the carpet cleaning.  Not the physical activity but breathing in the aroma of the after effects.  I think it’s enough to make me ill if it’s wet.  Leave it dry and vacuum, all is well.  When the next time comes I will look to do some ventilation to see if that helps.  Hopefully I can make it until Spring but that all depends on the animals I live with.  I love the cleaner looking carpet, it will never ever be 100% clean but cleaner is good for me.  I’d love to be able to replace it but that would take some serious money and I am not a home improvement kind of guy, so I could easily get taken advantage of.

The witch I work with has been so concerned about my health and how I am doing.  I guess because she thought she would get dumped on with people leaving.  I don’t mind doing the departures it’s intense but fun.  The new hire process is what t-totally sucks ass, your on a scavenger hunt trying to track down information on rights, type of computer, type of phone, where they are going to sit it’s just something I would rather not deal with.  I know it’s apart of my job but that doesn’t mean I have to like it right.  It just means I have to do it.

Looking so forward to the weekend.  I know I need to get all of my hair cut and not sure what is on the agenda after that.  Sort of depends upon how I feel.  Plenty of good TV on tonight, so I should have a great time with the kids.  All of the activity of the day is starting to catch up with me and I am yawning.  I know I can make it, at least until I walk in the door and then I may just collapse. 

What’s for dinner?  Not exactly sure Might be Meatloaf, Might be BBQ.  I haven’t exactly made up my mind.  I know that I have a Wendy’s craving and have yet to go through a drive up for food in my new car.  I wouldn’t eat in the car but I would grab the food and go home.  That might be an idea for tomorrow night. 

Be well & we shall talk again. 

Still going

It’s been a busy week, today feels like Friday but it’s only Thursday.  In any case I got financing for the roof and have put down a deposit.  Now I am waiting for a call back about the permit, the delivery date and the date the contractor will start.  All of this is/was supposed to happen today but I don’t think anyone will call until tomorrow.  If I don’t hear from them then I will be calling them.  They have my money and we have a contract.  Very much to my surprise they give me a week to change my mind but that won’t happen. 

I spoke with my Insurance folks and while my deductable will change there isn’t going to be a refund.  Sounds like I would have been better filing a claim.  While I could do that the ball is in motion and why stop it.  Filing a claim would mean an adjuster would have to come out, then there would be a meeting of the minds and who knows how much of a mess that would make things.  I will certainly sleep better and feel better once the job is done.

I don’t know quite how it happened but I will have some extra money left over when I am done.  I am paying off my consolidation loan so there will only be 1 loan payment and it’s cheaper interest.  Still after doing that I could go do some retail therapy and not have to worry.  Most probably I won’t, I will focus on saving as much as I can.  I do have to go calendar shopping though, outside of that all of my other expenses I hope will be run of the mill.  I could get the truck fixed but I am not eager to go sit in another waiting room anytime soon.  So I will probably put that off for a bit. 

The children have messed up the rug, but we knew that would happen.  The house still has retained most of the benefit from the cleaning that I have done.  Outside of the rug the only other issue is with the table cloth on it’s hard to tell who’s under the table.  Thus far everyone is doing well.  I am concerned about Big Boy (Bear) when the roof goes on, I will probably have to carry him to the basement but we shall see. 

Outside of the roof deal and trying to keep the house clean, everything else in life is going along normally.  Still watching Drop Dead Diva and loving it.  There you have it, now you know as much as I do. 

The afternoon is here and things are dragging by.  Oh my bosses day gift turned out to be a winner.  My boss didn’t even know that bosses day was coming up.  See I suspected that no one did anything for her.  I will take those Brownie points where I can get them.  I am really and honestly thankful for her kind gesture to hire me and just like to remind her that I appreciate what she has done.  Bosses day I think is the perfect day that is taylor made for just that.  BTW its next Friday in case your wondering. 

So on with the afternoon.  Frozen White Castle Cheeseburgers and some ketchup for supper.  To follow with a diet soda and then a little computer time.  Then it will be back to time spent with the children as we prepare for Friday.  Were having pizza catered in tomorrow, so there is something to look forward to as well as the fact its Friday again.  No weekend plans thus far.  Would be nice if I met someone that would change that slightly for me but I am good with napping. 

Talk with you again soon!

Another Weekend

Hi everyone, I hope that your all doing well and that the weather is nice in your neighborhood.  Here we are at the tail end of the weekend.  Saturday’s are so wonderful it feels like time will never end, followed by Sunday and then you know Monday is coming.

Saturday for me was pretty good.  I got the documents for the house.  I am still waiting on the refund check but I am fairly hopeful that it will arrive next week.  If not I will be calling.  I took time out to write letters to the Mortgage company which I worked with, to the parent company of the Title Company, to the State Regulatory Agency and finally a thank you letter to the gentleman who helped me out.  I was thinking about it, his first name turns me on.  I was wondering if perhaps this might be my future partner, I mean stranger things have happened.  I extended a lunch invitation to him if he is in my neck of the woods.  We work a few blocks from each other.  I honestly don’t expect him to take me up on the offer but you never know.  I have no idea what he looks like and I have scoured the internet to try to find a photo a face book page, something that will show me.  No dice. 

I met up with a friend for lunch and we sat and talked for a few hours.  It was a nice time.  I got invited to her sons graduation in June.  He is going to be a State Trooper and the ceremony would be of interest to me.  It will mean 1 or 2 nights away from home but I think I might just be able to swing it.  Not positive yet. 

After lunch was done and I headed home hours had passed since I had eaten so I decided to stop in at Pizza Hut and get what else a Pizza.  It was way too greasy and it was starting to affect my stomach.  I had to quit and thought for sure I was going to barf, but thankfully that didn’t happen.  I made it to the pet food store and got what I needed.  The guy who played me wasn’t there.  I saw another guy who I think likes me.  He always asks me if I need help to the car.  I wanted to say oh do you want to help me to the car?  I know he wouldn’t because his job is a cashier and perhaps he is just being friendly.  He didn’t ask any of the others guys that were in line in front of me.  Maybe I look like an old man to him. 

Sunday I rolled out of bed hit up Steak N Shake for breakfast.  Blueberry Pancakes with Eggs, Sausage and a messed up order of hash browns.  Washed it all down with a Diet Coke.  Then pushed on to the grocery store.  Came home put it all away, realized what I forgot.  Then started on house cleaning.  I got this new urine remover and it does the trick with the urine but not so much with the stain.  I didn’t use it as the instructions said to, I made up my own method.  Which was pouring a good amount into the steam cleaner and mixing it with cold water.  It foamed up like soap.  Then I ran that over the carpet and presto the odor is gone.  I broke out a fan and dried the area really good.  The fan scared the children.  Insty was trapped in the basement and she was screaming but eventually she made it upstairs and past the old wind blower.  I took a nap (big shocker) and then got up and fed them lunch.  I had some left over pizza and then put away the fan.  I put down a pee pad, swapped litter boxes.  I had the bigger box in the living room for Bear but since he doesn’t use it, I moved it back in the hall and put the smaller box in the living room on top of the pee pad.  Then set up his usual pads around it.  Thus far it’s all working and smelling just fine.  The windows are open and air is flowing through the house.  The true test will be when the windows are closed.   I am working on laundry and getting ready for tomorrow.  BBQ Shredded Pork or Beef, don’t remember what I got along with Mac & Cheese for supper.  That is a different meal for me.  Then it will be a dose of Shameless and the season finale of Looking.  Then moving on to bed!

I did catch the finale of Glee.  It was rather interesting.  I am going back and watching it from the start.  I tuned in and got hooked a couple years after it had been on the air.  So I am sure it will be interesting to see the back story.  I also got hooked on a new show called Secrets & Lies starring Ryan Philippe.  I’m telling you he is really buff.  I know he is straight but looking at him hasn’t hurt my eyes one bit.  The show is rather interesting but I’m wondering once the big mystery is solved what the plot of the show will be then or maybe the mystery will never be solved, who knows. 

In the world of on line dating I have discovered that there are chat bots on Grindr.  I have had exactly the same conversation with three different guys.  The big clue is none of them show there complete face.  They all tell me that they have been working out and that my response to them is quick.  They want me to text them so we can exchange photos.  I’ve blocked all three of them.  Now I get random group text messages.  I’m telling you it’s all related and not an odd coincidence.  I pray things don’t get out of hand where I have to change my number.  That will cost me money and I will of course have to notify a bunch of people and I really don’t want to go there.  Not my idea of a good time.  Modern technology though it can be a sneaky thing.  I have taken a chance and reached out to a couple guys.  One guy would barley carry on a conversation which told me he wasn’t really interested.  The others well I am waiting on responses that I am fairly certain will never come.  So the search goes on.  I still think my chances are better in real life than on an app. 

Speaking of which I reached out to a guy that I used to work with.  He just married his husband last year.  I said that I wanted to talk.  We were never really close and I don’t know if he knows I am gay or what happened to me.  He hasn’t responded so I am guessing that I have freaked him out and he thinks that I want to sell him something or that I want to tell him about Jesus.  Both of which are not the case.  My purpose in contacting him was to ask him how to find a guy.  Plus I know he has other guy friends that are gay so who knows maybe something could come of this and maybe not.  It’s a road that I have thought about traveling but have resisted up to this point.  So now I am trying it just to see what happens.  Every day that goes by is a day that I won’t get back and it’s a day that brings the ride of life closer to the end.  Being all alone is nice on some days but overall I need a constant guy in my life and I think it’s more than time to move forward.  I am sure there maybe more heartache in my future and potential breakups, but I will never know if I don’t try.  I am not looking to get married overnight, but I want to start to build something that eventually will work into a marriage.  Knowing the pain of loss I think will make the second relationship/marriage work so much better because I will live it a little different.  Before I knew loss would happen but I didn’t know when and how I would deal with it.  Now I have experienced it I know not to take a second for granted.  I just hope that when I find my prince he can cook because this frozen food is crap and I am ready for some real food every night of the week.

That’s all I have for now.  Moving to put away laundry and prep for supper.  I’ve got some Vanilla Coke Zero for this week.  I am hoping it is really good!  The bills are starting to stack up so that means we are close to the end of the month and another pay cycle, in which my money will vaporize right before my very eyes.  It’s a vicious cycle but I am glad that things are moving in what appears to be an upward direction.  That is the only way I want to go is up, higher & higher each and every day.  Until I reach total and complete happiness. 

Here’s hoping that the roses are blooming in your world and life is treating you well.  I shall talk with you peeps later.  Have a great week!

The Rainbow

The building I work in has a rainbow covered walk way, it looks nice when the sun is out.  At night it’s much better because it’s lighted and all of the colors reflect on to the side walk.  We also have a firepit, that is controlled electronically as well as a wall where water flows down and the lights change colors.  Last night it was beautiful because it was a rainbow of colors.  I’m not sure that the place is trying to display diversity or that they are gay friendly or for gay rights.  However, it’s nice to see the rainbow of color instead of the usual drab colors that fill my daily life.  It was rather uplifting.  Plus it was a crisp night out and just the right amount of wind and chill in the air, perfect night for sitting outside – all though I didn’t do that.

I raced home anxious to see what my bow tie looked like and shoot it’s perfect.  I put it on my polo shirt, like Darin Criss (from Glee) would.  I took a selfie and sent it to a friend.  She said the only thing missing was a smile from my face.  I told her it’s not in my make up to naturally smile.  Plus I was in pain, my back was killing me and the kids didn’t help chirping because they wanted more food.  I didn’t even have my supper yet.  I’ve been told by many people that I should make a conscious effort to smile more.  I find that when I fake it, you can tell 100% that it is fake and not real.  Some people can fake smile their hearts out and you’d never know.  However, I am not one of those people. 

So I am all set for Turkey day.  Got my blue shirt, my red bow tie and probably tan pants that I will wear with my daily shoes and socks.  Hopefully I can get a photo of me smiling.  I’d love to use that for a profile photo – thinking that it just might be the thing to reel in the guys. 

Big Boy came into sleep with me last night and I noticed that he smelled.  He did it again.  Peed on the floor then he sought refuge in my room because he knew once I figured it out I would clean him up.  Which is exactly what happened.  I will be breaking out the steam cleaner this weekend and I am going to look to see if there are bargain pee pads at the store.  I just can’t keep this up, it’s killing me.  I wonder if he is suffering or if this truly is him being lazy?  I mean he moves around the house and seems okay, I don’t hear him crying.  While I know that chances are pretty high that I will have to make the call on when to end his life, that really isn’t a call that I am in any hurry to make.  Losing one just last month is still very fresh.

I wasn’t too happy with TV last night, the Country Music Awards (CMA) were on and that derailed all of the regular programming.  I went through on-demand and found Fluffy the movie.  Now that was worth my time, it was just a little longer than I anticipated and there were 3 minutes at the end that are extra footage that I didn’t get to see.  Still I got a couple of good chuckles out of it and was able to spend time with the furry family.  I did have a little bit of an obsession with my phone but quickly caught it and put it down. 

As I was nearing my house last night I saw flashing lights and it was the police, they stopped someone.  Those lights are so bright that you need to wear sunglasses in order to drive past them.  I try not to focus on them and keep looking straight but it’s not easy.  I get mesmerized by them. 

Today started off really boring and turned really fast paced and interesting.  I am doing some testing with a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.  Oh my gosh that thing is huge.  I really like it for an Android phone.  I went to watch my you tube videos at lunch and man my iPhone screen is small compared to the Note.  I am rushing through the testing in the hopes of returning it to it’s owner so he can get his work email added.  It has to pass out security inspection and I honestly don’t think he will have a problem.  I haven’t been able to strong arm my way through anything, all of the protective measures we put in place work flawlessly.  Now I don’t know how anyone carries around a phone of that size.  I mean it’s like an iPhone 6+.  I understand the need for larger displays but making them easy to carry seems to be left out of the equation.  This device comes with its very own stylus, which is pretty cool.  The screen senses where the device is at and you see a little bubble for a cursor that moves wherever you move the stylus.  Kind of takes me back to the days of a Palm Pilot.  Yeah, that is dating myself – seems as if it was only yesterday.

Very excited that we are once again approaching the weekend.  I have my therapy session, the date with the steam cleaner and hopefully a nap can be squeezed in some where, along with all of my other normal running to do.  I kind of hope that lawn boy shows up this weekend to trim the bushes, he told me it would be 2 to 3 weeks and we are going on a month.  It’s like dude, c’mon.  He is set to mow the grass next week and I honestly don’t see that much growth.  I will take another look at it over the weekend, but I think that this will be his last time mowing for the year, I see no reason to mow, but he would disagree with me.  In that the leaves need to be taken care of.  I tell him the same thing when he brings that up, that is God invented wind and it will take care of the leaves.  It hasn’t failed us yet, year after year this is my approach and it allows me to save money, albeit $60 but it’s better than nothing.  Right now I need to make all of my balances go down as much as possible. 

Tonight is a mail night, perhaps something good will be waiting for me but I suspect it will be junk mail along with bills.  The only real thing I am waiting on is Big Boy’s OTC medicine, outside of that all of my goodies have come in and I have the bills to prove it.  The debt thing is kind of a double edge sword.  I mean I needed the desktop machine and could have done fine with my iPad but since I purchased the laptop I figure I might as well use it.  It’s what I wanted and there were many months worth of scrimping and saving.  I guess if I am back in debt, I did it in style.  Speaking of which on the way in this morning I saw this black Audi sitting on a dealers lot just calling my name out.  My late partner would not be pleased with me because it’s not an American purchase.  I am not buying it just remarking how nice it looked.  I’m sure it’s way out of my price range, even if it is used. 

I’ve got another laptop to configure here at work and I was going to do that today but this phone thing got in the way.  I have a vendor coming to look at a printer and well that pretty well sucks up my time for today.  I will have to try again tomorrow to be able to get this laptop done.  The lease is up soon and I need the old one back.  Thankfully I have a very small number going back, but I am sure as time moves forward the number will increase.  I would like more than a months heads up, 2 months I think is good enough but then again I am not in charge of asset management, I am the worker bee.

Someone asked me yesterday how much I like the phones and I said I could lose them and it wouldn’t bother me.  I do get to talk to a wide variety of people with various issues but I have done my time in customer service and phone queues sitting on a help desk.  I am much more of a Desktop Support Person.  My job has a nice mix in that it’s 1/2 of help desk and 1/2 of desktop support.  You take the good with the bad and there you have the fact of life.  Overall I am very pleased with my decision to become apart of this firm.  The benefits are outstanding and my pay is really good as well.  Now I just pray that it keeps getting better.  Oh speaking of which I did get confirmation that I am approved for PTO the day after Christmas.  No word on the day after New Years but I am hoping for it.  I figure this place will be a ghost town and there really won’t be much going on.  In many companies not much gets done between Thanksgiving and the start of the New Year.  I suspect that will be true here but time will tell.

Okay so time to get ready to hit the bricks and get back to my fun times with computers and cell phones.  Talk with you peeps later. 

Holiday Road

The meal at my friends on the 4th was okay.  I saw them heat up the Pork N Beans so I had some.  Burgers and Brats for meat and they were both undercooked for me.  If there is pink it’s not done!  Taste was average nothing to brag about.  They also had Root Beer Floats for desert which was quite bloating, but good. 

I figured out where the smell in the house was coming from.  A spot where Big Boy went at least two times.  Someone apparently decided to renew the scent.  The bladder on the steam cleaner broke so I had to use the old cleaner and got things taken care of. 

Okay that was Friday.  Now on to Saturday I awoke to the smell of cat urine again.  Someone apparently doesn’t want me to clean up that spot.  I walked into the kitchen to feed them and stepped in a puddle.  I thought it was cat pee.  Nope the garbage disposer broke and there was a small flood in the kitchen.  Who knows how long it’s been building for. 

Needless to say I was not a happy person.  So I got things contained after feeding the monsters.  Then I had some breakfast and went back to bed.  It was a sleepless night and I have no idea why. 

When I woke up I went to Lowes and got a new disposer for $179.  They had lower priced models and that is the route I went before, some 5 to 7 years ago.  I upgraded in the hopes that this one will last a little longer.  Plus it’s quieter not that it matters, since I live alone. 

I am NOT a plumber.  I watched a couple of You Tube videos and figured things out.  My two main problems were lifting the new unit in place so that I could get it mounted.  I was shaking and had used up most of my strength.  Not to mention I had not had lunch and it was pretty late in the afternoon.  I started at around 2 and finally finished around 6pm.  There were considerable breaks and I had to go back out for some parts.  The other problem was getting the plumbing connected and a hose clamp in place.  There was quite the satisfaction feeling when I was done.  Now I have an old unit that I have no idea how to get rid of.  Last time we had to pay someone to install it because the plumbing was all messed up and it required major re-work.  I kind of which I would have called someone to save me the frustration but considering I did this for $199 with tax, I figured I saved at least that if not more by doing the labor myself.  A plumber would have marked up the part and labor, but it would have been done in less than an hour. 

This experience made me realize once again that I am getting older, I am out of shape and that if you set your mind to it, you can do it. 

My next task was to work on the cat urine.  I deep cleaned it again.  Bought some urine remover and put down two applications of that.  There still is some smell left because I think someone re-marked it but right now I am letting things dry out. 

When I was done my reward was watching The Hangover Part III again.  John Goodman gave quite the performance in that.  Then I watched a movie called Private Romeo.  It was a gay version of Romeo and Juliet, cast inside of a military school.  They were talking from the play but watching the performance made me very horny.  It was a good movie!

Today I awoke to find that my side and back are very sore.  My side is throbbing.  So much that I ate a little breakfast, watched TV.  Cancelled what plans I had for today and went back to bed to sleep through lunch.  I woke up in time for supper.  Fed the beggars and had me some left over Hamburger Helper, which I made a few days ago.  I added to much water but it’s actually okay.  Just a little soupy.  I am itching for Mexican food!

I have filed my unemployment claim for the week.  Need to take care of the litter boxes, and then going to sit in front of the TV and watch time pass me by.  Hopefully, I can find something good on TV.  I’ve got a pint of Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream that I think I will consume.  I will be up for a while but hopefully the time will pass quickly because I am ready to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow is a better and more productive day.  Not to mention I need and want a shower.

Thus far no interviews scheduled.  My hope is that changes tomorrow.  I hope you had a good holiday and weekend.  Talk with you peeps later. 

Whiskey Cake

2 more days left for 2012!  I can’t believe the entire week flew by so fast.  It hardly felt like I was on vacation since I was pestered every day.  Thursday and Friday were the worst two days.  I feel like saying I will be taking next week off since I wasn’t allowed to have a vacation last week and p.s. I am turning off my phone.  You will just have to get along without me for a week.  While it’s tempting I am NOT going to do that because it probably would end in a permanent vacation for me, which is something I don’t want.

My partner spilled cream soda on the carpet, woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me what are we going to do about it.  I said I’m going back to bed, we will deal with it in the morning.  He didn’t care much for that answer.  I dealt with it the next day by renting a carpet machine. 

Working with the machine around the house sure did make my back sore.  I did most of the work last night.  I had a little bit left today and decided to hit my recliner again, wow it’s really clean now. 

I mentioned to my partner that I increased Big Boy’s medicine and he would probably have diarrhea and of course it wouldn’t be until after I returned the machine.  Well, Big Boy is fine but my partner just had an accident.  You won’t believe me.  Red Paint all over the carpet in his computer room.  !@#$% and FUCK.  Yes bright RED paint.  It’s suppose to be water soluble but there is a good portion of it that didn’t come up.  I used our Spot Bot in hose mode.  Tried Oxy Cleaner, Hydrogen Peroxide and Lighter Fluid along with plenty of water.  Got lots of it up but you can tell clearly that something occurred.  It’s like a bad fruit punch stain.  Then I find out he tracked some of it through the rest of the house.  I’m ready to kill him!

Between work and home I am ready for a vacation now.  Calgon or someone please take me away.

The children are stirring now they want food.  We don’t have too much of that.  Speaking of food, we went out to TGI Friday’s tonight.  We had Whiskey Cake for dessert.  It was damn good but so not work $6.  I just wish we had a whole cake for home.  I’d also take one to work just to be a show off.  I will give in a bit but I am working on of all things, yup you guessed it laundry.  Still don’t have my bathroom clean but there is a tomorrow and I think I can make that happen then.  Kind of depends upon how sore I am and how much sleeping I actually do. 

Good news is I can officially put away all of my short sleeve shirts.  It’s winter now!  We got some snow and ice but it’s not much to cause any problems.  The grassy areas and cars outside got the worst of it.  Streets are clean and clear.  We are supposed to have another winter storm rolling in but I don’t believe it until I see it.  Too many false alarms.  Plus what can I do about it?  Not a damn thing!

Oh I got some Tri Comfort Orthotics from Dr. Scholl's off of Amazon.  I had to buy them in a 3 pack for $27 but so far they are working.  My feet feel pretty good.  Hopefully they provide continued relief.  My only concern is the TSA when I travel in a couple weeks.  I don’t see where it will be a problem but who knows.  They are some picky folks at times.  On my last trip I left all of my liquids packed away, no one said a word to me.  It’s just such a hassle, you practically have to disrobe for them. 

Speaking of Amazon, my sheets look really good!  I changed my comforter to a tie dye comforter that I have hardly used.  The cats were kind of taken back because it was so bright.  There is no hiding for them on this comforter. 

I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be hard to get back into my routine of W E S (work eat sleep) but within a week I should be able to snap back to it.  Grocery store time tomorrow, fun times!

Sure have spent a lot on this vacation.  Eating out a lot and the damn vet really killed me.  If it wasn’t for the vet I would actually be in pretty good shape.  Just got my other credit card bill, the one with my guys truck repairs on them.  No matter what you do there always seems to be an unplanned expense come up to take your money. 

Well off to do some surfing and then back to my Roku box which is how I view Amazon, Netflix and Hulu.  Interesting all of the variety available.  Was watching season 1 of the Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency.  Wow, did she have some hot male models!  Too bad they only have season 1 on Hulu.  I wanted to watch it from start to finish.  She was a loud mouth but that is part of what made it good for TV.  That’s where I first heard the name Paul Vandervort.  Damn I am so in love with his body!  Okay, time to hang up the Corbin Fisher calendar and take a cold shower! :)

You peeps take care, enjoy what is left of this year.  I hope that next year is better for all of us.  I don’t set resolutions because they never work out.  So I will talk with you peeps later!

Day 1 @ 41

As you can gather by the title, today is day 1 at 41.  Not much new from a life perspective.  Feels like it always did, just another day!

I spent my birthday cleaning the carpet in the house.  I rented a Bissell Big Green Deep Cleaning Machine.  All I can say is DAMN!  This place was filthy.  My hands and my back are killing me.  I started last night around this time and didn’t finish up until a little after 11pm.  My partner said pace your self and rest.  I told him if I stop that’s it – I don’t have a resume button.  I wanted to be done.  The carpet looks new, no kidding.  I also couldn’t get over the amount of fur that came out of the carpet.  The Dyson isn’t doing as good of a job as I thought.

We had it for 24 hours but took it back this morning to get that task out of the way.  I see a few spots where I missed, but I can get them next time.  Yeah, were going to rent one of these again.  If your thinking about carpet cleaning, look this up on-line.  If you have a Lowe’s near by you should be able to rent one with no problem.  The solution that I got with it was Pet formula and that is what ran the bill up.  Rental was only $24.  Just as I predicted Big Boy pooped on the carpet upstairs and his brother Jumper threw up downstairs.  Just new that would happen!

So my neck isn’t bothering me as much but my lower back is killing me.  As my partner would say I am stiff in all the wrong places!

Today I went to get a better pillow.  I had no idea you could pay a small fortune for a single pillow.  I grabbed a goose down pillow that was labeled as extra firm.  I didn’t know they were talking about the price.  I got to the register and the total was $85 I about crapped a goose.  Okay so I will try it, I mean it can’t hurt me other than my wallet and my nose.  I don’t think I will be allergic to it.  For the price I paid it should hump me, talk to me and help me fall asleep.  DAMN!

I got my hairs cut and used my $5 off birthday coupon.  I picked up some Paul Mitchell Shaping Cream and a bar of the body soap.  Guys, seriously you should try the Tea Tree Body Soap – use it on your junk, let it sit for a minute and tingle.  It’s the best part of the shower for me.  Your whole body tingles with this soap and you don’t feel all sticky afterwards like you would with normal soap.  Good Stuff!

Used my Netflix to watch some interesting TV.  I saw a comedian who was just okay, I don’t remember his name.  I watched a movie called 9/11 Loose Change.  That film will make you think!  I had to watch it twice, the 2nd time with my partner.  Who said it was all BS but I can’t say I believe that with the preponderance of the evidence.  I’ve seen another film similar to it.

So much to my dismay I called up Lawn Boy and his fine ass and body will be here on Wednesday to give the lawn a much needed hair cut.  All of this rain has made it grow and grow.  Were back on his schedule.  Whoopee!  We think he will get us for 4 times, which won’t be too bad.  I heard that with the drought he was hurting for money plus he got married last month.  I can’t imagine him hurting for money, he is totally loaded!

3 whole days pretty much gone.  I can’t believe it.  We did do a lot of eating out this weekend.  We did manage to go for pie.  We were both so stuffed that we had to take home a pie, no room after the delicious meal we had.  That was a nice get away.  I didn’t like driving in the rain so much, made me think we should have built an ark and rounded up the children.  Rain is the big word for weather around here and it’s going to do it most of the week.  Glad I will be asking to go on the road this week, that is if nothing gets in my way.  Just a short one day trip but one day out of the office is better than none.

Found a cool new app for my iPhone called Pinger.  It’s free text messaging.  Plus you get an e-mail address with it.  So friends can send you picture messages.  Just take your mobile number and put @mobile.pinger.com behind it and viola there you are.  If you have a friend who has e-mail but you want to carry on a conversation with, give them that e-mail address and you can talk back with them.  Plus the best part is it’s free.  Just like the other app you get an alternate number that you can use for calls and voice mail but you have to pay for minutes.  I just need free texting with the mms option.  Ha Ha to MA BELL I beat you at your own game. 

Right now I am doing laundry and off to surf the web for my regular reads, porn and whatever else I can get into.  Oh yeah, I should check on jobs.  I can’t believe that my job is still posted and it’s been 30+ days.  I will feel so much better if/when they take that down.  However, until I get comfortable with them I am not going to stop looking.  Simply a matter of trust and I don’t trust them at all.  I mean do you blame me?  Look at the way I have been treated and how they have treated other people.  I’m thankful for what I have but I can’t afford for it to vaporize out of the clear blue.

Speaking of which when I was at the store getting that pillow the lady hounded me about opening a department store credit card and told me it only takes 90 seconds.  I declined.  However, based on some of her words and the promotions this place runs I decided to apply for one on-line.  They didn’t say I was declined but based on the response I got I already know the answer.  That’s okay I’ve got one credit card and it’s getting it’s fair share of use.  I honestly don’t need more than one.

I hope that you enjoyed this weekend. 4 days and then were back to having a weekend again!  Now too bad every week couldn’t be like that.  Just think the next major holiday we will celebrate here in the US is Thanksgiving.  I’m debating if we want to do the same thing as last year w/friends or if we should just go it alone.  Time and money will tell.

Take care and I will talk with you peeps later!