Remember when I said I was being tested last week, what with the a/c breaking on Friday, finding out I had no home warranty on Saturday, then getting the a/c fixed, then the a/c breaking and getting fixed again on Sunday, then the garage door opener falling from the sky, then the fridge going kaput, then getting the a/c really fixed on Tuesday despite smoking out a transformer in the process, then buying a new fridge on Tuesday, then the a/c breaking on Wednesday with Marco the Great in O Canada, then me fixing it my own damned self, then begging and borrowing lawn instruments and mowing in the dark and Mgirl painting and almost getting her head cut off in the ceiling fan (yup, there is a fan in my bathroom!)then……

I GET IT!! I’ve been faithful and strong and full of belief!!! I totally get whatever lesson I’m supposed to learn. I am SOOOOOOOOOO learned in this lesson, I could TEACH IT! SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop with the testing. Because tonight is my party. And at this point I’ve counted about 50 people who are going to be here. And the high today is about 95. And I’m on the stressed out bathroom gurggly stomach diet right now.

I canna take no more!!

I need a drink. and a hot dog. and some stress relief. So everyone cross something, light something on fire, do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight and hope that everything goes smoothly.

Tomorrow is SEX AND THE CITY viewing. I can’t tell you how difficult it’s been to keep my beak out of info and stay uninformed about the return of my girls. I accidently found out one MAJOR bit and I’m PISSED. fucking internet reporter who spoiled it without a spoiler alert!!!!! But maybe his a/c had gone out.

and WTF?!?!? ANOTHER crane crash in our beloved city??? Girls. Please be sooo careful. Apparently the sky IS falling and not just in my world.

Ok. It’s 7am and I’m going out to finish mowing the front yard. I finished purple painting the bathroom lat night. It is freakin Skittle purple awsomeness. . . just as I hope your Saturday is. Huzzuah and Happy Saturday. I love you, and I love George Clooney.

I am.
beat down.
out.

the a/c broke again last night. Marco the Great is in fuckin Canada. QueenE, bless her, was running interference and making calls but at the end of the day, I re-rigged it myself to stay on until I turn it off at the breaker box. I’m being tested and I’m not failing this time. Not. At. All.

Today was a long one. Thursdays are 9-7. I did take some time for lunch and a pedicure instead of weighing in this week. needed new party feet. MGirl finished the final bathroom purple painting touches. Seige loaned me his mower and I did the back yard pretty much in the dark tonight. Spence loaned me his weedeater and I got that done. I am so blessed by these friends of mine.

Truly. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I’m tired of the stressing. I’m ready for the par-tay!!! I want to see all my friends and have a cold beer. Chrome, please do not worry one single solitary bit about a gift or being on time. All I want and need is time with you when it is possible!!! Rog, thank you for your kind offer but I got the fridge covered. You are an angel!

Got some good news tonight..ExHim’s daughter, aka ExKid is ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED!!! I just burst out into tears when she called. She called her mom, dad, brother best friend and then me. How cool that I made the top five?!?!? Man. Amazing. When I met her she was all of 16 or 17. Beautiful girl. Woman. whew.

I want to comment and talk about Kizz’s post about the energy crisis but kids, I don’t have the brain space. Hopefully next week. On many things. posting pics, bla bla bla.

I’m done. I’m ready for tomorrow, having an evening with BonusMom and BonusAunt. (she took the two boys to the frontier today so they won’t be freaked by the party. Kikimama went Houdini on us and is here with me tonight) We are going to the theatre to see Inspecting Isabel. My friend Kris is in it. Yay!!! Living life in the metro area to its fullest!!

This week almost ate me. I’m ready for a break.

Huzzuah and halakaleem and I love George Clooney. I’ve lived thru yet another woman. Pat on the back for Zelda.

He’s Single.

I’m waiting.

You know, my bed is a virgin. My sheets are virgins. My house is virginal.

It’s time to break this mother in….I’ve been saving it for the right person…

This wouldn’t be cause for a VPO, do you think???

I don’t care what you keep in your Fridgidare, but you will not keep LIQUOR in mine!!</blockquote

I got a new fridge last night. Thought I’d have it delivered but they were about a week behind on deliveries, and the earliest it would be there would be Saturday. No bueno. So, I went to the bar, borrowed a dolly from ExHim, dad got the old broke down one out of the house, we went and picked up the new one. (I LOVE LOWES) got it loaded in, and did a nice little covert drop off of the old fridge in the back of the store at around 11pm last night! HA!

I got 12 months no interest no payments, so again, we’ll just forget about paying for just a little while.

It’s pretty cool.

painting the bathroom and stained the grow-old-with-me-chair today before work. tings are looking great!! have a great day everyone!

My refrigerator went out yesterday. Completely gone. This would, on any normal weekend, be enough to send me into spasims. However, after the a/c breaking…twice…and the cats being gone all night, and the garage door opener thingy falling almost on my head, and working and sweating our balls off all weekend long…it’s just par for the course. I’m feeling very Tom Hanks today. Feeling very. . . this:

Dad arrives today to do a list of tasks for the house. Hopefully he will have a miraculous idea for the fridge. I have a big ass party on Saturday and may possibly need something bigger than the little one in the office. Breathing in….breathing out.

On another note…I’m deeply saddened for the passing of Sydney Pollack.

What a talent. Without him we would have never had these:

ok. well my computer just jacked up…my internet is funky. I’ll try to repost this tonight. have a great day everyone! Huzzuah and Happy Tuesday and I love George Clooney…ya think he has a fridge I could have?

So, Marco the Great came over yet again. Rigged the machine to never shut off. The only way I can stop it is at the breaker box. Fine. By. Me. Yesterday was cool as a cuke all day and night. After he left, Mom and Bonusdad went out to decorate the graves and MGirl and I went to Paseo for a little bit.

I bought a few pieces of art, one for the yard, one for the kitchen and one for my beer bottles. Heh. Will try to post pics soon. We then hit the bar for some shade, and a/c and adult beverage before they got back. Bonusdad installed blinds in the living room, dining room and my bedroom. It’s soooooooooooooo nice. Really makes the room look good. Mom and I are drape hunting today. We found my comforter set as well. My bedroom looks gorgeous. Very girlie, which is a surprise to even me. Lots of purples and silvers and pewter blues. I found the whole set for 118 bucks. Mom paid close to 500 for hers so I feel like it was a good deal. Anyways, we then went to grocery shop because I decided to host a StepFamily Cookout/Reunion last night. Spur of the moment, yes, but Bonusdad never gets to spend time with his family. When they are here, it’s rush rush rush around. I thought it would be good and we had about 16 adults and 6 children. I cooked hamburgers and hotdogs. People brought deserts and chips and ice and cups and the only thing we really needed more of were lawn chairs. But whatever. We threw down blankets and said have at it. Mgirl was a total trooper running interference and setting up foodstuffs and NOT killing any kids.

Believe me. Between the two of us…we could have had us a trophy case filled with them. Ugh.

So everyone motored outta here after 10pm last night and we all crashed.

In other news, I’ve let the cats out into the world. Yesterday was the first full day of coming and going and they are all good and safe and loving their newfound freedom.

Today consists of putting up the gazebo/awning thingy. Bonusdad returns to Arkansas. Mom and I go find frames for two things, drapes, and I buy some stain for my “grow old with me chair” and we come back home and paint the bathroom and the chair and do some general touching up. Laundry is in order as well. I’m really concerned about my big fridge, but have the smaller one that Rog and Ma gifted me. My big fridge was used when Gert and I bought it for our bookshop many many years ago so it could be out of coolant, or just freakin tired of working. I can’t really think about it yet, and am just kind of ignoring it. I can move stuff to the little fridge if it gets too bad. Dealing with that tomorrow.

Happy Memorial Day ya’ll. Hope yours if full of rest, and play and friends and laughter. This week may eat me with party preps etc. Still haven’t seen Iron Man or Indy. Go see either of them in my place today if you get free time! Huzzuah and Happy Monday!

I think God is testing me.

the a/c is off again. Now we know it’s the switch. Marco the Great is coming over, yet again. bless his heart. have I mentioned this is his last weekend with his fam before he flys to Canada…and it’s a FREAKIN HOLIDAY?!?!?!?! He hates me. I know it. Quite frankly, I don’t blame him. I kind of hate me now, too.

And I just closed the garage door and the plastic cover of the door opener fell right smack to the floor.

I just closed the door and turned off the light.

Operation Ostrich….activate. Head. Sand. Insert.

Happy Sunday ya’ll.

so when last we spoke I was hotttttttttt and cranky and about to leave for work and call my warranty company. Well I did. After waiting on hold for 15 minutes straight I spoke with a kind young gentleman named Clay. We do the whole info trade and update and bla bla bla….oh wait! I don’t have a warranty so he cannot help me!

Do what?

My application expired on May 7. My TITLE COMPANY DIDN’T REMIT PAYMENT SO THEY CANCELED MY COVERAGE.

I almost had a stroke right there. I went into the bathroom at work and started crying. Just defeated is what I felt. I stupid, like I missed some vital piece of info at my closing and let something slip thru the crack. I have house guests and they are sweating their balls off and all of this is somehow my freaking fault. Defeat. But, I have a friend at the title company who is going to help me figure it all out and get things straight next week. I have paperwork. I have proof. They have to fix it!

Marco the Great swept in on his stallion and oh hell, it was a glitch in the switch and halakaleem it’s fixed. It’s a very nice cool 72 degrees in my home right now. Delicious. Between he and QueenE, sharing their time with me when theirs is limited (he leaves for his homeland of Canada on Tueseday) I am indebted and eternally grateful.

It’s good to have friends.

That was all before about 11 this morning. The rest of my day was back to back booked until 5 then I came home and we went to eat mexican food. Muy buien. Hit the Walmark for about 300 buck worth of stuff for me casa. Drapes. rod thingys to hold the drapes on the wall. (we got the drapes home and boo. they don’t work. so taking them back tomorrow and finding new.) bought blinds for all the windows. Bonusdad will put them up tomorrow. Bought some lamps and shades. some bathroom towels and mats etc. some Hercules Hooks to hang the Picasso and all the other hanging stuff. If you have not ever used these babys…DO SO!!! amazing. totally worth whatever they cost. Got some other stuff done and hung. It’s looking like a home. I have no place to put my pics though and that’s bothersome. Not art pics, but pic pics. friends. family. everything. they were all on the piano, but Kikimama has made that her lair, trying to escape from the retched boys so that wasn’t working. Plus…too much. So anyways gotta find somewhere for that.

Tomorrow they are going to the graves and lay flowers. I am opting out. MGirl and myself could meet up with Mandrea and whomever and hit Paseo Arts Fest tomorrow while they do that. MUST go visit my fav artists the Garden Deva!
Then it’s buy curtains paint return air vent covers and reapply to walls. hang blinds. curtains. buy some frames for bedroom poster/art. get groceries and cook out tomorrow night with the fam and extended fam. We have a list of stuff to do but by gum we’re doing it!!! Oh we need to paint that damned bathroom too. that’s on the list.

This is boreing for you to read, I just realized i was listing pretty much to clear my own mind. Good grief.

Hey we had a shitload of tornados around here today. We’re fine. No metro. No Frontier. Family is good. No worries here.

happy saturday night. this time last week pretty sure i was falling down. ahhhh liver appreciation….

Shout out to Joe for running code red delivery of fans to my house today. Mom has one on her now as she is sleeping in the guest room and just wants more cool. thanks babe. you are way cool, ya know?

my a/c is out.
to the point that I think it just waited for me to move in and then collapse.
i have a home protection plan…and just waiting for another hour to call during office hours.
i tried to look it up online last night, but it said it didn’t recognize my plan number.
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. please let this have been just a glitch and not something that got dropped and is now defunct.

my mom and bonusdad are here. sweating balls. laid out under the ceiling fan in the living room.

the cats are hot.

i’m hot.

this has to be fixed today…Marco the Great is coming over to do some working and hopefully it’s just a flick of a flicker but if it’s not, he goes back home to Canada on tuesday.

damnit.

someone say a prayer for me.

cuz cranky pants are the only thing I can find to wear this morning.

Home for a change of clothes after the funeral and before a full book at work.

We buried one of our mothers today. Gert was there with me. There were four other girls from high school there to support Delb, as well. The church was packed. The ceremony was fine…I detatched and zoned into someplace that was so inapropriate that I cringe to say it and don’t dare type it…but after it was over, we circled the pews and did the walk past the family and the casket. We got to hug, and show here that we were there. I love that whole family, both kids and Delb are also clients, and Jerry the hubby…solid as a rock. I am shaken to the core. We are too young to lose our mothers. We all are too young. I cried all the way back to OKC…finally under control but have one of those crying headaches? pfffffffft.

two more things.

open caskets. Now people, I cannot think of one single solitary human who says to me, I like that part of the funeral. . . yet it always seems to happen. So here’s my ultimatum. If this is what’s going to happen, somebody have the good damned sense to stick a cardboard cutout of George Clooney in there beside me to give everyone a good chuckle and me a great send off. Agreed? cool.

I went to ww to weigh in right when I got back to OKC.

I lost 2.4 lbs this week.

For the first time in probably 5 years…I am under 200 pounds. I don’t give my weight here, never have. Maybe when I get closer to skinny and sexy I will, but for now that number is mine. I own it. But the fact that this happened, and today. Well. I thought I’d share. It’s miniscule compared to the grief and shattered lives that are going on around me. But within the chaos…life begins anew.

Have a great afternoon ya’ll. Mom and Bonusdad tonight thru the weekend so sporadic posting at best. Love and light and Halakaleem and somebody find a cutout of my George and put in in the closet for backup funeral plans!!!