Summer nights, under the stars, hanging with my Pseudo Sisters and about 5096 other people…tonight! 

just how much coffee I will need to gulp down in order to make it till five pm?

what I’m going to wear to the Tim McGraw/Lady Antebellum concert tomorrow night?

if it’s gonna rain tomorrow at said outdoor concert?

how tomorrow’s premiere of TRUE BLOOD will be?

why Kikimama has the runny poo?

if ANYTHING will stop the bird killing at mi casa? (two yesterday. one outside one inside. all three cats are wearing collars with bells.)

when I will get to mow my front yard like my neighbor is doing?

if the A-Team movie is any good?

what I’ma gonna do tonight?

I’ll keep you posted as I get answers.

The past two days have whooped my butt. Seriously. Lotta hair to bang, but the tips have been good and I’ve been paying bills each day so…I appreciate your mojo that you’ve been sending my way. Muy appreciato.

I had to kick Laurie Partridge and her tambourine out of my room last night. She’s pissed at me but I slept like the dead. Till about 6:30 when Sammy came meowing his butt in my room…I found him waiting patiently in front of his bowl as I stumbled into the kitchen. Oy.

As usual I checked under the table for a carcass, CLEAR!!! Grabbed my java and headed outside for my morning ritual of watering and deadheading and talking to all the plants. Stormy is laid out in the middle of what grass I have…and shit the bed. There’s a baby bird. Almost dead. DAMNIT!!!!! I’m only hoping that it fell out of the next and we didnt have any cradle robbing going on…shit shit shit. I throw my hands up in defeat!

Today I have a few appointments, with openings for more. Tonight I have a wedding to bartend. Tomorrow another full day of banging hair then WEEKEND!!!! Ahhhhhh. I’m still doing well and keeping up my chores for the week so I can laze about on the weekends. This Sunday is the Tim McGraw/Lady Antebellum concert! I’m excited about that!!!

ok…that’s it from me. I need more coffee.

We’ve all known that my cats (Sammy in particular) has a penchant for killing. This week, I heard the last squawks of a pretty pretty cardinal and had to clean up the mess BEFORE I went to work…ENOUGH! Collars and bells for EVERYONE!!!

Why don’t you keep collars on your cats you ask? Well. They get rid of them. They last for a few days, then poof. They come home sans jewelry. One month, I spent 40 bucks keeping them in collars. Finally I threw up my hands and said Fuggadaboutit.

We are trying it again.

Upside is, third day in a row and all three still wearing them. NO BIRDS!!! dead or alive in my house.

Downside? The one woman tamboruine band at the head of my bed where Kikimama has taken up residence each night. For the love….finally about 4am I just pushed her off the bed. Santas sleigh constantly in my ears. Couldn’t go back to sleep, as my brain IMMEDIATLY started with The List.

“contractors: roofer, painter, guttering…send in reciepts for grill…do I replace the umbrella or buy the hammock? what am I going to make and take for lunch tomorrow? am I really going to finish that book I started last night? It’s not doing it for me”

rattle and hum.

I was asking Hawk just yesterday…how did we become Those People? The ones that are wound so tight that the voices and the lists and the guilt make it almost impossible to even at the minimun…get a good nights sleep??? Seriously. If I ever get a vacation…it will take me the first three days to just chill out before I can enjoy anything! Sheesh. Just amazing.

So now, I’m sippin my coffee. I always feel a little bit of accomplishment when I set it up to automatically finish making by the time I wake up. I have a fairly busy day. 9-8 so it’s a long one. I’ll take a break this afternoon and try to remember to go across the street to the mall and pick up my contacts that have been at the dr.’s office for a month now…maybe run an errand or two.

In wrapping up, today is Laura’s Birthday!!! Wahoooo! Happy Happy Happy day to you my dear girl. Enjoy Chicago. Enjoy Michigan Avenue. Enjoy all of it!!!

Last night was a great night celebrating a co-worker’s birth. We went out to one of our lakeside restaurants, sat on the patio since that was the only way all 12 or so of us could sit together…we smothered and sweated and laughed and ate until we could absolutely eat no more…stuffed poblano peppers, crusty skillet cornbread, roasted chicken enchiladas, crisp house salads, grilled shrimp…my end of the table just pretended we were family and started snacking and tasting everyone else’s plate…it was hysterical! The evening ended with a spectacular sunset over the lake and homemade carrot cake with creme cheese icing! Whew! SO FREAKIN GOOD!

The Birthday Girl was happy, she looked fabulous, we feted her with pretty presents for her trip this week…it was good. The only fly in the ointment was…

GOD SAVE ME FROM GIRLS WHO WORK THAT WHOLE “LET ME FLIRT FOR A FREE DRINK” ANGLE!!!!

This was a birthday celebration, and two girls just thought it was a night out to balls it right up! Slugging down cocktails. Talking to the loner man at the bar, accepting free drinks, then wondering what the hell he’s doing when he plops down at our table and trys to join the party. It was embarrassing. It was loud. It was unnecessary…At one point we were all trying to ignore the weirdo at the table and murmuring sweet compliments about how nice it was to get out together, someone said “why don’t we do this more often?”

THE GUY SITTING AT THE TABLE IS WHY WE DONT DO THIS MORE OFTEN!!!!!

Gross. Gross undignified behavior.

At one point one girl moseys over to a table of three men, and starts chatting them up. Clearly this is headed south. Oh and by the way? That girl? MARRIED. The other girl? IN A RELATIONSHIP.

GROSS BEHAVIOR. Have we not evolved? Can we not just go out, have A glass of wine and dinner and be civilized? MUST we unleash our inner fuckwit???

I left early. I was running out of patience and was so full I just needed to be horizontal on the couch. Glee finished it’s first season last night with an ALL JOURNEY performance! And tears…woah and woah the tears! It was good. I went to bed and finished this book:

I’ve been plowing through the summer reading and I’m LOVING IT!!! I saw this at Big Lots yesterday

it was 99 bones. I could have that in the yard, laying out and reading…

it’s on the wish list.

Other things on my wish list? For women to quit setting ourselves back a gillion years by working that “flirt flirt buy me a drink” thing.  For the rain to come early in the week and leave the weekend alone. . . and for your humpday to be full of a bit of joy and a really great laugh.

Here’s a little Glee for your day. MUAH!

It’s been slim pickins around work this past week, so I’m hoping for a busy one starting today. I need some tips to throw at the bank. So…everyone put that in your meditation pipe and smoke it for me, k?

Last night I did my Inaugural Grill with my brand new shiny toy! Its beautiful. And big. And cooked an amazing salmon burger that I got from the fish market…Chris and Cindy were over for co-op sharing and the meal, grilled corn, po’boy potatos on the grill, and the burgers made us absolutely happy. SO GOOD.

I’m going to dinner for a co-workers birthday tonight, but I’ve got stuff to grill up for the rest of the week! YummmmmOH!!!

Meanwhile, I MOWED MY BACKYARD yesterday! I realize this isn’t the most groundbreaking of news, but considering what I started with…it’s looking pretty good. I’m still concerned about my garden…but maybe I will try to move some things around this week…we’re getting pleanty of sunshine and I”m watering daily…just waiting to see.

Okiedokie! I’m off to get ready for the day! Happy Tuesday, ya’ll!

Please.

Never take my commenting on my second job as complaining.

I’m not

Ever

Sometimes I make goooood extra $$$ in tips.

Sometimes all I make is the wage.

it is always more than I walked in with.

never complaining. ever. its gonna dry up in July…and I will be happy and freaked right out..but come August/Sept…it will be just fine!

never.

complaining.

do you have that noise? do you hear the buz buz buzzzzzzz? It sounds a lot like “you need to.” –“you really should have”–“you ought to”–“you HAVE GOT TO”….do you hear it?

I do.

a few times a week a lot constantly…EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF MY LIFE.

Yesterday I worked at the salon and had two no show’s. Then I got my new grill!!! SHINY! Then I drove to BatShitCrazyTown and bartended for the 8th weekend in a row. ***

This morning I woke up with urgency. Who the HELL wakes up with urgency on their “saturday” and starts running lists of shit to do?

Me. That’s who.

I got up, cleaned the kitchen, watered the front and back yard, talked to all the plants, sorted laundry, started laundry, cleaned my vanity in my room. Went to Sam’s, filled all the way up with gas, gathered provisions in mass quantities  and came home.

So. Much. To. Do.

more laundry. more yard. more helping out at a friends…well. well. Ok. There was  an obligation that I was supposed to attend…but by the time I stopped with the putting up of the provisions, folding the laundry, dusting and cleaning…I was WIPED. DONE.

FINITO.

So I called M’Lynn…and she said “come on over!”

and I did.

and Purple Pool commenced.

I cannot begin to describe the tension that I began the day with…and how I feel right now. Yes. I am tipsy typing. Yes, I’ve had some sun and Vitamin D intake. Yes I ate homemade ceaser salad and homemade pizzas….but gentle readers…let me just tell you…

My Give A Shit??? almost non-existent. true story.

I am  still broke ass. I am still learning lessons about life and escrow and gardening and family and bills and plumbing and boys.

But I know…I KNOW FOR SURE…that the one thing that will get you through the day/week/month…is a true friend. and a cold beer. and a home with a great air conditioner.

true.

story.

my garden has stalled. I’ve fertalized. I’ve kept water. It’s hotter than ass out there. All things that should make a garden grow…things are growing but I have zero blooms, blossoms, or any signs of production…

I’m worried about it.

New Roof!

New Paint for the siding and window sills!

New roof for the little shed!

All good news. They cut me a check for almost 200.00 personally to cover the new landscape lights, a new umbrella for the patio furniture. Perhaps a new flamingo…or the $ will go into the pergola fund. I’m still delving through it. I’ve got a roofer. It’s a local company, been around for 30 years. I know the son from back in my bar days, and he and I remain close friends, so I trust. That’s the important thing. I trust them. Plus, they’ve got so much $ going out, waiting for banks to return the insurance checks…(did you know that the big check is made out to me and my mortgage company? I can have mine endorsed locally at my branch. Some banks, you have to send the check in and wait for them to send you the money back) Anyways, I’ll be able to fund the roofer asap, which will be in my favor.

I am going to make some calls re: a painter as well.

The good thing about this is the adjuster gives you an itemized list of what they’re paying for and how much with little subtotals at the end of each section. So I know what I have to spend on Roof. Shed Roof. Paint. that’s nice. If the contractor finds that it’s not enough, we call the adjuster again. But I don’t forsee that happening.

This is all good news. I’ve learned a few things about the process and feel good about what I will be able to get done on the house. Any money that’s “left over” will build the pergola! Wheeee! Or pay bills. We’ll just see how it works out.

In other news, my garden is just kind of stuck. Tomatos are just stuck. Not growing. Not blooming. Nothing else is doing much…I’ve given it the super duper food that BonusMom bought me…I just don’t know if the weather has been hot enough? or if it’s something else…I will just keep watering and loving and we’ll see!

I’ve been reading again. Lots and lots. Nora Roberts (my guilty pleasure) Harlen Coben. I found a new series about Irish History and may start that. I picked up some Michner…historical fiction is one of my faves. There are lots of new titles to read this summer and at this rate, I’ll get to them!

Work has been a little slow this past week…last pay period sucked but thank GOD I have the bartending gig. I’ve been able to really throw money towards big bills and am now starting from scratch on the nest egg again, but at least I can do it!!!

Ok…I’m getting more coffee and going to throw in a load of laundry. I’ve been trying to do all my weekend chores during the week. (I did NOTHING last weekend) So that I can be lazy by the pool and catch a movie without guilt this next weekend. Have a great Thursday people! You Normals…you’re almost there!!!