Does anyone remember me? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't. I sort of pulled what my grown daughter calls one of my "disappearing acts" there for awhile. In my defense, weak as it is, I had to reconnect with that thing called being a grown-up.
I don't like it. Please don't make me do it again for this long.
- We've been househunting - again. Or, at least, what my husband calls househunting. We find one we like, I tell him "let's go for it," he says, "I want to think about it for a bit," and by the time the snail of decision makers has made up his mind, the house is sold to someone else. I swear, I'm just gonna buy one, and then say, "TA-DA!" Just so we can get this tediousness out of the way.
- Oldest son is a sophomore in college this year (I know, "yay" and all that), and needed a laptop. I had an older IBM Thinkpad that wasn't anything fancy, but it worked like a charm, so I gave it to him. Three days after I gave him my laptop the processor on my desktop fried itself, and I was left without a computer for awhile. (This is the third desktop I've fried either the processor or the motherboard. I'm beginning to wonder if I have some sort of reverse polarity thing going on or something). I had JUST sent oldest son $800 for a desktop - he's a computer science major, he needs it - so broke doesn't even begin to describe my finances at the time, especially after paying his tuition for this semester.
- Some dipshit backed out of a driveway right into the front corner of my Montero, pulling the bumper down a bit and smashing the windshield washer reservoir. His insurance was some damn company I'd never heard of, and it took literally months to get them to agree to pay for the damages, even after I took the damn thing to the shop they do business with to get one of the estimates. At the Mitsubishi dealership the estimate was $635, another place it was $642, and then at the shop they sent me to (another dealership), it was $629. Wanna know how much the check was that they sent me? $230. I finally had to have my lawyer give them a call to get the damn thing fixed and paid for. Sheesh - bunch of idiots.
- We adopted another puppy. I didn't want to. Husband didn't want to, but....these dumbass people were, in their words, I swear, "either going to take her out somewhere in the boondocks and drop her off (apparently to starve to death), or shoot her." I couldn't stand it so I came home one night with a HUGE puppy in my lap. I'm not sure what breed she is, but she's a shepherd mix - we named her Bella:
- We already have one dog: a year old (or thereabouts) pit bull/lab mix - Marley. Bella looks like she's maybe six months old, and she lacks only an inch or so being the same size, so we figure she's gonna be a big girl. It was touch and go for the first few days whether they were going to be able to get along, but they're best friends now, sleep all curled up together, etc. Let me tell you...NOBODY comes in our backyard without being invited. *grin*
- Finally got my tax return back so I was able to get a computer - of sorts. I just bought a used tower - figured with my track record there wasn't any sense in buying anything brand new. It still left us a computer short, though, since the youngest savage is spending more and more time online, so without telling my husband (I'm a bad, bad girl), I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I told him this long story about how my stepdad bought a new laptop and was giving me his old one. Lucky that husband doesn't know a damn thing about computers. He doesn't even know how to turn one on - NOT KIDDING.
- There is some good news: youngest savage took his test for his brown belt in karate a week ago today and passed. Mama is so proud. He only has three left now: brown striped, second brown striped, and then black.
- The psycho bitch that my ex-husband married has gone on some kind of demented rampage, and has been emailing me every other day or so. I've never done anything to the stupid cow....well, once I caught her rummaging through my car when I was in the house picking up my son, and I chased her down the street yelling, "Run! Run!" (she outweighs me by a good 150 pounds and is scared of me in person, just gets brave over a distance). So it was funny watching her run, and I laughed until I cried - I swear you would have done the same thing. For the last week and a half or so I've just been ignoring her emails, trying to be an adult, you know....being mature. I finally had enough yesterday, though, and got creative with my return email. I just sent her a link to this video:
So....what did I miss?
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You missed pretty much the same, but I'd go take a look at all of bbd's pictures and Deven's hilarious mother posts, and there were some terrible dust-ups which were mainly very silly.
Love the video! Playing it now.
You go girl. That's a good one!
I thought we'd lost you, like so many others... I'm sporatic at best but glad to read what you've been up to. We are also house hunting and this is the market to go for the forclosures. It sounds like your hubby would be into that b/c it can take months and months to hear back from the bank.
you are gutsy to send her that video! that was classic - gotta keep us informed on her response.