12/8/03

Current Mood: Content
Current Music: None *pouts*

The snow stopped and sun came out just in time for us to have to go over to hubbys sisters house last night. I did get to go do some shopping first though. I went to Target, that place was a madhouse, but I found a really cute outfit! They don’t have a picture of it on their website or I’d share. I found a skirt and top that I liked though!! That’s like a total shocker, I’m not really a skirt kind of girl. I fell in love with this one though. This morning I pulled an unopened pair of black hose from the back of my drawer sock drawer, I bought them like a year ago for “just in case” and never opened them. Then I proceeded to contort myself into them. I HATE hose, especially brand new hose. After much cursing and rolling around on the bed I finally triumphed over the new pair of hose. 🙂

I’m trying to buy some clothes that are nicer for work. For the past year I’ve done a lot more stuff out in the open, I don’t just sit in a box behind a computer where no one ever sees me. I go to a lot of meetings and stuff with my boss and I meet with people occasionally on my own. From what it sounded like when I move under my new boss I’ll be doing even more.

Anyway, we went over to hubbys sisters house last night. It was her step-daughters birthday. She’s a cute kid. I’m not really one for kids but she’s a pretty good kid. We got some peach preserves from hubbys sister, they were damn tasty, we had some for breakfast on toast this morning.

I finally started playing Hordes of the Underdark over the weekend. It seems to be much better than Shadows so far. I’m antsy to go home and play some more now. 🙂 We’re off work all next week. Woohoo!! Not sure what we’re going to do yet, we’d like to work on a project for the house. We’re still waiting on estimates for the roof and windows though so we’re not sure yet. We have to make sure we have what we need for those important projects then we can start on other things like the kitchen and bathroom. We were pricing out everything we want for the bathroom and it’s going to come to like three thousand dollars. The tub itself is two thousand of that though, we’re looking at the nice old fashioned claw footed tubs, we found one that’s like a 7 foot double slipper, it’s raised on both ends and fits two people. That’s what we’re getting provided we’ll have enough after the roof and windows to still do all that and redo the kitchen. The kitchen and bathrooms are the only rooms that need major work. The rest of the house just needs little stuff, like trimwork and floors refinished. We’re planning to take the whole house back to it’s time period. The kitchen and upstairs bathroom look too modern. I want the house to feel old through and through. I don’t like some of the rooms looking old and some looking modern. I’m picky, what can I say. Since we’re doing all this work I’m just glad we have a house that I can see us still living in 50 years from now. The only thing I see us doing is buying like a summer house up in Maine somewhere when we retire. I’m happy to be getting such a good start, we only had equity because thanks to my father in laws convincing the house was sold to us at what my sister in law owed on it. We’ve been extremely lucky.

Thanks to the snow I’m not going to be able to get my car fixed right now. It’s in a really bad spot. The ground gets really muddy over there and it has to be towed out. We’re going to have to wait for the snow to melt and the ground to dry up. This could mean I don’t get my car fixed until April. But, it’s getting fixed so that makes me happy. Before I had no idea when we would get it fixed, no I know it’s possible. My only fear is that we’ll get it fixed, drive it for a few weeks and start having problems again. As it is the headgasket shouldn’t have blown, the engine had just been rebuilt not long before. I don’t think the guy did a very good job on it though. It was my sister in laws ex-husband that did the rebuild and he was a dishonest asshole. It also took him two years to do the job and it was only supposed to take him 3 months. He spent all the money my dad gave him up front to work on it on porn and lap dances and shit. It wasn’t a very good situation. By the end of it, my dad was calling and threatening to come up here. My dad is the kind of guy you don’t want threatening you, he’s big and he has a temper. There’s one thing I inherited from my dad, my temper. You don’t piss me off unless you want to hear about it. I’m so shy it takes a lot to push me far enough to actually get in someone’s face, but when I’m pushed that far it’s not pretty and you don’t want to be on the receiving end of my wrath. My dad loses his temper faster than I do. He’s the kind of guy that will get out at a stop light and go punch someone for being an asshole. You know how people get impatient at lights or stop signs if they think you could have gone even though it really wasn’t safe to. Well if they made the mistake of honking at my dad in a situation like that, he’d get out of the car. There was many a time I’d look over at him when his hand headed towards the seatbelt release and say “Dad, do you really want to do that with your daughter in the car? Is it really worth it?” He’d usually grab the steering wheel and fume when I said that. I played the voice of reason quite often. My dad is the reason I control my temper as well as I do, I really am just as bad as him as far as getting angry. But I’ve learned by example that it isn’t pretty when you go so far as to lose your temper. I still spend a lot of time with a bug up my ass though. 9 times out of 10 I have a bug up my ass about something. This morning, for example, no one cleaned off their damned cars!!!! It is not cool to drive around with a foot of snow on top of your car. It’s rude and hazardous.

Speaking of rude, my hubbys family, my goodness. They’re rude. They all sit around chewing with their mouths open and talking with food in their mouths. Dinner last night was repulsive. No one wants to see your half-masticated food!!! That and hubbys grandpa had the nerve to ask my husband if he’d “put on weight”. You don’t say that kind of shit to people, ever! If that question had been directed at me I think I would have simply stopped, look shocked and said “Excuse me?” I should buy everyone in his family a copy of “Things you Need to be Told” for Christmas. There’s more stuff they do that’s horribly rude but I’m too short on Characters to go into it. 🙂 Maybe another day.

For now, I’m going to see if I can find something to occupy my time with.