Saturday, August 13, 2005

saturday six #70

Here's my answers for this week's Saturday Six!

1. A reader to "Men's Journal" recently wrote about technological innovations, stating that there isn't any gadget he couldn't live without:  "To see how vital technology is, spend a few days in the backcountry without your phone, pager, PDA, laptop, cappuccino machine, or MP3 player.  You'll emerge cleansed and refreshed."  Could you go a whole week really roughing it with no modern conveniences?  Would you want to?

If I could have my coffee pot, I think I could do it.

2. What is the most you've ever paid for a:
    A) Shirt  $50
    B) Pair of Shoes  $65, I think
    C) CD or Album  $15
    D) DVD  $20
    E) Book  $10
    F) Vacation  about $150

3. Looking back at the answers to#2, which one was the most foolish?

The vacation, since that was for the "vacation from hell".

4. Take this quiz:   Which snack food are you?

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5. There are three wells:  Love, Beauty and Creativity.  If you could only drink from one of them, which would you choose and why?

I think I would have to choose Beauty, since I have Love, and I think I have some Creativity.

6. If you were another person, do you think you would be friends with the person you know as yourself?

I think so.

til next time...=)

neighborly love

Since I haven't written in a few days, including my day off (but I left an audio entry in my other journal), this is gonna be a little long.  I'll start off by telling you about last night.  Did I tell you about the girl downstairs from us, and the music she likes to play?  Now that I looked, I didn't.  I'm surprised, since she's been blasting her stereo since day two of us being here.  We told her about it the first day; she said she didn't know anyone was living upstairs.  Okay, we thought--now she knows we're here, and she won't do it again...WRONG.  Two days later, she does it again.  Now it's the middle of the afternoon, but it's loud enough that we can't watch TV without turning it up.  If I knew Spanish, I would be able to translate it, since I could hear the words.  Anyway, we really can't do anything about it, except call the landlord and have him do something.  If either me or Joey went down there, we would've ended up either popping her in the head or smashing her huge subwoofers into a few hundred pieces...either way going to jail.  Thanks anyway.

So that day, I called the owner from work (no long distance on the home phone, take advantage of my employer) to tell him about it.  He said he call her about it, and I left it at that.  Needless to say, she did it again a few days later...and again, and again.  I called the owner again, and he said he would come down to talk to her.  He lives 1 1/2 hours away and runs a business, so he has to plan coming here for the morning or whatever.  That was LAST week.  Still no sign of him.

That brings me up to yesterday, or should I say last night.  Around 11pm, she came home (I guess) and started with the music again.  Now around here, loud stuff after 11 isn't tolerated, and cops will come if called.  Captain Obvious doesn't need to tell you what happened next...actually, I did it twice--once at 11, and again at 1am.  It was like she was waiting for them to come; when they would pull up, she'd turn it down, when they left, it would go back up.  She kept it going until after 2am...maybe a little longer--I fell asleep listening to a rain CD as loud as it can go on my walkman.  Girl's actually lucky the kids are heavy sleepers (a little too heavy if you ask me)...if they woke up from her music, look the f*** out.

So at this point, we're looking to move again.  But before we do, we're trying to find out if the music thing qualifies as something that the landlord didn't fix.  That way when can get our security back, although we broke the lease.  Don't worry, we're calling a lawyer to answer the question...we don't want to take any chances.

til next time...=)

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

woohoo

ok...I'm in a little dilemma.  I went back to AOL and started a new journal.  The thing is, do I keep this one going and use the new one only for audio entries, or do I only use the new one for now, and if AOL shuts me off (again), I'll come back to this one?  I dunno!!

til next time...=)

by the way...here's my first audio entry...don't laugh too hard.

Friday, August 5, 2005

just some stuff

Just writing to say hi...not too much going on here--I think it's because I'm working sooo much.  And I'm not talking about what I'm doing at home; today's day 4 of 9 straight days having to go to that place that pays me to be there.  So as far as getting things done here, well, not really happening.  Today we have to go and get a cord and hose for the dryer--finally, no more going to bitch-in-law's (lol) house to dry our laundry!!  The only thing we'll have to go up there for now is to drop off and pick up the kids on the weekends...woohoo!!  Also, we're looking for a kitchen table, since we don't have one.  The last house had a built in breakfast bar that we used as our table, so of course we didn't think to get one.  We have to also get curtains for the kids' room, since right now there's blankets up on the windows.  Oh well.

One more thing--Ehrlich's coming tomorrow...YAY!!  We can finally put the last of our things away...the dishes and food are still sitting in the boxes now...no sense of putting them away; we'll only have to take them back out anyway.  I dunno.  Well, off to work...talk more later!!

til next time...=)

Thursday, August 4, 2005

close-up revealed

Ok, I see from the comments that no one can guess what the close-up was.  And I can't wait any longer to show you what it was (well, that and it's Thursday)...

I thought mine was going to be easy, since I took a partial pic of the ball.  Maybe you might want to start smacking yourself in the forehead now...I dunno.  Anyway, thanks for playing!!

til next time...=)

Monday, August 1, 2005

i'm ready for my close-up

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of something in extreme close-up -- so close it's hard to tell what you're looking at. Ask people to guess. On Thursday, reveal what you've photographed.

Here's mine...

Leave your guess in the comments, and see you back here on Thursday!!

til next time...=)

thank you

Sorry I haven't written in a few days...just trying to get some stuff done around here.  It's actually starting to look like a house--the only thing that's left is really the kitchen.  That was the worst room in the house...where the white floor was gray, the outlines of the appliances were marked in yucky stuff, and the little pests were feeding on what the last tenant had left behind.  But Joey's taking care of that.  The rest of the apartment is done, except the pictures aren't hung up; we're waiting until we paint to do that. 

Normally I would've given up days ago, but I am determined to make this work.  That and my readers (one in particular--you know who you are...lots of hugs!) and your words of encouragement, I really dug in and got the job done.  While Joey was working on the kitchen (he still is), I got rest of the house done almost all by myself.  Of course, the weakling that I am had to have him lift stuff like the TV, and put the bunk beds together.  You know, man stuff.  But other than that, it was pretty much all me.  So thanks for all your support through my really rough patch...who knows what's to come now.  I guess it can only get better...

til next time...=)