Slow Motivation Day
Today is not the day for me to not have any motivation. But coffee is not helping me at all. I have way to much to get done. I drove Angus to work so I could get boxes and do some errands. Boxes taken care of, check. Let’s see, I still have to:
Do online banking
Call bank and find out whyAngus’s card is not working
Go to Target
Fill out applications for townhouse
Go to townhouse drop of applications and give them a check to hold.
Find out who Aidan’s teacher is
Pick up Angus at work
And get some packing done in between all of this, all by 3 PM. It’s about 10 Am, think I can do it? I don’t LOL. I know, I know, stop messing around blogging about it and get it done! And Angus thinks I am a procrastinator lol. Not me, no way.
TTFN
Posted on 08/20/04 at 01:48 PM
Please Have A Glass Of Wine With Me
My insurance case is settled! Woo Hoo! What a crazy way to end a long day let me tell ya. It’s more money than I thought, but I ain’t rich. By the time we move and I pay shit off I will be broke again. But I am not complaining. It’s kind of a funny story. I will try and sum it up fast before I have to cook dinner.
I am in bed with a pounding head ache after packing all day. Insurance company calls and tell me that they have the paper work and will mail it to me tomorrow, should be there in a few days, I need to sign it and mail it back. The woman is going on vacation for TWO WEEKS and will contact me when she gets back! LOL. Fast thinker that I am, I tell her Fax it to me and I will Fax it back, I am moving and need it NOW. She’s fine with that, actually very pleased. My Fax is on the fritz. Can you believe it lol.
So once again, the fast thinker that I am (pat on back) I give her Angus’s Fax number at work and call him quick. He is with a customer. I tell them very nicely, patch me in its important. All the while thinking in my head that if he gets pissed, after being on my case about this whole stupid thing, he can just go screw himself. He’s fine with it but, I gave them a old Fax number and he is not sure of the whereabouts of that machine. So once again..fast thinker that I am… I call the insurance company back and tell her that with packing ect.. I forgot I canceled that line, here is the number. She is just about on the floor with laughter as I am at this point. Now remember, she is going on vacation after today, and its now after 5 PM and she normally gets out at 4:30 lol. So she sends the Fax and Angus signs it for me and sends it back. Check will be in the mail tomorrow.
I am having a glass of wine and relaxing. One monkey off my back and only about a dozen left. But I can make it, well maybe after a couple more glasses lol.
TTFN
Off To A Good Start?
Well I think I am off to a good start, I think. The master bedroom and master bath are just about done. I just have the linen closet (I have two one with all the meds ect. and one with just towels ect) to empty and some books to box up. And of course all the shoes and cloths. But I can’t do that until last really. The girls room is about 3/4 of the way done. I am not sure were to go from here! Should I do the living room and dining rooms, or tackle Aidan’s room. I am thinking maybe his should be last, as to avoid total boredom.
Though I can’t get much more done, I only have about a dozen small boxes and a few produce boxes left that I got from the grocery store the other day. I woke up bright and early at 5 AM to get some more like a good girl, only to find out, they didn’t freaking save them. I was not amused let me tell you.
And not that my morning wasn’t off to a bad enough start, Angus reminds me that the landlord is coming by to do some stuff outside and to check on the new sprinkler main he told her he would put in. Just freaking great. I get to tell her that he didn’t get to finish it because he got called in to work early. And he is not going to get to it until at least next Thursday. Just freaking great.
TTFN
Short Break
OK, just taking a short break here. I have been running around all morning doing errands. Trying to stock the fridge and shelves with food before the kids go back to school next week. You know, the easy after school snacks, and little things to put in Aidans lunches. I can’t wait until he will buy lunch at school! I don’t think this will ever happen though.
I have yet to buy one school supply! That I am saving so I can run around like a lunatic this weekend. Oh, and sneakers too! I always save the shoe shopping until the last possible moment. You see all three of my children can never make up their freaking minds what they want, or if they fit right ect… and I go completely bananas.
Well back to taping boxes together and pretending I am actually getting something done with this packing. Hey, I did get the kids to clean their rooms all nice and tidy so I can pack all there shit up and listen to how bored they are because all their things are in boxes. Oh joy, I am so looking forward to this move!
TTFN
TWo Steps.......
You know the saying........ Two steps forward three steps back, right? I think that’s what Angus and I did. Well there goes the bubble. I know its not as bad as I am feeling right now, but damn, just damn. I want security, with us and our future, thank you very much. I wish I was as secure in how I felt about him two years ago as I do now. I would, and probable should have said, yes when he asked me to marry him. But I didn’t. I thought I was being the “ Responsible One”. Then shit happened that I can’t change. And I hate myself for it. We didn’t have a fight, we just talked a little. So its not all that bad. I am just feeling sad about some of the things said is all.
PS How do you tell someone that used to always say “ You should try marriage two, three,four,five,six times before you give up on it… Ask me again or we probably won’t be OK from here?
Guilt
It’s a terrible thing. I feel so guilty that Angus had to iron and rush around this morning that I decided to wash all his shirts and iron them. Makes more sense to do this once a week than every freaking morning right? But it’s 107 degrees, in the shade. What the heck was I thinking? I have three done so far. I am waiting for the other ten or so to finish drying. I am hell bent on getting them done.....today.
I can’t wait until we can be a little less frugal. Cause let me tell you, dry cleaners is coming before my pretty fake nails! And I love my pretty fake nails, and so does Angus. They are great for scratching backs. Well, back to the sweat shop.
TTFN
His Job Is Going To Kill Me!
I am so freaking tiered! I can only imagine how Angus feels. He worked 14 hours yesterday, and I took the car so I could get errands done. Stupid,stupid me. Every time I have taken the car when he has a 13 hour day, a customer comes in at 8:30 PM. Only on the days I have to pick Angus up! So we don’t end up getting home until almost 10:30.
And everyone knows, one can’t just go to bed right after they get home from work. Even though I am MORE than ready to, I am a good little girlfriend and stay up while he has a drink and winds down. Ya know the saying, watch what you wish for it might come true, these are the times he has decided he likes to “Talk”. LOL, I just can’t win here.
We talked about moving, and his job mostly. I can’t believe how much he is looking forward to moving. Now I like it here (not the house its self so much) and the views are just spectacular. Its quiet country living, no reach out and touch your neighbor. But it sucks for the kids, and they have never been real happy here. There is only one other kid for them to play with, and he is grounded most of the school year, every year! Now we all knew it was going to be an adjustment from what we were used to but, dang, I am so ready to get back to “Reach out and touch your neighbor” living! And so are the kids. They miss being in a neighborhood with other kids to play with.
The townhouses we are looking at are brand new. Three to four bedrooms, so you know it is going to be mostly families with children moving in to them. (I will send you a link Kate so you can check them out) They are two stories, I so miss two stories, and so does Aidan. He would rather sleep in the hallway wherever we have lived in a single story than by himself in his own room. And you know, he just fest up this week and told us why LOL! He doesn’t like sleeping on bottom floors, people can climb in his window to easy he said.
Now, we have asked and asked what it is we could do to help him out with this in the past. We let him fall asleep with lights on watching TV. We have let Zoe stay in watching TV with him until he is asleep. Left night lights on through out the house after we go to bed. He still ends up on the floor in the hallway out side our door and the girls door, or in the girls room on their floor. Angus and I joke about putting a doggie bed out there so he is not so cold in the winter lol. So I am hopeful that maybe, just maybe, this habit will be broken if we move into this townhouse.
I am so tiered I think I am now just babbling! Coffee is not kicking in this morning. And I feel guilty. Angus was awake a little longer than me and had to get up and go to back to work by 7:30 ish. He let me sleep in, cause he thought he saw me iron two shirts yesterday, nope just one dear. So he ironed one himself, mumbling as he did lol. I think he will get over it.
TTFN