First off, I had a kickass flu bug. It started on Friday and I still am not totally over it. I also managed to pull a muscle in my back while coughing and trying to breathe at the same time. Happily I am feeling mostly human again. I can hear out of my ears, smell and breathe through my nose most times, and I am no longer in danger of drowning when brushing my teeth. So, there you go, that's my excuse for not writing.
On Friday, Gingeypants came into town. It was quite the nice as usual. I got us some sushi and miso soup. Although I couldn't taste any of it due to the flu, it was still nice to have someone who likes to eat the odd stuff I do...eat with me!
So, on Friday night, Bob yells downstairs and asks me to come upstairs. Dakota has somehow locked himself in the bathroom and can't get the door open. I go up and the knob is jiggling back and forth but it's not catching anywhere in the mechanisms. There's no way to open it from the outside. The screws on the knob are on the inside of the bathroom, the hinges are on the inside of the bathroom. What now? Fuck it, let's break the door down. :p
Anyhow, Dakota ends up unscrewing the doorknob screws with a pair of scissors from inside the bathroom. Yes, he is totally my son. :) He got his side of the doorknob off, but on the outside the tongue lock is still not moving and the doorknob won't come out. So Bob ends up having to break part of the door anyhow. :(
At the end of it all, Dakota didn't even lock the door, he just closed it, and it happened to break at that moment. Weird huh.
Dakota passed his belt test with flying colors. My friend Joe has allowed us to use some web storage space he has, to host the videos we took, so when I get around to it (tonight or tomorrow) I will post up video and piccies.
I have to go back into work tonight because one of the closing girls is not feeling well. Blah. It's ok, she's really a reliable kind of girl, so I don't mind doing it for her. I just dislike that eww have to go back to work feeling!
I think I sprained my left butt cheek. I don't know how, so don't ask! I just know it hurts right now!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I'm going to file a greivance
against Hollywood. Why?
For making painting look fun.
Come on, you know you have seen it. Some guy/girl has some catastrophic event in life that totally ruins them. While they are courageously pulling themselves up by their bootstraps they end up with some event that occurs that is so lucky they can hardly believe it. Anyhow, with this luck they end up getting a new house or office or boat or some such shit, that of course has to be painted. So they have their best bud(dies) come over and they have themselves a movie music moment. (***See below for definition) They are all dressed up in their Gucci sweats and Prada casual shoes, the hairdresser has their hair set just so, slightly messy, but oh so not do it yourself. Then they get to the job of painting. While laughing, giggling and being generally hysterical, one of them always hits the other with a loaded paintbrush either on the ass or nose. They never mind, they usually think it's quite funny and cute.
It wasn't like that at my house. :p So not fair!
After the first wall I was tired and didn't want to do anymore. Bob nor I wanted to do the trim. By the time we finished we were both tired, sore and irritable, and arguing over who did more (lol) and if he hit me with a wet paintbrush, I probably would have punched him in the head. I'm sure he would have done the same to me too. I actually did bump into the wet wall and I was all bummed cause I had a paint butt. It's not all it's cracked up to be I tell you. There's paint everywhere, it stinks and it makes your kid and your cat sick. After I'm done with it, my friend Rhonda tells me she likes to paint. Ack! Maybe next time I paint I will invite her over, maybe we can have a movie music moment.
***Definition of Movie Music by Jenn: Let's go with the Rocky movies for starters. You're going through the movie when all of a sudden he starts his training for the big fight. They play the music and flash back and forth between Rocky and his craptastic no money training, and his opponent who has it all. You already know Rocky is gonna beat the shit out of him after getting his own ass kicked around a bit, but the movie music moment shows his determination. Or we could go with the Romantic Comedy. They could like each other or hate each other before the movie music, but by the end of it they are madly in love. You see them out frolicking, skipping, jumping, eating ice cream, playing football, taking pictures of each other...whatever. The whole relationship is built in 45 seconds or so and no actors had to talk at all. Easy right?
Anyhow, now that all the painting and frustration that goes with it is long over, I can joke about it, and think back on it fondly. Riiight. We did have built in Ipod movie music, but it didn't seem to help. Oh well, maybe next time! (We'll hire someone to do it!)
Much love and smoochies!
For making painting look fun.
Come on, you know you have seen it. Some guy/girl has some catastrophic event in life that totally ruins them. While they are courageously pulling themselves up by their bootstraps they end up with some event that occurs that is so lucky they can hardly believe it. Anyhow, with this luck they end up getting a new house or office or boat or some such shit, that of course has to be painted. So they have their best bud(dies) come over and they have themselves a movie music moment. (***See below for definition) They are all dressed up in their Gucci sweats and Prada casual shoes, the hairdresser has their hair set just so, slightly messy, but oh so not do it yourself. Then they get to the job of painting. While laughing, giggling and being generally hysterical, one of them always hits the other with a loaded paintbrush either on the ass or nose. They never mind, they usually think it's quite funny and cute.
It wasn't like that at my house. :p So not fair!
After the first wall I was tired and didn't want to do anymore. Bob nor I wanted to do the trim. By the time we finished we were both tired, sore and irritable, and arguing over who did more (lol) and if he hit me with a wet paintbrush, I probably would have punched him in the head. I'm sure he would have done the same to me too. I actually did bump into the wet wall and I was all bummed cause I had a paint butt. It's not all it's cracked up to be I tell you. There's paint everywhere, it stinks and it makes your kid and your cat sick. After I'm done with it, my friend Rhonda tells me she likes to paint. Ack! Maybe next time I paint I will invite her over, maybe we can have a movie music moment.
***Definition of Movie Music by Jenn: Let's go with the Rocky movies for starters. You're going through the movie when all of a sudden he starts his training for the big fight. They play the music and flash back and forth between Rocky and his craptastic no money training, and his opponent who has it all. You already know Rocky is gonna beat the shit out of him after getting his own ass kicked around a bit, but the movie music moment shows his determination. Or we could go with the Romantic Comedy. They could like each other or hate each other before the movie music, but by the end of it they are madly in love. You see them out frolicking, skipping, jumping, eating ice cream, playing football, taking pictures of each other...whatever. The whole relationship is built in 45 seconds or so and no actors had to talk at all. Easy right?
Anyhow, now that all the painting and frustration that goes with it is long over, I can joke about it, and think back on it fondly. Riiight. We did have built in Ipod movie music, but it didn't seem to help. Oh well, maybe next time! (We'll hire someone to do it!)
Much love and smoochies!
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