The Grossest Entry Yet

Yesterday we went over to the old house to get the canoe. While we were putting the carrying rack on the truck, I noticed some paper over in the woods. It is a rare day when there’s stray paper in the woods. Warning: If you are squeamish, quit reading now. I bent down to see what it was and it was a paper towel with a pattern on it. I never, ever buy paper towels with a pattern on them. I picked up the towel. Then I saw right next to the towel a tampon and a little bit over it’s paper tube. Someone EXTRACTED a tampon, wrapped it in the paper towel and THREW it in our woods. I picked all of it up using the paper towel as a somewhat lameo shield for my hand. I tried to ignore the fact that the paper towel had recently been used to wrap all of the tampon parts. As I walked back on the driveway, I told the better-half he didn’t even want to know. His first guess was tampon followed quickly by diaper. We have no soap at that house so I just ran my hand under the outdoor tap. I couldn’t wait to get home to use hot, hot water and lots of soap.

Someone who looked at our house did this. No one else could have. That house is back off the road so it’s not like the trash blew in from somewhere else. I had to do a bunch of eew-gross dances. I’m still mortified.

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A Punch in the Face

I’m not a huge fan of Olive Garden commercials but I haven’t really felt like I wanted to hurt any of the characters in the commercials (queue the menacing music) until now.

The new commercial that I’m talking about is the one where friends sit down for dinner and one guy asks the group what they want to eat. His friend says “I’ll know it when I see it” (the friend has evidently put up with this guy for too long). Then a plate of shrimp and pasta goes by on the arm of a waitron and the big jerk says “I think I just did”. When he delivers that line, I just want to reach into the screen and punch him in the face. I think it is all in his smarmy delivery.

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Ouchie

Today while using the bathroom, which is a completely normal thing to want to do after lunch, I managed to jam my pinky into the back pocket or the waist or something of my jeans as I was tucking in my shirt and I bent my nail back so far that now there’s bleeding under my nail. I’m a big baby because IT HURTS. Whimper.

One of the heat pumps is dying and so the heating and air conditioning guy who came by today to do regular maintenance has spent hours trying to troubleshoot the problem. Looks like we have to schedule some sort of test where they blow out something and blow in something and somehow that tells us if the repair price will be huge or if it will be medium sized. Whine.

Praise be! We have ordered some blinds for our bedroom. The bad thing is that the price to cover up the wall o’ windows was so outrageous that we’ve decided to do something else other than go with the woven blinds that we’re using on the other 3 windows. Which means that we’ll be living with the sweet sheet action for a little longer. Whimper and Whine All The Time.

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While I’ve been stuck here dithering around

Saturday morning we’re babysitting the Niece. I’m not sure what we’re going to do. One of her favorite activities while at our house is to investigate our belongings–we do have lots of small, interesting items laying around. I’m hoping the weather will be nice enough that we can take a walk in the woods.

We’re also planning on having the MIL come over for dinner on Sunday. I have no idea what we’re going to have but it will be one of those simple, hearty kind of dinners. I do know there will be no gluten on the menu which is really not that hard to accomplish.

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VA in the News=Dumb VA

What defines lewd or indecent manner? Why is VA only in the news when we’re total idiots? I’m glad to see that General Assembly time is being well spent.

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Jubilation

We finally have a contract on our old house. I’m sure our realtor is thrilled because next week her contract runs out and we had plans to take it off the market to do a few more repairs/spruce-ups and then re-list with another realtor. I’m really glad our realtor came through.

Even though there’s plenty that can go wrong between now and closing, we’re pretty excited about the whole turn of events.

In other news, the site has been upgraded. The email link is active over there in the sidebar area (although there is a minor hoop to jump through to thwart spammers). The frog has crazy hair that sticks up just like mine.

*Update: I’m having a horrible time stringing words together this week. Bodes well for the new job where I’ll be writing all the time.

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Coming Soon

Very big changes are coming our way…we’re updating the site to Movable Type 3.15 sometime this week. We’ve tested with a backup version of the site. If any commenting gets wonky, hold tight and the wonky will get worked out.

Also, I’m working on a graphic for email. It will be either really hideous or really simple. That way if you have to get in touch with me, you’ll have the means to email me.

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It Can’t Get Louder

Recent record store purchases are listed below:

A. Cantos De Agua Dulce: Songs of the Sweet Water by Marta Gomez
B. Hopes & Fears by Keane
C. Double Time by Leon Redbone
D. Dancing in the Dark by Tierney Sutton
E. Ditty Bops by The Ditty Bops

Recent online purchases of singles:
A. It Ain’t Easy by Ricky Fante
B. Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I Got) by The Four Tops
C. I’ll Take You There by The Staples Singers

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The Cam

My sister and her husband are in New Orleans. I’ve been checking this out to see if I can spot them. I know, a needle in a haystack.

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On My Way To Work

On my way to work, I saw a lacy underwire bra hanging on a fence. I guess there was a little fun at the pull-off for the Chickahominy last night.

On my way into the parking lot, I saw the hoopty man performing some much needed maintenance on his hoopty. He has one of those battery chargers plugged into a patched up extension cord which he is running off of the electricity in the building. The cord comes in the front door. Nothing says quality like that.

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