Step monster refused to budge on the lame charges. Oh well what can you do, I feel better for asking though. She did specify in her will that the dining set will be left to me. I'm totally ok with that as long as it is in writing.
Looks like checks will be cut later this week and she will be out of my life. Just what I needed to hear.
On to other things...I had the worst time sleeping last night. I was on the computer before I went to bed which I know that I shouldn't do, but I was in a groove. I had nothing but caffiene all day which can't be good either. When it came time to sleep, my body wasn't having any of it. I didn't crash until 230am. Then it's up at 6am. Hopefully tonight won't be a repeat of last night.
Did anyone see the premiere of The L Word last night on Showtime? OMG that last scene with Jenny and Tim...totally wrong man.
Just got back from Parker. A little tired, but I'm glad I was happy to help out a friend and his family.
I can't believe how fast the weekend went. Saturday, Courtney and I put up the base boards and crown molding. That was a challenge! The baseboards were a piece of cake, the crown molding...not so easy. We still have to install the corners and one piece over the front window. Now that most of it up, I'm thinking that it's time to repaint. The yellow I picked out doesn't seem bright enough against the white molding. We'll see once I get the molding done. We still have all the furniture that we bought from IKEA a few weeks ago to build! Too much work and not enough time :)
I'm headed out to Parker this afternoon to help my friend Brian and his family. I've downloaded the new Erasure album, some other tunes and I've got my iPod ready for the trip. The camera is packed and charged.
See you tomorrow!
All this trackback spam is killing me and my inbox. I've re-enabled MT-Blacklist and MT-Captcha with hopes that I'll see less and less spam. If you are using a gmail address your posts might get bounced. I'm sorry that I had to do that, but it's been spam crazy.
*UPDATE* just as enabled MT-Blacklist I got spammed. Apparently Blacklist and Captcha can run together. Crap.
The letter came yesterday afternoon. Great, I can finally have some closure on all the family drama and get on with my life. Yeah, it may not be that easy....
Step-monster is charging the estate her airline ticket to attend my father's funeral in Chicago! This is after she frankly told me that if I wanted to attend the funeral that I would have to buy my own ticket. As well as the printing fees for the lame ass memorial that my sister and I were left out of. Oh wait, we got the last line, sort of..."Survived by Step-monster, and two daugthers." Thank you for the consideration you fat cow. I'm sorry that you hated us because you felt that we were a threat.
So the crappy part is that the charges are less than what would cost the estate to post another bond. So it's not really worth fighting over except in principal. I sent the letter off today, which the attorney will get Monday, with my objections. It doesn't hurt to ask right? Who knows maybe she will give the $400 back? I doubt it since she put it in the settlement anyway. That just shows you what kind of person she is and how petty she can be.
I also brought up the dining set that my fater made as I was growing up. Step-monster called me two years ago and told me that I was going to get it. When it came time to pick up the personal property, the set was no where to be found. I was totally heart broken. My fear is that she will die and pass it on to one of her lame ass family members. People my father never knew. I asked that Step-monster give the set to either Teresa or myself, I don't care which one of gets it as long as one of us has posession of it. I even stated that as long as we had the agreement in writing that it would be passed to one of us that I would be satisfied. I also stated that I did not want this discussion to stop the distribution, so my sister and I may never see that dining set again.
We'll see what happens next. Things need to be settled by March 5 or the bond will have to be renewed. I just want it all to end. I do not want this horrible, and hating woman in my life anymore.
I stopped home on my lunch break to see if the mail had come and while I was waiting I uploaded some pictures on Flickr.
I've been struggling with a photoblog design....well it's more like I can't seem to sit my ass down long enough to design one. And with my possible migration to EE soon I've just delayed the whole thing.
In the mean time I've setup a Flickr account to post random everyday photos. I'll start posting photos when I get home tonight.
My sister and I just got word that we may be close to settling my father/grandparents estate this week. The attorney was sending the letters out last night with all the details. Since the attorney is within spitting distance that means that I'll get my letter before my sister.
My sister is under the belief that we're going to get the short end of the stick. She may be right, I don't know. But something deep down tells me that it will actually be fair, and that their won't be any arguements from anyone. I want to believe that their is basically good in everyone including step-monster. She may not like us, but I'm pretty certin that she knows that this is not her money to take, and that she needs to do right. So am I setting myself for disappointment?
That time of year again. What do I want to give up and how can I make myself a better person during Lent and hopefully the rest of my life?
Less judgemental - every year I try so hard to be less judgemental of people I don't know. My friends reading this are probably laughing their asses off because I always fail about a week into Lent on this. I leave it on the list every year, and I try.
No fast food - after surviving January without, I don't really miss it. With the exception of Taco Bell.
Exercise - not just exercise more, just get my ass up and exercise.
I'm going to give it my best shot.
Hey Chad, maybe you should replace that picture of Debbie Gibson in your wallet with an updated version? Check it out Choad:
"Look Ma, no pants!"
(Not office safe! I don't want to hear any crap that I didn't warn ya!)
Courtney and I had a mass shopping spree at IKEA last night. I'm so glad he works there! He had his 40% off discount this week and we took full advantage of it. My house is full of flat boxes. One great buy was the dining room tables. I had budgeted to get two tables, when we got downstairs we were tipped off that there was one in the as is section. I took a look at it, no scratches or dings, it was perfect, and it was $199. Then take the discount off....we totally scored on that one!
I was going to use my bonus to buy computer stuff this week, but I think I'm going to start building my scrapbook station. Stock up on cardstocks, albums, and embelishments. I've got the shelving unit to build once I clean and clear out all the junk. Lots to do on the upcoming three day weekend.
On another note, congrats go out to my friend Chad for scoring a new job! Very cool man, make sure to book a cruise for me. I so need a vacation.
U2 Tickets went on sale this morning at 10am. It's 10:13am and they have already sold out.
Tickets go one sale today for Coachella. Courtney and I were talking about the thrill of buying concert tickets. I was looking for a way to avoid Ticketmaster Convienence charges. We all know that they are bogus, and make the corporate machine millions of dollars. Who knew that by ordering tickets over the internet would cost more than walking our lazy asses up to the ticket window? Courtney said why don't I just take the cash and go to the window? I responded with "I can still do that?"
I totally remember when my friends and I would stay up all night and wait in line for concert tickets outside Dillards. It really wasn't that long ago. I remember when they announced NIN tickets back in 1994, and they were going on sale in an hour at Tower Records. I just happened to be driving past Tower in Tempe, so I pulled over and was first in line. Limit two tickets, and only a 1000 to be sold. Then when Pink Floyd announced that they were coming....my friends and I drove all the way out to Superstition Springs Mall in BFE Mesa at the time to get tickets. The thought was that it was so freaking far that we would have a better chance for a good spot in the lottery. It worked we were like 150 in a line of several thousand at this one location.
So I'm wondering if I buy tickets at a Ticketmaster location today, will their be a line? I'm gonna check it out, and save a few bucks.
Tickets go on sale at 1pm (AZ time).
I got off work a bit early today...so now I'm jammin to tunes on the new surround sound speakers of my new computer. Kick ass man.
Can I just say one more time that I am so freaking excited about Coachella this year! It going to be such a cool show.
Courtney is off from work tonight..what to do??? I think I might head out to Arrowhead and visit Old Navy, they started carrying their plus size line at that store..which sucks for me cause it takes about an hour to get there.
I think we'll just hang out at home tonight.
Have a safe weekend!
When someone says to you on a conference call "Not to be mean or anything, but what else are you going to do with your time?" How else am I suppose to take that? It was mean and totally uncalled for. I replied, "You meant it, or you wouldn't have said it".
Fuck you. Good day.
I drive the same path to work everyday. I know that after turning right off of 16th Street on to Glendale that I have to be in the middle lane because the right lane takes you on to the 51 fwy. Most of the people that drive this stretch of road know this. If you work or live anywhere in this neighborhood, you know this. So why does the hootchie mama in the silver Civic who works in my office not know this? Why should I let you cut in front of me? You know that you need to be in the middle lane to go across the 51, why didn't you plan for the lane merger? It's not like it crept out on you, it's been that way for 10+ years. No need to piss everyone off just because you can't plan your route to work. Thanks Asshole.
