So Dano and I are finally moved in for the most part.. I still have some boxes of shit in the garage, I really need to go thru and just donate to clean up some space. I LOVE the new house. A lot. :) It's too big, but I don't care. Dano is OVER THE MOON. She has a new BFF next door, named Kira (pronounced like Keira as in Knightly) and they are inseparable. She got two puppies (well, 9 months old or so) Black mouth Cur is the breed... ADORABLE!! Love them. Well, I love all dogs... (bigger than a terrier tho, I can't stand yippy dogs... ) They are howling at night because they are new to the house.. Well, let me back up a second.. Lilah, my BABY great dane / pit mix is a SCAREDY CAT! 4th of July, she FLIPPED out during fireworks.. she'd never seen them so they scared the shit outta her :( Well, last night (a week after the holiday) I tried taking Lilah out front again. NOPE. Dragged my ass back to the front door.. Poor thing, I'll keep trying. The kids lit off LOUD ass fireworks last night.. FREAKED my baby out, AGAIN. She ran FLED into the house, THROUGH the screen door, upstairs to MY room, into my closet. I HATE that she is so afraid... long story short, I worked with her a while, and got her back outside. Then the two puppies next door started howling. It sounded soo funny to me, but poor Lilah, has her head cocked to the side, and her ears back (looks like she's in a wind tunnel)... and starts howling at them. I gave up and took her with me to take a bath and relax... I bathed, she laid in the closet watching me.
Hhhmmm that got a little off topic! LOL Back to Dano.. so she decided last night, she wants to stay home and hang out with the kids today. I'm all for that, but her dad doesn't think she's old enough to be home alone. Well, technically it's not home alone.. it's hanging out with friends in the neighborhood... and their Moms are home. (I'm jealous... I want to be home too!) As y'all know, Dano tells me everything... So last night she tells me, Mom, the girls want to try to sneak into the movies tomorrow. Ok, have fun. I don't have a problem with her doing that, but explained what happens when they get caught, and that it won't turn out well, and that she should try to talk to the girls today before attempting this, to try to sway them. I don't know if it'll work but she said she'd call me. What I wouldn't give to be her age again, and have close friends... (I didn't have any, long boring story... )
I hope she has fun, learns from her mistakes, and ALWAYS ALWAYS feels that she can tell me anything.. That is my biggest fear, that she will stop... and that I won't know her anymore.. She's growing up sooo fast. Anyway... Happy Monday :)
is the day. Moving day ~ ish. haha I've been packing for 2 weeks, and shit canning a bunch of stuff. Did the yard sale thing, which reminded me WHY I don't do yard sales... helped my friends move (quid pro quo, he's helping me tonight since I have NO ONE ELSE TO HELP ME).. got a concussion, cleaned, and still not ready to go! HAHAHAHA
Back to the concussion.. so we got all kinds of shit moved in at their new apartment, and the last thing I was doing was separating the entertainment center more to accommodate their big ass television. Didn't know the "top piece" wasn't attached and it came crashing down on my head. Oh, and the force of that smashed the OTHER side of my head on the other part of the unit. Woo... that was fun. So I got the proverbial headache, and couldn't sleep that night.. Next day I was a useless wreck. I shit you not, I was on the couch, and could NOT be bothered to watch NASCAR, OR drink beer. Ya something was wrong. Vomiting ensued, pressure in my head, couldn't sleep... So long story short, took myself to the ER Monday, AFTER I went to the bank to get 3 more cashiers checks to give to the Realtor in order to get the keys to the new house. I give them to her, and she says "Oh, the homeowner is at the house, he has the keys and garage door opener, you need to go there now." Great, just what I need.. pull over by the cows and vomit on my way to meet him. Good Times!
Got my stuff, quick introductions, and "hey, this.. this and this is broken, need it fixed asap".. and I'm off to the ER. After x-rays and a CT scan, there was no bleed, just a bit of swelling. Dr said to "REST, the remainder of the week" I told him I had to work, and pack and move etc... He said "Fine, wear a helmet then." UGH. So I took Tuesday off too. Dano and I made quite a few trips to the new house, unloading kitchen stuff, and a TON of clothes. Last night, I finished up the kitchen for the most part, and cleaned the stove, oven, microwave, counter tops and back splash crap.
This brings me to, today. Moving day. Not even CLOSE to ready. haha
I pulled the couch apart yesterday to vacuum it. ERMAHGERD my dogs shed WAAAAY worse than me. I bought a "Sticky buddy"... piece of shit. Don't waste your money. Now I gotta but a couple of those lint rollers at the Dollar tree..
There are people currently at the new place shampooing carpets and stretching them. (Nice big ass lump down the middle.. ugly) Sooooo My buddy Eric is bringing a 16' trailer so we can get all the big stuff (Washer/Dryer/Fridge/couches/beds/desks/tables yadda yadda) to the new house just to leave it in the GARAGE. hhmmm Then after work, tomorrow, go back to the old house to get the rest of the trivial shit, and CLEAN some more. Oh, and paint. Since Lilah liked ONE damn spot to lay, she dirtied ONE spot on the wall. One of the 7 (SEVEN) colors of the interior of the house, and the ONLY touch up can of paint that was DRIED to a solid. Valspar is OVERPRICED and charged me like $17 for a damn QUART of damn paint. (deep breath) So tonight I guess I'm sleeping in the garage of the new house. Or at the old house, with NOTHING goin on, and sleeping on the floor. Decisions Decisions.
Update: I forgot I got new Lavender "Bath salts" for my new tub... guess I'm staying at the new place tonight... ;)
Life is constantly changing.. we all know that. Mine seem to seriously ebb and flow way more often than it should. It's like some things I know I can count on to be the same every day, and others seriously throw me for a loop. Anyway, Me and Dano are moving June 30th. Just easier, and I will have the comfort of knowing she won't have to change schools etc.. Was planning on having a yard sale this weekend. THAT got canned because Dano has an audition for a photoshoot for a new boutique in LA. CROSSING MY FINGERS and praying to everything that she gets it. First paying gig at 12 years old! LOL Shitty thing is that the shoot, if she gets it, IS THE WEEKEND WE MOVE!! It's 6-8 hours per day sat and sun. I can't be in two places at the same time.. :( Not sure how I am going to pull this one off. I LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOVE the new house. It's beautiful! A bathub FOR ME! Not a jacuzzi one, but still, it's MINE. Candles, music and a nice glass of... who am I kidding.. a nice can of beer! Little things people.. little things. ;) I have a HUGE walk in closet that I could have a party in. I shit you not. And the LOFT.. Wow. You could put a wall up between them and have to huge bedrooms!
Dano graduates from 6th grade this Thursday. Wow. Weird how some things seem like yesterday, and others.... not so much. I can't believe it. She's already as tall as me, and her sleds (feet) are bigger than mine. She's on track to be 5'10". WOW. I'm short compared to that. BUT, I will still kick her little butt, I don't care how tall she gets. I think I posted a while back that my 50" Mitsubishi took a shit. It turned itself off, and won't turn back on. It "clicks" like it wants to, but nothin. I am fairly certain it's the power supply. Got a guy comin today to fix it. Dano's 42" tv in her room took a shit. THIS ISN'T GOOD.. I'm moving and everything is dying on me! Getting rid of her TV because it'll cost me like $400 to fix that one.. not worth it, I'll just get another one. Wait. No. The big ass mitsubishi will go in the LOFT where all her gaming stuff is.. she don't need a tv in her room. There. Problem solved. Too bad all my other decisions/problems aren't that easy.
Plain and simple. I am NOT a mean person. I can hold a grudge. I can cut you off without a second thought if I feel you are not a positive person to have in my life. I don't hurt people on purpose. Some ASSHOLE got a hold of my ATM debit card and information. Now, I'm PISSED.
Now, my card is still in my possession. It's such a shitting feeling knowing that someone STOLE from me and my family. Money I earned making a decent living. GGGRRRRR What I think happened is that I read about asshole people putting these reader things on the swiper thingy at say a gas station pump. When you put your card in, they are able to gather all the information from your card, and can then RE MAKE another card. I see this shit on CSI and Criminal Minds etc, but NEVER did I think I would fall prey to that shit. Yes, I use the outside gas pump thingy. And I usually only go to 2 different gas stations. A couple days ago I went to a Chevron over on Grand. I never go there. I am deducing that, that is where it happened. Ironically a Sheriffs car was behind me and we chatted up about crime etc.. THAT sucks looking back now. :( I guess after talking to the bank, they do it to those stand alone ATMs inside quik marts and the like. I "rarely" use one of those, but now I will NEVER use that again. I will take the extra time to go INSIDE to a filling station and pay inside. No more of this "Pay at the pump" shit, because eventually you'll pay out your nose, like I just did. NOW, I have to wait days for a new card, call the people that do "automatic" payments to change all that, just a nuisance. I am blessed and very lucky that they didn't drain my account. I was just telling Dano the importance of having a savings account for "emergencies". This morning she said to me "I understand now why you always want to hoard money in the savings account".. hoard.. shut it kid. LOL It is a valuable lesson in more ways than one. Makes sense they went to Michael's and spent almost $300... but WHO ON EARTH spends almost $80 at Taqueria El Rey!?!?!? PIGGY! Anyway, I was cranky last night, but happy that it could have been much worse. I will be much more careful about HOW I use my card, my money etc. I'm glad I put it on speaker so Dano could listen to it all. She was very worried that we were "in trouble" with no money etc.. she learned from this as well. People watch how/where you spend your money.. Some jackhole asshat is standing by waiting to take from you, what they refuse to work for. A decent living, paycheck and peace of mind that they are making a positive difference in the world. Shithead. This was how I looked last night dealing with the bank etc... Happy damn Thursday..
For a reason. :) So y'all know I REALLY wanted to move to that house in Eastvale.. They chose to rent to someone else. I was seriously bummed when I found out. But I am learning more and more that things REALLY DO happen for a reason. I don't have to KNOW the reason, or even like it, but they happen. Turns out, I don't have to move... yet. Looks like the landlord got the financial mess cleaned up and therefore I get another summer with my pool. I should say my dogs pool. Its NOT heated but the dogs will go swimming ANY chance they get... so will Dano actually. HAHA It's another "good day"... it's kinda nice having more of these days than shitty ones. I hate shitty days. Tonight I decided to start back doing pilates, and trying to work out again. I hit a plateau on my weight loss, and I noticed that my butt is trying to touch the ground... Gravity sucks. (Don't ask... that bird just made me smile!! LOL)
I am so proud of my Dano. This past weekend, she went to volunteer at a homeless shelter, cleaning and painting it. She worked REALLY hard, and told me all about what she thought about it afterwards. I can't say it humbled her really, but she did talk a lot about homeless people and soup kitchens and her thoughts about life in general. They were her private thoughts so I won't share them, but I am REALLY VERY VERY proud of her, and I hope this is something that sticks with her for a long time. XOXOXO for my Dano.
