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After a brief, OK, LONG Hiatus, I am back....more to come

Taupe is white, and White is Taupe

My day started out like any other day, I hauled myself out of bed and hugged the coffee pot for a while. I brought Bnut to school , I went to Wal mart, and the Post office. I KNEW today had to be better than yesterday, Yesterday while picking Bnut up from school I got rearended by a high school kid. He was probably paying more attention to the girl in his truck, and he hit me. I was at a red light, stopped, and he hit me going roughly 45 mph, can you say TOTALLED?

So I KNEW today had to be better.......not so much.

I came in from Walmart, and as I passed the house on the way to my lovely travel trailer I noticed that the painters had started painting. One more step almost completed on our road trip from hell. I THOUGHT they were painting a Primer Coat, since I knew I had picked a Taupe color for the exterior of the house. I have never been so wrong in my life.

I put up my crap from walmart, cleaned a bit, and sat down to eat some lunch. My oldest DD came by with the Grandson, and I was playing with him for a while, all the while the painters were "priming". When oldest DD was leaving she mentioned the missed spots in the paint, and I told her " oh, they will touch it up, it's only the primer coat". One of the painters turned around and said " NO Ma'am, this si the color you picked". I said " of course not, I mentioned to you YESTERDAY that it was Taupe, you know, tan.....light brownish off white. "
He says " Taupe, white, same color". The argument that ensued cannot be repeated in polite company. I made it clear that Taupe, and white are not the same color, not even close, although they might be in the same family.

After several phone calls to the builder, I straightened it out, explained that Taupe, and White are not the same color, and that this was not just any white, it was an arctic white. The kind of white that blinds you in the sunlight. They will be bck tomorrow with hopefully the right color paint, and hopefully get it done. One more step......

I was informed by one of their helpers that the last time there was a Mixup, the house in question was accidently painted SpongeBob Yellow......thank goodness that wasn't me!

The Great Ceiling Fan Debate of 09'

This weekend will be forever known as "The Great Ceiling Fan Debate of 09'". Dh and I have discovered in our Home Building adventure that we have VERY different tastes. You see, all of our other light fixtures kinda came wiht the old house, and we only changed them if they broke. Our furniture has always been " early Cheap" since I firmly believe that kids can sense expensive furniture, and then they stain it with something. At least MY heathens DID.

So, where was I? OH, yes, the ceiling fans. Well, I went to all 3 local big box stores, ( Lowes, Home Depot, and Sutherlands. ) and found several fans I liked, and one I LOVED! I showed them to DH saturday evening online, he hated ALL of them! Even the one with DEERHEADS, and I was positive he would LOVE that one.But no, he claimed they were too "rustic". So while my tastes run the the casual, even rustic, DH's run to the contemporary, classical ..cough ...cough..[strike]frilly[strike]( i think he is secretly gay).

I have decided that i will just let him pick the fans, but I get all the other light fixtures, so I get to pick 16, he gets 3, and Bnut gets to pick her bedroom ceiling fan, which of course is of the Softball motif, and we already have it. When I break, I mean um, when the FANS break in a few months, I will just get the ones I originally wanted, and dh will probably never even notice.

I am including the links for your perusual, not advertising these particular sites, they were just the ones with the best pics!

My FIRST Choice, Living/Great room/Master bedroom

http://www.johnmarshalldesign.com/sc_ceiling_fan_61401.html

Second choice
http://www.johnmarshalldesign.com/br_ceiling_fan_61226.html

Third choice
http://www.johnmarshalldesign.com/sc_ceiling_fan_61712.html

DHs only choice (AKA the ones that will break soon)

http://www.fantasticfans.com/FF90515.htm

Girls, boys, and Dead Hermit Crabs

SO, I have an 11yo female child, who has recently discovered that boys are not quite as icky as she thought them to be. She now spends countless hours on the phone with her friend discussing who likes whom, and who is Hot. What they wore, and what they didn't wear. Boys on the other hand , at this age are not so much "into" girls. I am not sure how this works. I really don't want to know how it works. All I know is that by the time a boy is able to take my girl out for a date he will also get a lesson in shotgun cleaning.....

My Hermit Crab died today, she passed quietly sometime during the noon hour, just kinda fell out of her shell. She was not actually my Crab, she was Bnuts crab, but I watered and fed her, cleaned up after her, and paid attention to her. I am honestly shocked that she survived this long, poor thing has been thru hell. First she and her aquarium mates were evacuated twice in 2 weeks, stuck into a tiny plastic box, so unlike their nice spacious aquarium. Then they were kept in the tiny box for several months. Hermit crabs need space, and friends...this one was the sole survivor. I will bury her tomorrow, when it s warmer. RIP BAHAMA

parenthood, girls and other useless things

SO, My kid had to stay afterschool today, detention. Why did she have detention? She beat the crap out of some little boy, then threatened to do it again if he told on her, all observed by a Reading Teacher. WHY did she beat the crap out of the little boy? ( who is 12 BTW), because he called her " makeup face". WHY did he call her that? Who knows, and WHY did she take offense? Again who knows, but she did apparently. She has started wearing a little bit of makeup at school, behind my back since I told her no. She comes home with it on, and when she gets pink eye I don't want to hear the whining. I am guessing the afore mentioned little boy will refrain from name calling in the future, his black eye is not gonna help matters. I really fear that my 11yo girl is becoming a "boy bully". I swear I just really do NOT know what to do anymore.


SO, I have to take time out of my somewhat busy schedule to pick her up at school at 5:30, and dinner is late, and traffic is HORRENDOUS. UGGHH.

Port O let in my yard?

Or more commonly called a Johnny on the spot. Well, there is one in my yard, a big blue one. I guess it will save the Azaleas? They were sure to be a fatality. Not that i cared, i have been trying to kill them for years, I was kinda hoping.....

Construction is progressing nicely, we have framed walls, exterior and interior, concrete, and it is scored..YIPPEEE...My bum still hurts from doing that, and my everything else.

So Bay realized that her room is not the biggest in the house, it is the farthest away from mine however, and that is what matters. more later, Xman is not letting me type.....