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Floyd's HardwareTales from the silly side of family ownership 10 July ACCESS DENIEDDear Internet,
Apparently, the IT people at work do not appreciate the blogging GENIUS that I am and have shut me down. That, plus Joe and I had to make some cutbacks at home and decided to get rid of our home cable tv/internet access (I miss you, internet and tv... god how I miss the TV) - and Joe's work boss (that's me) won't let me blog at his work because his work computer is a DOG and I crashed out his entire system (bye bye unsaved work and U-haul customer information) and, frankly, his work is more important to our financial well being.
So, for now, I have to bid adeu. The internet cards are not in my favor right now.
We are, however, planning on getting our internet back at home when the kids start school, because they occassionally use it as a tool for projects and whatnot. More often whatnot than projects.
So, check back in Septemeber and I should be up and running again.
I'll miss you!!!
Love,
Amy 12 June Things you can only learn by expierenceToday, I went to my car at lunch and noticed a bird had pood on my car just above my door handle.
That sucked.
But what sucked even more was when I opened the door and found the bird was an excellent shot and got the inside of my door handle as well.
That sucked more.
07 June Limited Rainfall ExpectedI love working with the people I do... here's why:
The other day, it was a beautiful day but we got one of those random 5 minute rainstorms. I was walking by one of our gigantic windows (really, two sides of our building is all glass) and noticed it was starting to sprinkle. So, I made an announcement over the loudspeaker
"Hello. It's starting to sprinkle. You might want to put the windows on your car up."
and then I went and got my keys and walked to the parking lot, where the sprinkle turned into RAIN. I notieced one of my friends had his windows down, so on my way back to my desk I swung by his office
"Dude, your windows are still down"
"It's okay - I'm parked on the other side of the building."
and then we stared at each other. I was so confused. Did he know something about rain patterns that I didn't. Did we have some sort of super secret invisible rain keeper-awayer? How does the back parking lot keep your car protected from, you know, the weather?
This is me again: "Um, okay... ri-i-ght... Except that your windows are down and it's RAY-A-NING"
"It's raining? I thought you said the sprinklers were on."
See, now if you don't work at my building, you might think this is reasonable, except that it's not. At our building, the parts of the lawn that have sprinklers are bordered by either road or building. In order for your car to get wet by our sprinklers, you'd have to be parked ON THE LAWN. and this guy has worked at our building for longer than I have, so he knows about this. Plus? why would I make an announcement to tell people the sprinklers were on? It happens twice a day, and I've been employed at my building for more than five years and have never done this before. It just doesn't add up...and the inside of his car got really, really wet.
05 June Visiting Mt. WashmoreMt. Washmore. It's a stinky, daunting place currently located in the kid's bathroom.
See, for the past couple of weeks the girls have been complaining they have NOTHING to wear. NOTHING. I've been sending them to school naked except for their mismatched socks and soccer cleats. I always called them crazy and sent them back to their rooms figuring they were just tired of what they had to wear, not that there was literally nothing to wear. Because? I generally have no more than two loads of their laundry to wash. I'm pretty on top of it because there is little I hate more than dedicating an entire weekend to my laundry room.
I had noticed that Alex was wearing the same purple pants for days in a row. she told me she liked them and that she didn't have anything else to wear.
Again with the nothing to wear! What is that?
Well, I figured it out on Sunday. We got home from an outing with the kids and informed them we would me mucking out their bedrooms (stalls... whatever) and I opened Alex's closet door and found a good chunk of the mising clothes. Seriously? I wouldn't have been surprised to find a family of rabbits stuck under the heap of crap. And, Alex discovered that wet towels should be put into the dirty clothes and not into the closet on top of otherwise clean clothes (on the floor...) because they make everything stink. And neat-nik Isi had some equally as stinky finds, except her clothes were stashed in her toy box under the toys. Lilly's contribution, under the bed.
Three girls - three contributions to the mountain of damp that is now the bathroom...
When we got done on Sunday, I went into the bathroom and the one remaining load of laundry morphed into a pile that took up the entire square footage of the bathroom floor up to my knee - plus a bonus pile of wet towels in the tub.
SWEET!!! I LOVE 18-24 LOADS OF LAUNDRY ALL AT ONE TIME!!!
On the upside, When Alex got home from school yesterday, she didn't want to go play with anyone because her room was so clean she just wanted to hang out in it and make sure all her summer clothes still fit.
Isi didn't want to have any of her friends over because she was worried they'd mess stuff up - her room is now a shrine to controlled pack-rat-ed-ness.
01 June No Water = Crankiness, Plus Death of a SpellingBee KidOn Wednesday, when I got home from work there was a note in my front door. "Dear Resident. Because you can't pay your water bill, we've shut your water off. Please bring us your first born, a note from your grandma and Eleventy Thousand Dollars and we will turn it back on in approximatley 4 days."
I came a tiny bit unglued and immediatley called Joe. Joe - you told me you paid the water bill! "I did pay the water bill - I check yesterday, the money has been taken out of our account!" "Well, buddy, we have no water"
Let me explain something about our persnickety park managers. The water bill is due on the 21st of the month. Every month. If you water bill is not paid in full by the 30th, they shut your water off and add on a extra $30 because, you know, it was a pain for them to go all the way to your house and shut your water off.
We'd sent the check in before the holiday, but due to that super duper fun filled weekend, they didn't make the transaction at their billing facility until the 29th. But still - Water doesn't get shut off until the 30th. They took the money before that day.
Anyway, when I got home on Tuesday, the water was shut off and I came unglued and Joe called lots of people and called the parks answering service until he spoke with someone, and the park managers ADMITED they didn't actually check with the billing service before they turned off our water. That's cool. Lets just turn off peoples water even though their water bill has been paid.
So, Wednesday night, after the kids were in bed, they came back to our house and turned the water on. I ran the dishwasher and we called it good.
So then yesterday (Thursday) I got home from work, went to the bathroom and the tank in the toilet wouldn't fill back up. Strange. I called the neighbors - do you have water? - Yes, they had water. We had no note, we'd established that the bill had been paid. I was mad. Joe was mad. And together, we couldn't sleep because we were egging each other on with our madness and 79cent per gallon water.
Today, Joe called them back up and calmly and rationally (Joe always becomes calm and rash the next day. It doesn't work that way with me) asked why we didn't have any water. They said we didn't pay and that we lied about paying and we couldn't have any water because we were liars that didn't pay our water bill and we didn't deserve any water that didn't come from the grocery store.
Except that what really happened is they got mixed up and took our money and posted it to the account of one of our neighbors and whatever, they'll turn our water back on and wave the "turn your water back on fee" because they're nice like that.
Nice. Yea.
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Yesterday (before I found out about the water) Alex and Isi and I were listening to NPR in the car and the DJ came on and said
"There is one student from Michigan, Detroit County Day, still alive in the Scripps National Spelling Bee..." and talked about her for a little bit and how we are very proud of our expert spellers from Michigan.
Then I heard Alex in the back seat - talking to no one in particular "They kill them?..."
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