car

Dribble

KRP and the car are home safe and sound. Most of the damage to the front fender I got straightened out. Billy re aligned the fender and door so the hard stuff was done. It really is not that bad and certainly not as bad as KRP was making it out to be.  If I turned it into the insurance it would exceed the allowable amount so it would be a total LOL.  So we are taking off the full coverage – duh – should have done so long ago.

Catfish is doing ok just a few strange moments where he seemed uncomfortable and was shaking for no reason so I am gonna call the vet about it.

I have been slowly painting the bedroom, next comes the carpet, and then what I dread – moving all my crap o la out of one room and into the other.

I guess this is a good thing as I really do have some stuff that I like but I am thinking that porkies hanging on the wall is probably a little bit to dorm roomish LOL.

I am trying to find the perfect computer desk. The one I have now is a larger corner unit and while it is an old familiar friend it will not fit back through the door put together and I have held it together with elmers glue and brackets as it tried to fall apart.  Seems desk are either way to big or way to small never just right. I have been checking Crai g s L ist and the major box stores. Gosh all I want is a small desk that will hold two CPU’s, printer, scanner, external drives . …

The new washer and dryer have been picked out. Now we just have to go buy them.  The company (smaller local family owned) will remove the old set and give us time to get the dryer vent cleaned and then deliver and install the new ones when we are ready. Ten years ago we hauled our old set downstairs and the new ones up ourselves. No way we could do it now.  6 steps and a landing, 6 more steps – might as well be Mt. Everest now. I wonder what possessed us to do all that to save 50 bucks? Well other than saving 50 bucks.

Piles of ?

TUESDAY

The past few weeks have been very strange for lack of a better description.

Our room mate that has been moving out since err I think first it was the end of  April, then it became the middle of May . … and so it went. This weekend she did it – she moved out. Catfish is rather confused as he has never known a world without his “auntie” he keeps going into her room trying to figure out where o where is she.

KRP wants me to move all the stuff in this room I am in now into the empty room. At first it kind of sounded good to me as the other rooms A/C heat duct is closer to the unit so the room stays cooler and it is a foot or two wider. Then the reality of having to move all my crap hit YIKES!

We have been bringing boxes back from storage and I have been going through them sorting – Goodwill, someone we know wants it, garbage can, and keeper.  Since our friends gave us the china cabinet I have been hunting for all my Grandma’s stuff. I managed to find a hidden cupboard when she was moving and snatched up some china, and her silver wedding candle sticks . My brother (cause he was married) got everything else and has since lost all of it in their travels!!!! So the few pieces I have are important to me and my niece who also got ripped in the deal. Oh isn’t family crap ol a fun LOL.

Of course I have to polish the silver, wash the china, etc. kind of relaxing in a way.

Now what I am wondering is how can we bring back lets say two boxes, get rid of some of the stuff in them, and end up with three boxes worth? It grows ha ha ha.

I decided that I am freaking tired of stuff falling out of cabinets and attacking me every time I try to get something out.  Especially in the kitchen. I swear KRP as no since of the idea that stuff you use everyday goes somewhere close to where it is used and stuff you use once a year can be tucked away out of the way. She flunked kitchen organization 101 – she had to have!

So point being, I am reorganizing the kitchen.

The living room is full of boxes, the kitchen counter still has some junk on it, and I am looking at getting new carpet into the empty room, moving all this crap . … well you probably get the idea.

This afternoon in the eighth box I unpacked I found my Grandma’s candle sticks and my Reed Barton Paul Revere bowls. The are all polished up and shinning away in the cabinet. I polished the rest of my salt and pepper collection too.

WEDNESDAY

KRP left his morning to go to Ryan’s Junior High Graduation in Nevada. The plan was for her to come home tomorrow – well that was the plan anyway.  I was thinking this morning while cleaning the kitchen cupboards that this is the first time in about 8 years that I have been home alone.  When KRP was gone our room mate was here.  When I visited someone without KRP well I was visiting someone so not alone. Weird really.

Well about 2 hours after KRP called to say she was about 20 mins from Billy and Trish’s I got another call from her.

Err- augh – seems the Wagon now has a a new stripe running from front wheel well to rear wheel well – umm. Ok no one hurt, no mechanical damage just a big long indented stripe.  I must tell you there is a reason that since 1982 I have done almost all the driving on long trips because the freaking car comes home without a stripe LOL!  Oh wells . … now if it had been the truck I would be a tad more pissed.  Billy is going to realign the fender so it does not hit the passenger door – umm this does not sound so good?

So now I KRP is coming back home Thursday instead and I get to toss more junk hee hee . …  I spent the afternoon going through the boxes. I divided the  stuff that was “keepers” into small piles and then lugged it upstairs in small boxes. Then I repacked the larger boxs upstairs and put them in the closet.  I finished most of the kitchen and then plopped my hind end on the couch and watched TV and read.

Tomorrow I am going to lunch with my friend Tony and then making home made spaghetti sauce and garlic bread for dinner as our ex roomy is coming over. Catfish will be happy to see her. We are going to watch Apollo 13 on Blue Ray, eat some pop corn and chill.

Well off to bed after I look up blue book on the car to see if the damages exceed it’s value. I am thinking yeah they do so  since we can not afford a new car right now I guess we now own a dented car and switch to liability only probably should have done that earlier anyways. Looked the value up and oh yeah this is not getting turned into the insurance company LOL

OK really going nite nite now . …