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i've been working a lot of hours, sapped up all my vacation pay while out on surgery back in january. waiting to hit forty hours paid time off again so i can take a desperately needed vacation. never actually taken an ideal vacation, hoping to this year.

i hope to have an enjoyable summer than work, and i'm already dreading winter.

girlfriends working nights, so i've been lonely when not at work

 

Ate a cold baked potato. Going back to check on the sick.

 

Forced some more antibiotics in the kitten. He and hubby are chilling in the bed. Hubby is in good spirits but I doubt he could walk if he had to. He says we will go to the hospital in the morning. He is not leaving the kitten while it's sick. I need some sleep too but I don't know when.

 

Hubby turned out the lights and said good night. I guess I'll sleep now. Hospital when we wake.

 

Aeri, i hope you can get everyone feeling better, but dont kill yourself doing so. do you have some reinforcements you can call in?

a customer of my hubby's told him to get a sleep study done for his apnea, the guy got bad hypertension and blew his aorta, nearly died. hubby is shocked! "i didnt know it could damage other things!" well no shit sherlock. ive been telling him for years to get the study done. get his hip and shoulder looked at. knees and feet too. etc etc, hes falling apart of course, as we all do, and progressively more over time.

 

Aeri, I surely do hate what all you're going through. No doubt, you are the only person that could just keep on and on and on doing all of that and not blow a gasket/flip out. I'd be willing to bet that you maintain it all, keeping it together always at home and we only hear the "highlights". lordhavemercy and blesed be
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On my homefront, aside from this POS laptop being my only connection to the outside world, I have discovered the DOL, Wage and Hour Division is just as full of shit as every other gubmint agency.

Wednesday afternoon (prior to handing in my uniforms) I faxed them 10 (TEN!) pages...copies of my check stubs with the accompanying "front" showing how much money I/we had to pay in order to get the check. Well, I did this around 3:30 Wednesday, and I called the DOL lady after I faxed her all this as per her request.

The next day (Thursday), I actually had something to do in the afternoon and didn't leave until 2:00 in the afternoon.

When I get home that evening, I find a man from the DOL (probably "my" lady's boss) had called and said they had received my faxes today (LIAR! They received them the day before) AND these faxes were "not legible. So I'd need to MAIL them to bla bla bla address." WTF!?!



Not only were the faxes from the library, but the woman that helped me get it all together and fax it - copying and faxing costing me $12! - and I discussed if everything was "legible since I was sending it to the DOL". She told me everything was "easily read. I can't foresee how anybody would have a problem reading this".

DEARGOD!

So no I am NOT mailing them my originals, which after listening to his late afternoon message 4 times, it seems that is exactly what he wants.

I have no idea why I thought this gubmint agency would be any different than any other agency...

Although I have some money saved, it makes me just sick as all get out that one single thieving ass caused all of this.

The few places I've looked into that have hiring signs out ALL require this deep background check AND a piss test...all for a minimum wage job. yay for the damn job market

bah humbug

 

Kitten is back to normal. Hubby is breathing.

 

Have you ever tried any detox drinks or tricks Lynn? No one wants to quit smoking.

 

I know how to pass a test "on site" (by drinking enough Sure Gel in water to about cause renal failure ) but I know of NO WAY to pass a piss test they send off, and that is what these 2 X 4 places do...they pay the employees crap and are willing to spend Quite Enough, thankyouverymuch, to make sure you've never done anything as AWFUL as have (several) simple possessions nor that you are actively using that evil weed. lol

oh, and by the way - I don't smoke...I eat it, every day if at all possible.

Even if I could pass the piss test (which I can't), I still wouldn't pass their ridiculous background check, and the background checks I'm familiar with goes back to 1980.

Isn't it interesting the DOL can't read faxes from a library but a simple background check will reveal everything aside from minor traffic tickets that have happened since 1980? lol

 

next sat the 6th,, going to see this band at the arts festival ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uf_hYskL4c

 

told the boy he could have ice cream for lunch if he just gets the section of yard hes working on de-grassed.

also- how the hell are you supposed to ID a grass? all the pictures want to show what it looks like when its mowed. grass looks like grass to me 90% of the time. all i know is the feathery seeded grass is easier to pull, and then theres the "difficult" grass that grows a heavier head, grows taller, and has a deeper, clumpy root. tell me what it is, internet, so that i can loathe it properly.

 

Have fun Orison, I'm sure it'll be a great show

Sorry to hear about your husband Aeri, people who are sick and stubborn are no fun. Seizures are not fun to witness at all. Hopefully he and the kitten get better soon!

 

Oh yeah I remember now you like your edibles. Weed is the only drug that sticks around too. I am convinced if even long term smokers could be clean in a day or two like most other drugs there would not be the massive drug testing industry there is. Weed is the most commonly used drug if you can't find that one it's not worth it to spend the money looking for others.

 

Crabgrass.

 

I can mashed potato


I can do the twist

 

OOoOooHhh I ain't ever satisfied
I got an empty feeling deep inside
I'm gonna move it to the other side...

Last night I had a dream I made it to the promised land
I was standing at the gate and had the key in my hand
Saint Peter said come in girl you're finally home
I said no thank you Peter now move it along

OooohhhOoooohhhOoooohhhOhOh I ain't ever satisfied

 

The extended garden area off the back patio has some of the crappiest soil I've ever seen around here. Somebody must have purposely mixed clay and rubble to back fill that area. There's about 3 inches of something like dirt, then 10 inches of the clay/rubble mix, then normal soil under that.

The area just off the patio slab, about 2-3 feet wide is really nice garden soil but it's filled with Daffodils so hard to plant except with seeds. I'm adding another 10-15 feet of garden and it's all the crap mentioned above. At least some of it will be pavers. There is a Redbud that I planted in the middle of that area last year. The rest is supposed to be herbs and perennials.... If I can dig holes. Poor plants are going to think they are in pots.

 

i hate backfilled areas. so much. and finding the cut corners. the southwestern most corner of the front , between the driveway edge and the neighbor's is backfilled. there are some complete garden bricks in there, those can be reused, but it contradicts use of machinery to get all the other crap. theres a russian olive there too, ugh, i hate that thing. i butchered it, it has new growth and needs to be dug up. that thing will set off my allergies so bad. and its held back by cinder block. im not even how much of that is worth changing, but at least some of the cinderblock has to go to make room for a bit more driveway. the eastern side of the front yard is a gravel driveway, plus 2-3 inches of crap soil. they planted maple trees in it, trees so stunted they are bushes. im going to put in a fruit tree, but i will clear enough gravel for it to get well established. im not planting anything there this year, just spreading out woodchips and maybe in the fall i can get it prepped. maybe build up and do the asparagus beds above ground level.money money though. we no has right now.

 

strawberries washed and soaked in hot water


yum yum yum


glad i waited an extra day becuase now they are softer and sweeter than if id ate them yesterday

 

Well it's taken most of the dark hours of the morning but we have finally cleaned out the garage again to make room for our pool table. X marks the spot, right? We've draw an X where the centre of the table needs to sit. To our measurements the X holds the recommended room size from all obstructions. We even used an old table and some ply board to recreate the table dimensions so that I could lean down with my cue to roughly test the boundaries myself and I am much satisfied. =]

We had to move my garage work bench around and make 2 new legs for it. It's all rocky now but whatever I don't really care anyway. I'll just bold the thing into the wall if it all fits.

On another note I never knew how handy cable ties could be. They fix everything. I don't even know where I got this bag, it's a bunch of sizes. I fixed my clothes line, perimeter fences and now the front spoiler of my car broke from the clips. I think one of us must have run up a curb then reversed back down and it caught underneath and broke. So instead of taking it to get repaired simple drilled two small holes into it and chassis it sits on and cable tied the thing tight. Now it can't move or come undone and is better fitting than the other side. :d