We're moving again... this time, into an actual house.  My cousin, who owns his home, got a job in North Dakota and is moving there.  He and his family wanted to rent their house out to someone they knew, preferably a responsible, upstanding family such as mine, haha.  He wanted a family that he could trust to take good care of the house, and to be ( Read more... )

I should have listened to spikeswhiterose and rented a pool boy!   I went to Big Lots to buy some bleach and some STUPID MOTHERFUCKER poked a hole in the seal so, when I was carrying the jug around the store, it was silently dribbling out and getting on my shorts -- my BLACK shorts.  My NEW black shorts.  I didn't even notice until I got home.   I got out of the ( Read more... )

We've had incredibly strange weather here lately... Usually, by the end of April we get temperatures in the mid- 80s to low-90s.  Normally that SUCKS COMPLETE ASS, and continues to suck said complete ass until damn near Halloween... but this year I thought I'd get a jump on summer, and set up the above-ground swimming pool early.  I fondly remember ( Read more... )