Drop the Filter and see what comes out?
October 2, 2008 12:44 pm
Drop the Filter and see what comes out?
To this day I have never found anything as pleasing and comforting as a warm bath. If I could live in water I wouldn’t worry about my aches and pains. They say that some people are lead by certain things in their signs and such to be more drawn to certain things, earth, water, fire, air, etc.. If so I must have been a water nymph in a former life.
I can’t believe how cold it is in this house already. Its only the beginning of August and already I am truly uncomfortable it is so cold. We have to break down and buy some electric heaters eventually. The house has a Kerosene monitor but with Kerosene being higher than gas, I don’t think we can afford to run it all the time. We put 20 dollars worth in about a week and a half ag0 and have been running it just in the mornings and evenings but we ran out just after James left this morning. So here I am bundled in a blanket dreading having to get up and clean. I did start some dishes soaking though so I guess that’s something.
With the schedule James and I have been working, we really aren’t getting much time at home. I should be changing over to mornings next week though which will help us have time together in the afternoons and his nights off but The whole family will have to get up at 4 am just for me to make it to work. We are going to open at 6 am for breakfast so I should be there from 5am to about 1 or 2 most days. At least it will keep Kenneth from getting in bed at midnight or later during the week. We really need me to get a better job but I just don’t want to waitress anywhere else cause I don’t think I am all that good at the job. I need to start looking in the paper for a regular job but that making cash each night thing is really nice. I guess we will see how this works out. James and Kenneth don’t have to drive me if James isn’t working days but then since I would have the car, he would have to walk Kenneth to school. So either way it kind of sucks. I don’t think James will keep working at Pete’s with me much longer, it just isn’t worth the money. He has his night job at Alpen Inn and Restaurant on Beech and he works there 5 nights a week and comes in to clean on morning a week. Where it is just nights though it really is only about 25 hours a week or so, thus the reason he has been keeping the part time job at Pete’s. I think he is going to look into a day job up at the ski slopes or something like that, at least if he has to work for next to nothing he could be doing something he enjoys. We also think he is going to get a raise and possibly a few more hours a week at Alpen. They normally have 3 cooks and James does Dishes at night but one of the cooks has been laying out a lot and such so it sounds like the boss is going to start taking him off a lot of hours and putting one cook on at a time with James as back up cook and dishwasher. Which means a lot harder work, trying to keep food coming out and wash dishes when you can, but it also means more hours at night after work getting the Dishes finished and things cleaned up . An extra hour here and there would make all the difference in the world. I wish I could finds something days or over night cause no matter what we do we will have trouble with the car and such. Not to mention the fact that I hate that car and don’t know how to drive it. I shouldn’t complain much cause Kenny (James’ dad) really saved us by buying it for us but I have tried driving it about 4 times now and ended up in tears 3 out of 4. I am just not made to drive a stick shift. I can’t “hear” it like James tells me too and the things he tries to explain make no sense to me. We are still not sure how to give the Kia back to the bank. I really don’t want to call them, I was hoping the Repo man would show up at Kenny and Angela’s again and we could get their number and call them and have them come pick it up. I am glad to keep it as long as possible but its not like I can really chance driving it much more with a dead tag and such. James actually got pulled the other day for driving it and now has 3 tickets we have to go to court for in November. Not good.
I haven’t got to speak with any of my family lately. I tried calling my mom and my sister some when we first moved and never seemed to get through to them. I call Gran whenever I am at Kenny’s at a decent hour but lately where James is working so many nights and so am I, We don’t seem to be making it down there much lately. I am hoping maybe we can go down there Sunday morning. It sounds like Jaime is coming up Sunday afternoon so that would work out well. We haven’t heard anything from the lawyers in a while so we need to get through to them soon too. I am not sure how to balance everything out right now. I have been thinking about getting one of those little Trac Phones just so we have one but I know it won’t work up here so what’s the point. We need to get Carolina West but we would have to buy a phone fist and we just haven’t been able to come up with that money. This month should be a little better money wise than the last few but it’s still going to be a stretch. We are hoping our checks on the 5th will cover rent but the landlord says that we still owe $55 for electric which makes no sense seeing he had us pay $30 in July, $50 in August and we had it changed over Sept 5th to our name. Sounds to me like that first $30 should have been something Michael paid before we took over the place but its not worth fighting with the landlord since he is looking for any reason to hate us he can. We did get the lawn done yesterday but I am sure he is going to complain again cause we haven’t done enough repairs this month. I am not sure where we can find time for that between 3 jobs between us, a 5 year old and car issues but I guess in his mind we just don’t work hard enough. If I wasn’t freezing to death I would go ahead and try to do some painting today but the outside really needs some washing down before I can paint over dirty walls and even thought the landlord left a hose there is not a spray nozzle on it. I am going to buy one the next time I am at the hardware store and include the bill in the next note I send him just so he can see we are spending our own money on his house. I wish I know carpentry at all cause we really need to rehang 2 doors in Kenneth’s room but we just don’t have any tools. I never thought to ask Rocky and Lulu, They might have something we can borrow. Maybe I can do that sometime Sunday too. I work a double tomorrow and Saturday if we can find a babysitter Saturday night (please god drop me a babysitter on my head?) so I don’t think I can get anything done those days but Sunday may be an all purpose work day. Gotta get it done before Jaime gets here thought cause if I don’t she will try to help and its not like she doesn’t work hard enough herself.
Oh yeah, The bestest live band in the world is coming back around. How many of you have I tried to talk into going to a SCOTS show with me? Hummm? Well they are playing 2 shows in November, One at The Grey Eagle in Asheville and One at Kasbah (sp?) in Johnson City. That’s what I have decided should be my new late birthday present. Everyone come to one of the shows with us and get me trashed he he. They really are a great band to see live. I even went when I was pregnant with Kenneth. I am def. getting the date and trying to hit Rocky and LuLu up to go and maybe Brown and Amy, and Heather Sullivan/Benfield and Amber Yates too. Where we all have kids now its hard to get babysitters the same day especially since I think they might be week nights but….. I can keep my fingers crossed. I am gonna call some old Asheville friends to see if they can meet us there (Jason, Kaleb, Lauren and Dave). OHHH Maybe Jaime can come if it is a weekend and If Gregory is still in town we might be able to talk him into it, maybe even Michaels sorry butt since I here he is back around some (remind me to hit Jaime up for the details on that). I wonder if anyone knows how to get in touch with Dane Phillips, God would he be fun at that show. I’ve even got some new buddies at work that I can hit up, I guess we can‘t all take off the same night but at least a few of us can. Can anyone else come,,,, I hate our shitty little car but I swear I will pack 40 people in it ha-ha. I am too excited about SCOTS.
Ok well I am off for a while to try to do some house work. At least I can fold some clothes and such. I am sure I will write more later since I am on such a tirade.
Thanks for listening guys.