My Last Name Is Not Murphy, but Lately It Should Be

Calamity du Jour - Saturday.

I went over to the other house to clean. The tenants gave me a three days notice that the were leaving. They originally said that they would pay for the 30 days notice. Then Friday they said that they were only going to pay a portion of the rent and to use the rest from the deposit. NOT..... Not per the lease.

They left a lot of crap in the house. Expensive crap, but I really don't need to deal with this stuff right now. They like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods alot so you know the type of crap they left. But I can't use any of this upscale crap right now.

Anyway after we got all the crap out of the house it wasn't too bad. Clean the kitchen and baths. On further inspection, I need to hire a chimney sweep, termite inspector, and rug cleaner.

He also hid that the toilet leaked on occasion.

We are good landlords. As an example: The dishwasher went out and they had a new one the next day.

If they had a problem we fixed it immediately. Why didn't they report this?????

The toilet was leaking and wasn't readily noticeable immediately.

I went in today to show the house and while turning on the lights I went into the bathroom the floor squished.


I spent today shop vacuuming up to close to three gallons of water from the bathroom floor alone. The ceiling downstairs finally stopped running a river of water around 3:00 this afternoon.

My contractor guy was really good and came over immediately. They will start fixing everything starting Monday.

My last name is not Murphy, but lately it feels like it should be.

I Sat on Wet Pants for Several Hours

The rains are upon us. It seems that we can't get away from them. We get to have a day of sun, humidity, and heat. And, then it rains again.

Notice that the windows are up. I wish the windows were up two days ago, when I was going to work.

Mother Nature we need to chat.

I sat on wet pants for several hours before I dried out.

That's All the Rants for the Night

More frustrations:

We are switching to Vonage. With Vonage we are able to keep our local number so people, including our children, can keep in touch with us without paying long distance charges. The two days of frustrating calls between AT&T and Vonage drove me nuts. And that's a short trip. I was finally able to port a local number to Vonage. The AT&T gal was really yucky. She asked why I wanted a local IL number in Germany? Because I can. Understand???????????

AT&T set us up for a new DSL. Hello.... I am disconnecting.

The mail is now being forwarded. The only reason that I caught wind of this latest disaster is because the Post Office got Spousal Unit and Son # 1 confused. We have a Senior and a Junior. The Post Office sorting software has a problem with JR and SR surnames. Son # 1 is staying for the Summer with the friends I am currently with, and my Gal Pal "The Laundry Queen" (TLQ) also works for the Post Office. I need to head some of this off at the source and really get the addresses changed.

I called AT&T this morning and couldn't get a human in a timely manner. After work I went to the house and called from the house account #. It took an hour on the phone to get the new "DSL WE DON'T WANT OR NEED" turned off. Polite and helpful people this time.

I am getting to the point....I don't need to deal with this CRAP. What happened to any sort of Customer Service?????

That's all the rants for the night. I don't want to deal with it more tonight.

I Guess I Just Miss Him

I am frustrated and at times overwhelmed.

Spousal Unit is in his groove. Getting acclimated to the new job. He has his baggage and can now move about without smelling himself.

I am here cleaning up the dregs. Don't get me wrong, we both signed up for the stuff we are going through. I volunteered to do what I am doing now. Putting together everything that needs to be done. I just didn't realize how hard it would be without the Man around.

I guess I am too spoiled. I miss talking to him every night and fixing dinner together. I miss his logic, to my thinking outside of the box.

I guess I just miss him.

For Rent - Gentleman's Farm, Horses Allowed

Large, very private home, in the country, with neutral decor. Close to everything. Shopping 5-10 minutes away.

6 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 family rooms, formal living room, formal dining room.

Walk-out basement.

Huge kitchen, with island, breakfast bar, very large pantry, and large breakfast room.

Two fireplaces. Seasoned wood for burning, included with rental.

First floor master.

Lots (think oodles) of closets and storage. Each bath has it's own linen closet.

Screened-in porch.

Pool w/large deck.

Fruit orchard. Various fruits.

On five acres.

Rent me.

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Aack, I'm Cleaning

I feel a little like this right now. Cleaning and not accomplishing too terribly much. I am replacing the countertops. The kitchen floor, the downstairs carpet.



I am painting the house on the inside. I am waiting for these tasks to be accomplished.

Aack, I'm Cleaning.

I am also calling in sick tomorrow. I need to do the stuff that is'nt done.

Ya, I'm in crazy mode.

Bye, Bye

This is the container that all my next 4 year stuff is going into.

We were instructed to get inside and have them close us in and do a sniff test.

These containers are supposed to be food grade shipment containers and no smell or light is supposed to show through.

The container passed. In the picture it looks a lot bigger than it is.

I do not photoshop any of my pictures. (at this point, don't have the software or the time.)




This is my beloved desktop. I talk to all of you from this area. They, the movers made me disconnect it. I cried.

For a really long time.

I have a laptop but I really love my desktop, I'm spoiled like that.

The mover guys were really getting serious about getting on with their long weekend.

The holiday weekend was approaching and we were like, hello, we want you to work, in the rain.

What's up with that?


Anyway they got really, really serious about getting our stuff outta here.

Closing up.





Really closing up.



These guys rock.


James, Ryan, Kenny, and Joe.