She Threw All The Balls At Once

I put this together yesterday afternoon. This is a game that I had never seen before, ladder ball. It looks evil and it is. Those spongy round things are weighted bolos.


My gal pal is trying her hand at throwing the bolos. The object of the game is to wrap the bolo around one of the lateral bars. The orange bar is the desired bar for 3 points.
Gal pal's sister-in-law, looking gorgeous as always, holding skirt down in the breeze, has her turn.

Gal pal's father-in-law throws and scores. He's like that. He is a retired Principal.
Notice my "Feisty Cuss." She threw all the balls at once. She's like that.

I Am Whole Again

Today I had a vacation day and I did absolutely nothing on the houses.

I woke up at my normal 5:00am and got on with the day. I had a list of errands that needed to be done and I have been putting them off forever because of work constraints and/or working on the houses.

I finally applied for my passport. Paid for and the processing has begun. The lead time is said to be 1-4 weeks with the normal being 2 weeks. I did not have another picture taken. The passport photo shows me with long curly hair. Not the "Bozo the clown" effect I have now. I also have a racing stripe where the hair has grown out with my silvery halo in all its glory.

Next up was a race to Wally World for foam painting rollers, Orange Glo, and all sorts of other stuff that just happened to fall into my basket. New jammies, Summer weight, a new pair of shorts, three new blouses at 1/2 off. I bought the same blouse two weeks ago in a different color for full price.

I then raced to the mall and ran into Dillards. I have two pairs of shoes right now. Work shoes, Clark mules that are falling apart and a pair of flip flops. Both pairs have seen much better days and I used today to get new shoes. I bought two pair. Both on sale. Both really cute. It took a little longer than anticipated because I didn't have my charge card and none of the info I gave seemed to match what the store had on record. The sales associate called the info in and the guy on the other side of the line started off by thanking me for being a loyal customer since 1993. Yeah, yeah, cut to the chase and let me get off and running. I finished the purchase and also changed the mailing address so the wonderful and talented Spousal Unit can pay the bill. Isn't he great?

Next off was Kohl's. I have been losing a lot of weight and my pants are literally falling off me. I am down two sizes and needed a couple of pairs that are acceptable for work.

After that I went to the insurance office and paid for the new policy for the houses. We were dropped by our former insurance for the pool and the fact that we do not now have a primary residence. I set up an automatic payment and off I went.........

To my nail appointment. My lovely nail appointment.

I had to cancel it this past Tuesday because I got heat sickness. I will spare you the gory details but it wasn't pretty.

My one vanity. My nails. They are back to being gorgeous.

I am whole again.

I Still Haven't Figured Out Why I Do This STUFF

My family room/great room. The rugs cleaned up really nice. I didn't have to replace them.

My kitchen with the new counter tops and floor. Why am I leaving?

Oh yeah, to be with the Spousal Unit.

My entryway looking up to the second floor. I had all sorts of Maidens posed on this stairway for Senior Prom one year.
My Breakfast Room. Really this is the room where we ate all our meals for the last eight years. I love the floor and the new plantation blinds and valances.
I still haven't figured out why I do this STUFF for other people and won't do this fix for my own family.

Go figure.

I Never Thought My Toes Would Be Featured On The Internet

"She Who" toes on the old flooring. This area is not too bad. It must be the toes.

This is new flooring. Very similar, but totally different. It is gorgeous. I love it. I just wish I would be here to enjoy it.
I never thought my toes would be featured on the Internet.

Don't Get Me Started, I Might Get All Weepy

As most people in the Midwest are experiencing, the weather sucks. We are having yet another 500 year flood just North of here. The farmers are losing everything.

It is also beautiful at times.

I need to take a day off from my Bitching and Moaning about the CRAP I am going through and do a reality check.

Check out the beauty of the area in the clouds.

Then the clouds get a little ugly.

Back to gorgeous.

I am really, really going to miss this area.

My pals and friends live here and I don't want to think about how I am going to miss them for the next four years.

Don't get me started, I might get all weepy.

Maybe I'm Anxious That Soon I Don't Need To Be So Anxious

I woke up at 2:30 this morning. Monday mornings seem to be following a trend lately with me waking up super early.

I don't know if I am waking up early because I am so stressed out coming off working weekends or what. This is the third Monday the early STUFF has occurred. It is really getting old.

Anyway my anxiety level was off-scale high when I woke up. Maybe a yucky dream. I just don't know.

I am starting to feel that everything is on track with the timeline I created.

I received a phone call from the flooring and carpeting guy today confirming that they would be out first thing Wednesday, as agreed. We discussed what was going on and that we may need make some slight adjustments, which can be worked in.

I have a call in to an electrician to install two GFI outlets around the pool.

My counter top guy agreed to build the safety gates for the stairs to the pool.

The exposed wires have all been covered.

The CRAP oops sorry, STUFF is working on leaving the garage.

Maybe I'm anxious that soon I don't need to be so anxious.

Lord knows that this last anxiety needs to be a - from my lips to Your ears.

One Hand Washes The Other, Hopefully

I have been busy, busy, busy all weekend.

I focused on cleaning the kitchen cabinets and painting the doors in the house.

The painters painted the walls but I negotiated the price to have me paint the doors. The price would have gone up exponentially for having them do all the taping for painting the doors.

What I forgot is that I have a lot of doors. All needing two coats of paint.

I counted 45 doors in the house. Not including the Front Door which will be painted with other than white paint.

I am so covered with paint that I can only hope that I can scrub it all off.

I am not really confidant that I will be able to show up at the office tomorrow in a professional manner.