A Peek Into The Misadventures of My Crazy Upside-Down Life.
You think you know your job. I mean, Been doing it for years and years and years.
You decide to do something you have done off and on for as many times as needed and you take the initiative to do it without having to be instructed and what happens? Apparently you aren't supposed to do it unless asked by the client. Oh and undo what you've done- but if someone asks us to we going to redo it to what you did to begin with.
We cant win.
The weekend was interesting to say the least.
Saturday I cleaned the shared areas of our house, put away all the Halloween Decor and added more Autumn decor for Thanksgiving.
Our bedrooms are our personal space to be kept/decorated as we want them( as long as it's not left to go filthy and attracting pests of all/any sizes and species, that is. I try not to look too often, my level of clean is a half foot about a normal person's.)
I've deep cleaned & organized mine at least 20x since moving in in May and it's still not done to my satisfaction to be honest. Granddaughter is a typical teen- but I have to say recently she has started coming back from her Dad's visit and immediately straightens her room. Yay!! My daughter likes hers clean but lived in and I'm fine with that too.
So shared spaces are looking awesome- BUT- I'm about to start moving everything around for Putting up the Christmas Tree and Christmas decor.
First of all, I put up an Autumn Tree. Small topiary tree we intended to use for the from porch, but it just looked so lovely on the dining table I decided to just leave it there for now.
I took all the smaller bits of autumn floral decor and put them all on the topiary tree. They are not attached so when Thanksgiving is over I can literally just pick the floras and ribbons off and put them in a box and label it for next year. Reuse the tree for Our Christmas topiary next to the front door.
Next weekend I'll be decorating my Bezzie's apartment for Christmas, but the following weekend I'll be making the window swags for the front of the house. Also we have a HUGE over sized wreath for the porch light on the second floor above the front entrance, and a large one for the front door to co-ordinate colors with the swags.
It's going to be fun. I'm in my element!
Only my sister and nephew showed up for "Sunday Dinner At Vada's" last night. That's fine. I don't think it's realistic to expect everyone to be there every single Sunday. It's just not going to happen with a large working family. We are extremely lucky to get together on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'll have to work most holidays- I was only off last year for Christmas because it was my first Christmas back from England and hadn't celebrated Christmas with my family in 13 years I was over there. That was the condition I had for taking the job- I wanted Christmas off that first year. But now it's back to reality. Working most Holidays. So I'm going to have to plan Thanksgiving and Christmas with perfect timing to be able to do it. It will be fine.
Seems I made it through yet one more October 29th!!
It started of on shaky ground at 5am yesterday morning- although I started out a half hour earlier as a precaution. On the road that never ends I narrowly avoided 4 deer at separate locations who decided I wasnt a threat to them as they stepped out in front of me- either that or they were sick of everyone's BS and decided to end it all. As I said- I narrowly avoided them all. HA!!!!
Then I got on the 4 lane highway and had another issue- an 18 wheeler wasnt paying attention and almost rear-ended me at a Stop Signal.
At this point, I was 100% positive that THIS was my last day....
I got to work and was overly cautious there as well... As I was on the drive to my Bezzie's house after work. We had hot dogs and I was especially careful to chew everything until it was mush before swallowing it.
Then we watched Yellowstone until time to go to sleep. And then I woke up at 3am and rejoiced!!!!
Today when I get home I'm going to put together my Modern Witches outfit(I'm positive I can put a convincing witches outfit from what I own) for giving out candy(IF any ToT's show up) tomorrow evening.
If they don't show up I get to eat all the Lil Debbies myself!! Hee Hee Hee!!!
And also I'm going to try to do an autumn theme for my nails.....I mean how hard can it be.... Green undercoat with autumn color blotches?
Famous Last Words...............
So the GOOD news is- I woke up alive this morning.
The bad news is- the day isn't over yet.
I've already had some close calls on the drive in to work this morning. Deer ran out in front of me at 4 separate times on the drive in... and then an 18 wheeler almost rear ended me at a stop sign....
My nerves are shot. I'm second guessing everything I do- every time I get in my vehicle(several times a day) I have said a prayer for safety. I let one of the other officers do patrol in the truck-yard today and I sat at the truck gate. I fear for my life on regular days going back there- and to go back there today would have been testing fate. Plus, it's raining and I hate driving in the rain- especially in the dark.
I swear it's like participating in some gawd awful reality Game called Final Destination-The Game. You have to try to perceive all things that could kill you and calculate the risks and try to misdirect them to stay in the game...ie alive.
I'm glad I did too- because Lolli-pop came in and talking to them made me feel a bit less stressed. A bit less....
My heart rate must be up around 120bpm, but it's also doing that Skippy/Racey thing too- so it's prob evening out the numbers.
So I only have half my shift left(trying my best to stay in the office for the rest of the shift), then the drive to my Bezzie's house(closer than my own house, therefore less time on the dangerous road). After I get to her house I only have to worry about choking to death on dinner... so I'm probably going to have a cup of coffee.
Cold Brew.
No Ice......
Yes- I'm defo in survival mode.
See ya on the flip-side!!
So tomorrow is the day. October 29th. According to my dream my DOD
I'll post on Thursday to let you know if I'm still on Earth. Or if you don't hear from me by end of week, I may be bound for a higher plane.
I'll admit- about 90% of my dreams are spot on accurate, the other 10% aren't quite as accurate- but still scarily close to it.
Having said that, my sister was involved in a head on collision on her way to a patient's house yesterday morning. She's a Hospice nurse.
She will heal- it could have been soooo much worse than the plethora of injuries she received. As you can imagine- she is in a lot of pain and will be for several weeks to come, I imagine.
So I'm wondering- was the dream I had actually meant for me- or was it one of the less accurate 10% dreams?
Time will tell.
Either way- we are immensely blessed to have Sissy still with us. The Lord looks after us...
I've noticed that I'm not seeing ANY Dodge Intrepids on the road since moving back to South Carolina.
I've been trying to find someone to put my Ford Ranger pick-up back together again, to no avail. Maggie(my Mazda 3 is on her way to needing minor major repairs(bushings, brakes and a clutch soon). And I was thinking maybe I should look for an automatic with all the knee and hip problems I've been having lately as well.
I thought about all my cars I've owned and my top two choices are:
1) Dodge Challenger & 2) Ford Mustang.
Neither are in my price range.
My third choice would be a Dodge Intrepid. And although I've been looking , I haven't seen a single one in the almost two years I've been back. Not a SINGLE ONE!!!! Not on the road- not parked in a driveway- not on any used car lot or Dealership trade-in lot I've been by.
Where have they all gone? Is someone buying them all up? Was there a government ban on owning one?
For me they are the perfect mix of sportscar and family sedan. They ride like a dream- relatively good on gas...Well, the one we had did and was. Comfy seats, sporty look- you would think you were in a Camaro- but then you look over your shoulder and lo and behold there is a family sized back seat. It still looked sporty, but in a family kind of way. Perfect Combo. Now that I think about it, it was kind of the Reverse Mullet of Automobiles. Party in the front and business in the back.
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The Landlord actually DID make it by this weekend(RED LETTER DAY!!!!)- for about 10 minutes while he fiddled with the temp setting knob on the fridge again. And once again- he left without saying much except that he would call the repair shop tomorrow and talk with them. He only told me that when I chased after him as he walked out to his car- the man NEVER offers any info - he just arrives, messes about doing not much except looking and then walks out the door without so much as a "Goodbye", "I'll call or text you in a while", " I'll be back" , or anything- just out the door, in his jeep and is gone.
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Daughter and I went looking for housing back towards Easley on Saturday. Every graduate in our family has graduated as a Green Wave. Julie wants Alyssa to graduate as one, too.(Truth be told, so do I.)
On the upside- Sunday Dinner At Nanny Vada's was lovely!!!!
I love those things- perfect End to the weekend!! <3
My landlord is driving me bonkers.
As I have told you in earlier posts, our fridge is acting up.....The landlord originally sent a repairman out (3x) to fix it. Well, he said if it messed up again he was just going to buy a new fridge for the property.
Uh-huh.
Last week after us calling and telling him the issue was still an issue, he came out to measure the space for the new fridge, but he opened up the fridge and said "Nothing's frozen in here".
We had called him TWO days earlier to let him know it was freezing everything in the fridge-and we was going to have to throw the food away again for the THIRD time.
My daughter told him "Not now it's not- it was frozen the day we called you- then it goes into a thaw cycle and that's what it's in now." Give it a couple days and it will be back in Freeze cycle again."
He fiddled around with the temp setting and said "Next time it goes into Freeze again, call me and I'll come out and look at it.
Uh-huh..... Man, you are 83 years old and this is a recurring issue and you sent the actual repairman out 3x and THEY cant fix it....last time I saw you(when I paid the rent even tho our issue wasnt fixed and we keep having to throw away food because it cant be frozen or it ruins, or it thaws and refreezes so-again- has to be thrown away because you can't do that because of bacterial issues.... ) you wasn't a bona fide repairmen NOR were you a Wizard-NOR were you a warlock.
So he left and yesterday I went in from work- and lo and behold- the fridge was in freeze mode again. So I messaged him and told him it was frozen again and this is the text conversation we had...verbatim...
Me: It's starting to freeze food in the fridge again. You said let you know if it started doing it again.
HIM: Is there any time of day that this happens or all the time
Me: It happens every couple days. No regular time- it's just every couple of days we open the fridge and everything is crunchy with ice...not rock solid but hard enough to feel like soft wood or hard ice cream.
HIM: Will try to get down there over the weekend Can't get out of the office on Friday
Me: We will be in and out all weekend but feel free to use you key to come in and have a look after knocking to see if we are home.
HIM: No one being home is a good test as no one will be opening and closing the door.
Me: If anyone was leaving the fridge door open it wouldn't be freezing- food would be getting ruined from not being cold ENOUGH.
HIM: If it is over cooling and no one is home to open and close the door it will likely be more pronounced.
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THIS is where I just gave up talking to him.
So I'm trying to keep from having to throw even more food out, but you want to see the effect of keeping the door closed JUST so you can see if it freezes the food more???? Okay Richie Rich. Maybe you will get by before it goes into thaw mode-(DOUBTFUL.) It freezes over night and thaws before bedtime usually every couple of days.....so if you don't make it the fridge will have been thru this freeze cycle, thawed it all out, and probably begun ANOTHER freeze cycle or be in the middle of another thaw cycle.
Has he looked at the price of FOOD these days??? And we aren't on Govt assistance. I can't afford to replace food willy-nilly like that!
The world is full of effing idiots, but for goodness sake- do they all have to come into MY life??????
I'm done- I'm definitely ready to start looking for another place.
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