Just Another Bend In Journey of Life
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Hospitals, Cold, Flu, Mice, Ex's, Weddings & Frozen water*Warning I'm going to take a wild guess that there will be a lot of swearing going on!
What a year. Seriously, I really don't think anything has really gone right. Ugh. I DID get to go to the surprise party my friend threw for her bf a couple weekends ago. That was nice. It was a good time and nice to get out of dodge for a while. I had concession stand duty at the ice rink last weekend. S was a skating fool! She's in figure skating this year and LOVES it. She's gotten so good this year. I love it. The ice show is at the end of March. They're skating to a song from the Wizard of Oz and the costumes are just adorable.
Had a blow out w/ my Grandpa's widow. I've officially disowned her. Actually I shouldn't say a blow out because that was with my cousin (who I've always referred to as "uncle") and not her but she was a part of it. She's quite the greiving widow. MY ASS!!! She's just rude. She had not contacted me since the day my Grandpa passed away. Hasn't called nor has she spoken to me. Fuck her. I told my dad that she needs to realize that the bitch has TWO daughters and TWO granddaughters and not just one of each. I've heard SO much bullshit that she has said about me that I'm just done with her. I cannot deal with it anymore. She's never treated me as a part of the family so I'm done. I kept the peace and now her true colors have some out since Gpa passed. Fuck her. She can take her Birthday and Christmas cards and shove them right up her ass. I've never been good enough for her and I obviously never will be. When I walk into a room and she knows that I'm there and doesn't even acknowlege me--- screw that! Done. My dad wasn't really happy with me when I broke the news to him but he was there to witness her cold heartedness and what she has done to me so what can he really say? He's a man of few words and he doesn't like confrontation at all. Still, he should stick up for me. I've kissed that bitches ass for 28 years and I'm just done with it. She is not worth my time, energy or my breath.
My Aunt ended up in the hospital yesterday. She went to the Dr on Friday for a bladder infection which ended up into her kidneys. Gave her some meds and she was feeling better on Saturday. Sunday she took a turn and was feeling awful. She went back to the Dr on Monday and they admitted her. They're not sure what she has but there is definately a blockage somewhere as she is having no bowel movements. I'm sure she'd be happy that I'm telling you all this! :) Anyway, they're doing a CAT scan tomorrow to figure out what exactly is going on. Sucks because she and some friends were supposed to leave on Thursday to go to FL for a vacation. At least she's hydrated now. She was extremely dehydrated when she went in.
I ended up w/ a horrible cold and the flu a few weeks ago. Ugh it was bad. S ended up with it the following week. She had a skating party for Brownies the week after and ended up w/ a temp. She was ok the next morning, had a slight fever the next day but was ok to go to school. That Friday they called me at 0830 because she had a fever of 102.5. OMG did I feel like a HORRIBLE parent! Ugh. So I picked her up from school. Sat here and cleaned that day, picked up, organized and then got to watch the unfolding of the untimely death of Anna Nicole. Hey, I'd have missed it if I would have worked that day! :) S went to my parents the next day so I could go to my friends surprise party. She was feeling better. Still had the cold but her fever was gone. Thank God! All that is over now. I really hate winter. I guess I live in the wrong part of the country huh!?
My best friend is getting married in August in Niagara Falls. I can't remember if I wrote about that before. Anyway her fiance and my ex bf went to school together and are best friends so naturally he would go to the wedding also. Well he's dating a woman who I normally refer to as "giraffe neck camel toe bitch". I'll shorten it to GNCT. Anyway, becuase she is now best friends with my ex best friend, they like to slam me non stop which they have been doing all over myspace. Of course I'm nosey and read the comments. Well GNCT put a tracker on her site and since I have it also she was able to tell that it was me checking her site... so now I'm a stalker and a psycho. Hey, who DOESN'T like to read the gossip that petty bitches write about them? Let's me honest. So I was reading it. Why the hell shouldn't I? Anyway, with all the comments and what not being thrown around and since we're both attending the wedding I decided that I should email her. Which I did. I asked her what her issue was with me since I've never done anything to her and that all I've ever said was that I hoped she and the ex bf were happy, which they seem to be. I do not want him back etc, so I just dont understand what her beef is with me. OMG! Was that opening a BIG ol can of worms!!!! Wow! I got an email back about how I have people fooled but not her an how I had my mom attack (my ex best friend, now her best friend) in the bar bc she ruined my reputation, that she and my ex boyfriend know what I'm all about, and I know what I did... Bringing shit up from 11, yes ELEVEN years ago that was only partially true and had NOTHING to do w/ her. She accused me of using my daughter to try to get the ex boyfriend back, which I NEVER did! We stopped there one time because he was outside and the LAST time we were there was 2, TWO, Halloween's ago! Uh, why shouldn't we go there trick or treating? Then she went on to say how my daughter will always have a spot in his life. uh ok, then WHY is it wrong that we stop there on Halloween!? We got candy and we left. End of the story. Oh and the sight of me makes him nautious. Nice huh? I can only imagine what crap they've stuck in his head. Assholes. Anyway, just a bunch of bullshit. THEN at the end of the email she decides to threaten me with a PERSONAL PROTECTION ORDER!!!!!!!!! Are you fucking kidding me!? She notified me that two unwanted contacts qualify her to file a PPO. Meaning if I respond to the email, she'll file one on me. How fucking ridiculous can you be?! Seriously!? This chick is WACKED. She has filed a PPO on every single ex girlfriend of every guy she's ever dated. She is 37 years old and still thinks it's cool to tell off her professors at school. Immature if you ask me! So anyway, as a result of the bullshit, I forwarded the email to my friend that's getting married and told her that I will not ruin the day which is supposed to be the happiest of her life, but I will also not subject myself to the ridicule of the two of them as well as the rest of the ex's friends so I'm opting to not go to her wedding. The GNCT will not stay home so I'm going to be the bigger person and miss my best friends wedding. I do not want her to be uncomfortable because I'm on one side of the room and GNCT and vampires are on the other side. I will not do that to her. She's a bit upset with me but my mind is made up. I've dealt w/ the ridicule and shit that they've done to me before I'm not dealing with it at a wedding. I will NOT do that to her. She's too important to me and I love her too much to put her through that for an entire weekend, especially at one of the most important days of her life. I haven't heard from her since that day. I did leave a message on her myspace about being best friends and the ups and downs of it all and that I loved her but she hasn't tried to email or IM me or anything. I'll let her cool off. The funny thing is that GNCT was leaving her comments via myspace all the time, like 3-5 a day and there's been nothing since my email so IDK if my friend emailed her or if there were words exchanged or if GNCT decided not to leave messages anymore. I'm not sure. I'm not going to ask either.
Next subject-- I have mice. Yes, icky freaking mice. The cats have caught 4 of them. Last week or the week before. Well it was the week that I went to the party so I guess it was like 2-3 weeks ago. Anyway, they play with them, they don't kill them. Yes it's been quite a sight. Ewww. But for whatever reason it was easier for me to pick up a mouse (alive) with a yellow plastic dishwashing glove than it would be to pick up a big spider and flush it. Go figure on that one. Anyway, the first one Yoshi caught and I didn't know what to do. I was sick w/ the flu and had fallen asleep on the couch. 2am rolls around and I hear a CRASH! I woke up and flew into the kitchen thinking S fell out of bed and there was Yoshi w/ a freaking mouse in his mouth. Gross. I couldn't figure out what to do. Everytime I went near him he growled at me like a dog. WONDERFUL. So what the hell do I do!? I decidee that I'd (picture this) open the front door, pick up the cat and bring the cat to the door, at which time he'd realize he's cold (keep in mind he has NO fur) and he'd drop the mouse outside. Uh ya. That didn't work. I picked him up and he dropped the mouse and it ran back under the stove. FUCK! Now what!? Ugh. So he paced in front of the stove all night long. The next morning (I think) we get up and S comes running in the bedroom as I'm getting ready for work saying that Y has a mouse. (Or this could have been the day before, I have no idea, actually I think it was.) Anyway, he has the mouse and drops it. Both cats are going nuts. The mouse runs into S's room and then back to the living room behind these shelves that I have with all of our shoes on it. I couldn't find the damn thing and I was late for work and S was almost late for school so I just left it be. Damn it. I couldn't run around the house all day looking for a freaking mouse. Anyway, I think it was that night that he actually caught it but then it ran back under the stove. So a couple days later S tells me that Yoshi has a mouse. I have no idea how I got it but I did and tossed it outside. GROSS. I should have paid attention to where I threw it but I just wanted it out of my hand even though I had my trusty yellow glove on. I looked for it later in the day and couldn't find it. Not sure if it wasn't dead or if it was covered w/ snow. Later that day, Y gets ANOTHER one. Ugh. I get my "mouse glove" and Y has it but drops it and it runs across my foot so I scream. S comes running in. It goes behind the computer armour and then over by the Tv. S comes in w/ a tupperware thing and Y grabs it and I throw the tupperware thing over it. Good. Now it's trapped. On it's back, could see his little teeth... So I pick it up w/ my glove and it's wiggling and I toss THAT one outside to what is becoming a mouse cemetary in my front yard. (I hope to GOD something eats the bastards before the snow melts!!!!) I checked on him later and he was a mousicle. Dead. Good. A while later S asks me what Mork has. Another mother fucking mouse! Ugh. Same thing, grabbed him and threw him out. Tally for Thursday-- Yoshi 2, Mork 1. So I had enough. S and I get in the car and go to the store for traps. Had one in the basement and 1 upstairs. Didn't get anything in the one upstairs but caught 1 in the basement while I was gone to the party that Sat. Well the dumbass that I am, when I bought the traps I also bought poison. NEVER thought about the mice eating the poison and coming uptairs an the cats "playing" with them. (They werne't eating any of them, just tossing them around like a ping pong ball.) So I worried the entire time I was gone but it was fine. Didnt' find any upstairs at all. I haven't had any upstairs since. Caught 2 downstairs but haven't gotten any there in a couple of days either so hopefully they're done and gone. Geez!
So I go outside on the back porch today to shovel it off and put chemicals in the hot tub since I hadn't done ti in a week or so. I shovel the porch and the foot of snow on the hot tub and open it up and the MF'r is FROZEN!!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!! I think there's only maybe 1.5 inches of ice on the top (I hope). Doesnt' appear to be cracked at all but the pipe underneath is for sure. Fuck! So I have to figure out how to thaw it out and drain it so it doesn't freeze all the way through and then I have an even bigger problem. I'll get some heat lamps tomorrow and clamp them on there since it's not going to be warm enough for the sun to melt it. I'm guessing that when it was so bloody cold a week ago that it couldn't keep up with it and it shut down. FUCK! So I'm going to call the insurance and see what I can do. I actually forgot that I have homeowners insurance until my mom reminded me!!! I'm so used to renting!!! :) Anyway, hopefully they can do something. If not, damn it. I'm really upset about it. It sucks big time. At least I still have the sauna! Although that's a pain to light and shit. I just hope I can claim something on the insurance. It just sucks big goat balls if you ask me.
Oh ya, and after leaving the ice rink last Saturday, S and I both fell on the pool of ice under my car. She fell and smacked her head, lost her Mad Bomber hat, got up and fell again. I walked over to pick up her hat and help her and I went down. Cup full of hot cappuccino in my hand went ALL over me. It was so slippery that I had to slide on my butt all the way from the front of the car to where she was, help her get up, open the car door and help her in, slide down to the back of the car where I could physically get up. Glide to my side of the car while holding onto it. S was ok but I was in some pain. OMG! I got a Motrin 800 from my dad when I got home and it did NOTHING. I was hurting. My elbow was swollen big time and it hurt. I couldn't even wipe my ass or brush my teeth. I was just not meant to be left handed at any point in my life. Talk about feeling like a 3 year old! Went to the walk in clinic the next day and got some xrays done. Thank God it wasn't broken. Can you picture me w/ a broken elbow and a bright red/green/pink/blue cast all the way up to my armpit?! I think not. Although I'd have gotten good at wiping my ass left handed!!!
Ya, that's been a recap of my interesting month of bullshit. Is summer here yet!? If Spring doesn't come early I'm putting a bullet in the groundhog!
