First after a long hard rain we end up with no power in the front of the house, now after a day long storm a pipe bursts under the house at 2am this morning. >:( Grrrr. The pipe is an easy fix that will have to wait til morning, but the electric needs to be fixed now and I have no clue how we are going to do it.

Last week, maybe the week before, we had a huge lightning storm, which I slept threw. Upon awakening I found the front of my house in perpetual darkness. We have flipped breakers, nothing works, top it off, the breaker box isn't labeled so using a process of elimination we have brought it down to two breakers that "could" be the problem.

We were planning to take our time with this, it's only one room that is the problem and we can work around it pretty easily, until, all of a sudden, we start having issues with our septic...

Yea, the septic pump is on the same damn breaker. *flail* Come on, is it not bad enough that I have to turn off my phone cause I cant afford it, now we have to give up eating too? We can't afford this right now.

Damn house is going to kill me.

I woke up this morning to my two dog alarm system. Both dogs were barking their heads off which had the birds in a screaming tizzy and there was just too much noise for me to sleep through at that point. So Growly and awake I shuffled through the house telling all of them to just shut the hell up already. With in, I'd say, 20 minutes, the birds had settled down and I was awake enough to put the dogs out and rustle up something to nibble on, there was a knock on the front door.

Apparently, one of my birds had gotten loose and wandered over to my neighbors house. O.O Holy Crap! My Neighbors, who are really sweet may I add, had seen Echo, my amazon parrot, when they were on their way out to work and picked him up, storing him in their house until they could find me. (This is why the dogs were going ape shit, "People...People at the door....STRANGE PEOPLE MOMMA!" The birds were just, "Barking, we hear BARKING!")

So I scurried and got some clothes on, well, presentable to the public clothes at least, walk next door and there is Echo growling and all "Where the hell am I!" on a bunk bed ladder. He wasn't letting anyone near him. Didn't want me either, difference is, his growly noises don't scare me so he gives it up pretty quickly. (That and though he is acting tuff, he doesn't -really- bite. What I mean by this is that he acts like he is gonna nail you but it is all open beak thrusts. He never actually grabs or bites just a big bluff that is pretty easy to call.)

So, now he is back in his cage and being all pissy that his most awesome adventure was cut short, and I need to figure out how to make it so this does not happen again.

It's been one hell of a morning.

This past weekend was a rough one for me. It started with me just refusing to leave the house Friday morning, so I did not go to PT. (Bad Suzi) On Saturday I -had- to go brave the stores to finish the Christmas shopping. This was far from fun for me, and I had to walk out at one point and let Bear finish it up because I couldn't take it anymore.

On the way home we stopped at Walgreens and I found something that brightened my mood for the holidays. Because up until that moment I had not put anything on my poor dismal tree, and had not planned to. It is a tradition that I get at least one, usually one, new decoration for the holidays and well this years is just awesome, so let me introduce you to the most awesome little snow dude... ( Fergus!Collapse )

The day started with my friend and awesome built it guy driving two hours with his contractor friend to come talk to me about the aviary. We hashed out a lot of different ideas about how we can get it done and he will be back in contact with me this week with the numbers.

We all went to lunch together and had a great time before they left then Bear and I did the food shopping. Upon coming home we watched a Tyler Perry Movie marathon, put out the last of the Halloween decor and had dinner. Which was Chicken Marsala, and it was really good. Bear is an awesome cook, and really sexy when he's working in the kitchen. XD

Anyway, back to the Halloween Decor. I took some pictures and thought I would share them with everyone.

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Well I got up at about 9am yesterday morning and havent been to bed since. Unfortunatly because of the teen issues yesterday and the fact that the lousy contracter installed my doors wrong, I cant lock up the house and feel secure that a certain teen who is no longer allowed in my house wont come into it when I am asleep. So, while Bear sleeps, I'm awake, when he is at work, I am awake. so when do I sleep? when I can lock my door, maybe then I can sleep.

Until such a time happens, consider me your babbling, caffene junky misfit. Wheeeeee!

I think it knows. It knows I have to find a new contractor. It knows I have to sue the other guy before I can get the new guy to actually FIX anything. So what is my houses wisdom in all this knowlage? Why it breaks the only damn working shower we have.

Some one just kill me please?

I dont know if I have mentioned this yet or not but when Bear and I bought our house we hired a contractor that had been recomended to us.

The contractor put in our new floors first. He did an awesome job. So we continued into the kitchen and bathroom. I should have stopped with the floors. My kitchen is all sorts of screwed. Crooked tile, unfinished cabinets, no dishwasher yet. Then there is the bathroom, There is a hole in the celling, the tile is uneven, nothing is finished. And the french doors he put in are uneven and leaking.

I haven't seen or heard from the guy since January. So today I called a contractor to get an estamate to fix the job(s). And yes, I am going to sue this guy so I can recoop some of my loss.

I hate this.

We are supposed to close on our house tomarrow. *Squee!* I hope like heck we do cause I wont have a place to live come the 1st. >_< So anyway, we will be packing and painting tomarrow and moving friday and saturday, then unpacking and cleaning the old place sunday and monday. Internet is suposed to be on sometime monday or tuesday, tv tuesday some time.

If things go well I will be getting a cell phone tonight and forgoing a land line. its cheeper in the long run. When I do get the cell I will post the # in a friends only post.

So incase I dont get here tomarrow....See ya next week!

The main boss for my store comes in tomorrow. So I am gonna be working my tukus off this week. I mailed Laridian's care package yesterday, so that's one thing done this week.

Got my voters registration form, doing that as soon as I am done here.

We have a baby Nan-sun Conure with splayed legs at the store. If we can't fix them I don't know whats going to happen to the little guy. My boss has already said she might be giving him to me if we can't fix the problem.

The house stuff is moving along so we should be closing around Oct. 18th. This whole process is driving me insane, every day they find another hoop for me to jump through. I am so done with it.

I think I am gonna go to bed now. It's already been a long day.