Awesome!

Looks like our house closing originally scheduled for October 31, then for November 9, then for today, is not happening again.

I want to hit things.

I know I never wanna, and am basically a giant baby whiner, but WAH. Why can't I just stay in bed with no one in my house.

I did catch up on most of the Tivo yesterday and get a few extra hours of sleep. I just want everything in ny life to go away for a few days and take care of itself.

So, I'm back at work today and my goal is to get through the to do items, so I have a cleaner slate and less things hanging over my head.

A few more things to whine about: my hair is too long, my shoes need polish, my car is a mess...

Argh, Nora. Maybe you should hit things! But only soft things -- don't want to hurt your hand.

Yay le n! Boo, Nora! So sorry.

Hey, did you all know there's an entire subsection of the economy in place to deal with managing elderly folks? I mean, I knew about retirement communities and whatever, but I didn't know there was an entire nationwide franchise that organizes seniors' moves into assisted living, conducts the move and unpacks everything, appraises the belongings left behind, runs estate sales, and cleans and sells the empty home.

So useful! IOW, I have a mover on board, yay.

Still no word on my job, feh. So frustrating.

I'm the opposite of excited about thanksgiving, because Stepmonster is playing hostess again. But, you know, grandma wants us "all together" so I'm falling on my sword. My family has two speeds...fighting and drama, or the awkward silence of people who never learned to have conversations...my grandma's dreams make me sad. we're never going to have the movie ending.

Man, Sorry Nora.

The good news doesn't last long. Apparently water was spewing out of a sprinkler pipe.

I cannot believe this.

Suela, that DOES sound super useful, dang.

Nora, that sucks. Also le nubian. Dang!

The plumber came and replaced the bad part with the correct part, and they are not charging me anything, since they put the wrong part on in the first place (and I already paid for that one back in March). Which is awesome. Less awesome--he took off the temp one they'd put on, and it was already rusting up. Which is what caused the last one to go. Now maybe the appropriate one wont' do that, but...it's not a good sign. It was on all of a week!

I didn't know there was an entire nationwide franchise that organizes seniors' moves into assisted living, conducts the move and unpacks everything, appraises the belongings left behind, runs estate sales, and cleans and sells the empty home.

Is it "It's Your Move"? They are a huge sponsor of my local NPR station.

This is an awesome review, ending with the punchline

That was a thing of beauty. What a magnificent smackdown.