Tresa's Blog

Way Too Much Email

I haven’t been on facebook yet today and it’s after 1 PM, a new record.  Seriously do you see the numbers in the inbox on yahoo?  4000+ emails makes it really hard to find anything.  There were almost 6000 when I started this morning.  (pats self on back)   I’m getting rid of all that are junk or semi junk, putting the rest in folders and organizing it all every morning!  My filters quit working for some reason or else it would be organized anyway.

See you again when I feel virtuous and clean.

I have a gmail account too and one on my home provider server but I am afraid……..

I had a bad week last week, (see here and here), as of Friday it wasn’t over.  UPS was supposed to deliver a bank deposit by Friday,  by 11 am Friday the envelope had traveled all of 20 miles instead of 100.  I find this out online so I’m trying to get more details by calling UPS.  My first mistake, they are the ultimate in press 1 and we will make your life miserable and run you around till you can’t think straight phone information services.  So I put the tracking number in by phone and the phone system says they have no idea where the package is but it hasn’t been delivered which is a lie according to the online tracking system.  So then it says press 2 for further information, I do and it says put in tracking number and then you can talk to a representative, so I put the tracking number in and it says it has no idea what happened to my package but I will need a valid tracking number before I talk to a representative.  Can you feel the love I’m experiencing for these people right now?  I go through the rigamarole again and twirl the dead cat, I’m getting frustrated.  So I curse D@*& You.    Instantly a voice comes on the phone and says we will connect you with a representative right now.

So now you know the proper use of cursing.  Package was still in KS when it was supposed to be in MO, nothing could be done about that, they can’t even give me credit for it till it actually gets delivered but I got to talk to a human and that is worth something.

I should be working on double checking web pages (I tend to lose interest when it’s not actually a deadline or anything) or I should be working on a classified ad site we are starting up (excitement is in the air, I feel like Craig on Craigs list or @ least igs since my cousin has done the hard work so far).   I looked @ the translations and decided that I hoped all the people who use the site speak English because I’m not to sure about php and other languages and wordpress and all that fun stuff.

I have worked a bit on my other blogs, mostly Florence View, we’ve had a refrigerator go out and resurrect and then an ac fan go out, windshield crack, trailer quit, locked out of a motel room, and the dog got dirty which went on my Animals Blog.

So that is how you make a completely link filled paragraph, wasn’t that simple?  OK, it’s not complete but it’s close.

So where have I really been besides facebook?

I got to watch episode 4 of Mad Men.  You know the show to end all shows?  I am a little younger than Sally in the show and I find it endlessly fascinating.  Jon Hamm finds me fascinating too.  OK, he’s my friend on facebook and I think it’s the real one, since I have my eye for my portrait picture maybe he likes my eye?    Anyway episode 4 was on twice last night and that was the FIRST episode I’d gotten to watch live.   I’ve got AMC @ home but just got it and haven’t had a chance to be home for the sacred hour.  Now I have been partially satiated.   To further the effect of the 60s last night I can go to their discussion. I have been there some but I need to go back REALLY badly so au revoir, sayanora, adios….buenos noches…….

And BTW does ANYONE understand Rubicon?  I’m going to have to look it up……….

I used the term “Hey Stupid” to get my husbands attention as we were leaving IHOP the international restaurant this morning.  My daughter was with us and remarked that people should be around me to know why she acted as she did.  I wasn’t being mean or even derogatory to my husband and I had something legitimate to say.  We know when we are joking and when we aren’t.  The dog also answers to “Hey Stupid.”   If I start cooing and saying lovey dovey things everyone worries.

So then this afternoon I return my 70 year old brothers phone call (I was an afterthought with my parents, he is OLD, I am not).  He is a YOUNG 70 like we aren’t sure which childhood he is in.   He wanted to buy a new convertible a couple weeks ago..and has a racecar…  Anyway he wanted help with his new computer but had gotten it figured out, I know he can figure it out, I did, and I’ve seen him get on my computer so…….

So I get on facebook to  tell the masses there is fresh blood to pick on a new relative who has email.   My nephew replies ——-HE GOT A COMPUTER!!  It just struck me (perhaps because I had discussed the computer thing with the nephew previously) that of course my brother has a computer if he has email.  So what do I do?  Answer nicely?

You surely jest.

I wrote back and said no he didn’t get a computer he receives the messages through his brain waves by sitting there and humming.  Then I waited for the cursing to begin.  I was almost immediately gratified.  But I’m sitting there waiting for the reply and I’m grinning and I suddenly think, WHY does this make me SOOOO happy?  BTW my nephew used the exact curseword I knew he was going to use, perhaps because it fit?

I love my relatives….

My phone fell in the dog water twice this spring here in the truck.  The second time did it in, that’s one insurance claim.  My husband lost his phone on the tractor, almost had another claim but we found it in the middle of BFE in stubble.  It’s been so hot lately that there’s condensation where the hot under the truck bunk meets the cool ac air and there’s a bit of a puddle on the floor on occasion. (we  blamed it on the dog till we figured out what it was!!) I don’t use my phone tethered to my computer up front much anymore because of the dog water incident.  So I drop it the other day and don’t notice it and guess where it lands?

You’ve got it, you win the prize!! (no prize, it’s called a figure of speech).  The phone was in the puddle of water in back, phone was fine but I said enough is enough, the phone is DRAWN to water. (sort of like coffee and my cadillac, I had an eclipse for years, kept it pristine, get a cts and I’ve spilled gallons of coffee in it!  The dogs have helped greatly though, and then there was the strawberry shake on the floor.)  So I put my phone in the laptop case and zipped the cover, the photo above is of said case with tether cord going inside.  I know it’s hard on phone batteries getting that hot but it’s going to have to be a mighty big water puddle for the phone to get wet…….

The regular phone case won’t let me plug into the side of the phone so now I have the biggest phone case in history, does the trick though, I don’t drop it in water!!

Just wondering if it’s any coincidence that the two shows on worth watching are Bethanny Getting Married? and Monsters Inside Of Me.  Just Saying……

1. I did Jillian Michaels  hideously hard tortuous EASY Body Sculpting workout yesterday, the 20 minute wimpy EASY one with the cool down and warm up and all that.  Henceforth Ms. Michaels shall be known in this house as that nasty person, said in the voice like the slimey guy on Boston Legal like naesty peersun.

2.  I will TRY to quit equating my husband who does not do anything necessary on the computer except entertain himself with auction sites and games with a corvette driving down a gravel road slowly.   This happens mostly when I have been trying to get some work done all day and he comes home and gets on the big computer and plays solitaire immediately…

3. I do believe I am justified when we come home after being gone ALL day since EARLY this morning and ending up driving 400 miles in answering him when he asks what I have to feed him (he’s had breakfast and a HUGE DOUBLE cheeseburger on the way home) with ” OH, snarl since I was home all day just lazing around I whipped you up all sorts of good things to eat…completely justified ………

Ms Michels may regain my good graces soon….it didn’t hurt when I was doing it….And I do love my husband, it’s just hard to be nice with these aching tired muscles…

BTW Image is from here..

My husband has been off work for almost a whole month now.  Partly by design and partly because of circumstances.  Availability of work and a wedding and HIS family reunion.

He’s in the house.  He’s on the computer.  I’ve gotten used to cooking every two hours, he’s got high blood sugar but we are doing ww bread now, it’s in the bread maker.  I’ve moved to the apple laptop and given up on the desktop computer.  I cleaned bathrooms yesterday, I will clean closets tomorrow, I’m contemplating washing windows.  It’s been raining but……we can be together 24/7 fine in the truck where he is occupied.  The house not so much, for example I’ve had to take the clicking ink pen or the aimlessly swatting flyswatter away from him more than once.

So I decided he’s on the computer so I decide to watch What Not To Wear.  He takes like 5 minutes of this and has to take the remote away.

So where do we go then?  We go to the CATTLE  AUCTION channel, I suppose it’s a whole channel, it’s endless, cows running around in a field and an auctioneer.  Pretty close to pure hades.  He keeps looking @ me till I finally blow after about 10 minutes..he’s actually commenting on the buyers and cows, I’m heading for the rubber room.

Then it’s the religious channel, then the shopping network, then the exercise channel……any of them are better than the cattle auction although, we are on the PSX 90 or whatever it is…..I told hubby to go for it, meaning he does the psx 90, not me!!!

Supposedly he goes to work tomorrow, we watched bad movies yesterday, April Fools Day was one, he found something that watches the earth now on dish, can we watch grass grow next?

I swear I’m going in the living room and watch what I’ve taped of Grey’s Anatomy, House, and Mad Men!!!

This is not my husband nor is it my house.  There was much more cantaloupe gunk all over EVERYTHING plus cherry lime-aide crystal light tinging things the most brilliant red.

You see last time the pipes clogged it was Christmas Day 2008, we had a house full of company and dinner was in it’s final stages AND I had to go to work @ midnight.  That clog required dismantling the pipes under the laundry room sink and cutting pipes in the basement.  It was a clog to end all clogs, I think the garbage disposal is getting old and I’d peeled potatoes for 20.

So this was the first time the kitchen sink had clogged since then.  NO warning, I went to check the laundry room which is the next one down the line (thank goodness the bedrooms and baths that are in the other end of the house connected differently), sure enough bright red sludge and cantaloupe seeds are making their way in the laundry room sink. yum

So I ate dinner, sausage and veggie omlet to be exact as to not alert husband and maybe water in sink would disappear, of course we eat in family room in front of tv.  I steathily crept back in the kitchen and started plunging.   You ask why all the subterfuge?  BECAUSE husband is a big tools and dynamite type guy.  If I say we need to do something according to him it immediately requires $1000 in equipment and a full day plus a big mess.  I want to get by cheap, quick, and clean.  The yard ponds are a good example, he said we needed some sort of digging equipment.  I waited till he was gone for 3 days for the first one, daughter and I dug it and buried the stock tank in two days.  By hand, with shovels.  The second yard pond was different because it was rockier and it was a regular kit, I waited till he was moving son from WA to NY.  I dug it by hand, with a shovel, by myself this time and had it landscaped when he got home.

So you see I was pretty sure the next clog would require a blowtorch or a bulldozer if I asked my husband, @ the very least a pipe wrench.  So I bailed the sink out, ran hot water, searched in vain for draino, found soda and vinegar, put that down there, ran more hot water and plunged.  Went back to the kitchen, ran hot water there, it went in the laundry room…..finally after about 10 sinks of hot water…..success….

I don’t hide much from my husband but I’ve learned what is wise to hide.  It’s also wise not to mention the times I’ve fixed things he said were permanently broken but we won’t mention those….or how sometimes things start for me and for no one else….. I did tell him about the clog later though….

So do you have a husband that insists everything requires dynamite and pressure washers?  I don’t mean they don’t get anything done but it sure does get complicated sometimes.  And expensive…that’s another story though….

Image from: Mirror

OK people, I need a diet where I can eat everything I want which is basically unlimited after 6 pm when you aren’t supposed to eat?  Before 6 pm I can take food or leave it but after 6 it’s like feeding frenzy time, the dog even gets worried…yes I have to fit into a dress this weekend for youngest sons wedding, it looks OK with the STRONG panties (we won’t call it spanx or a girdle, it’s STRONG panties) but moving is a bit of a problem.
Also I REALLY don’t like pretty boys who think they are Gods gift to women but aren’t because pretty boys usually have a defect (yep that’s it), I will tell them if they ask me.  They need to GET OVER themselves and do their jobs.   I used to look BETTER than their girlfriends so they might as well face facts, they will be the 40 year old or the 50 year old soon and they won’t do it NEARLY as well as I do!    And while they are at it they need to develop a personality because they may have to rely on that later when the face goes….
Snotty people in general are on my hit list for tonight but we won’t go into that…please forgive me if I’ve ever been snotty, catty, or cliquey, I mean I know I can’t open my mouth without being catty sometimes but you must admit it’s entertaining if nothing else?  Rude people who have no reason to be rude in general get my goat, I don’t know why us regular humans try sometimes……I think if people are just unfriendly a small shock would not be out of line….ZAP….did I say that?

Thank goodness I sit here by myself and work on the internet most days…..others may be thankful too, not sure….
End of Rant.