All Done!!

The balcony railing is now finally all done, and in time before it snows, too( and the weather actually forecasted snow at the end of the month too, gulp!) Yesterday my brother-in-law came over and helped my hubby finish it off and here it is in the photo seen here. Doesn't it look nice? I think they did a good job and now my hubby just has to do what he calls the fine details that no one else would even notice or care about but that he, being so OCD and picky, finds annoying, such as having to sand down the screws( whatever that even means?????) and -get this-paint over the screws white so they match, etc. The only problem is now that the balcony looks so good the railing on the veranda on the porch looks so ghetto and will have to be replaced in the spring to match,the contrast os so glaringly obvious but then again there's the same old usual problem: where do we get the $$$ for it? We do have 30 or so extra rungs left over and somehow the math was miscalculated(it wasn't me, I don't even bother) which will come in handly but we'll likely need more than that.

I also stepped in shit on the bathroom floor last night( thank God I was wearing socks and not my bare feet but still.....) and I was so grossed-out and wondered What the f*ck is that squishy thing I just stepped in? and then realized, Oh, my God! Ewww! No, really! Gross! and then I checked the bottom of my sock and sure enough....and it wasn't Buddy either( and he knows better than that; he shits outside unlesss he has diarrhrea and can't help it but this was a plop, now squished flat into a patty thanks to my foot, but it was dark and I wasn't exactly expecting a shit on the floor) because it had corn in it and he doesn't eat corn.....I swear, the people in my house are animals....shitting on the floor like that; even my dog is more civilized! I mean, really, a shit on the floor? Where (and who) did it come  from?

This is me(larger and uglier than life) proving you can, indeed, get a sunburn(even my eyelids are sunburned) in the middle of October for those of you that might have thought I was lying, delusional, making it up or just plain hallucinating. I also wonder if partially the reason I'm still so nice and dark and tan is I'm also jaundiced with my failing liver too( which would be harder to notice with a tan as opposed to my usual pasty white skin tone) so I would look darker than I actually am to begin with, and I still haven't heard from the 25 YR old in Belgium  even though I asked him to e-mail me when he got there so I know he arrived safely and now I'm really worried ( I am a mother afterall, plus I tend to worry) he could have been robbed, beaten and left dead in a ditch somewhere and no one would even know...I hope instead he's eating at a fine restaurant with his friends wearing his fine Italian suit but who knows; he could even be dead for all I know, I worry so much and pray for him all the time, oh God, it worries me to no end...

My hubby also was out so my mother asked him to pick up the Dove Men shampoo for the 12 YR old because he ran out (I use the same one to bath the dog too as it smells nice and leaves him smelling manly) except the tool got the wrong one yet again, not paying attention and not reading the labels (I mean, really, how hard is that? It's worth the extra few seconds to make sure you get the right thing) instead he got the Dove body wash and he tries to excuse it as It's the same thing, you can wash your hair with it. What? I'd like to see him try and wash his hair with body wash! Ewww! Although knowing him he probably would( he would probably pee in the sink,too!) and even on the bottle it said used as a body wash and face wash! Ewww! Who would wash their delicate face with a harsher body wash? You need a more gentle cleanser for that; it is something guys would do though, if they even wash their face at all, that is.

 My mother also refuses to let the 12 YR old ( who is her precious little pet, like Buddy is mine although he actually is my pet) do chores and I said with the 25 YR old away he can do recycling which is normally the 25 YR old's chore around the house and she went ape-shit at the thought of her precious having to do any work and she says she can do it instead even though she's so-called an "invalid" and complains all the work she has to do and then she just makes more work and makes things harder than they have to be....my hubby said that's why he always has him do chores when she's napping; he's scared of her and won't confront her or stand up to her, likely not wanting to risk the "system" where she pays for mostly everything, although the other day he did surprise me by stating in front of her that there's no reason he can't do recycling and it's something he should learn how to do and she didn't know what to say; she's not used to him "defying" her like that. She was silent after that. HA! Good for him. It's about time!