Life

Life is sometimes like riding in a car with one square wheel.  You still move along but with a bump and a jerk and a gritting of your teeth.

Teeth.  Shudder.  I need denturez.  Upper plate this time because my teeth have been breaking at an unheard of rate and now I look like I should be one of the three MacBeth witches.  Now I know why they were always stirring a pot of something liquid... they could no longer chew.  I can chew, sort of.

So now I need to search for dentures and think I have found a place but the price makes me shudder even though we have the money in the bank.  I hate to use it but I hate the way I look more.  That's why I have a pig as my facebook photo.  I have never been a beauty, ask my  mother,  but now... shudder.  I'm not scared of going to the dentist.  I'm always in so much pain, I can handle pain and this one has basically given me the total cost.  the only blip there would be if the teeth extraction is normal or complicated.  As you can imagine, complicated costs more.  Again, I hate to spend the money.

So I can do pain and money but what really has be hesitating is work, the job, the business.  Months ago I was supposed to teach Michael how to do what I do so he could take over, but ti didn't happen.  the man wastes so much time at work I doubt he will ever get caught up while I hate leaving work for the next day.  However, I think I have figured out on which day would be the best for the extractions to give me as much time to get over the pain and become human once more.  I think.  I seem to be in charge of so much in the office that I anticipate regular phone calls with questions that he should know the answer to but doesn't.  Oh well, such is life.

As for that square wheel... I still haven't gotten to Artway (the storefront for Polymer Clay Express ) my favorite store in the world.  I can't go by myself because it would through Michael for a loop.  We did try to go to only have something go snafu and, while we ere nearly there, we had to turn around and come back.  It's about an hour from home, if we take the backways, and slightly shorter by highways.  It was a belt that snapped and a pulley froze... Translation... the hamster fell off the wheel.

Now the light over the stove went out.  This light is part of the microwave above the stove and whiel I got the hatch open, I twisted the bulb without making the proper sacrifice to the appliance bulb gods and I snapped it off.  I think it was a push and twist and not just a twist and twist.  So now I have a bulb base stuck in it AND the opening where the bulb goes is so narrow not only do I scrape my knuckles but there is no way I can get any tool in there to get the bits out.  Sigh.  HOwever... ta tata ta ta TAH! I have come up with a solution of sorts, tho it looks funny.  Before christmas, Dollar Tree had LAMPS for sale at, yes, $1.00 a piece.  I bought five.  Three with a base and two that clamp AND they came with bulbs.  So now I put one of the clamp ones to work hanging onto the bottom edge of a cabinet.  You see, silly me, when I chose the ceiling fan lights for the house I got them with frosted glass which wasn't the brightest idea (groan) and in the kitchen the ceiling light fan isn't even above the kitchen area but the eating area and so it can be awfully dim in there.  So I stuck a red clamp on lamp to the cabinets and it works well.  Even tho the husband hasn't yet noticed it.

More house news... we got CURTAINS for the living room.  I like the color of the living room but I don't LIKE the living room and the brown turd sofa.  we weren't going to curtain the windows since we appreciate the sunlight so much but I had to do something.  Now I don't know if you've shopped for curtains lately but many of them now come with these big old ugly eyelets along the top that, I suppose, make them slide better along the rod but PHEW they are ugly.  they remind me of  shower curtains or a craft project gone wild though I have no idea where you would even GET eyelets that big.  So no eyelets, no frilly frou frou, no ruffles or swags or valances, just curtains, please.

We were in Pier One of all places and found the perfect pair of curtains.  Printed but not too girly or flowery, and just the right colors.  Now I just need a curtain rod for them and dare I hope for someone to install the curtain rods?  Guess I'll be doing them and that ought to be a sight to see as my eye isn't always all that straight and I am always too impatient to do things the proper way.  Hay if I could slap them up on the window with tape, I would.    Of course the curtains would be doing anything to help the turd sofa but I hope, at least, it'll distract me from the turdiness, because we'll have CURTAINS!  Which we will probably never close but that's beside the point. 

there will be pictures eventually.

So I suppose that's it.  I'm eager to get out on that deck and sit in the sun but it's not quite warm enough yet.  We did look at a deck set that Michael wanted but it was so big and our deck not the largest that it would seem to be all table and chairs and no deck.  Maybe I;'ll just do what the dogs do when they go out on the deck and jsut lay down on the planks and sleep in the sun.  Until Charlie comes over and kisses my face and then rolls over on me as his version of a hug.  That's a lot of Charlie and a lot of hug.

And with sprng comes Charlie's projectile shedding. 'Nuff said.