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This I wish would disappear

Monster has had the old toilet from the upstairs bathroom sitting on our patio for months now. He's got two good-size mosquito nurseries/biology experiments in the back now between that and the abandoned water feature on the other side of the patio. I would give anything if we could find someone to take the toilet away for free. He has forbidden me to phone a garbage service like 1-800-GOTJUNK to have it hauled off.

This has kinda been the Halloween of social cock ups and lost chances.

Last night, as I was carving jack-o-lanterns with David and Lisamin, T phoned from E.Atl to find out where I was. He thought I was going to meet him in town where he was going to take out Red Fly again. I thought perhaps those with real costumes were going out together and run amuck, details of which I wasn't entirely provided with and, since I decided to carve pumpkins and be at home with Monster, was information I had not asked about. He thought Saturday night was Halloween spooky video night at the East Side Lounge. Video night at the East Side Lounge is actually Monday, starting around 10PM.

*sigh*

Anyway, we had fun making the jack-o-lanterns, which now adorn the yard here and I'm sure T found some fun and mischief to get into.


Everyone was up to their elbows in pumpkin goo.

I thought I had concrete plans to go to the party at the Abbey tonight, but everything fell through. Monster, who's not muc for going out, is set on staying home and watching horror movies on AMC. Then I made plans to go with K&H but somehow there was a miscommnication. I was planning on meeting them here at home and going together to the Universal Party, but after phoning earlier to let me know their progress going to a dance performance first, then the Abbey, they phoned to say they were already there - and that parking there and nearby was filling up rapidly. I don't really want to walk up several blocks of Ponce de Leon Avenue tonight by myself after paying, alone, ten dollars to park. Maybe I should just do a drive by and see what parking is like. Then again, I'd still have find them in the crowd. Monster is giving me no moral support on my desire to go out tonight. I need a Halloween date - a buddy to hang out with this weekend.

Halloween Parade

Just a couple of photos from the L5P Halloween Parade.

prom night

This is the first day of the monthly antique shows and it's like Christmas Eve again.

Monster can hardly sleep the night before and on the second Thursday of the month, he gets up and dressed at 4AM and drives to the Scott Antique show to be there as the trucks are unloading. He lays out his freshy washed and ironed clothes the night before so he has one less thing to think about in the early morning haze. And he gives himself a haircut/trim and the best shave of the month. All this so he can make a proper presentation for his public - the dealers at the shows.

So he's off hunting for treasures again this weekend. I hope he finds wonderful stuff to sell.
It won't be quite the same next month, when there will be one less place to check on because the Lakewood Fleamarket will be gone. Dealers got their 30-day notice last month, so I'm curious about whether the fleamarket will go out with a bang (LOTS of incredible merchandise) or a whimper (mostly empty).

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Atlanta SantaCon

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Atlanta SantaCon

Ok, the date is set in stone. I have had enough resposes to state that Dec 16th is the date for the Atlanta SantaCon. I have my suit ready, do you have yours???? Hope ya do, cause if you dont, your missin out!!!! More details to come as it gets planned but much like last year, we will be planning as we walk. Come join the 2nd annual SantaCon in Atl!! We have a yahoo group setup for communication @ groups.yahoo.com/group/atlantasantacon Come join us and be apart of the fun we had last year, and help add on to the fun this year! Hope to see yall there!!

Chwdog
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insomnia

Woke up this morning at 5AM with a headache that wouldn't let me sleep another hour. Decided to clean the kitchen and start laundry. If it weren't for the headache, I could have done early morning yoga with the TV, despite the fact that I have to do it in front of the entire neighborhood (whoever might be awake and passing by, that is) because the TV and the only clearable floor space is in front of a large uncovered window in the livingroom.

Boss #1 is still at the office this afternoon and is being especially pleasant to be around. Bringing jobs in and joking. We also got a new copy of Adobe CS this week, which will make my work here even easier and faster.

condo update

The electrician came today and replaced my ancient 1960 fuse box and re-wired the ceiling fixtures. He said some of the damage to the wiring looked water-related. Now we are another step closer to having the condo rehab finished.
Next is Monster finishing the walls and ceiling this week and the last part will be the hardwood floors next week. We are showing the condo already, even though it's not finished yet, and hoping for a good tenant.

How was your day, dear?

It sucked.

The Irritant got hysterically bent out of shape when I said I would get to a new request as soon as I changed and saved a file, rather than drop half an hour's worth of work and short-term memory and rip open a mystery file that just came in for a job that didn't exist yet. While I was trying to save and close out of a job, he went tattling to Boss #1 on how I wasn't obeying quickly enough to the demands of my (apparently) my new lord and master (His Virile Excellency). Boss #1, quite thankfully, sided with me in the (meaningless) incident. He apologized for the "slight misunderstanding, if there was one" with Boss # 1 in the room and after Boss #1 left, he quickly added "I thought (Boss #1) wanted to make money, but I guess I'm wrong." (Sometimes I wish I had a tape recorder.)

Days like this, I really don't want to go back to work in the morning.

Meanwhile, the house we rent and live in and the condo I own continue to suck more money out of my savings and more time that Monster could be using to make money. Today, Monster had to skip work to wait most of the day into the afternoon for a plumber to fix a broken pipe that forced us to go all weekend with the water to the house turned off.

Your Power Color Is Lime Green

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