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I got the quotes from the contractors. They were pretty much the same. I do have a problem though and I knew it would be an issue but I ignored it and now I can no longer ignore it and it’s really bothering me. The one contractor is a friend of the family and the other contractor is the contractor who fixed up my neighbor’s house. My neighbor’s house looks FANTASTIC! It’s gorgeous. PLUS there were a lot of issues with the house because of how shoddily these houses were built. Because of this, I am really leaning to having my neighbor’s contractor do the work. I know his work is top notch and he has experience with these houses and with dealing with my crazy gestapo community association. BUT HOW CAN I SAY NO to a friend of the family? Plus he told me he is giving me a really great discount (although I can’t quite see it since it’s pretty much identical to the other contractor’s numbers). I like this guy so much and I don’t want to say no. But I also don’t want to say no to my neighbor’s contractor because he too is really really really nice! Can I split the work between them? Won’t they then wonder why they aren’t getting the full job? I am screwed.

What do I do?????

My weekends are typically spent with pookie. This weekend is different. Pookie is away until Sunday which means I am home alone Friday and Saturday. This is a good thing since it means I can finally get some chores done that I’ve been putting off.

1. Swap winter and summer clothes
2. Get rid of clothes I don’t wear anymore
3. Take clothes to dry cleaner!
4. Clean out attic
5. Clean out garage

I wonder if I could do all of this on Saturday? That’s a lot of cleaning and clearing out. We shall see.

The devil created this ice cream!

I don’t know what’s wrong with me but for the last few weeks I have been feeling very nostalgic for the 90’s. All I want to do is watch La Femme Nikita, Xena, Forever Knight, KFTLC and Highlander episodes and remember what life was like when these were things I very dearly cared about. Work ended this afternoon and for some weird reason I thought I’d do a Google Image search on Nigel Bennett and on the third page of results was one of my very own images of Nigel! Check it out:

This image linked to Audra’s web page (The AudraNet) where there was a Nigel Bennett Ate My Balls page. (Sadly it’s been long deleted) I can’t remember if we created it together or if she just created it to make me pee my pants but I remember it was HILARIOUS! And making it even more hysterical, somehow Joxer from Xena fit into the storyline. But really– how freaking bizarre! Those “ate my balls” pages were everywhere and now I think people would just look at you as if you were insane (or Andrew Zimmern) if you even mentioned eating balls. I kinda miss those days of the Internet… the crazy sounds of the modem connecting, waiting with such anticipation for an image to load, using Hotbot or Altavista as a search engine, chatting with ICQ…. Heck, I remember the joy when I was able to surf the web with a computer that actually SHOWED IMAGES. Yeah, before that it was a black screen with green ugly text. I remember getting a pcmcia modem card (28.8) for my little laptop and I coded Donna’s Home Page on a monochrome (varying shades of purple) screen and when months later when I finally saw it on a true color monitor I was ashamed at how insane the colors looked! Unfortunately the wayback machine doesn’t go back that far. I recently heard that all the Geocities Web sites will soon be deleted. Sad. There really should be an Internet Graveyard.

Good times.

I made contact with a guy who wanted my couch. He said he would be here at 4:00 today to pick it up. It’s 4:11. Will he flake on me? I hope not. I want this couch gone!

Tonight is the annual meeting for my community association. It is also Latin Impact. My plan is to drop off my ballot and skip the meeting to Punta instead. The last meeting came very close to getting violent and I really don’t feel like watching another brawl. I am sure there will be plenty of talk about mold and the possible 11,000 assessment fee to fix the mold problem. It’s a shame the government can’t bail us out.

I asked two contractors for quotes to fix a couple issues plaguing the Donnavilla. Weeks are going by and the quotes still haven’t arrived. Does time move at a different pace for contractors? I thought contractors were hard up right now and they would be going crazy for work…. apparently not. I am trying to remain patient. The work will get done, eventually, I am sure. What’s wrong with mi cassa? I have two windows that have rotten sills and the marble seat in my shower cracked in half. I am also thinking of getting wooden floors installed… finally after 5 years of talking about it. I hate spending money but most of these things really need fixing and the floors would be a good thing to do for resale value. Looking back, I haven’t spent much money on this house at all so it’s time. Time to open the wallet and get stuff done. And I will recover.

I bought three Acme frozen pizzas a couple days ago. They were only 3.95 each! That’s really cheap! Today I threw one in the oven for lunch and I was sad to discover that ONE serving size is 1/5 the pizza. That’s like nothing. That’s a freakin’ sliver! Plus, the calories in that one piece are like 1/3 the amount of calories I allow myself for an entire day! So I eat 1/2 the pizza and I am angry at the number of calories I’ve consumed AND I AM STILL HUNGRY. Damn frozen pizza.

Slipcover is included– purple pillows are not.