..it has been. It feels like I have done a little bit of everything this week and just can't catch up.
It has been really good to get outside and play, even if I did get worn out and sunburned. Hell, I even shocked the neighbors and pulled the weeds out of my front flowerbed Sunday instead of, like, August. It wasn't a perfect job, but it was a "better than it looked before" kind of job.
I am soooo not into gardening - at all. I know it comes from being made to pull weeds as punishment when I was a kid, so I derive no pleasure from it at all. I was also lucky enough to get my backyard mowed for me, before I found out that my regular yard guy isn't going to be mowing this year. So that is another service replacement I have got to find, in addition to finding a new housekeeper. See, I am a firm supporter of the yellow pages and the service industry as a whole. There is a reason that people paid money to have their name listed with their phone number on the funny colored pages - it is so lazy people like me can call them and give them money to do things I should do myself. But, I prefer to think of myself as helping these people make money. (And yes, I do realize that I am lazy, too.)
And then there was the whole "impatient asshole who realized he was in an exit only lane" incident on Tuesday. Yeah, this guy decided to change lanes from a complete stop behind me on the I-40 crosstown during rush hour traffic and hit me. Fucker. So I got to be the one with the stopped car, blocking traffic, and getting cussed at, all because this guy was an idiot. At least Natey wasn't with me and noone was hurt.
It wasn't really that big of a deal, just fucking annoying that now I have to go get multiple estimates for the repairs so he can figure out if he is going to pay for it or have the insurance company pay it. All I know is, someone is going to and it needs to be done fast, I don't want to be messing with this next month.
There was also some sadness this week as my friend's grandfather passed away. It was not entire unexpected, but sad nonetheless. The family asked for memorials to be donated to the Judith Karman Hospice, which was gladly done. I really believe that hospices perform an invaluable service to families - my uncle had hospice come assist him when my aunt died of breast cancer a few years ago and they really helped lift alot of the burden off of him. And to think that they absorb all of the costs over and above Medicaid and all of the uninsured patients, it is truly amazing. My thoughts are with my friend and her family today as they put her grandfather to rest.
I also picked up my wedding dress from the cleaners that was preserving it. It has been there since before the end of last year, but its not like I was in some kind of a time cruch or anything to get it back. I really don't know what I am going to do with it. It has been hanging in a closet for the past 8 years and it really needed to be cleaned (somehow it had gotten some kind of stain on it) and something done with it. So, it is now in a box that should not be opened and it is guaranteed not to yellow, etc. And I still have no idea what I am going to do with it. It is that one piece of clothing that will never be worn by you again, but it has too many memories attached to it to just give it away. I am pretty sure that I will never have a daughter to pass it down to, but maybe someday there will be a grand-daughter that might want to use some of it (she's prolly not going to want to wear it), since surely it will be out of style by then. Or maybe nothing will be done with it and I will pass away and leave it for someone else to have inner debates about what should be done with it. Who knows, but at least it is clean and in an easy to move box that can be shuffled around with all of the other boxes of stuff I have no idea what to do with.
Eh, one of these days I will simplify my life, but right now I think I will just enjoy the little things, like my 4yo son telling me that "I am the weakest link - good-bye". Thanks, NBC - I owe ya one.