12:27 p.m. - 2005-05-26
Neighbors, carpet cleaners, vacation plans
Yeah, well, I didn't get to sleep in. And now, here it is, 12:30pm, and the maintenance guys are mowing lawns and eating weeds. Which freaks Packet right the fuck out, but that's probably because she's afraid of grass. Plus, a carpet cleaner just showed up to clean Cody-no's old place.
Ooh, have I even told you about what happened to Cody-no's family? I haven't, have I? Whee!
Night before last, when Darren and I were leaving to see Episode III (the one where Anakin looks like Joey Lawrence and you know it's true because the light sabers go "Whoa!"), we stopped and said hi to Chris, our Neighbor on the Other Side (not Cody-no's mom) (Chris is the daughter of I Told Me So and Middle-Aged Active Lifestyle Man).
At this point, I'm going to promise to try not to use parentheses so much for the rest of the story.
Okay, so we said hi to Chris, who likes to sit outside on her swing and smoke and read books while listening to hard metal music because she has a brain tumor and can't work. That makes it sound like I'm jealous, and truly, I couldn't be less jealous of the brain tumor, but I get to see her leaving everyday to go to the tanning beds, the pool, the gym, wherever. Sheesh. So Chris tells us that Eric lost his job a few months ago, and hasn't even been living with them since around the beginning of the year, really. And her mom, I Told Me So, was talking to our landlady, Connie (think: Yoko Ono), and Connie didn't know that Eric wasn't living there. This whole time, since like January, Connie thought she was being nice and working with MaeBeth and Eric - those are Cody-no's parents - because they'd just had the baby in November, but what actually happened was that Eric had moved out and MaeBeth was living there with her two kids - and sometimes babysitting for others - rent-free.
Well, as soon as Connie found this out, she sent a cop over to deliver the eviction notice, and the next day there was a U-Haul in the driveway.
It's not that I hated them, or wanted anything bad to happen to them. I just couldn't stand that damn lawnmower toy.
By the way, my horoscope says I'm in a cleaning mood today. Heavy cleaning. It's just not true; however, the apartment next door is getting cleaned heavily. My horoscope was off by one unit. I guess the apartment next door is a Sagittarius, too.
I made the appointment to go over and get my hair did today. Well, not did, just, you know, the ends trimmed off. Four or five inches. Lots of people probably won't even notice. That's how long and curly my hair is.
My hair is like 300x longer than my husband's hair.
We're trying to decide on a vacation destination. I wanted to go to Vegas, but that's far away from Canada and we kinda want to meet up with Darren's parents. Then I thought about Montreal, but couldn't find anything inexpensive enough. Same with Halifax. Niagara Falls might be doable, but that seems like a one-day trip. Toronto would be nice, but I don't want to drive there, no way. I've seen the way people drive there. I also considered a nice cabin in Gatlinburg, one with a pool table and a hot tub, whoo! But we're still not sure about that, since it's not conducive to family visits. Now, I'm thinking that we should just stay up in Windsor and hang at the casino for a couple of days, then on the way back stop and get that tattoo I've been wanting - the :D guy from Yahoo messenger on my middle finger.
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