To the bag of douche in the caddilac:
Right as I am about to go get some dinner with rebecca, I put my coat on to find cosby peed on it. WTF? He never does that. So I grab another coat, yell at the cat, wash my arm off (cat pee stinks), and run out the door. We grab carry out. We drive home.
As we get back to the house, I notice a Cadillac is parked block my driveway/garage as well as my neighbors. Then I notice the dude is just getting out of the car, cool. So I toot the horn a couple times, and he ignores us. I angle the car and start to back into the driveway. So I am sitting in the street, almost in my driveway, in reverse, blocking the road laying on the horn. Mind you, this dude is standing about 10 feet from my car, ignoring us. This goes on for like 15 seconds. So I get out of the car and it goes down like this:
me: ummm, you are blocking my driveway.
him (pretending to be surprised by me, as if I came out of nowhere): huh? Oh, ummm ok.
me: yeah, that is why I have been sitting there laying on the horn.
him: oh, well I'll move. (pause). You don't have to be a dick.
me: just get out of my damn driveway.
So he gets in his car, starts it up, turns on the lights, but doesn't actually MOVE. By this time there is a dude with a work truck wanting to get past on the street, which of course cannot happen because I am blocking the street, car in reverse, waiting for asshat to move. And he continues to sit there. Work truck man is flashing his brights, I am on the horn, this dude is just sitting there. This goes on for 20 seconds. Fine. I get out of the car, walk up to his car, make note of his plate, and call the cops. Before my 911 call gets connected, he puts it in reverse. I get back in the car, and back into my driveway. Work truck drives past. As the Cadillac drives past, he mouths some words to me and gestures, I ignore him. Whatever.
Why are people jerks? Like really, I started honking nicely. A couple little toots. Not to mention, I mean really, how dense do you have to be to NOT see the garage doors in the first place? There are 6 condos in a row, and 6 across the street. All of them look the same. ALL of them have garages and driveways. So we put the camry in the garage so it is safe, as rebecca was worried of ramifications later under the guise of darkness.
Whatever, I am over it, but I guess I am just surprised that people act the way that they do. I just hope one of the cars isn't keyed in the next few weeks....
The final steps…
so the primary reason there have been so few blog posts lately is directly related to mason. While his 1st birthday was this past saturday (10/21), the party is this upcoming saturday (10/28). Since we are having 30ish people at the house for this family gathering, we have been working to get all the random projects done.
As we approach the final days, we are actually doing really well. The downstairs has received a lot of attention, and it is looking great. The den is essentially done, with all the shelves up, pictures hung, etc. I still need to fix the hanging rug, but that isn't much. Quarter round, touch ups, etc are all done and the room is looking great. And the rug my mom found looks awesome on the floor.
The downstairs bathroom is also done, or as done as it is going to get before the party. I replaced the vinyl floor with a black granite tile, which came out good for my first time. I replaced the exhaust fan with a nicer unit that has an integrated light, which really brightens the room and looks pretty good. Mike and I replaced the existing 'vanity' style light bar with a nice 3 halogen unit (which took some work) and it too lights the vanity very well. I also replaced the old boring fixture with a nicer nickel one and we updated the pulls on the cabinets. Touched up the walls, swapped the shower curtain, and it is looking great. I am happy with that room. I would still like the change towel hardware and the counter top, but that isn't happening soon.
I also cleaned out a bunch of the closet, emptying a few boxes and making space in there. I ran a piece of PVC pipe through the wall and put the linux server in the closet to keep the noise out of the den. I also moved the humming AC adaptor for the Directv splitter in there too, much nicer from a noise point of view.
In the laundry room I hung a few shelves to get the paint cans off the floor and free up some space. We also got a bar to hang the brooms, etc from the wall, and it is kinda awkward, but it works.
Ralph is supposed to do the tile this week in the foyer, and then I need to chase it with sealer and some quarter round and that room will be done. Score. That will be it for that floor for now... We need to get the VW ads on the wall in the downstairs hallway and I want a key hook of some kind, and we need to get some pics into the picture frames on the wall in the foyer, but... it is pretty much there.
Upstairs I put the transition piece in and we swapped all the drawer hardware in the kitchen. We also put roman shades in the living room as well as the wall hanging over the couch. A few touchups and it is looking great as well.
We didn't do much on the 3rd floor. We put up the chair rail in mason's room (looks great!) and replaced all the closet doors/bathroom cabinet hardware.
So overall, it is looking great, as so long as ralph comes through on the foyer, we are going to be looking great on saturday for the party...
After all this is done, I will take a bunch of pictures for a before and after thing. It is going to rule.
I remember when…
so I had this song on tape from like high school or junior high or something...
and I 'remember' it being cool. For a long time I remembered it being cool.
so last week I found it on half.com
and I was like DOPE!
I got it.
it is ok
not nearly as cool as I remember it.
oh well. Dominatrix U.K. - Possession.