Thoughts, Complaints, Ramblings

1. Kenju, check the epinions.com user reviews. The new Maytag and Whirlpool washer and driers, Neptune and Calypso, have horrid feedback from most of the people who have purchased them. It seems the part that is the equivalent to a motherboard often burns out leaving the folks with as much as 3 months with no washer/drier that they paid $1000+ for. I have done a lot of research and the next appliances I buy will be the german line Bosch. They are priced lower than their American counterparts as well. 2. Thank you, Irene. It was nice to have you visit. If anyone reads this visit Irene @ MOMster. I wish I could write with such eloquence. 3. Thank you, Millie. I check daily for updates on your journal. I am honored to have you here. I wish you updated more often. 4. Thank you, Kate. I like the photo of you and your husband. The progress of your gardens is one I am following. 5. My husband seems to have great delight in tormenting me. He even blogged it this morning. He is a BRAT! 6. I have budgeted carefully for the repairs and improvements we will be making to our house. When the townhouse sells we will kick into high gear with the larger projects so things will be in some simblance of order by late fall. The kitchen will be remodeled, the kids do not know it but they will be getting a swimming pool, steps will be rebuilt and a fireplace in the kitchen will be built with matching brick work, a quadra 4100i will be installed in the livingroom fireplace, etc., etc., etc. I do not often buy things just for me. The children come first and then my husband (read his expensive tractor that he broke) but I am dead set on a new laptop and a new camera just FOR ME. If you read my husbands blog you will know why. 7. I am in a pisser mood this morning. The dog kept going into the kitchen last night. We removed her shock collar and I think she is testing the garbage can in there and VERY soon she will be back to her habit of waiting for everyone to sleep then she will pull out the garbage and leave a paper trail everywhere since she seems to be a fucking pig and thinks sucking dirty napkins and papertowels is a form of feeding. Not to mention she managed to find a bag of chocolate kisses Steven had and she chewed and spat out the foil wrappers in tiny pile. I would wish she would get sick but the last thing I need is a puking fucking dog. It was after 2:30am before I went to sleep because of said damn dog who is worse than any child could ever be on their worst day. 8. The house is very quiet. Kids are gone to school. Steven and Colby will be back by 10am. Until then I am sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes in the blessed silence of this cool spring morning. I will be surfing, answering any incoming from messenger and pretty much doing nothing else for the next two hours. Maybe all day. Who knows. 9. In the aforemention time in #8 I will also be composing an email to be followed up by a phone call to my husband's brother and his wife. They are invited to come to our house this saturday. I do not want them to come. Their entire house has been sick with something like the flu. Our children are finally healthy, no coughing, no snotty noses and I do not want their germs brought into this house. I am not in the best of moods and being tactful is not easy for me. Plus it is predicted to storm all day saturday and I would rather not have 3 boys under the age of 5 trapped indoors, in my house, with all their shouting whining and crying. I CAN'T TAKE IT! 10. I hope to be importing more past posts today to get things up-to-date and bridge the gaps in my internet time line history of journaling and being creative with PSP. 11. Did I mention how very quiet it is here this morning? Heavenly.