Why aren't weekends longer than two days? It takes more than two days to play catch up for the five days I am at work....even doing laundry/dishes during the week I still get behind and the house always looks scroodie...and the outside work piles up as well.
Today:
I cleaned bunny and kitty litter boxes.
Finished the laundry I started last night.
Washed dishes.
Cleaned the bathroom.
Vacuumed.
Mowed the lawn.
Trimmed trees the best I could.
Cleaned gutters (finally!).
Cleaned up the gutter gunk.
Cleaned out the weird/gross bits of ???? that always manage to fall into our drying rack of a dishwasher. No idea what this stuff is but it gets seriously gross. Wish the damn dishwasher worked as a dishwasher.
Yesterday, due to possible insanity, we drove to south of Cleveland, OH to look at a used Jeep Cherokee at a small car dealership. Ended up buying the thing after Jon drove it about and I sat and watched the dealer/salesmen break into one of their own cars. Really funny, especially all the cursing. Also thought my bladder was going to explode. There were no public restroom facilities and Jon had the keys to my car in his pocket while he was test driving. He ended up buying it.
It's a pretty nice Jeep for $2500 (those taxes and dealer fees sure do add up) but has its issues. Not sure what all these "issues" are yet. Some are that the oil pressure appears to be all the way up on the gauge, guy at parts store said we probably needed to replace some oil do-hickey that I can't recall the name of. Ed says its not serious. And the water pump is leaking...so will need a new one...(I told Jon to go strip the one of his old Cherokee, we put it on there maybe a year ago) and the CHECK ENGINE decided to come on this morning after Jon changed the oil...which was a quart low...and I suspect the engine having enough oil is triggering this stupid gauge thing and the gauge thing is triggering the check engine but what do I know? Either that or the water pump is triggering it.
She runs, has mostly all decent tires (one is meh), needs a new windshield due to long cracks across the glass, doesn't make the weird clunk or grinding noise that the last Jeep was making, the four wheel drive still works and she has under 200,000 miles on her. She made the three hour drive from Ohio to Redford just fine.
Mostly, though, we have a month to transfer registration (after we get it in the mail, Ohio does that), and hopefully it won't be a fortune, don't know. I did the insurance bit last night...that way if Jon gets pulled over for ??? (windshield???) we'll just get a fix it ticket.
And we owe the bank another 2500....
Bleh.
I hate being a grown up. But at least if my car takes a shit we'll have some feasible alternative.
Next weekend, we'll try to relax at my parent's house. Hope that happens. My plans lately have a way of taking a dump.
At work I wonder who is unloading the DC and sorting the freight. Apparently isn't me. I am off the 4th. And the trucks are no longer supposed to be early/delayed for any holiday. Probable nightmare scenario here. Too bad I can't call off the 5th if I want my holiday pay....or I totally would.
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