My town has two different departments that each have a degree of jurisdiction when you have an in ground pool and your fence gets destroyed by a falling tree limb.
The department of public safety will fine you $50 a day for not having an adequate fence surrounding your property or pool.
The building department requires a minimum of 30 days to approve the replacement of an existing fence regardless of its condition. You can’t put the new one in without this permit.
When I explained the destruction of the fence was “an act of G-d” the inspector told me it would take an act of G-d to get the permit in less than 30 days but could possibly appeal what will likely be a $1,500 fine. He then mentioned the permit would cost $150.
I kept perspective that this was a first world problem, and everyone was very nice and polite but I kept feeling like a character in an episode of Punked.
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Had to throw out my favorite pair of jeans this morning . Went to order another pair on line and they’ve been discontinued. I despise jeans shopping. GRRR.
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Someone in this house needs to make a doctor’s appointment and a car service appointment. And that someone is not me!
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In a world where you can be anything, be kind.
Bears repeating over and over.
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Sometimes I read a headline and think to myself, “that’s all I need to know” - often it is while shaking my head in disbelief.
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Get a therapist and stop oversharing!
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Oh my god, the (young) vet injected sedative into my pony’s carotid artery instead of the vein!
(He should recover, but it was an awful couple of hours as he dropped instantly and began seizing and I didn’t know if he was going to die)
So I am STRESSED!!!
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My biggest fear is not to have internet. I could do without all other utilities, but not the internet. It went out for 2 hours this afternoon while I was working at home. It was a sheer panic.
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I canceled our planned trip so we can take you and your family to Hawaii two weeks after that planned trip. Now you are telling me you forgot and you have to serve on a jury?!! Good lord.
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My daughter was just bellyaching so much about her worries about her future career and life that I told her to “woman up.” We have pretty endless patience with her, but we were dirt-poor for several years after college (and my husband’s fine-arts grad school, which he didn’t pay for), and then merely poor until we hit about 35. She has so much given to her, and she’s not a bohemian like we were. She said, “What if I never make enough money, and (as a young adult) I always have to have roommates?” I pointed out to her that dad and I could not have survived by ourselves, and that we were working restaurants, retail, and random low-wage office jobs. “When I was your age I was walking five miles in the snow!” 
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I’m so happy to leave the mother of S21’s college best friend behind with commencement. No one should be that involved with and encouraging drama for their adult child. I wanted to shout “Let Her Be, It’s Not Your Life!” all weekend (really all 4 years). But now? I have deleted her contact info from my phone and she’s gone from my social media.
I feel lighter already.
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With all the good there is to promote you instead choose to promote that? What a sorry commentary on your leadership.
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Not helpful to question the doctor’s we are using with no understanding of the complexity of the issue. You doctor is not necessarily better. Gets tiring to continually defend our perfectly legitimate choices.
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Ugh. My neighbor put some sort of birdbath/fountain at the corner where our backyards meet. It’s not what I might have chosen, but it’s fine. What is not fine is that it is leaning like the famous tower in Pisa. Every time I’m working at my kitchen sink, my poor brain, which has an innate need for order, screams, “Straighten that thing out!”
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It hasn’t rained much here this spring, but it has rained for 2 days. Why? Because tonight is trash night, and not only regular trash night but Large Item pickup, which happens once every 9 weeks. The Jan one was screwed up as they were switching from every 4 weeks to every 9 weeks, and no one told me it was the old system until mid Jan, so I missed it. Then I was out of the country for March. Now it is raining but I don’t care and put the boxes on the curb because the next Large Item day is mid-July (skip week of 4th of July)
I’m exhausted as I’ve been dragging stuff from the 2 backyard sheds to the front curb. My mother thought it necessary to save every plastic container plants come in for the last 10 years (might need them), every yard tool that is rusty, every hose that might be useful even though it leaks and the threads are stripped so can’t connect to the faucet… We also have about 20 lawn chairs as we had 2 sets and then my brother’s girlfriend donated another 10 or so (girlfriend long gone, but the chairs remain), 3-5 umbrellas and stands, cushions for the chairs. Most of that needs to go to good will.
The rain does make the weeds easier to pull, but my shoulders are killing me.
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The roundabouts in Poland have a very small diameter and are hard to navigate. Last night about 10:30, DH failed to do so and ran over a sign and plowed through the grassy median. Nobody was hurt and there were no other vehicles involved but ugh. The front end of the car is destroyed. I had splurged on the rental car since prices are cheap here, and we had a brand new Mercedes. I bought car insurance through Expedia but just learned it was for liability, not collision. Visa SHOULD cover it, but it will be quite the process and who knows if it will work. I had told DH earlier in the day that he was going too fast through roundabouts and he pooh poohed me. How can I stop being furious at him? 
It’s probably good that he’s going home Sunday and I stay another week.
I will say the silver lining is that Polish people are very kind. Several stopped to see if we were ok. The police were brusque but helpful. The car rental place said someone would contact us to arrange the hour ride back to Krakow but nobody did. The tow truck driver was going back that direction and gave all four of us a ride back well after midnight! He was very surprised when I gave him the equivalent of $25. Then we had a kind Uber driver who took us farther than expected after an address mixup and didn’t accept my offer to lay him more (so I doubled his $6 fare through a tip). He said he had had exactly the same accident a few months before in his new employer’s vehicle, so he could empathize!
Now we’re heading to the car rental agency and I’m hoping they’re kind, too.
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Of all holy places, you decided to barf on the heating vent in the floor?!!! OMG, I hate shedding season. My next cats will be those hairless goblins…
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Our grandcat is here for a week. It took her exactly 6 minutes to find me, hop up on my lap, make some biscuits and, curl up on me for a nap. I love when she’s here. She’s such a sweetheart.
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Shocked an American Pope.
I’m not Catholic but am of course intrigued.
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As a Catholic who grew up five miles from where the Pope grew up, I am beaming with pride and I am finding the memes on the Chicago Reddit hilarious.
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