No Spam Please

This morning I checked my email, only to find that more spam had been posted to my group. I immediately went to action to try to remedy the situation because I don’t want my group to be associated with spam and I don’t want people who come to read and discuss stories to have to sift through spam.

Surprisingly, I didn’t let the spam mess up my day. I had a decent day and I’ve decided that it is past time for me to get back to my website. I may add another short story to it or something like that, but I need to do something to it because I haven’t done anything in a long time

Status: Ready to make moves.

Uninvited

I realized today that the reason why I’m not a big fan of unannounced visitors is because I prefer to mentally prepare myself for visitors and when someone drops by unannounced, I don’t have time to prepare. I had a relative drop by today and they were the second unannounced visitor I’ve had in the past three days. I understand that my family and I were gone for a long time and people want to see us, but is it too much to ask that people call first? Calling does everyone involved a favor. Calling allows me to get ready to socialize with company and calling assures the company that they are not wasting their gas or their time and energy stopping by to see me. What if I wasn’t here? I’m not saying people should call hours in advance or anything like that. I’m saying, if you’re around the corner, or down the street and you’re thinking about stopping by, just call and say something like, “I was headed your way and I just wanted to make sure you were home.” I promise I’ll respond kindly and I’m not going to tell you I’m running late or on my way out, unless that’s the truth. I don’t mind as little as a two minute warning. I just want a warning.

Status: Thinking I need to find a way to be happy people care.

You Fix It This Time!

I spent most of my day doing manual labor again. I helped my father fix a sink at one property and then I helped him fix a light fixture at a different property. My father has a hard time being the bad guy, and by that I mean, he has a hard time confronting tenants about things they’ve done wrong. He usually blames my mother, and says this like, “My wife won’t like that” or “My wife told me to ask about” or “My wife said no.” It’s always been amusing to me because he uses those excuses so naturally. They’re a part of his repertoire now. The bad part is that my mother is usually not around to say anything, so the tenants always view my mother as the bad guy and my father as the good guy who’s on their side.

I bring this up because of what happened today. My father went to pay the water bills for our house and his properties. One of the water bills was extremely high and the lady at the office told my father either he has a bad leak at that property or there are a lot of people living there. My father took me along and low and behold, the hot water in one of the sinks won’t turn off. I was with my father the last time when he fixed some water issues at that house and he told them if they ever had a leak, or anything like that to call him, and not to just let the water run. When I saw there was a problem with the water, I was pissed off, but my father seemed unfazed. Then the woman has the nerve to tell us it’s been like that for a while. What the hell?

So, when we were fixing the sink, we found out that the tenant had another problem that she had called a plumber about because she said if she was responsible for the damage then she wanted to pay to have it fixed. It didn't involve water running so I was fine with her having someone else do it, however, my father volunteered to fix the problem for her. I’m standing next to him ready to pop him upside his head (figuratively, because I would never actually lay a hand on my father). We had to run an errand to go pick up something for the sink, so I talked to him about the situation while we were gone. I told him, “Dad, you should let her get the plumber. She’s going to pay the plumber to fix it, but she’s not going to pay you.” (This is the same lady I talked about before, who has completely ruined a newly renovated home in less than a year. And I don’t even want to think about how much it’s going to cost to fix the house once we get her out.) My father said, “Yeah, that’s true.” Then I put the icing on the cake and reminded him, “She didn’t tell you about the problem. If you hadn’t stopped by today, she wouldn’t have told you at all because she knows that you just fixed it a couple of months ago and that one of her kids messed it up. She said she wants to take responsibility if it’s her fault, so let her take responsibility.”

My father agreed with me, but then when we got back to the house and he pulled the lady aside to talk to her, he had me do the dirty work and tell her that he changed his mind and she could stick with her original plan and pay for it herself. If the sink wasn’t costing my father money, I probably would have told her to have the plumber fix that too, but it was, so I helped my father fix the sink and we were on our merry way.

Status: Wondering where I left my heart.

Sigh of Relief

I wasn’t sure what to post today. I feel better and I mean genuinely better than I did yesterday evening. What I needed yesterday was some alone time and I didn’t give myself that because napping doesn’t count as alone time since I wasn’t awake to enjoy it. This morning, I woke up and relaxed in bed for a while thinking about my next move and other random things and I’ve sailed through the day letting nothing really get to me.

Status: Peachy-keen.

Two-Faced

I had a two part day. The first part was fine. I was checking out a new store and running errands for the first part and that went well. Then I got home and relaxed for a few minutes and suddenly I was dead tired like I would fall over if I didn’t lie down. I didn’t have time to nap so I rested for a few minutes then ran another errand and came back home and went to sleep for a while.

The day has been downhill from there. I woke up feeling depressed and irritated for no good reason, but I think I covered it up nicely.

Status: Trying to feel better.

I'm In Love....

After being spoiled with a three week vacation I must rejoin the regular world again. That’s depressing in itself. I got back Thursday evening and relaxed then I ran some errands on Friday and spent most of Saturday getting myself mentally prepared to return to my regular life. My vacation was amazing and wonderful and the only thing I missed was writing. I took my laptop, but my family saw to it that I didn’t spend much time writing. I can honestly say that I am in love with writing. Even when I was enjoying my vacation, I was mentally writing stories and thinking of things and details I could use from my vacation as parts of new stories. I have mentally changed a few upcoming updates but I’m not sure if I’m going to officially change them or leave them as they are. I have to decide soon, but I’ll deal with that when the time comes.

I suppose if I was gone longer I would have missed my friends and the rest of my family but as it was, three weeks was not enough time to miss them.

Status: Trying to get my brain to return to normal mode.

Vacation-Be Back In A Couple of Weeks

My vacation begins in about 4 hours. I don't know if I'm going to blog while I'm gone or not so I decided to put this here in case I don't.