Saturday, January 5, 2008

hi folks.... anotha satahday in soul land -

it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. it really is.. at least weather-wise. i don't know about you peeps, but here in the wonderful world of north texas, we're sportin a breezy 59 degrees and rising--- supposedly to 72 this afternoon. Lord, i hope so. i am so ready for some warm weather.
i kinda would like to go try to fish a bit today, it has been almost four months since i went fishing. that is kind of depressing. there has just been so much crap goin on out here , i just haven't been able to go. so anyhow. i just may give it a shot if it gets warmer, and the wind dies down a bit. i do hate fishin in the wind.

so anyhow.

i don't know about y'alls yesterday--- but mine kinda sucked ass. i was gonna post before i went to bed but it was so dang slow on here---and i was "just plum give out" by then, i just crashed. man it was a --- well just one of those days that everything went bad. well, ok, not everything. i did get a good deal on the rugs--- which are still in the trunk of my car btw. perhaps i shall have hubby bring them in. or maybe i should wait til i clean the floor. oh, but if i go fishin, i would need them out wouldnt i. hmmm. damn senile.

anyhow.
still no tv. and to top it off... i had forgotten that plasma tv's can burn a still image into the screen if it is left on for too long. well, umm.... ya. i did. i don't know why i didn't turn it off. the damn thing didn't work. but i left it on. maybe waiting to see if it would work?? hell i don't know. but it really did burn the image slightly into the screen. so learn from my mistake, and if you have a plasma tv--- don't forget to turn the damn thing off. it may be permanent--hubby says it may go away--- but with his xbox---or a dvd on, you can't see it... so luckily he noticed it and turned the damned thing off.

so--- next-- after he tried to get the tv people to come out--and neither dish nor charter would do anything.. (the original plan was to take soulkid and her friend who was here--and pick up two more friends--and take em to the mall, and we would go eat)... well... it didn't quite go down that way. in fact it went down in flames -- for a while.

while hubby was getting ready to go--after working an 11 hour day--- and coming home to no cable-- and a burned three month old tv.... ugh... need i say more? well, i will anyhow....
well... the phone rings.... soulkid has a bad habit of hanging up on telemarketers and unfamiliar numbers. she thinks the landline is HERS. and that she controls it. well. i of course thought ..crap, that coulda been one of the tv people... so i bitched at her for hangin up on em, and asked how do you know it was a telemarketer---that is not YOUR phone, that is MY phone....blah blah blah. well.... in my defense---- i had been in bad pain aaaallll day long. i did not want to go out--- i was pissed at the cable ppl, and i was upset that i broke our tv screen...altho hubby surprisingly wasnt mad at me..he knows im stupid apparently and forgave me ... :))--- but anyhow-- oh i forgot to mention that the dr did surprisingly call me back, and i had a mental breakdown on the phone... and cried... so i didnt feel real great about that either... so like i said... i shoulda just been in bed knocked out on xanax, sparing the family from any pain i could ... but noooo... i wanted to go out, and act like a real person. soooo.... the phone fiasco goes down... i bitch about her hangin up the phone--- she snaps at me and says..
"why don't YOU answer it yourself then!"
oooooohhhhhhhhh
i didn't have time to think... i only reacted, and it was not pretty.
i dropped the F bomb.. in front of her friend...
she walked away with another snide remark... and slammed her door..so hubby comes stormin out of the bedroom...
he yells about her bein disrespectful to me---and HE drops the F bomb TOO--and has the kid call her mom to be picked up, and cancels the evening altogether!
holy crap!
i sat in silence--- TRYING not to just cry like a big baby, feeling out of control of my entire world.

well the kids mom was here in just a few minutes, they live less than a mile away.
so in like ten minutes..hubby calls soulkid out, and we all have a discussion... apologies are made, cheer is spread throughout the room...and we pile up and pick up the kid who was just thrown out of our house, and the evening was reinvented.

things like this surely don't only happen at my house---do they??
tell me not.
and have a great day!

i'm sure gonna try to have a better one than yesterday

17 comments:

Portia said...

Doood. Hugs to you (((Soul))) Your house is definitely NOT the only one that can get that way. I know it still feels sucky about teh TV, but it seems SoulMan knows that you are more important. Anywho, I hope things have started looking up. 70 degrees is not a bad way to start:) It's getting slightly warmer here too. I hope you got to get out and fish!

Jessica said...

Dang! Talk about the whole world pissing in your Cheerios! Here's to a much, much better Saturday!

btw, jealous of your 72. We're all excited about the January thaw and it being in the mid to upper 30s today!!!!

Golden To Silver Val said...

OMG...see what I mean about you being REAL? Nope...your house is surely not the only one that has that sort of stuff goin' on. My house was in chaos most of the time. In fact, if everything was going ok, it made me nervous as hell. Glad your evening was salvaged though. You should see some of the bitch sessions my daughter and I have! But after the air is cleared, we make up. We don't go to bed mad.
I still can't hear well...but my chest is almost normal. Boy if I could ever find out who exposed me to this garbage I would definitely kick their arses all over town!
Have a great Saturday night, soul-friend. If you get bored, write me. Charlotte

Jamie said...

Ahhh yes, another Saturday in the life of Soul...nope, yours is not the only house like that. Mine was and still is, often like you describe, but you already know that, I whine about this crap to you all the time.

I really hope that today has been better for you. I am picuturing you fishing in your favorite place...

I hope you did.

:)

xo

Mary said...

I've had days just like your Friday. I usually ended those days with a long cry followed by a hellish headache. You have girlie snipps; I had boy growls but results are the same. Difference is that my ex-husband would go into a screaming, cursing fit. God, I'm glad that's behind me. It just ain't gonna happen in my house these days. Kids are grown and Harry can be grumpy but never explosive. I, on the other hand, can still be a b**ch!

The Real Mother Hen said...

Wow what a good weather you have there? Here is freezing and crappy. I'm so tired from doing the housework and trying to catch up all the things I didn't do for the last 2 weeks. I hate to work so hard just to get things in order or to fill the recycle cart or to make the living room "livable". Heck! I'm going to move to a cave and just rot there!

Anonymous said...

duh.... your house is the only house I know of that acts that way. sorry, sad but true...your 'bling' thing I guess that runs in your family. Most kids I know soulkids age don't have as much family control as she does. Sorry it happens to you.

Dave said...

A breezy 59 degrees...supposedly to 72 this afternoon...i am so ready for some warm weather...

59 is not warm weather??? AAhhhhh! What I would give for a "hot" 59 degrees! :-)

Today it was 32 degrees up here...

Sheesh! ;-)

Have yourself hot day... Have a good one. Take care.. :-)

Anonymous said...

well...all's well that ends well in Soul Land! LOL. our house is the same too... only it's with a five year old..and only to get worse.. i know...Papa Bean and I are bracing ourselves... hope you got to go fishing and great weather! darn... i am living in the WRONG place...

CRUSTY MOM-E said...

ooooh Soul, I am feeling for you and standing soulfully crusty next to you virtually, raising children teens I can't imagine as I have them as little guys..you are doing what you think is best, and even though it's hectic, you are a survivor!
Smoke? I'll sip, you smoke!
Always,
Crusty~
xo..
I'm hearing there are recalls on the sony plasma's fyi..free repair..call place where purchased..supposedly suppose to vaccum out the back-eh? I know..wierd.

Jamie said...

Ok, so I'm guessing you still have no internet, and you are sleeping in...

No that you will see this if I'm right. Good heavens.

xo

Anonymous said...

.... open mouth, insert foot..... your sis said she read my rude comment. Sorry, didn't mean to sound rude... having bad mental days this time of year missing V. How does that old saying go "if dad ain't happy no one cares, but if mom ain't happy, no one is".

Portia said...

Happy Sunday BATSOUL! I hope the weekend got better...
:):)

SOUL said...

i am like soooo behind in these comments... i want to answer everyone individually, but well.. not today.. hope you don't mind.

i will say that i appreciate y'all soooooo much. i know you know that. but i just gotta say it sometimes. it's really nice to know that y'all have my back, ya know?

so i'll just say thanks--- and get on with monday---
hope you all have great ones!!! and warm ones too.
so far it looks warm here! :))

SOUL said...

JANICE--
i DO appreciate your apology.
you KNOW i understand the feelings that go along with the time of year this is for you. i had no idea.. i am sorry for that. i should know these things, if i did, i bet i would have taken your earlier comment a bit better than i did at first.

anyhow, it's all good. i just hope you get through this rough patch... i know you will.. we always do-- somehow.

luv
me

EE said...

No, they don't just happen at your house!
I hate it when I lose control and react but, you know, it happens.
I just try to apologize for my part in it, and Syd usually apologizes for hers. Teenage hormones suck, don't they?

SOUL said...

E-- they ABSOLUTELY do!
but so do mine! LOL