a gallagher tale ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- House Sitting I am house sitting until the 5th. I anticipated that it would be really bad, since I don't have a vehicle. Of course, I thought it would be really bad not to have a vehicle anyway, but here it is two weeks without one and it hasn't been so bad. I have been with Shane a lot, but that isn't very unusual for us. We spend ridiculous amounts of time together, but we always have. But now I am house sitting in town without a car, and he is at the farm up north. The house is quiet, especially like now when Zane is napping. But I don't mind it. Yesterday was crazy hectic. I chose to go with Shane to run errands and didn't get back here until 11 pm. Oops! So today I am here at the house, doing some chores. Cleaning, dishes, laundry, that sort of thing. In some ways, housework isn't all bad, because it's so mindless. There isn't any stress involved, there's no decision making, there's no worry. Just scrub the floors. Wash the dishes. Put clothes in the washer. That sort of thing. It's almost a relief from everything else we've been doing. The last few weeks have been so horribly stressful. We have all sorts of financial misery. The company Shane is working for pays on 1st and 15th of every month. Well, the 15th was our first paycheck, but we had just started working for them at the end of that pay period and only had a few claims on that paycheck. And now we have to wait until the 1st for our first "real" check. Add to all that the fact that claims have dropped off tremendously the last few weeks and it puts us in the crunch. We don't have a lot of bills, but we are doing a lot of building and what-have-you and we drain every penny that we touch. So we went through the storage unit and we are selling everything that has been sitting in there unmissed for a year now. It's kind of nice to have phone calls from people wanting to buy stuff. And Shane has even sold a few of his carvings and furniture that he built. So that is exciting, and it's nice to have a little cash these last few days. We had a lot of rain for a few days, too, so our "yard" is a mud pit. I was getting really depressed being up there, but now I am down in town house sitting, I am envious of Shane who is at the farm. Go figure. Part of our wild day yesterday involved going to pick up a few goats. They were free in the paper and Shane has been wanting some to help clear the land. Well, now he has them. They are pretty gross (sorry). They stink and they are ugly. But I have never had goats before so I think there is a curve you have to get over, to get used to them. I will probably end up liking them. I haven't had any pictures because it was dark when we got them and then I came here and haven't been back. Also, I am cameraless today or I would show you how cute Zane looks in his daddy-look-alike boxers. He went all day yesterday without a diaper and this morning he went sans diaper for a little while too. He is mostly pretty good about catching himself RIGHT AFTER he starts to pee, and then he can run to the potty. He loves doing it though and I think he will pick it up pretty quick. It's so cute to see him in boxers, and it's pretty exciting to start imagining life without diapers. ;) Well I better go nab a quick shower while youngun sleeps. I'm going to make an effort to post daily from now on, so check back! 1:14 p.m. - Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today is Sunday November 18th - Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 |
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