The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154657   Message #3650785
Posted By: Dorothy Parshall
13-Aug-14 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
Subject: RE: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
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Warning: This has been written by a fed up woman.
Went down to the country to get car repaired yesterday. After I spent about 90 minutes waiting for my appt and for them to get going, they realized they only had one of the two parts needed. So I went to visit a couple friends, then to the restaurant/hangout and visited with a couple more, then to the mill where I finished unloading the kiln, had a quick bite to eat and went to writers' group., where we talked about just about everything but writing. One woman, with MS, is having a mold problem so I gave her a little bottle of tea tree oil to clean it. Came back to the city and fed us salads about 9 pm. An improvement over the night before when R came in at 1:30. That was beyond the call of duty. He ate a couple small yogurts and a cup of juice.

I am in a blue funk today. When I asked about the reno - the one that was supposed to start in April.... I could yell and holler and jump up and down --- and R would give me a hug, smile sweetly and.... Nothing would happen. But nothing is happening anyway....

That was after the phone rang at 8:30, giving me a headache - my brain cannot cope at that hour. It was stupid, who has been told repeatedly not to call my phone. Then R was on the phone interminably and then dashed off without bf.

Spent most of this morning trying, and finally succeeding in cancelling Skype in hopes they will not be able to automatically charge me for another year. They have done something so it does not work any more and give no help in the upgrade it says we need. While trying to cancel, I seem to have acquired a $10 charge that I phoned my credit card company about but not posted there yet. My PA son tried helping. He tells me to go to Apple and upgrade computer so I can use timeface. In the meantime. NO skype even though it is paid for and I deserve a refund. No such thing as customer service. Just waste our time with nonsense.

My PA son wants to bring my grandson to Montreal to visit McGill U. HE is that age!!! "My little darling"! Because I am here. R thinks it a great idea. Right! You think maybe in the next two years, the reno might be done and we might have a spare BR for an 18 year old?????

I do not want to be here. I am sick of living like this. I do not want another piece of plywood on the K floor; I want the major reno this house needs. I am FED UP. This house is major-ly depressing.

Raining all day so no walks. Feeling crappy so no pots. Took de-tox bath and wiped myself out completely. Hungry again and tired of trying to eat "properly". Have neither gained nor lost.

And I cannot even get a decent peach in Quebec. They always end up being dreadful. I want to drown my sorrows in choc chip cookies but then there would be none for R and it's too rainy to walk to the store. And I did not get a call that the part is in for the car so another weekend with the tailgate held closed with a bungee cord.

We are going back to Ontario for the weekend. Meet with our friends about Dragonfly, look at properties, visit other friends. I will be looking for a place to stay that is more civilized than here. R can fend for himself - eat yogurt at 1 am.