May 24, 2008
365 Days and 30 minutes ago....
We walked into our house for the first time as its owners. It was kind of a surreal moment, to say the least. It was a Thursday afternoon, and we had no idea when the title would be recorded, so we gave the previous owners until 5pm to leave.
Of course,
they took advantage of that, and the fact that it was memorial day weekend to to have the power and water shut off on us, pettily hoping that that they could screw us over and force us to be uncomfortable until the next Tuesday.
Happily, however, Pasadena Water and Power are AWESOME and everything was back on by Noon, Friday.
It's been a crazy year. Somehow we've managed to rip out two wall heaters, install a ceiling fan, a chandelier, change two more light fixtures, fix another ceiling fan, install a brand new bathroom sink, run a water line to the refrigerator, cap off a number of useless pipes, completely replace the plumbing for the shower and the kitchen sink, and install a dishwasher. Oh, and hang lights on the pergola, rip out three trees, hack away a number of bushes, and plant two rose bushes, azaleas, calla lilies, carnations, lilacs, hydrangea, and two summers' worth of garden.
Not to mention replacing a broken window and installing an alarm system. And bringing home a new puppy.
Wow. That's a hell of a lot more than I realized.
This weekend's project? Why plastering the holes from the plumbing job and repainting the bathroom, of course. And hanging our Anniversary present to ourselves:
Cardinals singing in a magnolia tree above a creek. And it will look fabulous above our bed, so who cares if it's a mass-produced IKEA painting? It makes me happy.
More pictures on Flickr as soon as I have a moment to download from the camera, probably late tomorrow!
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WOW! That was a quick year! CONGRATS! And happy anniversary, CTG & hub!
Posted by: Marie at May 25, 2008 05:37 AM (UunPp)
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at May 25, 2008 06:11 PM (0Pi1o)
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A year's gone by already? How time flies. And the progress you've made on the house is impressive, too.
BTW, my blog suffered a major meltdown and is being reconstituted at a new site. The new URL is www.weekendpundit.org You may want to update your blogroll as the old site has just plain up and disappeared!
Posted by: DCE at May 25, 2008 07:51 PM (m0MXk)
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Wow...a whole year?! So much accomplished in that time. And I greatly admired how you have handled this recent episode with the thugs. The important stuff, (the babies), are fine, as are y'all. A good year, indeed.
Posted by: Mrs. Who at May 25, 2008 09:34 PM (GWbHW)
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More puppy pictures!
Oh, and happy anniversary in your home!
Posted by: pam at May 27, 2008 05:08 PM (l6NIn)
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Happy anniversary, CTG. I hope the next years are filled with much happiness.
Posted by: zonker at May 27, 2008 10:43 PM (PrUNH)
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Congrats on your new home and your anniversary. Too bad those old California homes almost always have to be extensively remodeled whenever a new owner moves in.
Posted by: diamond dave at May 28, 2008 04:43 PM (EKSJf)
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It's already been a year? Holy crap. It seems like yesterday that you were dealing with all the shenanigans to get the place. Wow.
I love that picture. It's calming and serene. Perfect for above your bed.
Posted by: Lauren at May 30, 2008 01:19 AM (iUfJz)
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May 05, 2008
My Baby turns 9 today
OK, so she's not my baby in the usual sense, but she IS my child. The favorite, the spoiled one, the one who gives me kisses and runs to see me when I come home every afternoon. She watches while I sleep and gets offended when her Daddy and I argue with each other. She loves books and kleenex (to eat) and cheese and chicken and eggs that escape from my breakfast burritos. She's Daddy's girl when he's got trail mix and Mommy's shadow whenever there's a glass of Dr. Pepper poured out. My 35 pound hot water bottle who loves the snow beyond reason and runs from rain drops. My "worth her weight in Molybdenum" hound who has cost me more than a fortune in tests and specialists and pills and special dog food, and finally human anti-rejection meds for an allergy that only took a move home to California to cure.
But for all that, we wouldn't trade a moment with our "border spaniel cocker collie" and all the ways she's spoiled us.
I love you, my Princess.
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Happy birthday, Princess! She likes Dr. Pepper? really??
Posted by: Marie at May 05, 2008 06:47 AM (UunPp)
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What a sweet little doggie!
Did you get a special milk bone birthday cake?
Posted by: Phoenix at May 05, 2008 07:36 AM (4N2f4)
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Happy Birthday to the Princess!
Posted by: Amanda at May 05, 2008 07:50 AM (ay+rD)
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That's a fine looking dog!!
Posted by: Alan at May 05, 2008 02:01 PM (jYCG+)
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Happy Birthday to your girl! She's gorgeous...!
Posted by: pam at May 05, 2008 03:15 PM (l6NIn)
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she obviously adores you too. what a doll.
Posted by: zoey at May 05, 2008 03:32 PM (oNP5F)
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Happy Birthday, kiddo!!
Posted by: Lauren at May 06, 2008 11:12 PM (iUfJz)
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Awwwwww! The princess is adorable! Happy birthday.
Posted by: nightfly at May 07, 2008 06:41 AM (PuuC1)
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Happy Birthday to a cutie!
Posted by: Mrs. Who at May 08, 2008 07:39 PM (DhhRx)
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Oooh! What a beautiful puppy-girl! Happy Birthday to the Princess! And many, many more! Hope she got a new toy and special puppy treats for the big day!
Congratulations!
Posted by: Lee Ann at May 09, 2008 06:20 AM (In0yv)
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Happy Birthday to a beautiful girl!
Posted by: vw bug at May 13, 2008 03:12 AM (FPOeI)
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This is how the gods do business:::::They use temptation and deception to compel people to chase something that has already been decided. It's children who go to "beaven". OLd people have to come back. The gods will use their power to contradict this, corrupting people and compelling them to incurr evil::::They used the Italians to ruin life in the 20th century, cost you the Final Prophet and the result will be death as you wait for the Italian Second Coming of Christ to save you.
This is the god's positioning and it IS going to be enforced. Never forget::::The gods have always offered "protection" to those genuinely religious. It is something that was always respected, even in the wicked 20th century.
As people begin to age the gods employ corrupting tactics. They ultimately begin to look down on the children and the wisdom they recently understood:::
They voluntarily turn their back on their opportunity to ascend and instead embrace evil.
It's not old people who go to heaven. Old people must come back because of the mistakes they've made throughout their lives. Children are the ones who have the opportunity to ascend.
Children are discounted by adults in society. The gods corrupt people as they age, use trust-building tactics and soon adults view the children as ignorant, yet to understand the god's system, and subsequently look down on the children. This is one of the most bitter, painful ironies the gods employ, for people consciously turn their back on and lose their opportunity to ascend::::
Religions teach that old people to go to heaven when they die. They don't. Old people are reincarnated. It's the children who go to heaven, those who have a chance at immortality.
The wisdom the gods impart to children, either through their innocence/purity or religious-based educational pursuits are the gods sharing the truth with their most favored people::::It's the children whom the gods teach the right way for it is the children who have a chance. For example, they teach children to have faith, for understanding the god's geographical clues hurts people by illustrating negative things, opening the door for the god's to employ deceptive tactics.
Old people don't go to heaven. Old people must come back because of the mistakes they've made throughout their lives. It's the children who have the opportunity to go to "heaven". They must behave apprioriately, think correctly and be genuinely god-fearing. Their innocence and lack of desensitization ensures they have a real opportunity to achieve this goal.
This is charecteristic of the gods methodology::::The big prize gone early, deception compels people to chase something that has already been decided. They sent this clue with boss as well. It is also a clue supporting my claim RW&B's german is in fact Christianity's Anti-Christ. Logic also dictates, considering the definition.
This individual was used to justify the repression of alternative technologies, and in the early/mid 20th century the elimination of productivity enhancing developments like Chicago's underground railroad for merchandise delivery to retail outlets.
There are other examples like this as well, notably the railroad on the lower span of the Bay Bridge.
This forced transport via internal combustion vehicles instead.
This is how the gods do business:::They get theirs right off the bat. The #1 industrailist, the #1 capitalist is the Anti-Christ, and he's been "in charge" for 150 years.
Of coruse this is all telepathic theater. He was just a clone host all along. All those industrialists were.
Flanders is on the Simpsons as a clue.
The confusion over this multi-dimentional positioning will serve as an effective tactic, eliminating many additional disfavored in the process, for positioning states the Apocalypse to be a continuation of WorldWarII's Aryan superrace ideals, positioned as punishment for the 5th century invastion of the Roman Empire:::John's Fourth Reich.
This amounts only to "nested theater":::::Levels of positioning enables the gods to scapegoat:::::RW&B merely is the tool the gods chose to execute the final scene of their scripted theater that is human history.
Just as they would have had me chase boss so would they have wanted me to sign on to this theater, evil by definition, and chase this role of Anti-Christ. By doing so I would have incurred evil and would have been punished, painfully "losing" Anti-Christ in the process.
Does that mean RW&B is not the Anti-Christ?? I suspect as they would have "offered" it to me so will there be a fake Anti-Christ for those in these generations to accept as well. But it is a clone host. This is ALL clone host theater, created not as a clue to me but instead designed to be preditory on the disfavored, designed to increase indecency and further the god's goal of justification towards The End.
We were all merely peasants centuries ago, struggling with our disfavor, but without the enormity of temptations, real and telepathic, which exist today.
They have shared I was positioned to some disfavored as the Second Coming of Christ, explaining all the evil surrounding me and RW&B's placement in the "eye of The Beast" was to positon the sabotage of my candidacy (Damien Omen, Big Army Men, etc).
The Big Lie of course is that Christianity is evil. The reverse positioning nature of Planet Earth dictates that good is demonized, as we wintessed in World War II, while evil is put on a pedistal, as we see with the Italians.
The truth? The gods used their tools to create this and the rest of the incidents surrounding this Situation to distract the people from my message, for I speak the truth:::Only you can save you. You have to be responsible for your own relationship with the gods.
The gods are asexual. They have no sex organs nor rectums.
When the gods take children these individuals have the opportunity to become "god-like". Temptations are employed and, if sucessful, these are the individuals who make up the human race's immortals.
I believe there are opportunities that exist for females that do no exist for males. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush but women's "sexual peak" may represent the transistion to "sociological males" and their "fall from grace". Considering today's promiscuity I question whether this is currently applicable, and is yet anther 20th century-earlier phenominah.
I believe Purgatory is real. I think it is a temporary destination, perhaps sparsely utilized until the Apocalypse, but this will be the destination for those who "ascend" during the event. As they've said this planet will too be disposed of one day and it is imperative people try to avoid that destination, for there may be no escaping its fate.
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May 01, 2008
i owe you people something like an update
It has been a crazy week since I last posted.
Tuesday night we cleaned the house in preparation for an out-of-town guest. After we finished putting things away, vacuuming, and changing the sheets on the guest bed, we decided a shower was in order. Usually, since it's just the 2 of us, I turn on the shower, jump in and wash and step out, then DH jumps in and turns off the shower. Except the goddamned thing wouldn't turn off all the way. So hubby hauled out the tools and stripped the hot water handle back to the stem, then used pliers to get the stem turned off.
For those of you keeping score, this is the THIRD problem with the shower/tub handles since we bought the house. THIRD. By this time, however, it's well after midnight, and there's little that can be done except to get the water turned off and go to bed.
Wednesday, I got up and went to work, and then picked up my friend from the airport. We went straight from LAX to the beach, as she'd never put her tootsies in the Pacific. We had lunch at the Kettle (my favorite MB comfort food place) and then walked down to the waves. After goofing around for about 15 minutes and introducing her to the joys of squishing kelp bobbers, we walked back up to the car and made our way back to the casa. We got her gear stowed, watched some TV and went to choir rehearsal.
Thursday I dragged her to school with me, and she got to sit in for the final fetal pig lab of the year. Of course her patience was rewarded with a trip out to Melrose to shop at Fluevog and Kidrobot and lunch at Johnny Rocket's.
Friday we went to the Dodger game (Joe Torre Bobblehead night!).
Saturday was plumbing day 1. We took the access panel off the wall to see how difficult it would be to replace the diverter/valve/handle thingy. As usual, it wasn't that simple. As with the dishwasher, one plumbing job quickly became three, as we discovered that the water shutoff valves for the shower were broken OPEN. So we had to turn all of the house water off to replace those. AND we discovered that the shower would take a hell of a lot more work to replace... so we decided to cap the leaking valves and put the rest off, as we were having people over for a BBQ so that our friends could meet our guest. Much meat and wine took the edge off of the plumbing mess.
Sunday we went to see the Big Fat Rat. It turns out that was an excellent day to go. Not terribly hot, and not terribly crowded either. We rode all the big rides, and most of the smaller ones, too. The longest line we stood in was 45 minutes, for the Nemo submarines. Everything else was 20 minutes or less, including Indy! We had "linner" at the Blue Bayou (yum!) and went to Downtown Disney to the Lego Store via Monorail. We left at 9 because Monday is a work day, but everyone was exhausted by then anyway.
Monday was plumbing day 2. We fixed the valves and tackled the shower/diverter replacement. It quickly became evident that the geometry of the house made it IMPOSSIBLE to remove the pipes via the access panel. So we cut a hole in the side of the house! Extreme, but it was either that or rip out the fiberglass shower surround. And anyway, our house is covered in flat wood panels (1x 12's) with wood shingle siding attached, so what we cut out came out in one single piece (which we screwed back on when we were done). Once we could actually REACH the plumbing, the shower replacement was a piece of cake. And now it works great. YAY Hubby!
Tuesday was my class's final, and then another trip to Kidrobot and a tour of Hollywood Boulevard.
Wednesday I dropped my friend back at LAX, and our whirlwind week was over. Back to real life, and fast. I got a hell of a curve ball at work, and then I had to grade exams.
Today I finally got to do my ACTUAL job. Wow.
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Exhausting! Enjoy the weekend, if you are able. ((hugs))
Posted by: Lauren at May 01, 2008 11:12 PM (iUfJz)
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Phew! I'm exhausted just reading that! Plumbing problems are THE WORST. I break out in hives walking down that aisle at Home D. Too many bad memories. And the plumbing scene seems to be never-ending in older homes. Enjoy that shower!!
Posted by: Marie at May 02, 2008 01:36 PM (UunPp)
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Plumbing problems...it's gremlins, I tell you. And even splashing holy water around won't get rid of them.
Glad you had good visit though!
Posted by: Mrs. Who at May 03, 2008 05:41 AM (DhhRx)
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ok i am homesick. i grew up on dodger dogs and cheap seats! bat night. pennant night. any night. go dodgers!
Posted by: zoey at May 03, 2008 02:11 PM (KU4Si)
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Whew! Sounds like one hell of a deal!! Here is hoping that the house problems are DONE!
Posted by: Richmond at May 03, 2008 04:32 PM (MPgmW)
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