August 17, 2010

  • Another Quiet And Calm Day


    I slept well with my earplugs firmly seated in my ears once I realized the Beast was snoring up a storm.  It only took me a short time because I don't remember laying there for any time at all.  It was wonderful.  However, after sleeping soundly for six hours, I woke up feeling like I had only slept for about an hour.  No clue why.  Ever have a night like that?

    I was talking on an IM with Bratfink and had to tell her I needed a little nap because my eyes actually hurt.  But it only took an hour before I woke up and felt 100% better.  I got my normal stuff done and decided to make barbequed ribs for dinner.  Don't get excited...it was the boneless pork ones.  I slow cooked them in the oven and they turned out wonderful.

    The Beast pulled a big boo-boo and I have no clue how it's going to turn out but he may have ruined the scooter.  He pulled out this plug on the engine, thinking it was for draining the oil and a spring fell out of it.  He had no idea what it was for but he put the spring back in and replugged it.  Later, when he went to take Baron for a run, the scooter could hardly keep running.  When he brought it back to our garage, he pulled the plug out to take a closer look at it and ... no spring.  He thinks it wasn't properly placed and it was sucked up into the engine.  Yeah, all because he did something without thinking.

    He ordered a replacement spring, took the engine apart to look for it (that's more complicated than I want to put in here) but, suffice it to say, he actually only took the two sides apart for a cursory look.  He's hoping he doesn't have to take it completely apart.  The garage smells like gasoline and so did he as he came back and forth into the house.  The aroma still lingers.  To take it into Honda and have them do what must be done would cost him around $600.  That's more than the scooter is worth at this time even though it looks like new and doesn't have all that many miles on it.  If he can't fix it, it means he will have to get himself a bicycle.  Why is it with him, it's always something he is ruining?  Nothing he does ever goes the way it should.  He goes to do something simple and makes it complicated one way or another.

    I babysat Chewlee for a couple hours while the Princess and Johnnycakes went to a movie.  Chewlee obviously didn't nap.  She wasn't crabby like some days but she was tired because she was quieter than usual.  She was so polite tonight that I think she and her mother had some sort of a run-in and then a *mommy talk*.  We watched the new Sponge Bob DVD that I bought the other day.  Two of the episodes on it I've seen multiple times but it also had a couple I had never seen.  Chewlee was riveted to the TV. 

    I'm heading for bed early tonight to make sure I get enough good sleep.  I need to do a little running around tomorrow to look for a few things I've had on my list for a while.  I'm still trying to get this room organized and I'm out of a couple things I use for cleaning.  The Beast needs to borrow my cords from my computer to fix Tara's computer.  Although her boys are smart enough to erase the history, they have obviously been hitting some porn sites.  It's probably loaded with malware.  I think the Beast plans on wiping the drive clean and reinstalling all the programs.  It's cleaner and faster than trying to remove them all.  But, it should make the computer run a heck of a lot faster than it was.    The boys are young enough to be curious and I'm sure they hit some sites that friends recommended.  They aren't allowed on the computer now unless Tara is home and, to be certain she's around, she takes the power cord with her if she leaves and when she goes to bed.  She should be grateful that all the hard core sites are NOT free.

    It poured again today.  Bad enough that we lost our TV and the internet.  Not just once but twice.  It seldom happens that I lose both.  Usually it's just the internet.  It upset the Beast because the back yard is looking scruffy and needs mowing.  I laughed because it seems there's just no satisfying him at times.  At least it dropped the temperature down into the upper 70's from 95 degrees.  That felt wonderful.  There was also a nice breeze afterward.

    Love you all but I need to get this posted.  Have a great day.