Owie.

I must be the only moron in America over the age of 30 who still has all her wisdom teeth. There's not much wisdom in this. The only reason they came in OK was I was already hereditarily missing other teeth, so they just came in and slid the other teeth over. I have all 4 of them and every once in a while one of them will get it in to them to move around and cause me great pain. It lasts about a week and I am usually miserable during such time. That brings us to today.

Today I look like a chipmunk on my left side. ( and no there will be NO pictures.) My upper left wisdom tooth is being a jackass. I look all wonky and dorky and OMG I am so not happy about it. I actually have to meet with customers looking like this! I can only guess they are trusting in my cleaning experience and not my looks because I got two more houses today. Thank goodness!

So now I am sitting here and trying to deal with the pain. I am taking 500mg ibuprofen and antibiotics so it should quit being a jerk really soon.

At least that's my plan.

Terrorists.

Fuck 'em all!

Because of the dumbass shit that happened Christmas day with the Underpants bomber, and then the even more dumbass shit that happened on January 3rd with the unknown guy skipping through security in the New jersey airport I have had to work really hard Monday. Jess was stuck in the middle of that Airport security nightmare in NJ and that left me here in sunny frigid ass Florida to do all the cleaning I had scheduled for her.

Fucking terrorists can just suck it. They are making my air travel more and more shitty. From only being able to take 3 oz. of liquids at a time, to possibly not being able to use my lap top during flight....... it is getting harder and harder to deal with all the rules and regulations! What's next? Not being able to wear underwear on the plane?

Oh hell fuck no!

Phot Shoot!

We had a photo shoot tonight for the band Haitz. They are a local band here in Sarasota and they wrote our intro music for when we take the floor for Derby. They were kind enough to include us in their CD cover shoot. Neato! Never been on a CD cover before!

I can't post any of the pic's from the actual shoot that I took. Those are being kept under wraps till the actual CD pic's come out.

We got all dolled up and threw on our skates and did background shots, posed shots, beat up the band shots, all kinds of shots!

That's what I wore. We were told to wear pink and black. I wasn't as skinny and cute as the other girls, but I still looked ok. I guess.

So that was my Sunday evening. Now back to the grind of work, school, and all that other crap. How'd you guys end your vacation?

Urban.

I went to a local resale store named Plato's Closet today with Rebecca. She likes this store because it carries the kinds of clothing she likes, but at prices that don't kill her budget and my wallet. She spent most of the money she got from babysitting during Christmas vacation there. They also buy clothes from customers as well, which is how they can sell at such great prices! Cool. After the last time we went, I told Rebecca that we should go through the closets and see what we had to sell. HHH is forever cleaning out apartments that have been skipped on and has come home with bags of clothing. I have a bunch that I don't fit in. We gathered up a pair of Apple Bottom capri's, 2 Baby Phat shirts, an Apple Bottom shirt that matched the capri's, an Anne Taylor dress, and an Old Navy top and went over to the Plato's Closet store. We got there and they were busy, as usual. I put in our bag to be assessed. Rebecca looked around and picked out a few tops while we waited. I went looking for a pair of jeans for HHH. He is ALWAYS ruining his jeans at work. I've told him a million times to quit wearing his good jeans to work, but he never listens.

Finally, after about 45 minutes, the guy at the counter calls us over and basically pushes the whole bag back at me and says "we only buy one top at a time and we don't buy "urban" brands so all we want to offer for is the Old Navy top, OK?" I look at him funny and he says, "Would you like me to explain?" Rebecca says "Sure." and the guy goes into saying the store doesn't sell the urban brands well at that location so they don't offer to buy them. I look at the guy again and say with half a smirk, "So your saying I am in the wrong neck of the woods to sell "urban " brand clothing?" Suddenly every head in the store swivels towards me and the slip of a girl who was apparently the manager comes over and in a thick Israeli accent tries to say that the owner never had luck selling those kinds of items, blah, blah, blaaaaaaaah! OK what ever. I told Rebecca to get in the line to check out while I took care of getting the money for the one shirt.

We got home and I started to think about it. The whole situation reminded me about when I was promoted and we moved to the Ranch. Once our customers found out I lived in a nicer neighborhood and I wasn't just the woman who scrubbed their toilet, they treated me better. The clothing store was quietly discriminating against the "urban" clothing. It wasn't Juicy Couture or BCBG so it didn't fit in I guess.

Eh..... no big deal I guess. I just thought the world had progressed beyond that is all.

Ugh.... again.

Heh.... 2010 started out with a migraine.

Maybe this is a good thing. The last two years started out good and then went to shit in the blink of an eye. So we're going to be mellow today. Lucky for me dinner was white bean and ham soup with corn bread. The stuff practically cooks itself so all I had to do was set it to low on the stove and take a nap while watching more Psych on DVD.

Maybe it's like when it rains on your wedding.... that's supposed to be good luck too, right?

A Few Suggestions For 2010.

Hey there Baby New Year! Listen, I know you're only a few minutes old right now and there are probably some really BITCHIN' parties you have VIP passes to get into, but while I have your ear I'd like to give you a few suggestions for your upcoming job of being the new year.

#1- I'd really like to NOT be homeless this year. This is a no brainer. In the past two years our family has been homeless TWICE because of job loss in this shitty economy. While this has made our family closer, it is just too damn stressful. This past time was stressful to the point that I was seriously intent on ending my own life rather than see my children out on the street....... AGAIN! Lucky for me I had a large net of intarwebz friends who helped our family and encouraged me not to end things with the dolphins. Now things are better than ever and I'd really like it to stay that way.

#2- Please lay the hell off my friends! Once again, a no brainer. If I thought my life was so sucky that I wanted to end it all, I know people who have dealt with way worse that I could have ever thought of!!! One lost her husband and father this year. Another had friends in terrible situations this year all the while dealing with their own demons. Another passed away from this world!! Still another almost lost her family to a tornado! Death, job loss, weather calamities, other crap.... come on damn it! Can we have a little good now? I really would like for my friends to have good this year.

#3- Can the world be a nicer place this year? People bombing people. People shooting people. People dying in natural disasters. People just committing random acts of violence against others for the sheer joy of doing it. Why? We all need to take a collective chill pill and calm the fuck down. Just because you don't believe in what I believe, or I don't see things from your perspective doesn't mean we have to beat each other into a bloody pulp! Can the world in general please just mellow out?

#4- Mo' Good Economy. Kind of like Mo' Better Blues only not. I figure the more cash flow America has, the better everyone will be doing. More jobs, more money, less unemployment, less homelessness. I guess it kind of goes along with suggestion #1.

And that's all I have for you for now. I won't keep you much longer, I know you're antsy to get off to those parties. Just a suggestion for you though. Change the diaper, you smell a little ripe. Can't pick up chicks if you're smelly! Now go out there and have fun, just remember I am right here and ready to lay the smackdown on your candy ass if you even THINK of fucking around!

GOT IT!

Good. Just so we understand each other.

Frightening!!

Do you see that shit?

DO YOU SEE THAT SHIT??!!??

That is the shower in a bathroom I went and cleaned last Thursday. It was COVERED with black mold and mildew! I sent that photo to HHH and he texted back to me RUN!! I took the job because when the woman called, she said she just wanted her bathrooms and kitchen done. OK. I scheduled her and off we went. I should have gotten a sinking feeling when we went in and I didn't see any furniture. Nope. Not a stick of furniture! And the woman said there were 3 people living in the condo. All I could see was trash, piles of dirty clothes, and hundreds of cups with bendy straws in them! The even scarier part was we saw all the trappings for someone owning a cat: Litterbox, food, bowls, toys.... but no cat! Poor thing is probably lost in there!!

I think the woman was a hoarder. I was disbelieving of her saying she had 2 other roommates. I think the lady is just a hoarder and either her condo association told her she had to clean it up or get out, or the health department did. Either way, we are booked for another cleaning of just her bathrooms and kitchen for next week.

Oh.... and I got ALL of that shit off her bathroom walls. I am that good!