Archive for April 14th, 2007
Why I am the sexiest wife, according to Josh
Although he still says next time, he’s getting a stupid wife.
‘Cuz I’m a bartering MO’FO, mo’fo!
Today we were mowing the lawn. I say “we” because he pushed the mower, and I held the extension cord and tried to prevent its accidental severing. We got this electric lawnmower from a friend and it is a HUGE upgrade from the reel mower we had. Reel mowers are a great thought, but not when you have a quarter acre of thick grass to plow through (plus a lot of dog poop.) We were lamenting our own stupidity, and praying that god would miraculously drop a 400 foot extension cord from the heavens so that we might be saved. But instead, god apparently created craigslist.com.
I ran inside and posted an ad on craigslist, attempted to sell our reel mower for at least enough money to buy a Frosty or something. I found an ad from someone who was selling their gas mower for $95. And here’s where the genius comes in. Methinks, “Maybe they need a reel mower! Perhaps they now have a smaller yard than they used to, and we could possibly…(insert Austin-Powers-pinky-to-the-mouth-action) trade?”
An hour later, I had an almost new gas mower, and was rid of my pithy little reel mower. Everyone won. And although I didn’t get an extension cord falling from on high, this is really almost as good.
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The Joys of Home Ownership
What I did on my Saturday.
1. Took the dog for an hour long walk, and found a really nice trail right around the corner from my house.
2. Cleaned up poop in the backyard long enough to get a decent sunburn. Of course, Roland doesn’t just poop in one spot. He literally craps a circle around himself and whoever happens to be waiting around. This makes poop cleanup a fun search and rescue game.
3. While getting ready to do some touch up painting, realized all our paint had been stored in the shed, and therefore froze and refroze uncountable numbers of times, thus rendering it a coagulated, worthless, wasted blob.
4. Drove to the store to buy more paint, but on the way, stopped to get gas and a car wash (minus thirty minutes due to the long line), then found out that a huge intersection between me and the paint store was closed, with no visible detour (minus another thirty minutes trying to find my across and in the process getting lost in Boulder suburbia hell.)
5. Painted 2 doors white.
6. Helped mow the lawn (another story unto itself.)
7. Cooked dinner. (His turn tomorrow. Salmon on the grill, perhaps?)
Homeownership, what fun. There goes a perfectly decent Saturday afternoon, which I cherish due to the fact that I don’t have to work, but instead I spent this one working. Oh, bleh.
Oh, and I forgot one.
8. Plan attack against the squirrel that has apparently been camping in our attic. We only noticed this today, as we backed out of the driveway, and the little bastard was staring at us and laughing. I swear.
4 comments April 14, 2007
