Paul’s off work for the whole week. So we’re going to have lots of hang out time, I guess. And you should SEE my house. I meant to take pictures yesterday and forgot. Maybe it’s still clean enough. It looks FUCKIN’ AWESOME, man!! Paul wanted us to really whip the house into shape for his family to come, and for our own benefit, too, since we’ve lived here almost three years and never cleaned a bunch of stuff - like I’d never cleaned the baseboards, and they were all dusty and shit, all over the house. So I’ve cleaned baseboards and vacuumed ceilings and vents and draperies and dusted every surface of every item in this house and shampooed carpets and cleaned windows and the TRACKS of windows and cleaned doors and doorknobs and light switches and I’ve gotten jiggy with the Magic Eraser on every surface and I shined my washer and dryer and just…DUDE. It looks awesome! Our house looks brand new again. We even paid a dude a few dollars to come out and restretch our carpets in a few spots where it had bubbled up a little. So, I’m happy. NOW is the time to be all, “Okay, here is my little house tour in photographs, and yeah, it ALWAYS looks like this…” Ha! I want to run around with my arms out, airplane style, just basking in the glory of my sparkly clean house!!

We’re trying to get stuff done around the house in preparation for Paul’s family from Cali coming out to visit for a week. They’re going to be here on Father’s Day. I don’t see a lot of this stuff getting done. Paul is installing another garage door on the back of our garage, to make a pass through for when he’s working on stuff. It’ll be nice when it’s done. It’s one of those projects that takes for-fucking-ever, though, because he has to chip out a bunch of concrete and stuff. It’s making a ginormous mess. It’s taking forever. And, I’m having trouble seeing why THAT was the priority project instead of installing our new stainless steel barbecue that requires a natural gas hookup and would be a prettier addition to show off to company, but hey - you know that Pauly of mine. He tends to fart around until the last minute, and then pull something amazing out of his hat that dazzles everyone. Case in point: our backyard. Remember when we were planning the wedding, and I was worried our backyard wouldn’t be done? And then, I thought, well, at least the yard will be done - we don’t need the whole pergola built out there - and he and Mike and his dad built that whole gorgeous patio cover in like A DAY? Yeah. It could still happen. Either way, I’m not that worried about it.

Oh, and Kayley and I took the kids out a couple of days ago and I bought some really pretty valances at Linens ‘n Things for my kitchen window. I can’t wait to get them up. I was giggling at this bitter old hag of a woman in line in front of us, who was so cranky and rude, and sighed heavily and stared and glared at us for having the audacity to be standing near her in line. Hehe! I’ve actually been throwing around the idea of starting a website and posting pictures of people in public who act dicky to me and my children, because there are a surprising number of kid-hating people out there, who get completely pissed when a two-year-old is whining or whatever - to the point where they act like a two-year-old! It cracks me up. And hey, isn’t that why I have a camera phone? So, I’m accepting suggestions for what to call the website. I’m contemplating “Suckulence.”