I am a TV addict. I cannot wait until the fall shows start. I did all the research for you already. Mark your calendars.
- Nip/Tuck - September 5
- House - September 5
- Boston Legal - September 19
- Grey’s Anatomy - September 21
- The Office - September 21
- Desperate Housewives - September 24
- Lost - October 4
From The Office:
Michael Scott: Pam… you want to rub butter on my foot?
Pam Beesley: No.
Michael Scott: Pam, please. I have Country Crock.
I am disgusted with our house. I loved it for a little while but now I don’t want to even be in it. I have caught no less than 5 lizards this week in this house. I had that snake last week. There are spiders and last night there was an infestation of ants that had to be dealt with at midnight. Hundreds of them were coming in the back door and were all over the living room floor and baseboards. There was no food or dead anything for them in there. Now, my vacuum cleaner is in the garage because there are ants inside of it. God only knows when my husband will get around to cleaning it out and bringing it back inside.
Then, there is the dust issue. Having dogs means having dander and it seems like no matter how much I dust, it comes right back within a day. I really wish I didn’t have them most days. Yes, I love them and can’t imagine my life without them. However, I’m too clean for them. I know having a child will be messy. But it’s a different messy. Not a dander, pee on everything type messy. My kid probably won’t have it’s anal glands pop on my sofa.
Let’s not even talk about the carpet. The carpet that I won’t let a child touch or crawl on. Not ever. If we move shortly after I have the child though, there is no reason to replace the carpet.
My house makes me itch.
This is the best smelling cheap detergent in the world. It’s clean and fresh smelling and it makes the whole room smell yummy when you wash your sheets. I slather up with baby lotion on my legs and tummy and behind and then get into those sheets and all is right with the world.
Right now I’m on a kick where my whole entire house disgusts me. The baseboards need to be touched up, there is dust from dog hair all over everything, the carpet is horrible from the dogs. I wanted to pull all the carpet up and put down laminate but we probably will be moving and that makes no sense. However, Baby will have to lay on it for a few months before that happens. I’ll get it steam cleaned but it still won’t be the same.
As the baby gets closer to making an appearance, I am thinking about alot of things. One of them is moving to be closer to my Mom and Dad. I haven’t had the greatest luck with jobs here in Austin and we really don’t make very much money. Things are very tight with money for us. I know that I could get a teaching job in Louisiana because they aren’t as strict as far as what you need to be considered qualified. Elvee could work for the oilfield and make pretty good money. A house there that costs $180 is seventeen times nicer than one that costs the same amount here. It’s crazy. Plus, Elvee has a son in Georgia that he never gets to see because it is a 16 hour drive one way from here. From LA, it would be about 7. Its alot to think about. I don’t want to just uproot everything and regret it. We could always move back though if we hated it. It wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Things I will miss:
1. Mangia’s pizza, Chez Zee and Hyde Park Bar and Grill
2. The lake
3. Artsy hippy people
4. Great shopping
5. The hill country
6. Capital City Comedy Club
7. Everything at your fingertips
8. Lots of things open 24 hours to eat
9. Hike and bike trails
Things I will not miss:
1. Jesus freaks
2. 100 degree Christmas’
3. The beautiful people in Austin that all have fake tatas and blonde hair and still party balls at age 35
4. Uber mommies
5. Being five feet from my neighbors’ houses
6. CEDAR FEVER
Things That I Will Love About Louisiana:
1. Kid growing up with Mardi Gras as a tradition
2. Being with family
3. Nicer house for less money
4. A big green yard
5. A swimming pool in the future (not many in Austin because it is too expensive to dig up the rock)
6. Friends that I’ve had for 20+ years
7. Ronnie’s Donuts
Things that suck about Louisiana:
1. Bugs
2. Snakes
3. Old crotchity racist people
4. Lakes that aren’t very nice to swim in
5. Humidity
6. Limited shopping
7. Hurricanes
Apparently there is a glitch in the food chain around here. There was a spider in my kitchen earlier. Aren’t snakes supposed to eat spiders? I don’t know what eats snakes, except for bigger snakes. I showed my Mother the picture tonight to see what kind of snake she thought it was and she simply COULD NOT believe that she had raised a child that did not instantly kill the snake. In Louisiana, they will kill anything that isn’t human and even that doesn’t necessarily guarantee your safety. A few hours later I get this email: “dad says that snake looks like a copperhead–you need to kill snakes”. She is never going to let that go. According to her, the tiny little snake is going to live out the rest of his life in the drainage duct that we kindly put him in and grow into a 20 foot snake and come knocking on my door and kill me.
THIS was right outside my front door……
