random vent(s)

modb1rd

Here are mine. I want to go away 3 weeks from now for the weekend and stay in a little house or cabin. I don't think I am asking for much something less than 2.5 hours away (preferably but will go a little farther) that will allow our 2 dogs and has a hottub. Everything I can find that isn't booked only allows full week stays. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE that plan their weekends away so far in advance? Have they not heard of the recession? Stay home and let me have the cabin dammit.My brother was arrainged on 3 counts of indecent exposure and 2nd offense OWI yesterday. He never spoke to his public defender and the assistant told him not to even show up for the arraignment. The assistant says the PD doesn't expect my brother to get any jail time. What exactly do you have to do go get jail time in Iowa or Nebraska these days?

BrideBuddies

Mod... did you try vrbo.com?   In my area, that's a big one for quick, affordable rentals like that.  (or maybe that's what you're already using??)And I agree... Iowa has incredibly stupid OWI sentencing laws.  Super lenient.  It's sad to think of how many people from my childhood have multiple arrests for dumb crap like that and never really get punished.  Drunk driving is a very serious issue there that no one wants to take seriously.

Vinny08

I hope this is an invitation and not just a TJ on my part. My H does all of the cooking in the house.  Fantastic...usually.  My superhero power is my sense of smell.  Therefore, the smell of cooked food after the fact always irritates the s*it out of me. Last night, he decided to FRY potatos.  Well, they didn't taste all that great (he had a very off night - in his own words).  The house still smells of fry.  It also annoys me because I pay for a housecleaner to come once a month.  They were just there on Tuesday.  He defiled my pretty clean home with the vile stench of day old oil.Damn, I am an ungrateful bi*ch.

KristenBtobe

Ew Vinnie, I hate that old oil stink too.

wingedbride

Sorry moddy mod.

modb1rd

Bridebuddies, yes VRBO and craigslist. GRRR. And not drunk driving, meth driving. He's pure class. Vinny a total invitation.

CaliopeSpidrman

Meth driving?  Yikes.This reminds me that I finally watched the episode of Intervention with Allison the Huffer.  She was messed up.

wingedbride

Allison was way effed up. I felt really sorry for her cats.

Vinny08

Mod - I am sure you have talked about him before, but I clearly have missed the fact that you have a brother who likes to partake in the meth. 3 counts of indecent exposure??  How does one obtain 3 counts of nudie exposure?

modb1rd

Vinny, you take off all your clothes after smoking meth and then walk around naked until you decide to get dressed, get back in the car and smoke some more meth. lather rinse repeat, lather rinse repeat.

KristenBtobe

I just watched the huffing episode too! Even Mike made me turn it back to her trainwreck of an intervention, and he hats that show.

moojunk

Hey Mod, we have a good friend with a cabin in Tahoe (north lake) it doesnt have a hot tub, and not sure about the dogs, but I could ask if its available. let me know if you are interested.  

modb1rd

Moojunk, if none of the emails I just sent out come back positively I will ask. Hey how about Monday night at Thirsty Bear?

Vinny08

Holy s*it Mod!  That's effed. I was watching TV the other day and a commercial came on.A teenaged girl was talking on the phone to a friend.  She gets off the phone and jumps in the shower.  Something else happens but I forgot because the next image scared the ever loving s*it out of me.  As she is in the shower, she turns around and sees herself all meth scabbed up and bleeding from her mouth.  Her meth self tells her clean self, "Don't do it.  Don't do it."  It scared me straight and I don't even smoke weed.See Cali?!  You start with chai-tinis and the next thing you know, you're staring at yourself in your own shower. 

modb1rd

Oh Vinny the stories I could tell. My brothers wife scratching her face meth scabs at the dinner table. Her attempted suicide earlier this year by injecting meth straight into her picline, (she has a pseudo permanent heart infection from her chronic meth use). They make me so damned mad.

moojunk

ok, Mod- sounds good. Monday sounds good- 5:45ish again?

moojunk

apparently I like "sounds good"

modb1rd

Yes!!

moojunk

see you then! and if you are interested in the cabin- give me a call (I dont check the knot or email much on weekends) as he is staying with us this weekend and it will be easy to find out if its available.

CaliopeSpidrman

She's not loaded, but I can guarantee she will never die.  Neither side wants her, so she will live forever. 

noisy_penguin

I'm really sorry Wendy.

laimabean

thats very sad about your brother, and I get 10 days on my first dui? wtf! maybe he should move to Ohio and Im really sorry about ur situation Wendy, I kinda know what it feels like, well I have no one left on my father's side anyway. My Gma just passed last year and I still cant get over how selfish my family has been being, they put thousands into fixing up her house so they can sell it (good luck w/ that) but cant even afford to put her motherf*cking name on a tombstone!! They werent even gonna give her her own, (my uncles) they were talking about just having her name inscribed on my gpas stone how much could that possibly cost? $200? it makes me sick, I disnt want to step in, since being that they are her children, it should be they're responsibility but after the 1 year ann and no stone, no name, nothing. Like she was never even alive. It makes me so fucking sad, Im gonna have to slap down whatever it costs I have no idea I know it cant be more than a couple hundred buck, and do it my damned self cause no one else cares. Its bullshit my uncle even put off her funural foir 2 weeks so he could go on vacation!!!!! well he prob didnt want to loose his reservation, I wanna barf every time I think about it. She was a very religious person and my uncle was even fighting my other uncle over giving her a funeral like he wouldve rather saved the money. IT WAS HER DYING WISH, ITS YOUR MOTHER!!!

laimabean

I started that post honestly not intending it to turn into a rant but oh well, theres mine

wendyld

Having buried both of my parents, I can tell you that a headstone is definitely much more than 200 and funerals in general are insanely expensive. Headstones also usually take several months to be completed and placed (though not a year). When you make those final arrangements for someone there are always a ton of people to please, so you can't be too hard on them if it didn't go exactly as you would have done it.

jasmineh7777

Hi everyone. I'm new to this board-but modb1rd mentioned meth--and know we have something in common---ish.. My very small city has a huuuuge meth problem. The state started the Montana meth project a few years ago. They use really really graphic commercials and billboards to discourage 1st time meth users. The skin-scratching thing-for example. There is a huge billboard as you enter town with a sink full of blood that says "No one thinks they will rip their own skin off. Meth will change that." It really gives people a great first impression...So my vent is that I cant' take my puppy out at night without my fiance' because even the sweet looking couple down the street might have a methlab in the basement.