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Wedding Woes
VarunaTT
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I adulted yesterday by not purchasing Janet Jackson tickets. The best price/basic seat combo was still around $100 apiece and I love Janet, but I don't LOVE Janet and don't want to spend that much to see her concert. However, Rage goes on sale tomorrow and I DO love Rage enough for that and more, so we'll see what's up with their show prices. Twitter has been hilarious about this tour though:
"I'm going to love seeing Rage Against the Machine at the Capital One Arena."
"The only Rage Against the Machine that will matter is angry 40 plus years olds screaming at their monitors on Thursday."
Did my grocery shopping this morning. Have to get to the library after work or my books on hold will be sent back. I already missed one and had to put it back on my hold list, boo at myself. It's nasty weather here today and I just want to curl up at home with some hot tea and a book.
"I'm going to love seeing Rage Against the Machine at the Capital One Arena."
"The only Rage Against the Machine that will matter is angry 40 plus years olds screaming at their monitors on Thursday."
Did my grocery shopping this morning. Have to get to the library after work or my books on hold will be sent back. I already missed one and had to put it back on my hold list, boo at myself. It's nasty weather here today and I just want to curl up at home with some hot tea and a book.
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Re: Wednesday
I woke up this morning with the worst cold. Ugh. I just want to go back home and go to bed. I'm debating it.
massage right after work and then I hope to beat the majority of the snow and get home. I’m a wimp when it involves driving in snow. Saturday night my closet rack fell down on me so I bought another one on amazon and have to put that up, but it doesn't look like it’ll hold my heavy pants. I might need a new closet system entirely.
On a horrible note, I found out about a brutal murder through Facebook yesterday and it's a domestic violence incident where a former spouse killed his estranged wife while their young kids were in the home. I don't know the person and it's more of a "friend of a sister of a boyfriend through Facebook" type thing but I'm sad for everyone affected and it's just a big reminder to me about how I need to do more in my own intimate and public circle to affect change.
I have no idea what we're doing for Valentine's day but I hope it involves steak and lobster.
We're supposed to get a mess of weather starting this afternoon. I'm supposed to go to purse bingo tonight, but I'll eat the $30 and stay home if it's too nasty. Not worth it and honestly, I've got a fuckton of stuff here at home that needs to be done. So we'll see.
I'm hoping this little cold doesn't turn into a big cold. FIL officially retires tomorrow and wants to start partying tomorrow night. Yeesh.
I feel so unprepared to host this weekend. DH is shouldering most of the workload, which is helpful. I know we'll be fine and worst case, there will be alcohol.
SSDD otherwise.
I also have no idea what we're doing for Valentine's day. Probably nothing. BIL is still here too, so.
It's finally Wednesday. My Director is in the office with a disgusting cough and I just wish she would have stayed home again...
I have been on a Man vs. Food binge lately, so tonight H and I are getting burgers and I'm sooo excited!
@VarunaTT lol @ RATM
@climbingwife M is jealous you're seeing RATM but I asked and he would have gone to see Foo's instead lmao His response "I get it. 2 late night headliner shows back to back? Cannot do it."
I use to see Hedley every time they came around. I can't anymore because they had to essentially disband. The lead singer is going thru court in regards to sexual allegations. I'm still in heavy denial about it
I'm starting to prep for BabyKitten's 2nd bday in May. Last year we did so much last minute, and I cannot do it this year.
A mom in my June Mom group runs her own cookie business and I'm ordering some for BabyKitten's bday and for M's 30th bday in July
For BabyKitten, the theme is Unicorn. We're going to do pastel colours. Idk what I'll do for cake - bake or buy. Essentially if you look up unicorn bdays on pinterest, you'll get basic idea.
BabyKitten is a fruit bat so we're doing rainbow kabobs with fruit. If I can figure out how not to fuck it up, I'm gonna do coloured pasta for pasta salad.
My mum is gonna bring potatoe salad because that's the rule.
Last year we did cat ear headbands instead of party hats. This year I'll likely do same only unicorn horns
I hope everyone that has colds feels better! 'Tis the season, I suppose, but colds suck.
It sounds really terrible, but honestly I think I've learned a lot about music and music history from them. It's pretty decent criticism coached in some comedy. I've only listened to my favorite bands so far: U2, RHCP (which actually has made me question if I'm going to keep listening to them, I didn't know some of the sexual history issues), NIN, and I started Madonna, but didn't finish it. I just pick who I want to hear about, rather than in order. I just did Rage since I'm thinking about them now b/c of tickets.
ETA: it's Tyler Mahan Coe (good) and Mark Mosley (okay)
I also love Switched on Pop for a similar vein of podcast, but it's not about "sucking" all the time. It's a musicologist and someone else I can't recall, who discuss pop music and it's place in society, structure, history, etc. It can be fascinating too. They went off on Post Malone the other day and I was laughing so hard I had to pause it. "He said he has so many songs he can't remember them all. I don't think he's lying, listen to this" and plays 2 songs where the hooks have the exact.same.melody. I mean 100%, totally the same, just with different words.
Saturday was busy with DDs pictures (she did great and it was hard to narrow down which ones we wanted!), making meatballs, going to church and then SILs birthday dinner. Sunday was busy too, we busted out getting all of the wiring AND the ceiling fan up in our bedroom (for DDs room this was split into 2 days!). All H has to do is hook up the wiring for the fan into the junction box in the attic this week and we will have a working fan!
Monday, I was at a chocolate place for over an hour just trying to get H his Valentine's gift! The place I wanted to go closed in Nov - how did I not hear? And then I went to the next option and was there so long! I also forgot to pick a number when I walked in, so I think a few people got in front of me too. I left that place at 2:15, but also had a meeting at 2 PM! Whoops! The legal gods were smiling upon me as I made all but one red light back to the office! I got back in 7 minutes flat, which was a pretty incredible feat based on where I was coming/going to! Thankfully, they were fine with me getting to the meeting 20 some minutes late! Yesterday, I went to a local ravioli place and picked up some of their heart shaped ones. I just wish they used red pasta for them! I am now all set for Valentine's Day for H, DD and our dinner in.
At the chocolate place, I did see the cutest thing where this older gentleman brought in his heart shaped box to be refilled (which I will do next year to save from paying for the box again!). But he had a list of all his wife's favorite chocolates to complete his order. One person commented to him and he said he's been bringing back the same box to be refilled for 20 years!
Tonight, I think H and I are planning to wash the dogs. They are getting stinky!
I am seeing Vampire Weekend (yes my tastes are pretty broad) in June and I love them. I’ve seen them 3 times already and each time they’re fantastic. Sister and I for really good seats and I won’t be super pregnant yet.
The new tenant who moved in mid-Dec. to the first unit we had renovated (from the two duplexes were rehabbing) has already turned into a cluster, smh. She did have a couple "light" red flags. She's primarily a "gig" worker, mainly with Uber/Lyft. Credit was not great, but there was a legit good reason. She did pay first, last, and security, due to her being a higher risk. In my area, it's usually just first month's and security.
Her rent is due on the 15th and she is set-up on autopay. So Jan. 15th rolls around and her payment fails. She's so sorry. She had an auto-deposit that hit late and then her bank put a 7-14 day hold on it (only 10 days at most, left). She'll also do extra Uber'ing and can have it in about a week, even with just the Uber'ing. I don't want to get too much into her business, but she can also supposedly do a draw from elsewhere and she's going to do that, if it is faster. I'm good with all that. Except then two weeks go by and I still have nothing.
I contact her again. No real explanation for what happened. But the gist I get is she doesn't Uber as much as she likes to think she can because of inconsistent childcare. And that ability to take draws wasn't the guarantee she thought it was. None of this was really said to me directly. But I was reading between the lines from the "positives" she told me of what she is doing to correct the problem. I post a 5-Day Pay or Quit notice. She coughs up about half the rent. Sends me a text on Mon. that her draw is a done deal. She'll have it tomorrow (Tues.) and will get caught up. Then she sends me a text late yesterday that there has been a "snag" she is still working on and is also pursuing "other avenues" to get things taken care of.
I've been really understanding, so far. Especially because I do have her last month's rent and security. And still am! However, I was more blunt and told her to keep me informed of what is happening and her timelines. But February's rent is due on Sat. and she still hasn't paid all of Jan. So I can't give her more than a few days to at least finish paying for Jan.
And, I guess what I also find alarming is, even if she pulls it out of the fire for Jan. Now it's Feb. WTF? Why couldn't she pay Jan.'s rent to begin with? And how is any other month going to be different?
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The latest unit we are rehabbing ended up needing the bathtub replaced (sigh). We were NOT expecting that. It was discovered yesterday that the whole area around it is almost rotted out from water intrusion. Funny enough, not from the bathtub, but from the bad roof that should have been replaced years ago. While, overall, that sucks. It's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I've always assumed it would be about $3K to replace a basic bathtub...most of that labor. But, since we have our own peeps over there for the rehab anyway, it will be less than $1K. The work will also take less than two days and they actually already took care of most of it yesterday.
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The property taxes for all my properties have been looming over my head. They are due on Friday and will be a total of about $6K. While I earmark it on "paper" for expense/profit purposes, most years I just cash flow it from 1-2 months ahead of time and then, if needed, "borrow" the rest from my Home Equity Line of Credit. But, this year, all the rehabbing is an extra twist. Plus the total taxes due are higher because I didn't have the two duplexes last year. I keep figuring and re-figuring out and shuffling as much as I can to minimize the "damage" to my HELOC balance, lol. But there is no getting around that it will be a harder hit to it from property taxes than in the past.