Free to a Good Home
Anyone want a 17 year old and 48 year old, both males? No? Not even for just a week maybe? Please? I'll throw in a bottle of wine.
Simon has been given an opportunity to earn money for projects around the house and yard this summer. (Enough projects that would actually pay for getting his car fixed and back on the road.) Steve and I wrote the list last weekend. So this is the first weekend Simon's really had a chance to tackle any of the tasks. I'll spare you the details but it's caused me so much stress today, that after a lengthy discussion between Simon and me this morning, he and I decided to take mowing the lawn off the list. Steve will do it, as he always has. Simon has mowed the lawn the last two weekends - but has decided it's too much work. So there goes pretty much guaranteed weekly income for him. Bonehead.
He did accomplish one other task on the list today. Sort of. He drained the hot tub so he could replace the existing light bulb with a flashing bulb (or whatever it is) that Steve bought. Turns out he can't get the old one out because he can't remove the fixture because there's too much insulation on the inside. Something like that. I saw it but it's hard to explain. It's supposed to be do-able but isn't. We're going to sell the light on eBay.
In refilling the tub, Simon was so wrapped up in his computer games and whooping and hollering on the phone with his friends, that the tub overflowed. Steve noticed it from his basement office, as the water leaked through the deck. Steve came up, saw what was happening and ran and turned the hose off. I proceeded to lose my shit at Simon. Jeez Louise, child!
Simon fixed the level of the water. I told Steve he is in no way paying Simon the full price we promised him for that task. I removed the list of chores from Simon's room and threw it away. Until I calm down or something, he's lost that opportunity. His car can rot in our driveway, as far as I'm concerned. I'm sick of trying to guide, educate and assist this kid. I'm sick of roller coaster good/bad attitudes. Let him figure stuff out for himself. Teenagers. Hmmph.
Can anyone tell me about putting his car insurance on hold until he gets the car fixed? For a couple of months. Like people do with motorcycles for the winter? Could I do that? I was going to email my insurance agent but thought I'd ask here while it's on my mind.
(Simon, I'm happy to report, is getting a few more hours/week at his job. Not enough in my mind, but I'm trying to be patient until school is out in another few weeks and see what changes that brings.)
That brings us to Steve.
Last night we went to Steve's brother's house for Steve's niece's college graduation party. In talking with Steve's mom I learned that her brother, Steve's uncle, had prostate cancer surgery recently. It looks like he'll be okay - but Steve never told me about it! This is the uncle we stay with in the Adirondacks and spend time with at Christmas. Man. I'm going to send him a card now - with only my name on it. Hmmph.
I also learned on the way home, once again from Steve's mom, that his sister will be arriving for her summer visit in July 2. That's not surprising that he wouldn't think to tell me that, but I'm PO'd about him not telling me about his uncle's cancer. I know he doesn't do this stuff intentionally but it can't help but feel to me that he's so self-absorbed that he thinks of no one but himself, least of all me. I know, with 100% certainty, that's not true. Just feels that way sometimes.
So yeah, today these two characters are not high on my list of favorite people.
Simon just came in and said, "I'm sorry I'm not the son you wish I was."
Stefani: Well, today you're certainly not.
Simon: I guess I'll just go to bed.
Now before you go all "awww" on me, get over it. He was pulling that on purpose, probably trying to get a laugh out of me by being overly pitiful. Guess I told him, huh? We're talking, things are fine - I'm just really disappointed in all this stuff. We had a major discussion this morning about all this stuff, then he just keeps screwing up. I reached my limit.
So the good news. Yes, some good news showed up at the end of my day! Steve and I took Reggi for a walk after dinner. We walked along the canal and on the way back, Steve found a cell phone on the path. We debated leaving it there in case the person came back looking for it but ultimately decided to take it with us and figure out who it belonged to and/or wait for the owner to call. (We were going to go all CSI about it and run the epithelials through the lab, but decided to just wait for the guy to call us.)
The cell phone owner called his phone just as we got home and came over to pick it up. He gave us a bottle of wine for our good deed! This little Random Act of Kindness exchange was the nicest thing that happened to me all day.
I worked on the PTD website - finished some new sale pages. As these things usually go, the more I do, the more I want to do - so I'm probably going to redo all the pages. They will look the same, just rearrange the content.
Here are the pages I finished today. I uploaded them but have not linked them to anything on the PTD website, so here is the only place you'll find them for now. I'll do that all at once tomorrow. Feel free to place orders! :-)
This is stuff I had at Celebration Gifts but will not be restocking - when it's gone, it's gone.
Blue Turtle Studio Magnets
Greeting Place Magnets
Greeting Place Cards
Pop-Up Cards
Simon has been given an opportunity to earn money for projects around the house and yard this summer. (Enough projects that would actually pay for getting his car fixed and back on the road.) Steve and I wrote the list last weekend. So this is the first weekend Simon's really had a chance to tackle any of the tasks. I'll spare you the details but it's caused me so much stress today, that after a lengthy discussion between Simon and me this morning, he and I decided to take mowing the lawn off the list. Steve will do it, as he always has. Simon has mowed the lawn the last two weekends - but has decided it's too much work. So there goes pretty much guaranteed weekly income for him. Bonehead.
He did accomplish one other task on the list today. Sort of. He drained the hot tub so he could replace the existing light bulb with a flashing bulb (or whatever it is) that Steve bought. Turns out he can't get the old one out because he can't remove the fixture because there's too much insulation on the inside. Something like that. I saw it but it's hard to explain. It's supposed to be do-able but isn't. We're going to sell the light on eBay.
In refilling the tub, Simon was so wrapped up in his computer games and whooping and hollering on the phone with his friends, that the tub overflowed. Steve noticed it from his basement office, as the water leaked through the deck. Steve came up, saw what was happening and ran and turned the hose off. I proceeded to lose my shit at Simon. Jeez Louise, child!
Simon fixed the level of the water. I told Steve he is in no way paying Simon the full price we promised him for that task. I removed the list of chores from Simon's room and threw it away. Until I calm down or something, he's lost that opportunity. His car can rot in our driveway, as far as I'm concerned. I'm sick of trying to guide, educate and assist this kid. I'm sick of roller coaster good/bad attitudes. Let him figure stuff out for himself. Teenagers. Hmmph.
Can anyone tell me about putting his car insurance on hold until he gets the car fixed? For a couple of months. Like people do with motorcycles for the winter? Could I do that? I was going to email my insurance agent but thought I'd ask here while it's on my mind.
(Simon, I'm happy to report, is getting a few more hours/week at his job. Not enough in my mind, but I'm trying to be patient until school is out in another few weeks and see what changes that brings.)
That brings us to Steve.
Last night we went to Steve's brother's house for Steve's niece's college graduation party. In talking with Steve's mom I learned that her brother, Steve's uncle, had prostate cancer surgery recently. It looks like he'll be okay - but Steve never told me about it! This is the uncle we stay with in the Adirondacks and spend time with at Christmas. Man. I'm going to send him a card now - with only my name on it. Hmmph.
I also learned on the way home, once again from Steve's mom, that his sister will be arriving for her summer visit in July 2. That's not surprising that he wouldn't think to tell me that, but I'm PO'd about him not telling me about his uncle's cancer. I know he doesn't do this stuff intentionally but it can't help but feel to me that he's so self-absorbed that he thinks of no one but himself, least of all me. I know, with 100% certainty, that's not true. Just feels that way sometimes.
So yeah, today these two characters are not high on my list of favorite people.
Simon just came in and said, "I'm sorry I'm not the son you wish I was."
Stefani: Well, today you're certainly not.
Simon: I guess I'll just go to bed.
Now before you go all "awww" on me, get over it. He was pulling that on purpose, probably trying to get a laugh out of me by being overly pitiful. Guess I told him, huh? We're talking, things are fine - I'm just really disappointed in all this stuff. We had a major discussion this morning about all this stuff, then he just keeps screwing up. I reached my limit.
So the good news. Yes, some good news showed up at the end of my day! Steve and I took Reggi for a walk after dinner. We walked along the canal and on the way back, Steve found a cell phone on the path. We debated leaving it there in case the person came back looking for it but ultimately decided to take it with us and figure out who it belonged to and/or wait for the owner to call. (We were going to go all CSI about it and run the epithelials through the lab, but decided to just wait for the guy to call us.)
The cell phone owner called his phone just as we got home and came over to pick it up. He gave us a bottle of wine for our good deed! This little Random Act of Kindness exchange was the nicest thing that happened to me all day.
I worked on the PTD website - finished some new sale pages. As these things usually go, the more I do, the more I want to do - so I'm probably going to redo all the pages. They will look the same, just rearrange the content.
Here are the pages I finished today. I uploaded them but have not linked them to anything on the PTD website, so here is the only place you'll find them for now. I'll do that all at once tomorrow. Feel free to place orders! :-)
This is stuff I had at Celebration Gifts but will not be restocking - when it's gone, it's gone.
Blue Turtle Studio Magnets
Greeting Place Magnets
Greeting Place Cards
Pop-Up Cards
posted by Stefani at 10:32 PM
5 Comments:
Yes, you can put the insurance on hold. At least with State Farm we could. Had similar situations twice and did that. I can't remember what we had to prove to them or if we had to give the license plate while it was uninsured, but we did it. Good luck!
Must be a gene in males set to aggravate women. :-)
If you find any takers for your humans, ask if they want a couple of mine, too. :-/
You may want to check with the DMV about what to do during the time the car is uninsured.
My youngest (just turned 20) commented recently that he felt he had grown up a lot this year -- "gone from being 15 to being more like 25" is the way he expressed it. I agreed with him that he certainly has grown up a lot recently and added that he has definitely left being 15 behind, although I wasn't quite sure that he had hit 25. *grin*
I'll keep my 15-year-old -- he's a winner! I taught him to use the chain saw and cut some low-hanging branches that was making mowing difficult. Then he got the industrial-strength weed-wacker and wacked all the undergrowth. He did a great job mowing the lawn (sure, I followed him around as he did the trim to make sure he did it all, but hey, he did it!). Best of all, he put everything away when he was done. He's a keeper! (And no, I don't need a spare)
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