Need a break...

This week has been very busy. I didn't get paid because there is a new guy handling the freelance invoices and...well, obviously he's a jackass and doesn't send the invoices onto a/p on time. Bad timing with rent, 90% of the bills due and Sky's birthday. This made for living on the credit card, which still to this day I do not know why in hell they gave me one again. My hope, of course, is to get caught up on checks and pay the money back to the credit card but with Mr.Jackass in charge now, who knows if that will happen...he can't even email me back most of the time. This also doesn't make me feel a whole lot like working but work is overflowing and I don't have a choice.

Skylar got a new backyard pool for his birthday and it proved to be quite a task with a sloping backyard. Looks fine here, start filling. No, it's leaning. Move it here, start filling. No, leaning more. Let's try here. No. Argue a bit. Fuck it, fill it up and we take our chances. Half way filled, no way, will definitely collapse. Go buy sand and use a big piece of wood to level out the bottom. Now this side is leaning. Jesus! Ok, let's level out the top by digging in 90 degree & humid weather. Fun. After 3 days of fucking with this, we did get it working with a slight lean but the top looks round finally. Tested it out without filter and chlorine but three 7 yr olds in it and it held up. Putting any pressure on the edge will most definitely cause a surprise water ride into the neighbors' yards but it's working and that's what counts. Plus side is it's big enough for adults! Accident prone Ed? We'll see.

We are pet sitting for Sue & Ryan who went to, of all places, Portland. The 4 kitties are no problem and are all super sweet. They rescued a dog from the park 2 weeks ago and this would be a piece of cake except for this dog is nuts around other dogs. Not nuts like Kali where she flips out wanting to play with other dogs...this dog acts like it wants to eat other dogs and barks like crazy. This makes for a 2 part dog walk. Walk Kali the normal route and say hi to Kari then come back and walk Kilgore Trout (I just call her "Troutsie" to make it easier on both of us) a different route where she will not come in contact with other dogs or people on bikes or lawnmowers or just people in general. She's really sweet though in the house and just chills or follows me around. I made a mistake and played their DDR because, well I can't resist DDR just sitting there not being played. After 2 rounds, I had wiped out their 2 top scores and gotten scores on songs they hadn't. I hope they are not pissed.

We are going camping tomorrow for Sky's birthday...cheaper than having a party. Mary Jo & Keith are going too and bringing Jonah so it should be fun. Hopefully this time, we will actually make it. I'll let you know. Sky got a new bike from grandpa so he gets to test it out. It's a BMX racing bike. He had outgrown his old one (again...damn kids and growing, what's up with that?) and the neighbor kids were starting to make fun of him.