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tommyboy said:
just going to vent for a second.

i've reached my limit of patience. i work about 60-70 hrs a week.  I have 4 kids, i'm busy.  Since December i've had a crew tearing up my house and adding on to it.  They built me a new 3 car garage with a 2nd floor with 3 bedrooms, bath, and bonus room.   Job should have been done in May, but the foreman was a ##### and got fired.    Owner takes over job and it finally is done as of yesterday.

During the last 3 months, i've been getting multiple calls per day from wife complaining about "things" that weren't done correctly or not done at all, regarding the remodel.   I finally grew so frustrated I just said, "write a list and email it to me".   Which I'd just forward to the owner.   Not sure why she couldn't do that directly but i'm happy to be the middle man.  Meanwhile, my house has been a disorganized crap hole for months.   Kids are now out of school and the mess level is at 11.   

Last night, i come home, every room in the house is a shambles.  Kids are ####### off, doing kid stuff.  No dinner in sight.   I just finished working from 7AM to 6:40 PM, i'm tired and now that i'm home, grumpy.   I hold my tongue.    After dinner, wife tells me she wants some "movie time" which is code speak for laying the pipe.  Now i'm in a better mood.   Around 9PM the 6 yr old needs to go to bed, so wife takes care of that, I clean up.  About 10PM, wife hops in the bath, game  will soon be on.   Meanwhile my 14 yr old girl has one of her neighborhood girlfriends spending the night.  They are downstairs in the kitchen screwing around.   I go up to our bedroom and wait for momma to finish her bath.  Its been 2 wks, i've been out of town.

wife comes out, dressed up, game on.   About to get it on and all of a sudden hear a herd of elephants tromping around in the kitchen.  Wife freaks out, so I go downstairs and tell the girls "be quiet".  Go back upstairs and about to be go time and then wife starts riffing about all the cleaning she has to do.   I'm like "werrrp, werrpp, werrp"   went from 60MPH to 0MPH in 5 seconds.  Just lost it.   Blew off the wife and went downstairs, its now 11PM and the girls are down in the kitchen making a mess and making a lot of noise.  I yell at them and go to the basement, watch some tv and pass out on the couch.   Wake up at 1:30AM with a shearing pain in my shoulder, so go upstairs pop 4 advil and go back to sleep.  Wake up this monring, pain is still horrible.    

I just want to go home, have my house be clean, have some privacy with wife and have things be like they used to be.  I just spent over 200K on this ####### addition and my life is now worse than it was 7 months ago.   If i'd known it was going to be such a ####### hassle, i'd have just bought a vacation home somewhere.   

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I feel your pain, brother.  Have a drink.

 
Didn't eat dinner.  Two flights tonight with first class updgrade.  Much Tito's consumption.

Ask me anything.

 
tommyboy said:
just going to vent for a second.

i've reached my limit of patience. i work about 60-70 hrs a week.  I have 4 kids, i'm busy.  Since December i've had a crew tearing up my house and adding on to it.  They built me a new 3 car garage with a 2nd floor with 3 bedrooms, bath, and bonus room.   Job should have been done in May, but the foreman was a ##### and got fired.    Owner takes over job and it finally is done as of yesterday.

During the last 3 months, i've been getting multiple calls per day from wife complaining about "things" that weren't done correctly or not done at all, regarding the remodel.   I finally grew so frustrated I just said, "write a list and email it to me".   Which I'd just forward to the owner.   Not sure why she couldn't do that directly but i'm happy to be the middle man.  Meanwhile, my house has been a disorganized crap hole for months.   Kids are now out of school and the mess level is at 11.   

Last night, i come home, every room in the house is a shambles.  Kids are ####### off, doing kid stuff.  No dinner in sight.   I just finished working from 7AM to 6:40 PM, i'm tired and now that i'm home, grumpy.   I hold my tongue.    After dinner, wife tells me she wants some "movie time" which is code speak for laying the pipe.  Now i'm in a better mood.   Around 9PM the 6 yr old needs to go to bed, so wife takes care of that, I clean up.  About 10PM, wife hops in the bath, game  will soon be on.   Meanwhile my 14 yr old girl has one of her neighborhood girlfriends spending the night.  They are downstairs in the kitchen screwing around.   I go up to our bedroom and wait for momma to finish her bath.  Its been 2 wks, i've been out of town.

wife comes out, dressed up, game on.   About to get it on and all of a sudden hear a herd of elephants tromping around in the kitchen.  Wife freaks out, so I go downstairs and tell the girls "be quiet".  Go back upstairs and about to be go time and then wife starts riffing about all the cleaning she has to do.   I'm like "werrrp, werrpp, werrp"   went from 60MPH to 0MPH in 5 seconds.  Just lost it.   Blew off the wife and went downstairs, its now 11PM and the girls are down in the kitchen making a mess and making a lot of noise.  I yell at them and go to the basement, watch some tv and pass out on the couch.   Wake up at 1:30AM with a shearing pain in my shoulder, so go upstairs pop 4 advil and go back to sleep.  Wake up this monring, pain is still horrible.    

I just want to go home, have my house be clean, have some privacy with wife and have things be like they used to be.  I just spent over 200K on this ####### addition and my life is now worse than it was 7 months ago.   If i'd known it was going to be such a ####### hassle, i'd have just bought a vacation home somewhere.   

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Rough dude, I'll have my wife translate to the handicapped guys I see later begging for 5 cents that times are tough all over.

 
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krista4 said:
Did you do the slow introduction?  Can't just throw them in there together right away.
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Yeah, not our first time.  Brought Zoe in her carrier and put her in front of Murray just hoping it would be MAGIC.  Nope.  Murray not happy.  So Zoe chilling in the guest room for at least a few nights.  Murray's actually decided to camp out in front of that door all night so far.  No freaking out, no hissing, but he damn well knows there's a kitty in there.

 
And I think Lucky, the fat orange *******, was the one who took a dump in the dog's bed.  I questioned all 3 cats but nobody would cop to.  I suspect lardass because the dog bed is 20 feet closer to his wallowing spot than the litter box.

 
Oh, speaking of which, did I mention we got a new kitty, too?  A "friend" caught a cat who had been eating potatoes out of her garden.  Told it was a three-month-old male kitty, we agreed to take him in to play with our young male kitty (and we couldn't take in a female because our female cat HATES other girls).  Sure enough, he turned out to be a three-YEAR-old female instead.

Whatever, we love her.  She is definitely not good at catting, though, and is just trying to learn from the others.  Here she is trying to figure out how to drink out of the sink, but not quite getting it yet.

 
krista4 said:
Oh, speaking of which, did I mention we got a new kitty, too?  A "friend" caught a cat who had been eating potatoes out of her garden.  Told it was a three-month-old male kitty, we agreed to take him in to play with our young male kitty (and we couldn't take in a female because our female cat HATES other girls).  Sure enough, he turned out to be a three-YEAR-old female instead.

Whatever, we love her.  She is definitely not good at catting, though, and is just trying to learn from the others.  Here she is trying to figure out how to drink out of the sink, but not quite getting it yet.
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Even dozen?

 
krista4 said:
Oh, speaking of which, did I mention we got a new kitty, too?  A "friend" caught a cat who had been eating potatoes out of her garden.  Told it was a three-month-old male kitty, we agreed to take him in to play with our young male kitty (and we couldn't take in a female because our female cat HATES other girls).  Sure enough, he turned out to be a three-YEAR-old female instead.
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First house we bought, an alley cat came with the house. People we bought from said her name was "Amanda". Cat was matted, huge, black & white snarly wild animal.

First time I tried to pet her she sank her teeth into my hand and locked her jaw like a pit bull. Then i used my work gloves. I started feeding her on the back porch and she'd come up and scratch my hands as I was putting the bowl down. 

Eventually she mellowed out and I could pet her and hold her. That took months. 

She would come like a dog when you went outside and yelled her name. She also chased dogs 5 times her size away. I once saw her square up a raccoon on the back porch, protecting her food bowl.

She got old and started drooling so finally I took her to the vet. This cat never saw the inside of a building in her life.

At the vet, they call me in to the exam room and say "what did you say her name was?"

Amanda

"Well, Amanda is a neutered male".

She's buried in the yard now. Only cat I ever adored.

 
tommyboy said:
First house we bought, an alley cat came with the house. People we bought from said her name was "Amanda". Cat was matted, huge, black & white snarly wild animal.

First time I tried to pet her she sank her teeth into my hand and locked her jaw like a pit bull. Then i used my work gloves. I started feeding her on the back porch and she'd come up and scratch my hands as I was putting the bowl down. 

Eventually she mellowed out and I could pet her and hold her. That took months. 

She would come like a dog when you went outside and yelled her name. She also chased dogs 5 times her size away. I once saw her square up a raccoon on the back porch, protecting her food bowl.

She got old and started drooling so finally I took her to the vet. This cat never saw the inside of a building in her life.

At the vet, they call me in to the exam room and say "what did you say her name was?"

Amanda

"Well, Amanda is a neutered male".

She's buried in the yard now. Only cat I ever adored.
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:lmao:  

 
I think I've told this family legend before but...

When I was about 3 years old I convinced my parents to take in this little black stray that was hanging around the house.  I insisted she be called "Jenny" apparently after a kitten in some picture-book.

Of course Jenny grows up to be a big, mean tomcat.  My dad would later describe him as "nasty SOB".  When Jenny was hungry he would wait until my mom went into the kitchen and bite her ankles until she fed him.

Then one day Jenny disappeared.  He was never neutered because you didn't even want try to to pick him up let alone transport him to the vet.  My parents figured he took off like toms usually do.  They assumed he probably was hit by a car or whatever.

About 3 months later my dad opens the door to go to work and Jenny runs in the house, into the kitchen, and bites my mom on the ankle.

 
Morning, folks :coffee:

Been on a roll this a.m. Got all of the cabinets in my kitchen and mud room reorganized. Does anyone need any kitchen garbage bags? I found two boxes of 90/each I didn't know I had :bag:  That's like a 3 year supply for me :bag: :bag:

 
After all my complaining about how awful our Presidential choices are this year in the FFA, it probably doesn't take a genius to figure out the hidden meaning in my dream last night of me punching a bald eagle in the face.

 
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