Weekly Update 8/7/11

Another week has come and gone...with not much going on. Where did the summer go? Annie left me again. Just when I think things are going well she up and leaves me. Thankfully it's just for a vacation and my grandfather's memorial service. Annie surprised her mom by flying in on Thursday at 11 PM. To set up the surprise, her Aunt Mindy called and asked Lisa and me to pick up Megan (Annie's cousin) at the airport at 11 PM. Megan was supposed to be flying down to take her state test for being a beautician. Jon and Lisa were a little late due to traffic, and so they pulled to the curb, and Jon declared, "there she is!" Lisa looked everywhere but couldn't find Megan. Annie almost opened the door before Lisa recognized her...and then the squealing commenced. From what I heard, the squeals of excitement between snorts of joy sounded much like a scene of Charlotte's Web.

Annie has only initiated contact with me once since she left on Thursday. Anne called me just to ask if we could change the name of our blog to "Freckles Meets Sasquatch". I love it! (I'm not even kidding!) Oh how I love that girl. She also said she misses getting her fingers tangled in the vast expanse of my fur. There's no quicker way to a man's heart than to feed him well, have regularly scheduled make outs, and to love his fur regardless of quantity or location. I'm flat up twitterpated.

My landlord hired me to build a deck on one of his houses. It'll contribute to a good chunk of the downpayment we need for my Queen's castle.He is absolutely shocked at how fast I'm throwing this thing together. He had the inspector come out and do the plate and hole inspection. While there, my landlord asked the inspector about roughly 7 million things I'd told him about the deck building process. The inspector was was apparently really impressed with my knowledge and tendency to way overbuild everything. I'd argue it's better to overbuild than underbuild. The deck is about 12 feet up in the air and we have to be careful because the squirrels up in the trees throw acorns at us if we are too noisy. It's so hot during the day that we start after dinner and work with artificial lights until 11pm. I'm sure the neighbors just love all the light and noise. We don't have a truck so we make frequent trips to Home Depot. Did you know a Honda Civic can hold 13 bags of 80lb concrete plus a 240lb driver? Neither did I. Did you know you can fit 16ft 2x10s in the back of a Subaru? Neither did I. Don't think it's possible? Here's proof. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqB00psSbS8. I had to lay on top to keep them from dragging on the ground. On a subsequent load we put some on top too. We got a lot of funny looks and a lot of really mad drivers as we could only go like 10 mph. Luckily...not cops. Try explaining that one. "But officer, the seat belt just wouldn't reach." It really didn't...we tried.