That was quick

He moved in for a week and has already moved out. He said it wasn’t comfortable living in MY house. (Funny how we bought the house together) He says he is living at his parents’ house but I suspect he is with Ju-Ju more than he admits to (he says they are friends). He tried to blame me for his being homeless. His argument for this is that if I would allow Ju-Ju to be in the car when he comes to get or drop off the kids, then his relationship with her would be fine. I just feel strongly that I should not walk out of my house and see her skanky face. Future girlfriends of his won’t have the baggage of emotions that I have about Ju-Ju. We had problems before she came into his life but I think we would have stood a chance to get through them without her meddling in his life. We will never know but I am allowed and entitled to feel the way I do. I have asked very little out of him and this is the one thing I feel strongly about. I know I have no say about where else he takes her. Technically I don’t have a say in this, she can sit in his car on a public street and I can’t do a thing about it, except to rescind all the high levels of cooperation he gets from me.

I have found the color I’m painting my bedroom, a beautiful lavender. I need to figure out how much I can afford to do this Saturday. I don’t get paid until Monday and of course since the month isn’t over, child support isn’t in either. But I’m looking forward to the color on the walls. I think with the green accessories throughout the room, it will be beautiful.

MIA

No I didn’t disappear off of the face of the Earth.  With the new job, I just don’t have the time at work to cruise the internet like I did at my old job.  But I do like having the new challenges.  I’m enjoying it and think I can make this job a good one.  I’m being trained by the outgoing Director of Accounting.  She is bitter about many things but I’m also wondering how much of her troubles were of her making.  She comes across as someone who was overly strict to the point of almost abusive. 

I have good employees, with the exception of one.  On the Thursday of her full first week of work, she had been late to work 3 days of the 4 (by late I mean at least 15 minutes, I’m not talking a couple of minutes late).    I keep walking in and finding her on the cell phone or on personal emails.  Now I’m the first to say that sometimes I’m on my phone or check personal email, but not to the excessive amounts I’m seeing in her and I’m hearing about from others.  Then she has gotten confrontational with some of the supervisors in the company.  This is just too many problems from someone in two weeks of being on her job.  I would have let her go on Thursday but I need to make sure the people who back up her work are going to be present while I hire a new person.

My mother’s house is coming along very quickly.  In the two weeks since they started, it is weathered in, has drywall up on the walls and is ready for the siding to go on the outside this next week, taped, mudded and painted and for the floors to go in.  She will be able to move in the house in about 3 weeks.  Her builder has been absolutely amazing. 

I got a lovely hutch for my living room, although we broke off a door in the moving it.  I think I can fix it easily.  It has a nice little distressed look and beadboard back and sides.  I am a sucker for beadboard.  When I finish out my island, it will be done with a beadboard look to it as well.  For a little old house like mine, beadboard is a natural. 

Otherwise life is going along real normal like.

My new fridge

Ok if you are here to read some great deep thoughts, it ain’t happening in this post.  This is a very domesticated post.

I got my new to me fridge.  The good news is I got it for about $200 cheaper than I would have gotten a very brand new one, plus it is the Clean Steel look, which would have been a lot more than the $200+ I saved.  It is in good shape.  All of the feature work, although the ice maker is slow to fill up the bin.  But a couple of days and we will be in good shape.  I love a nice clean fridge.  Let’s hope I can keep this one clean.

The only downside is that it has deep scratches on the front and based on my research there is no way to touch it up.  Most of it isn’t too noticeable and I certainly can live with it but I’m sad about it.

The other downside was that they had a can of coffee grounds in there and it definitely smelled of coffee.  Then we forgot to remove the open can before moving it, so I got the pleasure of vaccuuming out a fridge.  That was fun.  Not.  And I’m anxious for the smell to be gone.  I had to replace the filter just to get the taste out of the water.

I have cleaned out the old fridge (I had gone too long between cleanings) and it is waiting for the ex to move it to the garage.  He says he wants it when he moves in a few months.  Personally I think he is a fool to take it, it is will still be an old fridge waiting to die.