It figures that once we undertook the financial burden of purchasing a new shed that this would happen: my washer decided, after eight years of dutiful service (or as we like to call it: abuse), to up and go kaput late Sunday night. At some point while I was washing a load of darks the transmission went out and the drum stopped spinning. The result was a soaking soapy load of unrinsed and unspun clothes at the bottom of my washer at 10:00 PM. I had to take shirts covered in a thin film of soap and wring them out by hand before putting them in the dryer. The jeans had to be laid out on the lawn furniture to dry, since we'd taken down our laundry line a few years ago. That will be remedied this weekend, since we decided we could save a little electricity (and save wear on the appliances) by line-drying some of our clothes on the weekends. It'll have the added bonus of giving us Green-Trend cred - now we can be haughty and superior about the fact that we carpool, recycle (sort of), and use energy saving measures and so should you oh won't you think of the polar bears and save the whales and blah blah blah. But I refuse to buy into the Hybrid mentality. But anyway...yesterday evening after work a couple of my husband's coworkers met us at the hardware and building supply mega store and helped us haul and install our new washing machine and send the old broken one to the curb. Where it sits waiting for some poor sap...I mean thrifty handyman type to take it off of our hands. There were some complications in installing the new machine - a bad electrical outlet that had to be switched out and a couple of leaky water lines - but it went pretty quickly. Then we all went out to dinner, where we ended up talking about work a lot more than we should have.
Speaking of which...I was just assigned a project by a manager who could have - and should have - been thinking about this for several months. And they need it done by Friday. Of course. If they had set up a new account as they were supposed to have done before the summer this wouldn't be a problem (the manager asked to be allowed to take care of this and totally dropped the ball). There's a chance that very very soon this won't be my problem anymore...I'll just have a new set of problems. In which case, goodbye frying pan...hello fryer. Although, there's an equal chance that what I'm being told is in the works (and is to be implemented within 30 days) is a no-go, because now my boss seems to be having second thoughts about something that was supposedly his idea from the beginning. So great - now maybe I'll get to be some kind of pawn in a politically motivated game of tug-of-war. If bickering over me nets me higher value to either party, I'll just stand back and watch the fireworks. (*BOOM* Oooooh. :kablam: Aaaaaah!)
There's a story on CNN.com about Christian Bale *maybe* having been arrested for assualting his mother and sister at a London hotel on Sunday - the day before The Dark Knight was to premier in Europe. But it's unconfirmed. And he attended the premier yesterday. So lets hope this bit of potential scandal is unfounded accusation and media rumor-mongering as part of the incredible hype surrounding this movie.
2 comments:
sadly, I read that his mother and sistetr want a share in his profits (like they fucking deserve it) and got into a fight with him. the report noted that THEY decked him and are trying to sue him for emotional damages.
I hope he buries them in a public plot where we can all go shred them to bits. I'm not a fan of his eyeballs, but hes too good an actor to be smeared like this. he ain't no russell crowe with a telephone, shit.
As soon as I had read the first reports I felt there was something not entirely right about the whole thing. Families can be a pain in the ass sometimes - just add money and the acrimony and drama get magnified a hundredfold.
He's a good actor, and seems to come off as being a pretty decent human being (so rare for a "celebrity" these days).
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