Fun and Frolic With Long-Term Love

I said this to PunkRock last night. When you adopt an older child, it’s drilled into you that once you sign the papers, the kid is yours forever. And you think, duh, that’s what I want. I want a child to be mine for always! But what your brain fails to comprehend is that it’s FOREVER. The issues and problems that caused them to come into foster care never go away. Love does not cure all wounds. It does A LOT, but it doesn’t heal everything. It can’t. You can’t. So when you sign those papers, it means you are agreeing to permanently have your heart walk around outside of your body. You are signing up for pain, for the rest of your life.

But maybe that is parenthood in general.

Because I also signed up for the joy, and I have been given that in spades. Worth it.

My ex is blowing up my phone today, wanting to go off half cocked and beat the boyfriend’s face in. Thankfully, he doesn’t know our daughter’s address. (She moved this past spring.) I think I have him calmed down now - we are talking about all meeting up and approaching her as a group. Best friend, my ex, my youngest and my ex’s step mom. He suggested her, and I think she is the most level-headed, calm person I know, so I would welcome her presence. I am going to call some people today for advice.
 
So you want to do an intervention. I hope it works. But of course, it won't work if she's not ready to hear it.

I totally hope this is a glitch, a step back, a mistake, and your good parenting will prevail, and she'll regain her good senses and break up with that no good guy and get out of this mess!

Just let me tell you, even bio kids, even kids who are raised gently and respectfully, can get into drugs, or cults, or a bad crowd, making weird or terrible or careless choices. You just never know. A person will be who they are. Some kids that are raised in terrible circumstances rise above and go on to have happy successful creative lives, with good partners, and giving back to the community. Others who are raised wonderfully can have certain genes which cause them to be mentally ill and end up doing all sorts of things that horrify their parents, causing rifts or outright ends of the relationship. You just never know. We try to do our best. That's all we can do.
 
It’s just that she isn’t a kid! She’s freaking 28 next week. I can’t believe this. I feel ill.

Best friend just clarified that my daughter said she was doing acid, molly and shrooms. This sounds like a very slippery slope to me. God I hope that’s it. But this behavior is so off the rails for her.
 
Ok, so best friend went to her house and found baggies of heroin, a block and some other paraphernalia. She called me and then called the cops. I was livid as this does noone any good. I was right - the cops couldn’t do anything when they arrived because friend had no right to be in the home and while she was there, boyfriend showed up, flipped his shit and then managed to hide everything.

My daughter just so happened to call me coincidentally (yeah right) and then went ballistic when I told her the cops were at her house. This is somehow all my fault. I told her that I did not put heroin there, so she was mistaken that it was me who ruined her life.

She denies ever doing any drugs at all, but shut up when I mentioned that I was told by her bestie that wasn’t the case.

Her landlords gave her a 30 day eviction notice, so she then called me hysterically crying.

Then she texted me dead calm, saying that she was moving by Friday and it was a blessing because her landlord was giving her back $500 of her rent and all of her security deposit. I believe her plan is to live in her car.

I can’t even.

I am going to drive up tomorrow. She is at least talking to me.

However, DarkKnight’smom was hospitalized tonight with fluid in her lungs and a problem with a heart valve. She has already had a couple of open heart surgeries.

On top of all this my youngest has an appointment in the morning to go and register for college - we finished her financial aid earlier and she took her entrance exam today. So we will be leaving for New York after that. The plan is to try and do dinner with my ex and my suddenly homeless child.
 
I think it is safe to say that I have never been more depressed in my life. The sadness is pervasive, sunken in every nook and cranny.

I was excited and happy for the new year - my word and focus was going to be “transformation.” But that’s not it anymore. I am defeated 5 days in, and I find myself tearing up and parts of my soul are sour.

I am trying to focus on the positive with this entry. I am limited on time at the moment too, so this may end abruptly. Sorry.

My youngest was SUCH a support for me on our trip to New York. I feel I was connecting with her well. She was concerned for her sister but also listening and focused on the whys of what was happening. I love her so much, my little red-headed handful. She was amazing. She is all ready for her college to start on Monday, and she is optimistic about majoring in CyberSecurity. We had a very good discussion on break ups - she has decided her boyfriend isn’t working out and she’s worried about hurting his heart. At the same time, she is bursting with excitement over turning 21 at the end of the month, and we had time to go thrifting while up north, and she bought an absolute stunner of a sexy painted-on purple dress to wear for her first visit to a club.

We made the trip up to NY on Thursday and came home Friday night. She had taken the entire weekend off, in case our trip was longer. So today she came over in the morning to give her dad something else to focus on, other than his mom’s health struggles. They had a Doctor Who marathon (I bought DarkKnight a DVD of first season’s episodes for Christmas) and together they walked over to the nearby chinese restaurant for lunch. Yeah, our baby girl is great. <3

My mother in law is in a scary place. Currently she is on medication to dry out the fluid in her lungs and chest cavity. She is still in the hospital and will remain there indefinitely. The doctors have decided to reprogram her pacemaker on Monday. It involves surgery, but it isn’t clear to me how invasive that will be. She does have a heart valve that absolutely needs repair, but they say her heart is too weak for her to survive the operation. So that is out for now, but her life will not continue without the surgery either, so I am not at all sure what the game plan is currently. I guess the small steps one first - clear the fluid, fuss with the pacemaker - and then we will see what is next.

My own mom was overjoyed to have me in her apartment Thursday night. She had mailed down her iPad because it was having troubles, and I brought it back with me. So she was once again connected to everyone, and she was very grateful. It is clear that she needs a newer model - this is an iPad 3 and it’s so ancient that it can’t handle anymore updates! So my husbands and I will have to discuss budgeting for one for Mother’s Day, maybe.

She kept me up Thursday night until 2 am, just chattering away about anything and everything. Her loneliness was apparent. She told me she is ready to move in with me now, as soon as she pays off a loan she took out for my brother. This angered me first - she shouldn’t be compromising her finances for him and his drug issues! She says this is the second time she has had to do this for him and it just makes me see red. I was also alarmed that she wants to move in - I tried to steer the idea to getting a similar apartment in my city, one for retired elderly. I want her nearby, but my house is way too small for another adult! I would welcome her assistance with the Blessing Box though - she talked a lot about how she could help me. :) So that was nice.

I was really touched by the support the community gave me while I was gone for the two days! Volunteers lined up to come and check on the Box, and each one actually ended up coming multiple times to fill it up! Everyone remarked on how busy it was - why, they would put stuff inside and before they had time to leave, people would be on the porch and it would be stripped bare in a quick few minutes by back to back visitors. Lol No shit. Welcome to my world! I think it gave them all a glimpse of the need in our community. I don’t exaggerate my numbers at all. Anyway, it was really amazing to have helpers to keep things going while I wasn’t home.

Kudos to PunkRock too - when I finally awoke this morning, I was an emotional mess. He spent the entire day with me out of the house, helping me to focus on fun and not dwell on my depression. We had lunch together at the mall food court, and then we had a couple of hours at the arcade. I have actually never seen him so excited to play games! He was on FIRE at this one set of games and he won me one of the largest possible prizes there! I looked like a doofus carrying it around the mall afterward, but he was pretty proud of himself. Plus, come on, it’s pretty great as a girl to be carrying around this big stuffed toy your man one for you, I must say.

After the arcade, we stopped in to discover that the artist who was working on PunkRock’s tattoo of mermaid me on his arm has left for Atlanta, Georgia, so that was a bit of a bummer. I guess we have a trip to plan now, for later this year! We also visited the game store that recently relocated into the mall, and saw a couple of people we knew. (Including a friend of WarMan’s who did a very good job of pretending he didn’t see me. I didn’t want to talk to him anyway, but I found it comical how much he was avoiding putting himself in a place where he would have to say hi. Lol Whatever.)

When we got back home, PunkRock and I watched Bandersnatch on Netflix finally. It was funny - I told my youngest about it being interactive on our trip, and this morning she messaged me about how amazing it was. So, DarkKnight and I spent time running through some scenarios, so she didn’t spoil it for us. I liked it bunches myself, so I made PunkRock watch it with me later. Lol He liked it just as much! I highly recommend it, if you can find a device to play it on. Both times I watched it on an iPad.

This is getting long and I have to pop off of here. I promise to update about my oldest daughter soon. It’s not good news, unfortunately.
 
I am just so exhausted and I can’t bear to read over my last entry right now. I hope I don’t rehash anything but if so do, oh well.

My oldest daughter was evicted from her house and is now living with her boyfriend at his parent’s house. Which is across the street. When her best friend found drugs in the house, she called the police. Boyfriend saw what was going down, ran over and went inside to hide the drugs. When they arrived, he denied them entry, and since best friend had no right to be there, she was told to leave. The landlord arrived (best friend’s parents) and they did a walk through but didn’t find anything. My daughter called me in the middle of this, freaked out on me, said that the drugs weren’t hers but her boyfriend’s. The cops called me and I told them she had said there were drugs in there, but again, there was nothing they could do. The landlord then delivered a 30 day eviction notice, and promised my daughter her full security deposit and $500 of her rent back if she vacated in 3 days. So she did.

My daughter met with me and my ex for dinner, but refused to talk about rehab or moving. She got teary a couple of times and it was all we could do to let her know that we are here for her when she is ready. She kept reiterating how difficult her work schedule is and how no one helps her. She refuses to see that she has isolated herself, and this guy in her life is extremely manipulative and controlling. We are very afraid for her. She says he is trying to ween himself off heroin through meditation and snorting Vicodin. Of course this is impossible. She won’t listen though. It is my belief she is trying to save him as she never had that opportunity with her birthmom. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a huge fail.

I have been extremely depressed before traveling and since returning. I feel ill and my acid reflux has never been so terrible. I feel like I am failing at life. I had this plan that my word of the year for 2019 was going to be “transformation” but instead I feel like I can’t even function normally, never mind kicking shit into a higher gear.

That said, yesterday I made a ton of outstanding appointments, did a small bit of budgeting and helped my youngest plan for her college experience. (It was her first day of classes!) Today I focused heavily on our 2 month overdue State of the Union meeting and it is almost ready to go. I am excited about that - we are just waiting for PunkRock’s latest paystub this Friday. Imma do a whole entire post about that later this week. I also have been watching the Tidying Up show on Netflix, and so read the KonMari book this afternoon, so I am going to focus on maybe doing that to our house. I have to talk to DarkKnight and PunkRock but I think they will be on board, if for nothing but to humor me and help me out of my depression.

DarkKnight went yesterday and signed the papers on our foster tripod kitty yesterday, and I posted a photo on Reddit, and it hit the front page of r/cats, so that’s pretty awesome. It’s my highest karma ever and that helped me to smile today. We also have a new foster named Atlas - he is in danger of losing an eye, and at 8 years old he is a calm tuxedo kitty with a lot of love to give. Right now he is acclimating to DarkKnight’s bedroom. Our kitten room is a disaster still left over from our Christmas event, so he can’t live there yet!
 
I should be organizing and sorting in the game room right now but I am being lazy. It’s freaking freezing out today and the Blessing Box has been busy the whole time. I don’t wanna even look at it, but the longer I sit procrastinating, the more people will be ringing the doorbell, so I need to get up and get moving.

PunkRock has today off so we went to lunch together today and then hit the MVA and post office for errands, and we went to PetSmart for a free bag of food (a perk of adopting from our local shelter). The MVA was quick but annoying. He got another insurance lapse letter - it happens every January. He is on the title to a 1995 car that belongs to an ex from over a decade ago. We don’t know where she is or how to get ahold of her, so every year we have to go to the MVA and explain that it isn’t really his vehicle, so please don’t take his license away. It’s ridiculous. It’s okay again now until next year when this happens. Sigh.
 
My period came today. My hormones have me down, down, down. I just want to cry - I did a little bit earlier - whenever I think about my oldest daughter. Yesterday was really good but today is shit. I had a girls night planned with some lady friends but I canceled out because I’m a mess. I only had a few hours of sleep last night so I am currently attempting to fall asleep.

We finally had our State of the Union meeting, it went rather well. No huge surprises, I don’t think. Our debt load is staggering at the moment, and we have some plans on how to knock some of it down.

We spent $600 on PunkRock’s cat Stormy. She had to have two rounds of bloodwork. She lost 4 pounds this past year and they believe she may have cancer. She has some dental issues going on but since they aren’t affecting the amount of food she eats (just the type) they have ruled it out as the reason for the drop. We have been tasked to try and get her to gain some weight between now and two weeks til our follow up visit. I think we are all really sad and not very optimistic. Stormy is 16 and we think it may be time to put her down. She isn’t terrible yet, but maybe it is best before then? None of us want to be selfish.
 
Another down day for me. I can’t get out of it, sometimes. DarkKnight had the day off so we watched a couple of Black Mirror episodes. San Junipero was my favorite, but today I saw Hang the DJ and oh! it was so great. Not poly friendly, but I absolutely enjoyed the ending. <3

It’s my mom’s birthday today, so I did call her. My youngest has her birthday tomorrow.
 
Woke up this morning, laying in pee. Stormy must have gone in between where PunkRock and I put our feet, at some point last night. All the cats were in the basement. Sigh. So instead of sleeping in, I had to get up and shower.

Today is my youngest daughter’s birthday - she is 21! Her boyfriend is out of town so I am taking her to see the movie about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and then afterward we are meeting up with DarkKnight & PunkRock to get hibachi. I am excited to buy her a mixed drink. :)

This afternoon though, I am going to focus on my overflow room. We had the pest control guy come on Friday so everything on the floor was picked up and it’s now piled up to the ceiling on my game table. It’s seriously crazy! I want to knock that down a lot. Most of it is bags of donated clothing that I probably will be moving on to another organization, but that still takes time to sort through.

I am in a positive mood because I raised a little over a hundred dollars with a new quick raffle - I have a deck of cards and I tape them up on a closet door, face down. People buy a card for $1. There are 53 total, because they are hunting for the joker. The winner who picks the joker gets a prize. I had someone donate a $20 gift certificate to a local seafood place for the first game, and a $30 gift card to chick-fil-A for the second. Some people gave a little more cash as a donation when they played so that was awesome! I am hoping to do this game once a month to pay for an extra meat giveaway. I already did a chili giveaway earlier for January, with ground beef being the main component, but the money I just got here is going to be used to buy pizzas. Papa Johns was willing to give me a one topping pizza for $6.50 - their not for profit rate. So rather than assign up giveaway, we set a date to do a random one. Basically everyone who comes to the Box one specific morning will be asked for their order. I will call them all in, and then we will hand them out in the evening. I like surprise giveaways - they’re fun! They also hook up people who might not necessarily follow my page on Facebook.
 
Woke up this morning, laying in pee. Stormy must have gone in between where PunkRock and I put our feet, at some point last night. All the cats were in the basement. Sigh. So instead of sleeping in, I had to get up and shower.

Today is my youngest daughter’s birthday - she is 21! Her boyfriend is out of town so I am taking her to see the movie about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and then afterward we are meeting up with DarkKnight & PunkRock to get hibachi. I am excited to buy her a mixed drink. :)

This afternoon though, I am going to focus on my overflow room. We had the pest control guy come on Friday so everything on the floor was picked up and it’s now piled up to the ceiling on my game table. It’s seriously crazy! I want to knock that down a lot. Most of it is bags of donated clothing that I probably will be moving on to another organization, but that still takes time to sort through.

I am in a positive mood because I raised a little over a hundred dollars with a new quick raffle - I have a deck of cards and I tape them up on a closet door. People buy a card for $1. There are 53 total, because they are hunting for the joker. The winner who picks the joker gets a prize. I had someone donate a $20 gift certificate to a local seafood place for the first game, and a $30 gift card to chick-fil-A for the second. Some people gave a little more cash as a donation when they played so that was awesome!
 
I had a good time with my youngest yesterday - the movie made me ready but dinner was delicious. It was our waiter’s birthday too, and he brought my daughter ice cream and sang happy birthday to her while banging on this stupid gong thing. He didn’t charge us either, even though there is a big note in the menu about it costing. My daughter had the biggest grin. Oh! I love her so much and I want nothing but happiness for her!

Today she messaged me at like 9 am and was like, I want to buy liquor. Tell me what to do. Lol So I sent her $35 and she added her own money in and brought over vodka, Kahlua, Bailey’s, Peach schnapps, Butterscotch Schnapps, orange juice and heavy cream. We drank together all day, while sorting coats and bagging up diapers in ziplocks.

So that was fun.
 
I was supposed to have my STD testing today. It’s been over a month since I broke up with CornFlower, and even longer with SirGawain, so it’s time. I haven’t been in the mood to date anyone with so much going on, but even if I was in the right frame of mind, I don’t mess around without current tests. I think it’s irresponsible and unethical not to do them, honestly. Anyway, I showed up at ass o’clock and they ended up rescheduling me to next Monday. That really sucked because it was freezing out, and I had gotten up early to shower and dress and scrape off my car in the cold. Ugh. So I had a McGriddle and then went grocery shopping.

Th rest of the day I have been overly tired and overwhelmed with the Box. People have been hella generous and I haven’t been able to get caught up from when I left for New York. So stuff comes in and goes out, but the level of items is staying the same. Gah! I am doing a brisk business in coats and gloves lately. I am going to sort some things tonight after I finish typing this up.
 
I had some fanfuckingtastic sex last night with DarkKnight. Damn. I wish he did what he can do more often!

Today DarkKnight is out picking up and delivering furniture all over the city with my son. I have the Blessing Box helping with furniture once a month, and it’s this week. :) It’s a lot of work handling the waiting lists and messages that come in, and then scheduling pickups from donors and coordinating that with those in need. It raises my stress level, that’s for sure. However, so many people need the assistance, that it has definitely become a permanent thing here at the Box. My Rogue works great for most items, but I can’t do couches or larger appliances. I am glad we limit it to once a month though! DarkKnight is handling today, and PunkRock will do another round on Tuesday or Thursday.

I did a surprise giveaway yesterday - 19 large one-topping pizzas from Papa John’s. I signed up people who were just randomly visiting the Box Saturday morning for other things, and then when we hit noon, I posted on Facebook for signups. We filled almost instantly. It was great handing them out in the evening - I ordered for everyone and then people came to my house to get them. I was worried because I hadn’t had that many visitors all at once since we first opened the Box, since now I schedule giveaways throughout the day so my street doesn’t get congested with cars. Everyone parked appropriately though, and my porch was SO full of smiles! Some of the moms were very excited - telling me that hadn’t been able to order in pizza in a very long time. I had an elderly woman tell me it had been almost a year for her.

I don’t take anything for granted anymore. Doing this sort of thing is so very humbling.

I need better shelving for storage though, and it’s starting to stress me out so bad. I can’t get rid of things because I don’t know what the hell I have!

My mother in law is scheduled for surgery on Feb 11. They are going to mess with her pacemaker, not the surgery she actually needs long term. They are hoping this one will help her get stronger.

My oldest daughter messaged me today to tell me she moved and blocked her addict boyfriend on all platforms. She told me she is quitting her overnight job because she can’t handle doing that anymore and she needs a regular sleep cycle to get back to herself again. She wants to move out of state permanently. I told her to come down here and stay in our spare room but that probably won’t happen. I wanted to offer it though. I hope she is making good decisions. I love her so much.

I need to get back to hanging up coats. I love doing the Blessing Box full time.
 
I had my doctor visit today. I did labwork - all the standard STD stuff as well as a herpes panel, since I was dating SirGawain. I gained a shit ton of weight - all emotional eating because of my oldest daughter’s issues. It’s how I cope with things I can’t control - by getting out of control with my eating. :( My acid reflux has never been worse. Ugh. I talked to the doctor a little bit about strategies and he told me to just work with my therapist for now, but he scheduled me in two months for a full physical. So I guess I have two months to get my shit together. I think that’s fair. I feel good about that timeline. I talked to my New York bestie this past week and she told me it’s okay to take one thing at a time. So that’s what I am going to do.

Also at the doctor’s I finally had a skin tag removed from my armpit. It was small but ugly as fuck. He gave me the choice of numbing it or just chopping it off. I opted for no needles and hooo boy. It was quick and not too painful but it bled quite a bit. I actually feel woozy now, between the vials they took for the STD tests and the bit I lost from the “surgery.” I am on the couch now, trying to recover some energy. Lol Someone donated a bunch of books today, so i snagged an Amish romance novel. Lolol I am about halfway through it.
 
I'm glad to read the update about your daughter! I hope she's clean and sober and stays that way.
 
I hope she continues to make better choices. I feel like a weight has been lifted there now that the loser is out of the picture, but I am still really worried about her.

Today PunkRock is off of work and out delivering furniture for me. I think that will be it for this week as far as larger pieces this month. Yay! We may have more offers come in, but generally the donations for this giveaway are made at the beginning of the week. It's been a crazy busy day - lots of pickups are scheduled and several are already gone, actually. I have most of my living room looking good and I did some work in the overflow room.

I am seriously not sure what to do - I need new shelving so bad in the one area. I have so many canned veggies and zero places to put them. They're just piling up. I've doubled the amount I put out of the porch, from 5 to 10, but they aren't disappearing faster. Honestly, I didn't expect them to. I've done a lot of messing around with the frequency of items being taken and I think I have a solid handle on how often things are taken. Like toilet paper, for example. If I put out 4 rolls, the first person will almost always just take 2 rolls. If I set out 2 rolls, a person will take both. So, to slow down the number of times I have to refill, I try to do 4 rolls each time. If I set out 6 rolls, the first person snags 4. It's interesting - there is definitely a scarcity psychology going on! Same thing with the Sams Club bread I get donated each Thursday night - if I set out a couple of loaves of rye, or a bag of dinner rolls in the box, NO ONE takes them. The stuff inside gets moldy and I end up with a lot of waste. They sit there for a freaking week. However, if I set out a huge box of baguettes and rolls all at once, with say 15-20 available, people each take 1 or 2 for themselves and they're gone in an evening.

Anyway, I'm talking about cans. lol The canned food doesn't move with great frequency, people will pick through and snag 3 of their favorites, or grab specific ones to make a soup. But I don't have to refill them all day long. They're donated often, so it's easy for me to build up a stockpile. I don't want that - I don't have the space! I have more than 2 shelves full right now and I only have one shelf available. So they are piled up in bags and boxes and I need to improve the area where they live. I need to buy a new set of shelves, period, but it's going to be $80 for the canned food space. I don't have that right now and no one seems to be willing to donate for improvements at the moment. Sigh. What to do? It's a pain.
 
The doctor called today with some of my testing - negative on herpes, HIV and syphilis. I wasn’t really concerned about anything, but I feel good about always testing before starting up with any new partners. Not that I am looking to date anyone new right now - I’ve got too much going on to focus on new relationships and someone else’s needs. I do have more tests to come back, but I am not worried at all.
 
I am having a difficult time this morning - just feeling like there’s a weight on me. No particular reason that I can point to today, I’m just all blah. I need to shower but I can’t seem to motivate myself to do it. I need to fill the Blessing Box and get my day going, but I can’t. I want to burrow back into bed and just cry. This fact is infuriating, actually. What the hell? This is so not me.

When I finally get showered, I hope to be able to focus on organizing in the overflow room. I’ve made some progress, but I am trying to decide whether to buy the shelving I need. I really don’t have the money but I also don’t have the space to not get this handled. It’s not going to get livable unless I get better organization. Ugh. Honestly, no, I am not going to buy shelving. I have two cats going to the vet tomorrow, and with Stormy facing a possible diagnosis of cancer, I need to save all of our pennies.

I had amazing sex again last night with DarkKnight. I was shocked at how receptive he was - he’s been a steady once a month partner for the last few years, and for him to respond to my needs twice in a week made me feel known and special. And it was soooo good.
 
PunkRock and I were finally able to reconnect and we had some great sex yesterday morning. It’s so difficult with his new job - he works 3 12-hour days and then has two days off. Then he works 2 12s and has 3 days off. At least, he’s supposed to - usually his 3 days turn into 4 days on because of overtime, and his 2 days on are lengthened as well. So he is up at 4 am and doesn’t get home to 6:30 pm, when he eats dinner and then is too tired to do much. Poor guy. I like when he actually gets to have two days off in a row, because by the second day he is calmer and more relaxed.

Right now I am in the middle of taxes. DarkKnight’s were filed and we already got State back. Federal isn’t here yet but I hope it will be soon. The entire amount is going to pay off PunkRock’s 401(k) loan that he took at his old job,when he had his carpal tunnel surgeries. He just qualified for retirement benefits Feb 1 at his job and he’s going to transfer his account from Home Depot over - it’s just been sitting there while we were waiting for his benefits to kick in. That means the loan was sitting there too, and we have until March to start making payments or get rid of it. Since this is our year to focus on cutting out debt, that’s first on the list to get to disappear.

PunkRock’s taxes are actually messed up this year. His new job sent him two W2s, since he works in PA and we live in Maryland. Only, they screwed up and sent him 2 for Maryland. He’s supposed to go to HR today and try and get it straightened out. The temp agency did it correctly, but his actual company did not! I hope they get it figured out, as I want to file as soon as possible. I hope to use his refund toward basement upgrades - we have plans for PunkRock’s art studio that haven’t happened yet and it’s going to cost about $800 to get some crafting tables built. DarkKnight’s cousin promises to help, so between the 3 of them they should be able to knock everything out in a couple of days. We’ve designed the entire space to have a series of worktables in the shape of a capital letter E. My table is along the top portion, and we already have a vent leading outside in the top corner, where we are installing an airbrush station. The bottom stroke of the E is PunkRock’s paint desk. The middle peninsula has plumbing to be extended underneath, with a drop sink on the very end - the center table is a little shorter than the other two. We had all of the electrical run last summer, and all of the outlets are at table height, so we can unplug everything without getting on our hands and knees to find things - cord management will be super easy! At the end of my table at the top, There’s a dedicated higher amp outlet, so our mini fridge and printer will be protected. Lol I need to buy a printer first though - my 2 sided Air Print laser is upstairs in Dan’s office, on my desk in there. I want to buy a large color laser, that will handle 12x12 pages for my genealogy books and photo albums. OMG I am so excited just thinking about it! I will finally have a permanent place in this house to design bracelets, print photos and paint models! Oooooooooh Shit these taxes need to get themselves fixed!
 
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