England Please

Nope I'm not going to England, but my sister Rosie should be on her way. The technical word is "should" because they should have been on their way yesterday. She is going to England with her friend, whose husband is stationed for the next three years in England. Rosie was helping her friend out with the baby. All Rosie had to do was pay the sales tax on the tickets because her friend's sister is a flight attendant and I guess that is how the tickets work.

Anyway back to England. Rosie was supposed to leave at 6:30 Chicago time and arrive in England at 8 AM their time. Well they were on the plane and they were going down the runway, the wheels and the nose of the airplane lifted up off the ground and then the pilot steered it back to the ground. The plane was having technical difficulties.

So they taxied back to the gate and hauled everyone off the plane and said sorry folks were not leaving tonight. The plane needs to be fixed. So here is a hotel room come back in the morning and maybe we will leave tomorrow.

Needless to say Rosie is not pleased because on every flight she ever tries to get on it is always delayed for an enormous amount of time. (My dad mentioned to me that he is sticking Rosie on a different plane for San Antonio because of her luck with flights!) She told my dad that if she does not leave off of the ground today (4 PM) she is renting a car and coming back home.

I am guessing that she is on her way because I haven't heard anything.

Say hello for me to jolly ol' England Rosie because I have a feeling Rosie is not going to be jolly! :)

Neighbors

At last the neighbors next door have moved out. I cannot tell you how happy I am. Granted they probably would have been better neighbors if they actually said hello. I tried my darndest to be friendly and all they did was ignore me. Their 5 children were left outside unsupervised all the time and they got into things.

However the neighbors left with one pile for us to remember them by:


Now isn't this pile of trash lovely. I just love looking out my kitchen window and looking at this. Who in their right mind would think that the garbage man would pick this stuff up. It was a bigger pile but some dumpster diving people were by and rummaged through everything and left a bigger mess than there was before. It is slowly encroaching onto our yard. I am slowly throwing it back into their yard. If it is not picked up by Friday, a city official is going to get an earful!

Plus, I don't think that they sold the house yet (and yet the pile of trash makes the house all more appealing!). So the house will probably sit empty. Which is all together fine with hubby and me. If it were up to us we would live in the middle of nowhere with not a neighbor around for miles.

Also an odd thing is that the front door has been open all day and nobody has been there. Oh well...not my worry.

Ranch dressing please!

Yesterday was my cousin Josh's graduation party. It was hotter than heck (although I think my wedding day was hotter) but there was a nice breeze. My aunt placed her food down on the table and went back inside to get something. Next thing I know I have a plate flying at me and ranch dressing in my hair and on my clothes. So the only thing I could do was laugh. Too bad my camera wasn't close at hand. =)

When it rains, I guess it pours!

So we are getting our gutters, soffits, facia, and facia board replaced sometime in the next few weeks. At the moment they look not so pretty. I would take a pic but it is kinda dark outside at the moment and the neighbors might think I'm nuts.

We are also getting a new furnace unit also! How lucky are we? The blower just keeps running and running. My furnace man came out yesterday and replaced the thermostat because he thought maybe the dang thing was shorting out because the buttons would never increase or decrease the temperature until you were actually smacking the dang thing. Then he told us to call him if it was still acting up.

I believed that is finally regulated itself out last night and we had no problems with it. When I woke up this morning it was doing it again. So furnace guy came back this morning and first asked me if we wanted our old thermostat back and I gladly declined that offer. Then he took a look at the furnace and the computer part is shorting out. He said he could go ahead and replace the $250 part, but in less than two years the furnace would die!

He mentioned that he would not like to do that to us by replacing the part in then coming back and then replacing the furnace. Apparently our furnace has months left in its sorry little life. Apparently, we have the cheapest furnace that was made!

So rather than taking our money, he mentioned that my dad would not do that to him with his trucks and he would not do that to us. (See it is nice having a dad who knows people!) So he took measurements and he believes he also has one back at the shop. So he is going to get back with us and let us know.

Here's the kicker...my parent's AC bit the dust yesterday also. They are getting a new one replaced Saturday morning. When I told my dad about ours tonight he was wondering if furnace man would give us a deal because we are giving him so much business! :D

What I think is also funny is that furnace man said that my Uncle Frank called him yesterday also to get serviced for the AC. See when it rains, it really does pour!

Waiting

So my classroom is all packed away. It was very easy to pack it all away because of the fact that I just have to move everything back to the other third grade teacher. This is due to the fact that I am teaching 2nd grade next year. St. Matt's never called me back or e-mailed me. I just believe that is plain rude. Who wants to work for that kind of school? So it is another year of driving back and forth to Plymouth. That is unless someone calls with a job opening a week before school starts someplace else. Which I have a feeling is going to happen.

The only thing I have left to finish at school is the School Improvement Plan. The principal needs to finish her end so that I can do charts and graphs and plunk them into the document. Sometimes I hate knowing so much about certain programs!

She would like me to come in tomorrow so I can get going on it, but my furnace's fan has been going off randomly when it is in the off position. So that means that I have called my heating and cooling people. They said that they would put the work order in for today but it doesn't necessarily mean that they will get to me today, it could be tomorrow.

So this means that I get to lay around the house waiting for my person to show up either today or tomorrow. Good thing I am finally watching Heroes Season 1 that I got for Christmas because that is all I am doing for the next two days. Which I have to say is a really good show.