I’m almost done with moving in the new house and it’s been a very trying experience to say the least. I’m elated overcome with joy that I’m finally able to get a place of my own again after nearly 5 years of illness. But there’s always something that’s gotta suck all the pleasure out of the experience. And that’s dealing with stupid utility companies!! They make you jump through hoops don’t they?

The previous tenants of the house got busted for stealing electricity so the power company came out and physically pulled the meter. How did that impact me? They wouldn’t turn the power back on at that address until they “completed an investigation” no matter that it was a new tenant with a new lease, etc. So here I am paying rent on a house for an entire week that has no A/C or lights. As hot as it was all last week, that meant no moving in! And then there was no moving in until I got my cable internet up and running, I have to be able to do my work online or the entire ordeal is pointless.

So there I sit all day long in the sweltering heat waiting for the water and gas company to come out to turn those on because you can’t get an appointment, they’ll just show up whenever they damn well please. This also meant that I was missing work waiting on these fukkers!! Grrrrr. The only ones that gave me an appointment was the cable internet and then they show up 2 hours late! As it turned out, my first night of actually sleeping in the new place was two weeks after I signed the lease because of waiting on utilities. Welcome to life in New Orleans after Katrina.

Anyway, enough with the bad, here’s the good! I love the place! It’s been great so far, the place is quiet and comfy, the central A/C will make your nipples hard as rocks, the place looks great and it’s in a nice neighborhood. I love how I have my new office set up and the small garage is a very nice bonus. So without further adieu, here’s a few photos!

Cool huh? Damn it’s expensive to set up house when you’re basically starting from scratch again. I’ve had to purchase a new fridge, a lawnmower, a washing machine, living room furniture, new desk and all the small stuff like dishes, silverware, pots and pans, cleaning supplies, etc, etc. Seems like a never ending list of stuff you never even thought of. Until you need it. LOL

I’m happy though and things couldn’t be better, this is me reclaiming my life after so many years of insane hardship and illness. It’s all finally coming together for me.

Life is damn good.

WOW, I’ve been so busy lately! I’m in the middle of moving to a new house and I’m trying to help my parents get their house back in order from Katrina as much as I can. There’s one project that’s been totally kicking my ass and that is building the shed from hell. It’s a prefab plastic 7′ x 10′ unit manufactured by Rubbermaid. It was packaged in two oversized boxes and it’s intended to replace the one that Katrina blew to smithereens two years ago.

The instructions claimed 2 hours assembly time which has to be either a typo or an outright lie. It’s more like 2 hours per panel! And there’s about 14 panels. The strangest thing is this weird looking symbol that’s been slowly materializing on the side now that it’s nearly complete, not sure what it means though…

Blogs Gone Wild has been going really strong, I recently did a complete redesign of the site and it now runs on Wordpress and includes a blog for updates and site news. Something I had been wanting to do for a long time.

Free Blogger Skins has grown like crazy too, it now gets over 80,000 hits a month! It’s also in the Top 200 blogs listings on Technorati, that’s just crazy! I’ve also been doing some contract web work for a local company outside of Blogs Gone Wild, I would like to get more of that.

I just recently did another makeover for The Redneck Mommy, she wanted the conversion to Wordpress that I did for her a few months back converted again into a 3 column template. I think it came out great, if you’ve never read her, she’s awfully engaging and fun to read and very, very popular.You guys really should check her out.

Here’s a few more that I’ve completed lately as well, Randy Rainbow, Sportz Chicago and Jottings From Jersey

I’ll have more on my moving to a new house next week with pictures once I get all the utilities up and running and settled in a little bit. It’s a really cool house and I can’t wait to get in.

Finally, I’ll leave you guys with a joke that made me LMAO!

I have 2 dogs & I was buying a large bag of Pal at Big W and standing inline at the check out.

A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Pal Diet again although I probably shouldn’t because I’d ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV’s in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Pal nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a guy who was behind her.

Horrified, she asked if I’d ended up in the hospital in that condition because I had been poisoned. I told her no; it was because I’d been sitting in the street licking my balls and a car hit me.

I thought one guy was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard as he staggered out the door.

Stupid bitch… why else would I buy dog food??

Hope you guys have an ass kicking weekend! =)

Anyone else sick of seeing Will Ferrell’s movie commercials every 5 minutes on seemingly every single fukkin’ channel on TV? I swear I just wanna throw something at the tube every time I see that goofy looking mug. I was practically driven insane with the Talladega Nights commercials and now it’s for the Blades of Glory movie. If I had a frikkin’ nickle for every one of those commercials I watched I would be a rich man! I think he’s only mildly funny in his movies and I actually hated him when he was on Saturday Night Live, does he really deserve so much damn promotion? Maybe they think if you’re told often enough that he’s funny, you’ll actually start believing it, like subliminal advertising or sumshit. Die bastard DIE! …or at least get off my damn TV.

Anyway, on to something that pisses me off even more! LOL I just had lunch at the local Wendy’s hamburger joint and I decided to “dine in” because I know it’s air conditioned (it’s hot as hell here) and I felt like relaxing for a few. I sit down to eat and I hear what I thought was a talk radio show on the speaker system, I know they usually play music. After a few minutes I realized I was being bombarded by a continuous loop advertisement for Direct TV.

That’s right, a continuous talk show espousing all the “wonderful” benefits of signing up for Direct TV and not only that, but how to trouble shoot your system if it ever stops working, how to use the remote, plug it in to the wall, how to clean the dish, who to call to upgrade existing service and on and on and fukkin’ ON till I wanted to kill someone. Too bad they didn’t tell me who I needed to go “postal” on to make it STOP!! BASTARDS! I started to complain to the manager but decided that it would be more fun to write about it on my blog and of course make up my own Wendys logo! Take that, bitches! Yeah, I know, griping about how lousy fast food restaurants are and how much they SUCK ASS has been a recurring theme around here. But, dammit, fast food ain’t cheap, it’s just convenient, does the service and the experience have to be so shitty?

This same Wendys had their “dining room” completely remodeled lately with all new fixtures, carpet and seating. It’s nice, but what cracks me up is they have a sign next to the building bragging about the new interior and that you should “See It Inside!” Well, DUH you stupid dumbasses, where else would we freekin’ see it, out in the damn street, …on the roof maybe? Whatever…

Now for something good! My friend Joe over at East Coast Gourmet liked his new blog that I designed for him so much that he sent me an awesome dinner of lobster tails, lobster bisque, clam chowder and crackers and even threw in a couple of desserts as a bonus! He Fedex overnighted it to me and everything was ‘tres delicious! He uses his blog to put up recipes for all kinds of tasty sounding New England delicacies, you should check it out. And of course you can order just about anything delivered from the website. Thanks Joe, it was much appreciated!

Now for something even better!! Lisa has been cracking me up for the past few weeks with a little song she sings to me, to remind me that I only have X number of chemo injections left, how cool is that! Tomorrow I take my very last injection out of a weekly series that I started last JUNE!! Yeah, this shit’s been going on forever! I guess I was whining a bit about how shitty it made me feel a few weeks ago and she started singing that I only had three more injections to try to cheer me up. Then last week it was two more, then this week it was one more. You get the picture. Tomorrow she said she’ll be singing “No More Injections” LOL Very cute! Thanks sweetheart!!

That’s all I got! Hope you guys have a killer-diller weekend!~!

I generally like Papa Johns pizza and have ordered deliveries from them in the past, there’s one just about a half mile from here. I tried to order one last week using their online service and after waiting patiently for an hour thinking it would arrive any minute, I received an email stating my order had been canceled. No explanation why, just that the order couldn’t be “processed”. I ended up getting take out from someplace else.

Last night I got a craving for pizza again after seeing a Papa Johns TV ad for some new “special” I decided to order again, this time I would call the store directly to make sure it went through. I looked up the number, called and the girl answers “Hello?” like as though it wasn’t even a business, maybe a residence. After asking “Is this Papa Johns?” She replied it was but then I got disconnected so I called right back. This time she answers “Papa Johns, can you hold?” I reply “No I got disconnected just a minute ago” at which point I get disconnected AGAIN!

By now frustration is setting in so I take a few breaths and call back, this time she asks for my order. I explain that I want that special and she tells me I’m wrong, there was no such special, the pizza I was trying to order was a few dollars more and it’s all spoken in ridiculously bad “ghetto speak” to the point where I have to repeatedly ask her what she said. She ends up arguing with me over the whole thing like I don’t know what I’m talking about. My argument got me no where.

I say, “Fine, forget it, I’ll just order something else instead” , but the moment I say the words “forget it” this stupid asshole slams the phone down on me and hangs up! WTF??? Now I was furious and I drove down there to confront someone in person, I walk in and ask for the manager. I explained to him what happened and he acted like it was no big deal! He did apologize and that he would have a “talk” with her but his tone of voice gave me the impression that he really didn’t give a shit. I was pretty angry by now, I figured at this point he would at least make some kind of attempt to please me but i got no satisfaction whatsoever.

When I got back home I decided to look if there was some way to complain online about their truly shitty services and there was a web form. A ridiculously loooong form that asked me just about everything about myself except for my frikkin’ shoe size. But what really got me was the extremely tiny space they give you to write in the actual complaint, barely room for 4 or 5 words!

Here’s my take on their stupid web form. After these 2 experiences, I seriously doubt if I’ll ever order from them again!

On the good news front, I now have only 3 more weekly chemo injections left to endure. How cool is that? I’ll finally be able to get my life back to some form of “normalcy”, whatever the hell that means. LOL After 4 years of illness I’m having a difficult time remembering what my life used to be like! I’m just happy the end is in sight and I’ll be able to move on without having so many health issues on my back! I’m not going to know how to act! Woohoo!

Here’s another one in my series on wacky statues from around the world.

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Have a good weekend!