My soap box

Since everyone else is doing it . . . Honesty meme

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:29:53 GMT

Ok. The idea behind this is that you post anonamously and say something you wouldn't say to me if I could read your signature. I don't care what it is.

Ok. Well, that was a lame way of stating it, but it's the best I can do. Everyone on my friends list is doing this too, so I'm interested to see what others say.

. . . if anything.

Edited so that you can post anonymously . . .

Neuro's Adventures in Home Improvement Epsidoe 1: Bathrooms & Bedrooms

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:38:55 GMT

And so, the maddness begins anew.

We found out that the yellow and white stripes in the bedroom are not wall paper, but paint! And since the walls weren't primed or sanded proporly in that room, when I was removing the wall paper boarder, I wound up ripping some of the drywall surface away with the boarder and paint underneath.

So we are going to sand down the entire room, put on a primer, THEN paint.

We may be sleeping in the living room for a while once we move in.

I am now nearly done removing wall paper. Just a little bit of the bathroom left and the boarder in Yuna's future bedroom and I'm done with that. Once I finnish that I'm going to go around and clean up all the wall paper (and paint and dry wall) that I scraped off and take some in progress pictures. Then I'm going to start moving our kitchen stuff in after cleaning the kitchen.

The bathroom may need more work than the bedroom. Some of the dry wall is going to need to be replaced. That's not such a shock though since I expected it. However I gots a question for anyone who can answer it. We are also going to replace the shower surround . . . the . . . tub like stuff that is on the walls of the shower . . . what ever the hell that's called. The wall paper is a bitch to remove first off, and the caulking is so moldy my wife has stated she will NOT shower in that thing.

I don't blame her.

Personaly, I think we should look into replacing the entire TUB! However tubs are rather expensive and we probably can't afford to do that right now. So I think the rest of you should invest in scrub bubbles stock, cause I'm going to raise it with how many cans I'm going to buy to clean that damn tub.

How do you remove wall paper from behind a toilet when the damn thing is about three sheets of paper away from the wall?

Before pictures

Sat, 10 May 2008 05:08:30 GMT

Well, these are pictures I took this afternoon of the house we will be moving into.

. . . I'm going to be busy this weekend. I forsee a wallpaper steamer and a paint brush in my future.

This is the outside of the house. It ain't much to look at right now, and for the moment since we aren't focusing on the outside other than to put up the replacement siding for that chunk near the roof, it's going to look this way for a while now. The latice work that got knocked over in the recent series of storms we had here is going to go tomorow. This is Yuna and my wife.

Now that I think about it, another thing I want to add to the to do list at some point is that damn front door! I just decided that it's ugly and I HATE IT!

A crude map of the house so you have some idea of the layout.

I realize this isn't to scale so please don't laugh. The dining room kitchen and living room are all one big C shaped 'space' somewhat broken up by the kid's room. The layout is a bit strange, but that's because the place was a church back at the beginning of the last century. This affects the layout some what. The next picture is of the living room.

I must warn you not to scream.

Ok . . . for those of you who are back from their trip to the nearest garbage can after throwing up there lunch, this is the living room with the furnature and leftover electronics the previous owner aparently didn't want.

Yeah, neither do we!

We are removing the boarder and wall paper, (pink paint under the most god awful wall paper AAAAAAGH!) and the curtans will be replaced. It looks TERRIBLE right now, but it'll look better soon. All we can afford to do at the moment for the carpet is to clean it, but since we have a baby, two cats, and a dog, right now is probably not the best time to buy new carpet anyway.

This is the enterance way. I appologise for the blury picture, but I was too startled by the wall paper in this room to get a clear shot. We have already started working on it. We removed a god awfule latice work they had as a boarder around the funky gaurden wall paper where they used to have a fountain before Boomer's X-wife ran off with it.

Yeah. That's what I said too when I saw it.

ALL that wall paper as well as the painted hidious green trim that you can't see in this picture around the edge of the cealing is gonna go. Down the road we are also going to replace the chandalear. It may have been the big thing in 1984, but now a days it's rather dated.

This mans X wife must have been a crack baby from the sixties . . .

Are those? . . . why yes they ARE! Forks spoons and knives turned into hardwear as well as cheezy banana knobs and what look like extera knobs off a dresser on the top drawer. The cabnets and counter tops can stay for now, but that hardwear has got to go before I have a brain anurisim!

. . . more garden wall paper in the strangest of places. Yeah. All that's coming out tomorow.

And THIS ladys and gentelmen is a close up of the wall paper in most of the house as well as the gawdawful cloth trim around the cealing in the living room I have been gripeing about since before we bought the house. Half of it has already been removed, but I wanted yall to see this so that your minds could be ruened right along with mine.

Save it. You can cry later. I know I will!

My and my wife's bed room. This is about half of it. The other half also has a nice big closet and we intend to fix it up as a reading room. However this half is the side I wanted you all to see, because it's just terrifying. The mirror book shelf is gona go first thing in the morning. I'm going to take that out myself and laugh the whole time. The curtan with the biult in box frame thing above it, and the biult in canopy for the bed are gona go quickly after. We may actualy keep the lights biult into the wall if they still work and if we find replacement lamp shades since we both read. The wall paper is gona go to hell with the rest of it.

Express of course.

This room may very well be the room that looks the most different by the time we are officaly moved in.

This is were we are probably going to put a table and use as a dining room. this is looking from the living room into the kitchen on the map for those of you following along.

Wall paper, furnature and latice work that is from the enterance where there used to be a water fountain (you were spared that, remember?) are all gona go. The light fixture in this picture will probably be replaced by a fan in the very near future. Eventualy I hope to get matching fans for the entire house, but for now I'm going to shut up and deal with all of em being different. I'll wait till I catch a good sale or something my wife can't possibly say no to.

All the carpets are going to be cleaned by professonals before we move in and some time in the next year or two will be replaced with either new carpet or that fancy lanolium flooring that looks like wood floors. If we go the later way, the bedrooms will be the only rooms with carpet. While I'm not fond of the color of the carpet in either bed room, it IS in good shape and very soft and comfy to walk on. So that will probably stay a few more years.

On the outside I have a nice little idea to hide where the stainglass windows used to be (it's very obvious from the first picture where they were.) I'll post the sketches for my idea tomorow, cause it's ALREADY tomorow as I type this.

So, that should give you a taste of the kind of things we have to do to the house. At least it's not new electrical, plumbing, and a roof like a lot of the houses here in town would be. It's just a mother load of cosmetic stuff.

New Computer Monitor (as my wife would say, 'SQUEE!')

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:50:13 GMT

We went out and got a new computer monitor today for my birthday and christmas present. It was the cheapest one they had there (if you can call 180 some odd dollars cheap, wich I don't!). So far I am impressed with it. I didn't notice until we got it home that the screen is easily 1/3rd bigger than my old CRT monitor that I have been griping about for months. It's wide screen too, wich is kinda neet, though that will take some getting used to and it will take some monkeying around with the settings to get the wall papers to fit right.

Even still, it is a HUGE improvement over the old monitor. It dosn't hurt my eyes nearly as much, the screen is actualy WHITE. It also dosn't take up as much room as the old one and is quieter. My old one made a lot of clicking sounds when it turned on and switched between programs and such. I never did understand why, but it always did that, and it had all kinds of fans in it that you don't even notice until you have one that is so much quieter. The silence was something I hadn't even thought of when I bought this one. I do still need to try out a video game to see how it dose with those, but other than that, it has exceded all my expectations.

Picking it out was the big drama. The story gose like this. (Ever notice I ALWAYS have a story to tell?)

The monitors at best buy ranged from about 180 to 800 dollars (with tax of course.) I kept aginizing over wich one I wanted. We didn't want to go over a certan price range (200) and I kept trying to compair them to eachother. I even had the associate at the store bring me a lader so I could climb up higher and look at the ones on the second shelf above at eye level to help me decide. They had all this wonderful information about DVI HD DVEDVDVDVDDDVD AI OU TE and whatever the hell else that I simply didn't understand what they ment. So the only way I could choose was by eye. Obviously, the ones that were about 500 and up were better, but I am not about to pay that kind of money on my most insane days for a monitor. However, all the ones below that I was having trouble telling them apart as far as picture quality. I was seriously thinking about waiting and comeing back a few months later to see what was there once prices went down on older models and trying to compair them again. Looking back, I realize that was stupid, since I would simply face the exact same problem then with different monitors.

Finaly my wife pointed out something I hadn't noticed. "THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME!"

I kept thinking, yeah, but that one costs more, and there's got to be a reason for it. Some had better veiw at an angle, but that was really about it. So finaly after the associate pointed out that the cheapest one was better than the next cheapest one because the cheapest one had a better refresh rate, I felt it was best to just buy the cheapest one, since they truly DO look all the same.

I am happy. My eyes dont hurt nearly as much as they used to.

Melekalikimaka recap punch!

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:55:37 GMT

Well, I suppose I'll recap the holidays and any other random things I'm thinking of tonight, in case anyone out there be interested.

Well, on the 24th, I had to work. Which was ok. To give you an idea of what my typical work day is like, it's like having 30 grandparents to visit every single day. But, since most are mad out of there heads with dementia, I am the guy who gives them their medication and hopes it calms the more violent ones down enough so we can help them.

SO after 8 hours of that, I went to wallmart to pick up some wrapping paper, wich naturaly I forgot to do. This was because their was an announcement over the entercom that they were giving away free christmas trees! So, I decided to yank one. A nice little 4 footer. Teeny little guy. I was so happy to get it. I could fit it in my back seat of my chevy cavalier with room to spare.

So, my car will forever smell of pine.

When I got into town, my wife pointed out something obvious to me.

We didn't have a tree stand.

So, I tried to think of something to hold it up. but I couldn't. So I put it outside and pushed snow around the base of it, wich held it up for nearly 48 hours before it fell down. Even still, I am happy I found my little tree. Maybe that's what I'll actualy try to do next year. Just show up after work on Xmas eve and find the smallest tree for free and bring the puppy home.

Probably not the best thing to count on as far as finding a tree though, right?

The 25th was ok. I got a wonderful present from my wife (a note saying I can pick out a computer monitor! YAYYYYYY! I'm so happy I could scream!), Band of brothers on DVD (Highly reccomended if you havnt seen it.) Shindlers list (also highly recomended) and a Barns and Nobles book store gift card (now I'll have to find an excuse to go to Topeka), and an Ebay gift card for 50 buckaroos, plus 74 dollars from a fund set up for work where they devide money the residents and their families donate between the staff. Nothing more fon in the world than money you can just out right waste. Shure it'd be smarter to save it. But that wouldn't be fun!

I am so lucky to have a wife that lets me have fun.

Dinner was good, since we had both turkey AND ham. Mashed potatoes were the best. I'm biast though, in that I truly LOVE mashed potatoes. Right up there with any shrimp, and my grandma's recipi of read beans and rice.

Annnnd, that brings us to today. I am hoping to compleat my mini army of storm troopers for my collection of star wars action figures (Don't laugh. Everyone has to have a hobby, and that's one of mine!). I only plan on getting about 10 more figures tops. This is mostly due to lack of room. I have won 4 of them on E bay already (Thanks to those residents from work ^_^), so that means once they get here, I'll only have 6 more to go. After that, it's the occasonal droid now and then till I get more room, wich could be years.

Don't worry shweety pie, Hasbro dosn't make too many droids a year, and even less of em are actualy worth buying.

I also have a few vintage (1970-80's) figures I need to finnish restoring. I may get a few more of them at some point, but also because of lack of room, I won't be doing that much longer neither.

So, naturaly as my update as to what I did on the 26th, I spent a lot of time watching Band of Brothers, and wandering Ebay trying not to drool over action figures.

I have no life.

Tomorow, is December 27th, 2007. I will be 27 years old at exactly 10:10PM U.S/Canadian Centeral Standard Time. That's almost 30, wich makes me feel old. My wife is going to take me to see I am Legend (I love end of the world movies), and hopefuly let me pick out a new computer monitor if we have time. That depends largely on the weather, and when our neighbors can watch Yuna.

My next day off (the 28th) I plan to start working on the latest chapter of Double Jeopardy. Since most who will read this probably already know what that is. I'v typed enough already.

Hope all is well out there in the great wide web of the world.

Tearaeden / Neuroleptic

What to say, what to say?

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:12:28 GMT

What do I SAY here?

It's interesting. I can go on and on and on when someone says something like, "My cat is orange!" but I can't come up with my own subject to attempt to start a conversation.

Dose that make me boring?

Maybe it's because I am new to this whole bloging thing, I don't know.

Or maybe it's old age. Yeah, that's it. Old age. I'm going to be 27 in a little more than 5 days 45 minutes or so depending on when I finnish writing this nonsenseical post. That's almost 30, wich makes me old, especialy since men don't live past 65 in my family. So I'm coming close to have lived half my life. Makes one a bit nervous to think about.

But that has NOTHING to do with why I can't seem to think of a decent subject. So, what kind of things am I supposed to say on here?

Anyone?

What Do You Have To Say? - Give Me Something To Believe In

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:33:20 GMT

What do you believe in?

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I believe that there is a higher power and that something happens to us when we die. However, I also belive that no one can say with 100% certanty just what that higher power or life after death actualy IS.

I have returned

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:21:02 GMT

I have returned to live journal to try to actualy make an attempt to learn how to use it.

What? an update?

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:38:50 GMT

Howdy everyone. Iv finaly updateing my journal. I no longer live in missouri. I live in Manhattan Kansas. I still work for food 4 less, but the super duper giant thats no moon its a space station walmart that opened up a stones throw down the street from my store is probably going to put us out of bisuness within two years. no hurry I suppose, if I dont mind only working 32 hours a week wich is what they cut my hours down to for next week. I dont realy mind though honestly. Ill still make enough to get by for now. AND itll give me alot more time to go job hunting. I also have next saturday off.

Today is spring of 2004.Iv accomplished quite a bit for myself this year, relocateing to a new state and setting up an apartment of my own to live in by myself for the first time in two years has ben rather rewarding though it is takeing longer than I thought. I still have a few things I need, but nothing major now. Iv also set up quite a few goals for this year for myself. I wonder by years end how many ill have compleated. Learning to drive getting engaged and getting a new computer are on the agenda. Not much ells to write right now. hard to talk about yourself when you work nights and sleep during the day.

Ready, Aim.......

Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:20:39 GMT

Well, figured id update finaly. not that very many pepole are reading this or anything.

A few days ago, A guy I work with came in on his day off, and wanted me to give him a dime out of my drawer. I told him no both because I thought he was kidding, and there was no way I was going to give him ANY amount of money from my drawer. so he went over to one of the other cashregester drawers that was a back up for our night crew (since we work nights, no one is in the office to get us more money so we get 3 drawers) opened it took the money he needed out, and left. I mentioned it to my manager who talked to the big managers, and the next night he was fired.

Even though even though he was a close minded rasist white supremisest, I, and everyone ells on the night crew, hated his guts, and that he deserved to get fired (not just for stealing an insegnifigant amount of money, but mostly for messing with someone ellses till), I somehow feal a little giulty about it. But for the most part, im glad to high hell I never have to look at him again! YAY!

Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:39:20 GMT

Currently listening to music while I wate for my girlfriend to get on to chat with her. Shes on a trip to Texas at the moment. So I figure ill write about the song im listening to. Probably wont make much sence but hey. its something to do.
come and hold my hand
I want to contact the living
im not sure I understand
this road iv ben given
(I know that fealing. I feal sometimes like the reason pepole dont seam to see or understand me is as if im dead.)

I sit and talk to god
and he just laughs at my plans
my head speaks a language
I dont understand
(And boy dose he laugh LOUD! It seams like whenever I do something in life, everything turns out different from how I plan it. Not nessesaraly bad, but it almost never ends how I emagined it. And there are times that I think things and I kinda have to wonder, what the heck dose that mean?)

I just want a feal
real love
thru the home that I live in
Cause I got to much live
runing thru my vens going to waste
(Iv lived in alot of places in my life, and alot of them I just didnt feal like I belonged there. Iv ben in a house FULL of pepole, and felt like I was compleatly alone.)

I dont want to die
but I aint kean on living eather
(Iv felt that way quite often in my life too. afrade to die yet hateing to live. not very plesent)

before I fall in love
Im preparing to leave her
I scare myself to death
Thats why I keep on runing
Before Iv arived
I can see myself comeing
(cant say I agree with this thought....I am deffinetly NOT preparing to leave my girlfriend. Though I do worry sometimes she may leave me, its a risk im wiling to take for love. For those who have never met me in person, im a bit of a hopeless romantic)

I just want to feal
real love thru the home that I live in
Cause I got too much life runing thru my vens going to waste
I nead to feal real love in the love ever after

I canot get enough
(Deffinetly cant get enough of love. never enough)

I just want to feal real love thru the home that I live in
I got to much love runing thru my veins to go to waste
I just want to feal real love and the love ever after
theres ahole in my sole you can see it in my face its real big place
(till I met Kati, I felt like I was missing a huge part of me. It was realy depressing. Im glad shes here now.)

come on hold my hand
I want to contact the living
not shure I understand
this road iv ben driveing

not shure I understand
not shure I understand
not shure I understand
Not shure I understand
(the world is a confusing place. Its up to pepole to make sence of it. Thats the fun of life I suppose.)

Girlfriends on line now going to talk to her. goodnight world.

ok there.

Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:19:40 GMT

Ok. there. Iv ben messing around with the picture editor on my computer wich came with my camera for nearly 3 hours now to get this picture right. Its a picture of me wearing some of my military surplus collection. Im proud of how it came out. Im new to CG picture editing and the program that came with my camera is realy basic.

First entery

Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:31:45 GMT

Well, this is my first entery. Mostly puting this up to have something to write when I just want to write. Dont know what I will write in here or when. Just depends on what im thinking about at the moment. Not much ells to say today. Just mostly messing with options on this figureing out how to mess around with it. Will probably write more later Warning for anyone who cares, I refuse to use spell check even though I cant spell very well. mostly, this is because I am trying to get myself to spell better.

Goodnight world.