Cari

When you get calls from all the tenants at the same time it’s probably not never a good thing.

And it was water related.  I hate water.  Water doesn’t mix well when it ends up outside the places it’s supposed to stay.

This time it decided to come from a leak in a shower drain.  It could have been the kind of thing that was there for years.  But it reared its ugly head because the drain in the tub was clogged for an indeterminate amount of time and the tenants appeared to be just dealing with standing in nasty water.

A slow random drip probably dries before it becomes noticeable but because water had undoubtedly been sitting in the tub for a while, it eventually flooded the area between the 1st and 2nd floor bathrooms.  The result of which was very wet drywall … and a major mess.

It’s hard enough to deal with these things when you have two kids and a wife but now it’s nearly unmanageable.

Maybe I need to move away from rentals

I don’t mind dealing with most of the stuff.  Maybe I can focus on it again some point down the road but for now I don’t know if I can balance it all.  This is the 2nd major happening in the past 4 months.  1st the garage starts on fire and now a major leak in the house.

I figured Cari had something to do with the garage but I doubt she had her hands in this one.

The only bright note is that I happened to have a contractor at the house looking at the garage and he has some contacts that will at least come in and do the plumbing.  He wanted what seemed like an exorbitant amount of money to do the drywall too.  But when I have no time to do anything, maybe I just need to pay.  Hanging drywall sucks anyways so I might as well just open up the checkbook.

Just some little, but big, things i miss oh so much (in no particular order)

• your laugh … and making you laugh
• a quick phone call (or many quick phone calls), an e-mail, a text
• a walk to the park … a walk anywhere
• popcorn
• csi, law & order, prison break, 24
• bacon … breakfast
• cracking my back
• holding hands
• your little fingers & toes
• cubs games, bears games and even the occational sox game
• snoring
• a hug & kiss
• a movie
• bowling & volleyball … our night out
• your voice
• a conversation, a discussion, a disagreement … any of the above
• your cooking or best attempts at it
• your support
• our vacations
• your presence
• you, my best friend, my lover

… a work in progress

I couldn’t fall asleep last night, so I was up til maybe 2a.  So the 1a wakeup call by E didn’t really phase me.  I was finally getting some needed sleep when my 6a wakeup call by C came around.  I can’t tell you the last time I set my alarm … actually I can, it was 4 months ago today.

Maybe that’s the reason for my struggles today.  That thing that happened 4 months ago today.  I’ll hold back on the 4-letter words for now but plenty of them are running through my head right now.

Today was incredibly long. 

I tried to get ready for the first bears home game tomorrow.  An event I’m not looking forward to.  I almost skipped it.  But I thinking instead I’ll just skip the rest unless friends convince me otherwise.  My mom was over for soccer this morning and stayed til about 3.  It helped having her here.  Around noon I took C to the store with me to get stuff for tailgating.  Good thing it was only him b’cuz he started crying half way through the store and if E was there I probably would have freaked out and left the cart where it was.

It was such a long day that I started writing this Saturday and only had time to pick up on it today … 3.54 am on Tuesday.  Yes, another early morning wake up.  E isn’t feeling well.  The dr said there wasn’t anything she could give when we visited last Thurs for C but maybe it’s time to go back again.  It doesn’t seem like she’s super sick, but sick enough to be waking her in the middle of the night.  She actually seemed fine until about 8p and then she went down hill. 

In the morning (well more like 3 hours) I’m going into the office.  For what, I’m not all that sure.  Actually I have to fix my laptop.  The g, h, and some other keys stopped working.  You can’t do a whole lot without those keys.  I had to go purchase a wireless keyboard just to log in.

It would be nice to get a full uninterrupted nights sleep one of these days.  But does it really matter?  I’ll end up downing some caffeine in the morning regardless so is there really a difference between 4 hours and 8 hours+.  You know what I really want??? Cari.  Here.  Now. Please

I drove into the city today and a couple random events popped into my head

Forever ago (well like 7 years maybe) we were riding our bikes back from the lake … through the old town triangle section of chicago.  I’m sure we were kind of riding in the middle of the street when someone drove towards us.  Maybe we were a little slow to get out of their way.  Whatever, right, we’re on the side street so as if it’s a big deal.  The guy, instead of spouting out a bunch of expletives, yelled “dork”.  Dork?  Who says dork?  Even more, who yells dork out their window in the city?   If the guy would have said anything else we never would have remembered the event but because he used the word dork we laughed about it often.

And then another time we were headed down Belmont leaving wrigleyville.   I was driving and Cari was riding shotgun.  I don’t know why she did this, but she rolled down her window and spit.  Well I guess she didn’t see the guy we just passed on his bike before we hit the stop light.  Needless-to-say the bike rider caught up to us at the same time she decided to spit out the window.  He wasn’t all too happy.  This time he used some words other than dork to express his feelings.