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X-Men 3

“I feel like Joel Shumacker just put his bare ass in my face and shit all over my lap.”
-one of the three guys in front of me seeing the movie

Very rarely will I not acknowledge that something ever existed. Star Wars 1-3? Interesting idea but never relased into the theaters. Black Sabbath in August of 1999 at Jones Beach? Never happened. My first girlfriend. Who?

That movie was complete BULLSHIT. No emotion, no cohesiveness. Total crap crap crap. I could rant for longer than the movie lasted. Brian singer how I miss you. Superman looks cool though. Ghost Rider looks to be, uh, umm, better than the Hulk and Elektra.

House Diary Day 7

What happened to days 5 and 6? I wasn’t in the house. I actually avoided being in the house for most of the weekend except Monday.

Measure all rooms, get square footage of the walls for each color
Abandon idea of building the fence myself
Hope Depot for paint and supplies
Order pizza!
Different Home Depot for more paint and lids for paint cans
Home Depot for gallon of same paint and level
paint paint paint
Home Depot for more paint supplies
paint paint paint

Home Depot trips today: 4
Home Depot trips to date: 11

Items Purchased: two gallons of primer, one gallon of orange for nook, one gallon of blue for living room, one gallon of green for bedroom, one gallon of light blue for office, one gallon of dark blue for office, one quart of brown for living room/kitchen, one gallon of brown for living room/kitchen, 12 disposable paint trays, 2 paint tray holders, 4 roller handles, 12 rollers, five drop cloths, laser level, set of three paint brushes, large trash bags, two edge painters, one corner painter, 3 double pack refills for the edge and corner painters, a powerful fan, and a goddamn Snickers bar.

House Diary Day 4

Accomplishments:
Numbers posted on fence post
Cleaned mold and grossness off of left side of the house and PVC fencing
Painted mailbox fire engine red
to her and her mother’s credit Amber and her mother got most of the cleaning done (from what I could tell)

Schmidt’s/True Value trips: 1
Items Purchased: 75 ft. hose, red outdoor paint, white outdoor paint, hose holder, House Cleaner

Home Depot trips today: 1
Home Depot trips to date: 8

Items purchased today: 3-pack of pliers, contact glue, endless cleaning supplies by Amber and her mother

Revelations:

  • can’t install a chain link fence and there are cheaper optins that are still not an electric dog fence

  • no idea what to do with the compost we picked up off the lawn
  • still not done piant taping, dammit
  • I’ve got a tan line from my engagement ring
  • “sleeveless shirts while outside” says Mr. Farmer Tan

House Diary Day 3

Accomplished:
paint taping
replaced front dead bolt lock
began cleaning back yard (10 30-gallon bags)
Home Depot for more bags, look at fencing materials
fill more bags of backyard junk
go to lunch with Amber
back to filling up bags with backyard junk
move extra slate and concrete from piles in backward
get Amber from work
decide on paint colors
fill even more bags with backyard crap, finally finshed
finsh paint taping, MAYBE
begin moving 48 1′ X 1′ concrete slabs
borrow wheel barrel, go to Home Depot for numbers for fence in front of house, apply for Home Depot credit card
finish moving 1′ X 1′ concrete slabs

Home Depot trips today: 2
Home Depot trips to date: 7

Items purchased today: 3 5-pack 30-gallon lawn refuse bags, plastic numbers “1″ “3″ “6″ and “6″, 20 oz. Coke (the sodas from the machines are cheaper than the ones inside!)

House Diary Day 2

Accomplished:
More taping
Home Depot trip for paint chips
Cut back some tree branches
Stuck on roof, called for help, Amber helped me down
Laundry
ordered Chinese food
Home Depot for random stuff
Borrowed ladder for taping tops of doors
More taping
Home Depot for more paint chips

Home Depot trips: 3
Trips to date: 5

Items purchased today: new lock for front door, 2 rolls of paint tape, 20 oz. Coke, 2 5-pack 30 Gallon lawn garbage bags