Weekend, whatever happened
This weekend there will be no real sprinkler work. My dad arrives late next week and I am going to rent a trencher then. I am hoping that we could have all of the circuits in the ground with a couple days worth of work. Instead this weekend I want to clean out the garage. We have completed the first year of our monthly cleaning project thing and are back to where we started, the garage. The good thing is that we have kept the garage pretty organized since it’s first cleaning. The second time should be easier. Basically we just have to roll the shelves out and sweep up the spiders, dead frogs, sand and leaves. Then we have some more stuff to do to prep for my dad and brother showing up, no big deal.
Yesterday was one of those days when Ali was really fed up with her job. She called me on the verge of tears saying how she just doesn’t want to be there and how she dreads coming to work. I told her again how she can just quit, but she has to then find something else. As long as I have known Ali, she has never been happy in any job that she has had. From the outside, her current situation would seem pretty decent, four days a week, she gets to take Nicki with her to work and her hours are pretty normal and any extra time she does work, she gets paid for since she is now hourly. However the stress of working with a group of people that are more incompetent than competent stresses her out beyond belief. She blames her job and the stresses associated with it for various things that have a negative effect on her.
We can’t afford for her to not work as of now. On a regular basis I hear from her how she just wants to quit working. I still have the goal of making that happen, of course I have expectations of how things should be if that scenario does come to fruition. The removal of those things that have a negative affect on her should have a positive effect for me, but nothing is guaranteed.
Yesterday a co-worker told me that she saw a recent picture of Josh Gracin, the American Idol contestant from a few years ago. He was the good looking kid that did mostly country style stuff and
he also was a Marine, which they played up to the hilt in the show. Shortly after his season was done, he actually had a record put out and this is how he looked. Well my co-worker told me he looked terrible, she hardly recognized him. Well of course I had to see for myself. It didn’t take me long to find an “after” shot.
This is a picture from last year and from what I understand, he is even fatter now. It looks like the guy packed on 50 pounds. I just don’t get it. The guy stepped in shit and got a huge lucky break and became famous even though he really isn’t all that great of a singer. He responds to that stroke of luck by transforming himself into a lard ass.
Ironically, after seeing Josh’s downward transformation, last night on Idol they brought in Fantasia to do a song. Man, she looked like hell too. She was never a skinny chick but it looked like she packed on 30 to 40 pounds as well. She was also sporting a heat miser hair style that looked ridiculous as well. I was commenting on how shitty she looked as Ali was laying in bed with me watching the show. Ali got pissed at me for my comments. She went on a mini-rant saying she was sick of how all I care about is what people look like. I certainly can’t deny being very focused on a person’s physical appearance. To me, a person’s outward appearance does say a lot about them. Certainly it doesn’t say everything and there are certainly exceptions. However this is just a part of my personality, it always has, it always will be. For Ali to bitch about it now annoyed me.
Last night I couldn’t stand feeling so shaggy so I shaved off the goatee and trimmed off the sideburns that were getting out of control. I feel better. I can deal with the hair a bit longer I think.