I have guests coming at ten to view my house. Since I got up at 830, this screws up my day ever so little. I have an hour and a half to make coffee, breakfast, eat and drink, take a shower and be presentable. And it’s Sunday so I would like to read the paper. Slowly. Something has gotta give.
Well, the newspaper gave way. I did not have it done by 10. Oh well.
Agent was Karen Duncan. She is Brett Leber’s sister, Stephanie Leber’s (friend of Michael) aunt, Linda Thomas ex partner. Yes, I know her. Her clients are the Walker’s, son Steven was in Emily’s class years ago, mom is local bank president, dad works for SID. Ya, I’m familiar. Did I mention Dixon is a small town? We had a nice tour, took plenty of time, they seem to like it. Not sure why they would want it considering condition and age and the fact they are loaded$$$$. Who knows?
Once they were finally gone, I read the paper. Now it’s Sunday? No, then I washed my car. Our roomie Trisha drove up then so I offered to help her wash her car. We washed her car. That thing has not been washed in weeks. Filthy. Packed with leaves in all crevices. Tree sap making a semi permanent home on the paint job. Dirty. She does not care. Or for that matter, care for her car. Even she thinks that weird since she is completely OCD and it seems car care is the perfect place to be OCD. But I’m no doctor.
Emily got home from yoga and Target about now. She helped find a Mac charger for Trisha to use. I had already looked for twenty minutes with no luck. Trisha had dropped hers in a bucket of dirty fish tank water. Basically sewage.
We are leaving in a few to go to Auburn. Emily wants to look at the property again. Emily wants to look and see where we can stick the yurt we are planning on living in for the next few months while a house is built. We will be renting the house once it’s done. Right now we are renting the dirt. Sounds weird.
Ok, we are now on our way to Berkeley. I know, I said Auburn. Emily came up with something else. The Wooden Duck, a favorite furniture store of ours, is going out of business. Everything half off. We went to Berkeley. Short, fast trip. The store was very picked over, the sale has been going for a long time. We managed to find two mirrors at great prices. One is so large I have to drive back with my truck to get it. No free delivery here, that cost $200. See why I’m doing it myself?
We left there and Emily wanted to drive out down 4th street instead of the fast and easy way we came in. Lots of traffic on 4th and plenty of morons driving poorly. I thought of my sister. But down toward the end of the shopping district we ran across a new furniture store. Most of their inventory is made from reclaimed teak. Nice stuff, not too expensive, and it turns out the owner also applies his skills to cabinets and interiors of houses. He also makes tiny houses. All of these things apply to our new house. He had tons of samples and pictures of his work. He even had brochures. So we got all his info and headed home.
Trip home was quick. We got to try our new Fastrak thing on the toll bridge. I feel so 21st century. Strangely we stopped nowhere else on our drive. And now we don’t stop for the toll either.
Finally home and Emily went to school to work. I went to the pharmacy to pick up the dogs Rx. His pills cost $116!!! WTH? I think this dog Costa to much. All the dogs are old and he is being kept alive expensive drugs. When I was a kid, when dogs got to a certain point, they got the needle. Not anymore. Ain’t medical science fantastic? Good thing I like the dog.
Went to the hardware store and picked up some NiCad batteries. The owner of the store stopped me with an accounting question. Turns out his question was am I accepting more clients? I always say yes to that. Mo money. I hope it works out.
Went home and hung out doing very little. Some laundry, etc. Emily came home. We made dinner. Nice Sunday dinner, BBQ tri tip, salad, asparagus and even dessert. See Sunday isn’t all work. We are now watching bad TV. I’m not, I’m blogging. Emily is. We are going to bed very soon. Like now.