diary of a dysfunctional doll

power tools and wine

03.12.05 (4:42 pm)

by this time tomorrow i'll have my dishnetwork back! yay! they called me twice today to remind me. the first time was ok, even tho they called at 7am on a saturday. at least they didn't forget me. so no sooner did i crawl back into bed and fall asleep than the phone rang a second time. the same lady said the same speach. i have never wanted to strangle anyone so bad before, but instead i simply asked her if shes ever been stuck in the house for over a month with a 6 month old baby, while her husband is out to sea, with no television? she didn't answer right away, so i assured her again, that i would most definately be here and i damn well expect her people to show up before 12. she chuckled to herself and mumbled something about imagining that i would be here. so i asked her if it would be to much trouble to cross my name off her reminder list, as she had alreaddy called me not even an hour earlier. she appologized and assured me that she was sure she hadnt called. liar.

anyway, i spent most of the day cleaning, my house is almost there, which is good, cause i have alittle less than 2 weeks left before my husband comes home. other than the laundry that i refuse to fold on the grounds that it belongs to my husband, and he wont bother to to fold it his own damn self so i dont feel as tho i should either, and my sons room which is a mess of clothes and things hes outgrown, i'm done.

after i loaded the dishwasher, i sat down to a nice pasta dinner (yes, i actually cooked, screw that tv dinner crap!) and decided that i'd have a glass of wine. i bought a good, ok semi decent bottle yesterday, but hadn't opened it yet. so i was about to open it, when the corkscrew snapped of in the cork. i was stunned. i sat here for about ten minutes in total disbelief of my horrible luck. so i got up, wandered around the kitchen wondering exactly what the hell i could do now. i had nothing. so i was on my way back to the livingroom, when i noticed my husbands cordless drill. i don't know what made me think this would work, but i grabbed the drill, a screw, and a pair of pliers. do you see where this is going? i screwed the screw into the cork with the drill, and then held the screw with the pliers and pulled with all my might, and amazingly it worked. i'm not exactly sure that the wine was worth that much trouble, but i felt like i accomplished something. and speaking of acomplishing, i'm still in the process of redesigning my blog, and i need to go work on that.

posted by: FinalyFree
post date: 03.13.05 (9:15 pm)

Woo atleast you had the drill. I've tried to wrenck the cork out with a knife only to have it crumble into pieces and fall in the wine. And yes I had to strain it before drinking it, lol.

posted by: Roxgirl
post date: 03.14.05 (6:52 am)

I love the design of your BLOG :)

I'm glad you got ingenious with the wine cork ;) Just goes to show you when you want something bad enough, there's always a way to get it! :)

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1. i love being a mom.
2. i love being married, but i hate being a navy wife.
3. my son is 6 months old.
4. i am terrified of dogs.
5. i have two chihuahuas.
6. i get frustrated very easily.
7. my dogs are not always well behaved, especially when other people are around.
8. my son is only well behaved whenever other people are around.
9. i love them anyway.
10. i hate the military.
11. i married my husband anyway.
12. i know close to nothing about his job.
13. not even his rate or rank.
14. i like it that way, but other people think i'm weird.
15. i love tori amos.
16. and ani difranco.
17. i wanted to give you a more interestingprofie than the normal "name age location" thing.
18. i dye my hair red.
19. i've been dying it since i was 15
20. my hair has been gray since around the same time i started dating my husband, when i was 19.
21. my husband and i started "talking" on august 29th 2002.
22. we became a real couple on oct. 19th 2002.
23. we were married on oct. 18th, 2003. my 21st b-day.
24. my sons due date was aug. 28th, 2004.
25. he was born or august 22 tho, so the coincidence ends there.
26. my favorite color is purple.
27. i was born in philly, but moved to virginia when i was 4.
28. i live in CT now, cause home is where the navy sends me.
29. my husband is almost 10 years older than me.
30. he acts 10 years younger than me.
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32. i like the beach, but the water is nasty, and i hate sand.
33. one of goals in life is to go to a beach with clear blue water.
34. i dream of going to new orleans someday.
35. i have a sneeking suspicion than new orleans in my dreams is the way it was along time ago, and going there today would probably be quite a shock to me.
36. i'm afraid of the dark.
37. i love walking in the rain in the summer.
38. i fell in love with my husband when he convinced me to have kids.
39. i never wanted children, but i love my son more than life.
40. i am shy, but you wouldn't know it if you knew me.
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42. girls piss me off.
43. my life is one binge after another, i going on cleaning rampages, i get obbsessed with blogging, i spend days at a time doing just one thing, and then i move on.
44. i hate that about myself.
45. i'm 22 years old and i sleep with a stuffed bear.
46. i have panic attacks when i drive.
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48. i love big crowds of my friends.
49. i don't drive much.
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62. my husband makes a perfect omlet.
63. he tried to teach me how, but mine are always ugly.
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65. i hate being compared to other people.
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70. i loved him the second i saw him, but it took us almost 2 years to get together.
71. i try not to have unrealistic goals in life.
72. sometimes i cry in the shower for no reason.
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