Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Feels Like Monday

The last few weeks have been boring as hell; this AM changed everything. I woke up early and renewed the insurance on the work truck, it's also child tax day; money and transportation issues resolved.

Heath was dashing around trying to find labourers for a concrete pour and was attempting to reschedule for tomorrow; I dont' think so! We are already 3 days behind on this project and possibly lost the job to follow because Marilyn is on a tight schedule. I found one carpenters online and Heath picked up Kevin Johnson, the concrete was booked for 3:30pm and the crew was finally finished at the site by 8:30pm! I was not impressed because Mayco suggested they order a pump truck and estimated it would take 1 hour... well, it took 3 hours @ $120/hr which means we are now another $360+ over budget, the client will NOT be impressed!! I don't even wanna talk about how much money we've gone over with the wages; it's not pretty and it's not like I haven't made Heath aware of the situation, he just doesn't seem to care.

Almost have all the planning done for Dennis' party, paid for the room rental and handed out the invitations for Friday. Just need to plan food, order the DQ cake and buy a cellphone.

Received a check in the mail from FMEP, child support payment from Wanda; pleasantly surprised that she's actually paid. I thought for sure she'd choose to spend the two days in jail just to be spiteful. Hopefully she stays consistant and we can start saving money. Still waiting to see if she's gonna bother sending Dennis anything for his birthday, or not.

In watching the News last night I was taken back by the idea that Vancouver has proposed that they build safe Crack Inhalation Sites; seriously?! These drug addicts get free shelter, free food and now they get their own Crack Shacks!! Just how far are people gonna go in a self defeating manner of enabling addicts? There is no "rock bottom" because at this rate their lives will never become 'unmanagable'... they make poor choices and others coddle them and don't hold them accountable... so, they have no reason to change!!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Wow, First Blog!!

This week has been alot of conversation, seems I'm the only one who likes to talk in my household! I'm the type of person who likes to let people know what I'm thinking, I like people to know what my expectations are and what is going on in my head... I'd LOVE it if more people would do the same for me.

Heath has been working for the past two weeks on a complicated foundation project, it's taken longer than expected because the terrain and the new tenant has been uncooperative. They've had to rely on a small generator for electricity and it severely crippled their capability to use power tools or the compressor... we're 3 days behind and the clients only have $9,000 in their budget for his foundation. I have no idea how they plan on getting the remainder of the home up to code and livable, especially since it's been leaking into the house and everything will be ruined if they don't seal the house immediately! We're planning on have concrete poured Tuesday and construction complete on Wednesday, THEN Heath has to go back once the house is dropped, in order to sister the floor joists and possibly install fiberglass insulation.

I've been working hard all week to plan a birthday party for Dennis, my initial plan was to rent a Sumo Suit $200 for 4 hours, they'd have a BLAST! It proved to be more complicated that I'd hoped, due to lack of facilities to rent for the space we'd require. Seeing that I've run out of time and finances are questionable, I'd decided to keep it simple and we've planned a skate/swim party. Now I still have to see if I can rent a room for dinner... fingers crossed!