IDK

back in the summer i watched a movie which was based on a book and said "gee i should read the book" and i decided to not pirate it but actually check the e-book out at the library

i put my name down for a hold & was informed i would be 80-something in line

this was june

today it finally became available. five fucking months later.

update i'm already halfway finished reading it (apparently)

how the fuck did it take everyone else sooooo goddamn long

nothing like starting the day off with a heart attack to really wake you up!!!!!!!!

i have mentioned that the landlords provide a lawn service, and that they're fucking awful it's been nothing but problems (but they do keep the grass down so we live with it). well they normally are supposed to come on saturdays, and we were told there'd be "one last" job in september and they'd be done for the year.

well guess what

maggie is outside in the yard, she's still a huge huge flight risk & if she ever slips out & runs that's it we'll never see her again, and i think to myself "gee that mower-sounding-noise seems kind of close. it can't possibly be for us, but i'll double check just in case"

and it was the lawn people in our yard unannounced, of fucking course, on a day-of-the-week & month they are not supposed to be here

so i tear outside, can't see maggie can't get her to react to me calling for her, both gates are still shut so she probably hasn't gotten out yet (unless the mower noise freaked her out so bad she dug out under the fence, there's a few spots that are way too likely for my comfort......) but they could open at literally any second

i put tucker on a leash and grab him to flush her out, which shockingly works well- she still does Not want to play or be overly friendly with him, but will run back & forth with him sometimes- and get her (& tuck) back inside before any harm can be done (other than the fact that she hasn't had enough time for her morning constitutional)

i am not at all kidding when i say that my heart was going a mile a minute and i was seconds away from a full panic attack, because this would have been bad enough at any day but for it to happen when my mom is out of town????????? if i'd lost her dog on my watch??????? oh i'd have to jump in a creek & bury myself in the mud i'd be done

they CAME BACK AGAIN ?????????

and this time i had no choice but to take the dogs out even knowing the lawn people were here i waited as long as i could but they have to go out- tucker can go on walks around the block but maggie can't handle that yet (maybe ever!). so to put her in the yard i put a leash on maggie as a safeguard which freaked her out and when i opened the door she ripped it out of my hands so she might as well have not been leashed at all

and the big gate doors were open this time because the lawn people were just on break not finished so i had to frantically run after her before she decided to dart out into the wide open street

got her tho!!! and then she was so frantic to get back inside that she broke one of the struts off the porch railing shoving herself through the door

i'm so tired i don't want to keep doing this

and it's not even worth it !!!!! these lawn people are so awful they've cut the grass so short all year it's literally died in massive clumps our front lawn is just mud at this point

also they left like a big pile of leaves & one of the "yard waste" bins out in the back corner, as if they are not finished yet, but we have zero idea if they will be back and if so when???? later today? tomorrow morning? next week?????

they could literally show back up at any point open the gates of the yard & let our dogs out because they never knock or anything they just get going so we have no head's up. it's so frustrating!!!!!!!

nothing like starting the day off with a heart attack to really wake you up!!!!!!!!

i have mentioned that the landlords provide a lawn service, and that they're fucking awful it's been nothing but problems (but they do keep the grass down so we live with it). well they normally are supposed to come on saturdays, and we were told there'd be "one last" job in september and they'd be done for the year.

well guess what

maggie is outside in the yard, she's still a huge huge flight risk & if she ever slips out & runs that's it we'll never see her again, and i think to myself "gee that mower-sounding-noise seems kind of close. it can't possibly be for us, but i'll double check just in case"

and it was the lawn people in our yard unannounced, of fucking course, on a day-of-the-week & month they are not supposed to be here

so i tear outside, can't see maggie can't get her to react to me calling for her, both gates are still shut so she probably hasn't gotten out yet (unless the mower noise freaked her out so bad she dug out under the fence, there's a few spots that are way too likely for my comfort......) but they could open at literally any second

i put tucker on a leash and grab him to flush her out, which shockingly works well- she still does Not want to play or be overly friendly with him, but will run back & forth with him sometimes- and get her (& tuck) back inside before any harm can be done (other than the fact that she hasn't had enough time for her morning constitutional)

i am not at all kidding when i say that my heart was going a mile a minute and i was seconds away from a full panic attack, because this would have been bad enough at any day but for it to happen when my mom is out of town????????? if i'd lost her dog on my watch??????? oh i'd have to jump in a creek & bury myself in the mud i'd be done

they CAME BACK AGAIN ?????????

and this time i had no choice but to take the dogs out even knowing the lawn people were here i waited as long as i could but they have to go out- tucker can go on walks around the block but maggie can't handle that yet (maybe ever!). so to put her in the yard i put a leash on maggie as a safeguard which freaked her out and when i opened the door she ripped it out of my hands so she might as well have not been leashed at all

and the big gate doors were open this time because the lawn people were just on break not finished so i had to frantically run after her before she decided to dart out into the wide open street

got her tho!!! and then she was so frantic to get back inside that she broke one of the struts off the porch railing shoving herself through the door

i'm so tired i don't want to keep doing this

and it's not even worth it !!!!! these lawn people are so awful they've cut the grass so short all year it's literally died in massive clumps our front lawn is just mud at this point

work is dead as shit & i'm super bored the handful of "vaguely tech related websites" i visit on rotation have nothing new & there's only so many wikipedia binges i can handle

getting really tempted to read fic but i can't bring myself to do so during work hours because it's obviously not-work-related and also it's way harder to unstick my brain from a fic than a random tech-nonsense article when the phone rings etc

i brought my e-reader in and can't use it b/c the manager decided to spend the day here sitting next to me

😭 im so bored tho!!!

well! i can officially check "dropped an a/c out of a window" off my list of life experiences!!!!!!!! it wasn't even unplugged yet i was just wiggling the window a bit because the sash was stuck and boom. gone. power cord ripped the fuck off the unit, plastic snapped, metal crumpled.

i'm just really really glad it happened at this house where i'm on the first floor instead of at the last place, where it would have plummeted two stories down onto the roof of the landlord's family room

a/c is toast regardless but at least it wasn't particularly new :/

FUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK

it was plugged in when it fell right?

well the outlet is dead. the whole circuit is dead. which weirdly is only 1/2 the outlets in my room but is my mom's entire room & bathroom

it's going to take at least a week for my room to be in a state where people can come in & do work, and that's a fucking stretch

i'm so fucked it's my fault i can't even fucking deal with myself right now

i did not make another tragic butter miscalculation like last year, so mom's birthday cake is going okay so far!!

too bad i super regret her present & have no backups so i have to just give it to her & apologize :/ like, she won't hate it, but she also won't be able to use it for several months b/c her cataract is really bothering her :/

cake was somehow both underdone, and dry as fuck

tucker grabbed a piece off my plate >( and then when i got about half of it out of his mouth it was on the floor for a bit while my mom went to grab a paper towel & i grabbed him, and he will not stop licking the spot. i lysol'ed and then put down bitter spray and then fucking covered the spot with a towel and he's still obsessed

i mean, i'm glad someone liked it???? but it's a chocolate cake with boozy frosting. he should not be eating any of it!!!!!!