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Finally got rid of our renter!

by The Diva



I’ve been trying very hard to relax and get back into my regular routine all week. Our troublesome renter finally moved out late last Monday night. YEAH!!!!!

I’m so happy about that I almost dig a big happy dance right in front of him the night he moved out. I would have if it hadn’t been so late! Who moves out of a persons home at 11 o’clock at night after being out all day and arriving at the house by banging on the door furiously? Very odd.


We’d basically reached the point with our renter where we told him he pretty much had to move out. He moved in the last week or July and he was only supposed to stay for a week or two. We were just doing him a favor because he’d broken up with his girlfriend and he was supposed to just be staying at our house while he looked for another room to rent or an apartment .. but we should have known .. he’d waiting until he HAD to move out from his girlfriends place even though he’d known he needed to look for a place for about a month and of course once he moved in to our place he didn’t start looking for a new place. No … in fact, the first week he was with us he apparently even quit his job!

Yep .. he paid the rent late, ate our food even though we were only renting him a room, used my soaps and shampoos .. like really used them to the point that I have empty bottles of bathing products! Oh and if you read my last post about our house smelling like cigars .. well he’s a cigar smoker. He didn’t smoke in the house but ALL of his stuff was just saturated with the smell of cigars and it was so bad that it basically made my house smell of cigars. I’m very sensitive to scents so I could smell it. My husband who is a smoker couldn’t, but it was extremely strong to me.

Oh and this guy .. when he was still working worked an evening shift so he wouldn’t come home until about 1 am at first. That was ok as I’m a night owl .. but he started going out drinking with the “boys” after work and unbeknownst to us he put in his notice at work because he hated his job so I guess between being miserable over breaking up with his girlfriend and quitting or maybe even being fired from his job – hey we don’t know! – and as a result of this late night drinking he started coming in at three or four in the morning absolutely toasted!

Naturally this would totally disrupt the whole household as my dog would be barking when he came in. Sometimes i’d still be up sometimes not but I could never relax. He’d come in and start banging doors around, slamming the bathroom door or his bedroom door, run water like Niagara falls in the bathroom to fill his glass and walk back and forth and back and forth from his room to the bathroom several times. Then he’d always get up an hour or two later and make noise … and I think sometimes barf.

He just stunk and made so much noise. He was inconsiderate of everyone in the house. There’s more, lots of little things but those are the main things. I’m just happy he’s gone. He was one of the worst renters we ever had! Now he’s back living across the street “temporarily” with his girlfriend again. I have no idea how long that will last. Maybe they’ll get back together .. who knows.

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My house smells like cigars – and I’m a non smoker!

by The Diva

I’m a non smoker trying to live temporarily with two smokers. It’s not working out that well. Not for me that is.

I’ll tell you what happened. I was a smoker. I quit smoking close to two years ago. So did my husband.

However, sometime last fall or so my husband started sneaking smokes and thought he was fooling me. As if I wouldn’t know he was smoking again. I have a super sensitive sense of smell – no not just since I quit smoking, it was there before I quit and it’s very very acute. I could smell the cigarette on him almost as soon as he began smoking again but I didn’t tell him that I knew he was smoking until this past February. Now he smokes open, but only outside.

I think he smokes more now that I know he’s smoking again .. and he smells more.

So now we have this “guest” staying at our house. I knew he was a smoker when he was coming to stay but what I didn’t know was that he smoked cigars pretty much 99% of the time. He goes out buying cigars almost daily! He’s moved in temporarily and now my house smells like cigars because all of his stuff smells like cigars!

He doesn’t smoke his cigars in our house .. but like I said, he smells like cigars and so does everything he owns and that’s gradually seeping in to everything in my home … I’m not liking it.

The next time we get a border … it will be a 100% non smoker!

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Womens World Tagged With: awful, cigarettes, cigars, husband, non smoker, quit, quit smoking, scent, sensitive, smell, smelly, smoking

Strangely hairy faces

by The Diva

It’s the oddest thing, for some reason I’ve been noticing men with long white beards walking around in crowds lately. No I’m not seeing Santa Claus every where. I’m just seeing an abundance of men with extraordinarily long white beards everywhere.

Along with men with long beards, I’ve also seen a few with strange long mustaches.

I haven’t seen as many of these as I have the long beards but the odd mustaches are stranger. I mean, they look kind of like the guy in this photo!

Or if not full elaborate sides like that, twisted handlebar mustaches.

Is this some kind of new trend in male facial hair. Are men growing out really long beards again? If it’s a new trend can I vote NO?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and family, Humor, Recreation, Womens World Tagged With: facial hair, funny mustache, handlebar mustaches, long beards, long mustaches, Santa Claus beard, trend, white beards

A mass of guitar equipment

by The Diva

I’m sure anyone that’s been reading this blog or any or my other blogs regularly knows that I’m back in renovation mode these days. Along with renovating our house comes cleaning and clearing out rooms so that work can be done. It’s amazing the stuff that can accumulate in a house over the years isn’t it.

My husband is a musician and I didn’t realize it, but he has musical equipment all over the house! Guitars, cords, microphones, music stands, music books, mbox interface equipment, amplifiers, guitar peddles and so on. There’s so much musical equipment I don’t even think he was aware of how much he had. Perhaps it’s time for him to take a good hard look at what’s here and if he’s not using it maybe we should have a yard sale or sell some it online or something.

I don’t know – perhaps he won’t go for that idea, but we have a lot of clutter and something needs to be done about it! Clutter wise he has more than me.

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try, Music Tagged With: amp, basement, blog, cleaning, guitar, guitar pedals, husband, mbox, mics, music stands, musical equipment, musician, reno

Will my hand ever get better?

by The Diva

I can’t believe how long it’s taking for my injured hand to get better. I fell and hurt my left hand in early June and I don’t know when it’s going to get better.

It seems that I stretched the ligaments in my thumb and the outside of my hand, as well as severely hurt a few bones in my wrist. It seems that I didn’t tear any ligaments or tendons or break any bones, but one particular bone in my wrist, the hamate bone, has swollen bone marrow and that has part of my wrist and hand all swollen. Of course the top of the base of my thumb is still swollen too. When it gets swollen it’s like there’s a pencil stub under my skin at the base of my thumb. It’s very weird.

Of course I’m left handed and this is the hand I’ve injured. It makes writing all these lovely blog posts just so much fun! I want to write and stay in touch with my readers and friends, but it’s difficult. I’ve been trying to use dictation software but I seem to only be able to use it when my house is quite. Noise seems to make it harder for it to decipher what I’m saying .. and my house has been noisy and under renovation lately so it’s hard to use the software that makes communicating on the computer with an injured hand easier.

Even thought I’m complaining my hand is better than it was a few weeks ago .. but it seems like it’s still going to take a few weeks or even a few more months before it’s truly healed.

Actually I don’t know if it will ever be the way it was before the injury. My hand is weak now. I drop things easily and my hand hurts and aches all the time. Yesterday I dropped something truly precious to me. It was something that I had inherited from my parents, a piece of bone china. I was moving it because my husband needed to move a piece of furniture so he could do some renovations in our dining room and the piece just fell out of my hand. I was terribly upset. Darn hand!

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family Tagged With: base of thumb, bone china, bone scan, bones, broken, computer, damaged hand, dictation software, fall, hamate bone, hand, injury, ligament, months, posting, renovation, stretched ligaments, swelling, swollen marrow, tendons, thumb, weak hand, wrist, wrist bones, writing

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