ace’s blog

The last few days have been a bit rough for me. 

Thursday night, I went to bed at the normal time, around 10 I think. 

Friday morning, I got up at 4 and was at work by 4:30 (yes, a.m.).  I had some work that I had to get done and I did, so the early day wasn’t a waste.  I figured I would go to bed early that night to make up for my lack of sleep the night before.  That worked out pretty good and I even got to sleep in till 7am Saturday morning.  That’s when the work began! 

At around 8:30 Saturday morning, Meri, Aaron and I went and got a yard of mulch for our neighbors that are moving in about two weeks.  Meri and I “helped” (read: did it all) him spread it throughout his gardens.  We finished that load pretty quick and the sun wasn’t out so it wasn’t bad at all.  Then it was decided that maybe,  possibly, perhaps he needed a second load of mulch, this time only 1/2 yard.  So I drove my happy, dirty ass up there and got more mulch.  Lucky us, there is no real difference between a half and full yard of mulch to the guy in the bulldozer.  So he filled up my truck with about 3/4 of a yard of mulch and I grumbled my way back to my neighbors yard.  I spread that for him.  Physcially, he was there but he moves pretty slow…Meri watched us and commented later that for every shovel load he moved, I moved about 4.  He’s older (and slower) and has a stomach in front of him to slow him down.  He bought us a ton of food that night so that was nice!

Sunday, I lazed around until about 9:30 and got off my ass and started doing all of the yard work.  I hadn’t done that for 3 weeks and it definitely showed!  My grass was high/thick in two or three areas.  Even on the highest setting, my lawn mower cut off a few times.  I edged with the weedeater and went through more line than I should have gone through in 6 weekends of yard work!  I have no clue why.  Mowing, edging, blowing, and watering took me about 3 1/2 hours!  I *forgot* sunscreen (again) so I’m pretty burnt in some areas.  As I was mowing and watering, I wore the lawn aeration shoe attachments.  That was a damn workout!  I was walking around, moving the hoses and stepped on one of them with shoes!  These shoes have 12 two inch spikes on the bottom.  So now I have to repair the hose.  Such a fun weekend!

Meri and I are worried about the kind of neighbors that we are going to get whenever someone buys our current neighbor’s house.  The last set of new neighbors we got aren’t very friendly or ever outside.  We are seriously thinking about putting a “for sale by owner” sign out in our front  and just seeing if we attract any attention.  If we sold the house, we would rent either a house or a townhome somewhere.  We’d like to be in Germantown but everything there is so expensive.  We’d take all of the money we made on our house in Jax and dump it on whatever we could find that had the highest yield.  But that probably won’t happen until one of our other neighbors puts their house on the market (in August).

In other non-busting-my-ass-outside news, I have a decent, wouldn’t mind if other pople saw it, version of my business site up.  Check it out.  I am not satified with the colors of the site so they will change soon.  I’m going to order some business cards this week and start trying to do a little marketing (to show profit motive :)).  I’m only looking to get my feet wet on a few, small websites.  I don’t even know what I would charge for some easy stuff.  I need to get an invoice together also.  I started filing all of my business expenses in it’s own folder.  I hope I can keep all of that kind of crap separate and organized.  Yay new business.  Now I
have to find a *sucker* er, client.