Been a long time

Yeah, I know its been a while since my last post. As of right now I dont even know what I'm going to post this about.. we'll just see how it goes. My original thought of what this blog was going to be for was basically to bitch about the stupid things I see on a daily basis. Well, turns out that since I made this blog and started posting, I havent seen much stupid stuff.. at least nothing that warranted writing about. I also did a little thinking.. not much.. it hurts. I did however do a little, and I came up with this. I dont want people to read these posts about me bitching about stupid stuff and think that I'm someone who is always bitching about something. Those of you who know me know that this is in fact not true. So I've decided that in addition to bitching about the stupid stuff I see.. I'll try and write some random posts like this. So lets see.. what to write about... Well, I guess I can do a quick run down on my last couple weeks... did all the basic stuff.. get up, go to work, come home, try and relax a bit, have dinner, shower and go to bed. Yup, thats what I do. ok, there are some things I did in the past few weeks that I can tell you about. A few weeks back I made a buffet cabinet for my dinning room. I couldnt put any stain or finish on it at the time since I didnt have the proper tools to finish the job. So the other day we found a little money to purchase a sprayer so I could finish the job. I am currently working on finishing that project. I'm waiting right now for the finish to dry so I can sand and apply another coat. I hope to have this done and in the dinning room tomorrow. Then we can get rid of the boxes we have stacked up in there. Another project I did a couple weeks ago was the front yard. "The wife" and I.. yes, the wife.. sounds funny. But thats who she is, shes not the girlfriend or anything like that anymore. Guess I'll give her a nickname.. even though she didnt give me one.. I'll call her LJ. This name goes way back but thats a story for another time.. maybe. So, LJ and I worked on the front yard project a couple weeks ago. We decided it was time to fix the flowerbed and seating area that we had designed and built once before. Only this time we were going to do it right. Since apparently last time we didnt. We built a raised flowerbed and seating area right behind it. Its made of sand stone retaining wall blocks. I had never done anything like that before so it was kind of an adventure. It was fun but a lot of hard work. I'll have to edit this post later to add a picture. I have a few gripes about this because my neighbors didnt really offer to help. They just ignored us. Its not like I dont help anyone. Anyway, I dont want to get into that again. Guess I could have posted about that a couple weeks ago. Anyway, I did finally get some help. Turned out it was experienced help too, the best kind. I made a call and asked a "real" friend to help. He dropped what he was doing and came on out. Thanks man! One of my neighbors also finally decided to come on over and help.. we'll call him Jay. Thanks to both of you for your help. We could not have finished this job in the amount of time we did without your help. Which brings me to this weekend. I am making dinner for these guys to say thanks again for helping out. Well, guess thats about enough catch up work on my blog thing. So now I'm off to sand and apply another coat on the buffet cabinet. 'Til next time.