Well, I guess I'll poke you now,
@sumi LOL I haven't heard from you that I know of and I forgot about it, so now is as good of a time as any
We had a nice weekend, other than some family drama. We went to see Riverdance on Saturday, and it was a lot of fun. I had forgotten about a lot of parts in the show, so it was nice to see it again. We got stuck in the parking deck on the way out, the gate broke or something so everyone had to sit there. At least the weather was nice so we just turned the car off and waited. We were late getting to his cousin's house for her daughter's 1st birthday party, and by the time we got there, they had eaten all the pizza. We hung around a nibbled on cake, before taking a swift exit when the first part of the drama erupted. His brother and another cousin (married into the family) decided it would be funny to move a bunch of his Aunt's stuff around. She is the kind of lady that is OCD and LOVES her china and knickknacks. She keeps lives in an in law apartment next to the BF's cousin's house, and so she's decorated everything in the main house, and keeps it spotless, despite having 4 kids in the house. I think she runs herself ragged doing it. Well, when she found the things moved, she blew her gasket. In a big way. The the guys wouldn't go apologize for doing it. Mind you, they're 26 and 31 years old. She was crying and shaking she was so angry. She's got some trauma issues in her past that obviously aren't cleared up if she reacted that badly. The BF was furious because he TOLD them that she was going to be super upset when she found out, and he was right, but they didn't listen. So we ducked out as quickly as possible, and headed to our local haunt for some appetizers so we didn't wake up starving the next morning.
Sunday morning we got up and headed down to pick up my friend's car to bring it back to the farm so BP can fix it. It needs some serious work. We got it on the dolly fine, and then learned that it's not a good idea to try to turn it around in a cul-de-sac with cars parked in it. Apparently the dolly doesn't like turns THAT tight. No harm done, thankfully, and we went on our merry way. We were driving through the curvy roads almost home when one of the straps popped off one of the tires. Thankfully it happened at a tiny "town" (I say that, there's a post office, a gas station, and a little restaurant and some businesses, that's it, it's really a 4 way stop) where we could pull off easily. There were a lot of other places that it would have been pretty disastrous had it happened then. So we got the strap reset, and then headed home.
The BF cleaned up from that, and then he headed out to go to the shooting range with his brothers while I stayed at home to work on my Reiki class stuff, and work Storm. I ended up not working Storm because he had a cow over the car dolly sitting in the driveway. So we didn't do anything other than hang out and relax. It was disappointing, but I at least did do something. I headed in the house and did a bit more work before getting in the bath to soak.
Oh, that's part of the story I forgot about. I was going to get in the bath on Saturday before we headed to the show. I started to run the bath, and then sat down on the toilet, and my stomach decided to rebel. So I didn't get to check the water until it was pretty full. It was WAY too hot. So I tried adding cold, still not enough to make a difference. So then I tried to let some water out of the tub. The drain won't open up again. So now I have a huge tub of very very hot water and no way to adjust the temp. I waited for a while, and it didn't cool down. Finally I decided to do it the old fashioned way, and stood in the tub, and washed off with my sponge, and then rinsed down, and then bent over and washed my hair. Thank goodness for all those yoga classes, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to stand with my head upside down for that long!!
It was funny after the fact, especially since the water was so hot that my feet stayed beet red for about an hour afterwards!!
My bath sunday was much more comfortable! LOL
The BF got home and we fixed dinner while he told me about the next round of family drama. When he went to pick his brother up from the house, he got into a conversation with his parents. They were bugging him again about paying the phone bill for his cell phone (they have a big Tmobile family plan). Meanwhile, his 2 brothers, ages 24 and 26 live at home, with jobs making more than twice what the BF makes and live RENT FREE. Oh, but they pay their cell phone bills. His youngest brother confessed that he has almost 100K in the bank right now. And his middle brother made 100K working as a cop last year. I would be SOOOO EMBARRASSED to say that I still lived at home with a job like that. But his parents won't kick them out, and apparently won't ask for rent, either. It might be a little different if they were at least paying SOMETHING towards living there, but they pay nothing. His father's answer? Well you can move back home.
I was furious when I found out. So the BF is going to be getting his own cell phone plan. It'll be more than he's paying through his family, but it will be one less thing they can hold over his head. I can't wait to move further away from them and their drama. His father has turned out just like his father, not supporting his oldest son (He's the IV, too, btw, which only makes it worse), and always riding him for not being good enough, and not approving of anything he does. Meanwhile, his younger brothers get to do whatever they want to do, riding the coat tails of their parents while making buckets of money, but that's not a problem.
So yay family drama. I seriously can't wait until we can move away from them. They have such toxic relationships.
The up side to yesterday was the weather was GORGEOUS!! I had the windows open and it felt great. The sun was so warm, and the breeze wasn't too bad. It was a really beautiful day. I was almost too warm in a long sleeve tshirt while I was out in the sun with the horse. We have nice weather for a while longer, which is great. We'll see what happens, soon, I'm a little worried about what is coming if we are having such warm weather now.
Related to that, I think a couple of the horses have been dealing with worms. I'm going to do a fecal count this week and see where we are at, I think with the mild winter we might be having an early outbreak. Toppers had diarrhea for a while, I can't tell if it is gone or not because his butt was icky, so I washed him off yesterday since it was so warm. Simon doesn't want to finish his food, either, and he's lost a bit of weight. I'll do a count on Wednesday and see what's going on. I wish I could wait for the sale on the fecal counts, but that won't be for another few months. We just had the full moon, so I'll be ready to make any other adjustments if they are needed when it comes around again.
That's about all the news from this neck of the woods!
Best of luck with your business! Have you got a FB page set up? There is amazing potential for advertising and getting word out there… Just saying. PM me if you need any help/tips.
I'm not happy about all this warm weather, but darn it I'm going to enjoy it if it's here.
Now I have to figure out how to follow up with it. I need to get some new marketing materials made up, I'm thinking I'm going to do postcards, so I can drop them off at various places. 
Link me to your FB page?
I wish my bath water would stay hot for so long. My bathroom is so cold, even with the heating on. If I leave a hot bath for 20 minutes it's ruined for me.
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