junebug's Journal

It really has been a long time since I wrote here on DS. I have so much going on in life these days that I rarely feel up to taking the time to come here. In all this time, I still find it hard to load pages here on DS. It seems to take an eternity to move from place to place and that alone deters me from wanting to write a journal. I just came home again from GA. I have been there 6 times in 7 months. I am tired of the trip. We got a lot of interior painting done, and kitchen cabinets have been installed. My new appliances came, but for now they are still in their cartons. I have NO clue when they will get installed. I have to have my flooring put in first and right now there isn't a dime for that expense. We are waiting on a bid for having a new bathroom put in. Once that's done, the flooring is in, and the last couple of rooms painted, we will be good to go....in the interior anyway. I have gone to file a claim in small claims court on my ex contractor who left me in such a mess with inferior/and unfinished work. Even if I win a judgement, we all know how much it takes to ever see a penny of the money. I am just exhausted emotionally with all the problems. George isn't one ounce of help to me. All he does is stay in Michigan and complain about it all. Maybe he should just STAY in Michigan if he finds such fault in moving. Wish he would have said he wasn't going before all the work I have done on this project. Truthfully, I worked seven full days this last trip...up and down ladders, painting, filling nail holes, priming, cleaning up...Some days we were there for 9

 hours and we never stopped the entire day. I made about 15 trips to Home Depot as well..and that was harder than the physical job of painting. I hate their color charts. In all my years of painting and changing colors on walls, I have never had as much trouble getting a color that I want. I know that paint dries darker...so I choose a color one or two shades lighter than I want. Well let me tell you...I have four gallons of the gaudiest paint! Not about to put it in my house either. So now I still need dining room/hall paint and a color for the extra bedroom and computer room. After the bath is done, I will have a short hall way/laundry area to paint too. Oh does it EVER end? I hope to live long enough to see this to completion.

I haven't heard from some of you that have been ill and I am concerned. I have written you messages or sent hugs...please let me know how you are.

On a positive note. ... I am having a visitor this afternoon. A young man who I call a grandson. His father was married to my daughter Shelley for several years and Courtney (his name) spent many many days here in this house as he was growing up. After the divorce, we lost track of him. I have thought about him for years, wondering where he was and how he was doing. Well, we have found him again and he is on his way here. I have talked to him on the phone and he is still that same grandson he was all those years ago. I can't wait to see him. Such a nice young man. How he managed with the influences in his life is beyond me, but he is self supporting and a college student.

Until later................