is blowing for me right now.

(As Shanny would say, you’re a big girl now: suck, don’t blow. But that’s beside the point.)

I’m hearing from people I don’t care to hear from (well, not so much), and then the few people I really am interested in hearing from at this moment in time are not stepping up. Case in point: got my phone bill yesterday (at least it was a small one), but crickets from the guy who undertook more than a month ago to clean my gutters and replace some errant downspouts and powerwash my fence, which is looking like crap. I had emailed him to ask if he’d forgotten about me, and haven’t heard back. This is the guy who did a good job on the dining room, so I’m not that eager to hunt down some other guy. On the other hand if he doesn’t get back to me soon, I will have to, the green stuff growing on my fence is particularly alarming.

At work last Tuesday, asked for a quote for an item to be delivered by this Wednesday. I am not confident of quick turnover, but I had no quote by 6:00 pm Friday. HI WE’RE TRYING TO HIRE YOU TO DO SOMETHING, WOULD YOU KINDLY DO IT? WE’LL PAY YOU FOR IT.

With tradespeople, I really don’t understand this attitude that they’re doing you a favour by agreeing to let you hire them. That’s why we call it a service industry, chaps.

Speaking of service industry, I had a dream last night that I was assistant floor manager of an appallingly overstaffed coffeeshop. like 20 tables and two servers, and a manager and me. No idea where that came from! The place was empty in any case. Then the damn dog woke me up so I don’t know where the dream was leading. :p

Have a great weekend I have some cleaning to do, a little grocery shopping, and some editing. Oh, and the Oscars to watch