Day Two Hundred Sixteen - REST DAY

I woke up early this morning and damn it was COLD!!!!  I was freezing so I fired up the stove early and just stayed inside.  I had lots of files to organize on the computer so I did that all morning.  I decided to take it easy today because it was just too cold and I didn't want to get out there and freeze like I've been doing lol.  The other morning when I walked, there was a slight icy breeze and my nose was so numb coming home, so was my forehead.  Crazy!!

Went to church today by myself.  Lisa had to work on her homework because tomorrow she's got a big presentation in one of her classes.  So, that's what she did most of today.  I went to church but it wasn't all that great.  I think some ppl (family members) are mad at me because I tried to get them to participate in the Christmas Eve gift exchange at my Grandparents house this year.  Like I said though, they're all too cheap and no one wanted to participate.  They all kept texting me "count me and my family out" ugh!  I mean come on. That is just lazy and stupid, I don't care how you look at it.  We used to do this every year, but now everyone is so cheap and don't want to buy gifts for anyone.  It's just stupid.  Anyway, I think that's why they're probably mad at me and since they're church members also, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to not help out at the parade this Thursday either.  Some of them volunteered to walk in the parade and hand out candy to the audience.  We'll see how that goes.  So, needless to say I didn't have a very good time at church.  Then, I got hustled by the pastor's idiot son.  Get this, the kid comes up to me and saw there was lots of straw in back of my truck from yesterday when we worked on the float.  The float will have straw on it so I bought a big straw bail.  We tore it apart and put some on the float so there's a lot of it left in back of my truck.  Anyway, he sees that and says, "wow there's still straw back here", so I told him yup and that he should clean it for me.  I was just joking!  He says, "only if you pay me".  Again, JUST JOKING, I told him "ya I'll give you two whole dollars" then I laughed.  We both went inside.  Well during church service, I guess he went out there.  After service, he comes to me and says in his little boy pouting voice, "you said that if I cleaned out your truck you'd give me two dollars".  AAArrrrgggggh!!!!!!  I'm like, did you clean it?  He said, yes.  So, because I didn't have my wallet with me, I asked my mom to loan me 2 dollars.  I gave it to him and he's all happy bouncing off.  Well when we get ready to leave, I gave a guy from church a ride home.  I get out there and look in the back.  The damn thing is still dirty!!!!  He only brushed off a few handfuls of straw, that's it!  There was still a lot left in there!!  Oh man, I was pissed OFF!!!!!!  So when I see that kid again, I'm gonna make him get his skinny butt out there and clean my truck!  He ain't gettin away with this one!  I was mad, really mad.  So yeah, I came home and didn't bother going back for evening service.  I was so fed up and irritated by everyone.  Really cruddy day!!!

This evening was cool because Lisa helped me outside.  We patched up the roof on my storage house.  There was a huge area that didn't have any shingles on it, so I wanted to patch it up really good with tar paper and the works.  We did that.  Lisa was such a trooper. She was up there crawling around, putting tar up there and hammering nails lol.  I was so proud of her.  She got her whole hand covered in tar though so I had her get inside and wash all that off.  It took her a while because for those of you who know, tar will not come off for nothing.  I gave her some of my shop wash and it got that stuff right off.  Then, we got up there and finished it.  It looks Awesome and now I don't have to worry about snow and rain getting in there.  I hear that this coming week, it's supposed to rain or snow, one of those.  Now, no worries ;)
Oh man, another awesome thing was tonight while we were working up there, my sister came over.  She showed me the new tattoo that she got on her left arm.  She put the tattoo that I designed, on her arm!!!  I was so happy.  I designed this tattoo for her to wrap around her arm a couple years ago.  She'd been looking around for ppl to do it since but all these idiots around here couldn't do it.  She goes to Durango and some guy out there who has a shop, told her he could do it no problem.  So she made an appointment last Friday and got it done.  It looks so nice!  I did a great job making that thing.  Now, my designs label has some serious stride behind it :D  Great Christmas gift for me!!

Ok, well that was my day.  Tomorrow I want to clean out my storage room now that I got that roof patched.  So I might go ahead and skip my walk tomorrow so I can get that done.  We'll see what happens.  Right now, I'm goin to relax a bit then head to snoozeville ;)  Goodnight!