message from my parentals

The Parents want me to pass along the message that their computer isn't working since they had a black out a few weeks ago. They can't check their e-mail so if it takes them forever to respond or they never respond or if it's important they want you guys to call the hous einsted. (510) 489-3247. thank you. love alison
(they say it was the black out, but the computer is from the mid 90's soooo yeahhhh)

condo prgress and my birfday

the kitchen area

my agent painting and mom's butt

dad in a apron, but he swears it's a smock. it's so an apron.

I'm growing kittahs in my backyard!

dad and mom at red lobster for my birthday

rob (mail order man) eating snowcrab for the first time.

me and Rob

me at the condo with the sold sign cuz I'm a dork

da in the apron...I mean smock again

Rob cleaning window sills

dad sweating like crazy

the kitchen, not painted yet though

dad painting the livingroom

So the condo has been an endless source of excitement and stress. Mostly stress, not just for me but for my parents, who I am sure has managed to shave off at least 10 years of their lives just by having to sign so many papers and go through so much drama. At one point they decided to pull the plug on the condo thing all together, quite frankly even though it made me sad, I had to agree that the stress was too much for them and I would gladly exchange a stupid condo for my parent's happiness any day. However after we moved all the furniture they had just painted back into my apartment in the hood they decided to call our agent back and go ahead with the condo, thereby shaving 10 years off my life span outta sheer annoyance and frustration. So we get to move the furniture AGAIN. Meanwhile, school has started up again, my mail order man showed up (okay the guy I fell for from Virgina) but I think I'm gonna call him my mail order man just for kicks. I also gave my 30 days notice to my apartment manager. So in essence the list of things to do has grown. I have to go to work for 6 hours, help after work with the condo, go home and pack my apartment, move the boxes to the condo, clean the old apartment, change my address with like 100s of people, get a phone and interwebs and cable put in my condo and in between all this get Rob (mail order man) acclimated to California, his driver's licence changed, his insurance changed, his address changed, register his gun and his car, get new plates for his car and help him find a job on top of showing him around. All this with cramps might I add. Then my birthday shows up! Honestly it could of waited but it didn't. Everyone wanted to do something or go out and I was busy painting and scrubbing walls and I had cramps and didn't wanna go anywhere so I just went out to dinner with Rob and my parents at red lobster. It was fun but mom is sick and didn't feel well and we were all tired from working on the condo. My agent actually showed up to help paint though! That was kinda funny, I think he felt bad that we have only 2 weeks to get it all done. Rodrigo and Nahuel are doing a lot of the work and will help me move as well so that's nice, Rob has been taking up slack and generally taking orders and helping out where ever he needs too. Rob sprayed a wasp's nest and dad locked him out, and pointed and laughed at him, so yeah he got "jumpped in" our "gang" and he didn't get stung. so that was nice. I thought I would post pics of the progress so far but just remember this was all semi gloss paint we had to cover and it's soooooo not finished yet. Had to post the pictures first cuz the blogger thingy wouldn't let me move them for some reason so they are kinda out of order, sorry I didn't know how to fix it.:)

condo update and my new man.

okay so we got the keys to the condo today. I was at work and mom and dad picked up the keys and started to work on the condo, trying to get the semi gloss paint off the awful walls. Since I'm trying to help with the condo, work and pack all at the same time, posts will be limited. but I'll do my best getting pics of the after. As for the new man news, I met a cool friend on-line through an account I had made like a facebook. He lived in Virginia. He and I have been chatting texting and exchanging music for about 2 years. We were always just pals, since he was married and so far away. But about 9 months ago he and his wife started to have issues that apparently could not be fixed. so He and her separated and he saved up some money and drove all the way here in 3 days to be with me. cute huh?! he's super nice and really sweet. He has been helping me pack and clean the apartment and he will help with the condo to earn his keep till he gets his new California I.d and car registered so he can find a port security job. surprisingly enough he's not Mexican. lol his name is Rob. he arrived Monday and has been super helpful with helping out around the house and making it faster and easier on me during this stressful time. He even rubs my back! I adore him, Pictures will come soon I promise! Love you guys.

calender pics are in.

okay, I'll be honest, I'm way too lazy to scan them and post them so I just took a picture of the pictures and then posted them here. LOL But they are in and I promised I would post them even though I'm not thinking I like them at all . Voting ends August 30th and I know I have only 4 votes so far, so I doubt I will make the calender and thats fine with me. There is always next year and I plan to do this yearly if the salon keeps it up. anything for chi chi cancer! Hope you guys like them better than I do.

this one is mom's faviorite.

this one is dad's favorite.
And this is the one that made me want to vomit the least. LOL seriously they wernt what I was expecting. LOL

condo pic cont....

my computer froze so I had to publish the last blog before I was finished, I honestly think the laptop was rejecting the horrid paint colours in the pictures I was posting, so I'll just continue:

Another view of the ear wax yellow living room. The blinds in here are new, so that's cool.And now we go up the stairs as does the earwax yellow paint. That's Rigo at the top trying not to vomit from the paint colours.and the view from the stairs, that I'm sure I'll fall down many times. Thinking of taking the closet door off at the bottom and stuffing a twin sized mattress at the bottom to cushion my falls.The upstairs bathroom, why yes, there are TWO medicine cabinets, why? have no idea, unless one was for prescriptions and one must of held the crack that they were on whilst choosing the paint colours for this condo.

Upstairs bathroom wall paper. ickthe shower, seriously a soap dispenser? was this a hotel?The lizards room and office, look! a normal color, white! it's the sunniest room so the lizards get it.The Guestroom is also white, so glad they ran out of paint by this time.another view of the guestroom, it gets more shade because of the giant tree outside the window.The master bedroom: ox blood red again, must have been a special on that colour. this is the condo I found a 9 mil shell casing in the window sill....maybe they had to cover up a crime and paint the room this colour. LOLmaster bedroom still, the camera rejected the ox blood walls and tried to defend it's self buy deflecting the light from the window into the high gloss paint. regardless, this is the condo I found the 9 mil bullet casing in the window sill, makes me wonder if the HAD to paint the walls this colour to cover up a grisly crime scene.the building inspector and his ladder, and the heater that has something wrong with it. oh and the ear wax yellow hallway.

well that's all I have for you, hopefully when we get the keys in September we will have re-painted and move my things in and taken the after pictures. Too bad the bank took so long to sign the papers. I'll be at work while mom and dad and rigo have to do most of the work. So I can't help much. But I think mom wants it that way so she gets to pick ALL the colours. sigh. Love you guys!

Condo pictures

So today we had to meet at the condo for the pest inspector and the home inspector. Natalia and Rodrigo came as well since Rigo and Nahuel will be doing the contract work, painting and repairs to the condo. The inspectors took two hours to poke around and ceaser was there to help us sign more flipping papers while Rigo measured the house and scribbled on his pad of paper. Mom spent most the time trying to find a paint sample that "picked up the peachy orange in the granite counter top." I gave up on trying to get paint colours that I actually like, since I was shot down on every single color I even touched. I figure when it's all done, I'll just cover the walls with sailor moon and vampire posters. Honestly the paint that mom picks can't be worse than what is currently on the walls. Dare say it's epically repulsive. Really I'm serious, I don't know what picked the colours, but they really screwed up. So here in all it's butt ugly glory are the before pictures of the condo, The after pictures will have to be after we get the keys in September.

The very small purple downstairs bathroom with a cracked sink.

oh yes, what says "come cook in me!" like ox blood red walls? did you notice the fake brick behind the giant fridge and the missing stove...yeaaahhhhhhh

The laundry spot with invisible washer and dryer! it's also not vented for one, go figure, like the door that fell off...yeah me too. LOL. Please not the ox blood red walls are slowly merging into exorcism vomit green.Ahhh the diningroom, here we have the exorcism vomit green walls PLUS my favorite thing in the world, vertical blinds, also not the hole in the wall near the floor for a/c unit that is no longer there. This room's only saving grace: pergo floors! I am hopeing to match this flooring and bring it into the whole downstairs and turning the a/c hole into a doggie door for the dog I am hell bent on getting.The livingroom, note the exorcism green has gracefully blended in with an army green hue on the right, which merged into an ear wax yellow that totally complaments the grey stained carpet.

condo update and more cell phone drama.

So a few blogs ago, I wrote about the drama revolving around my cell phone. I ended up with the less demonic white rumor and was quit happy. Sadly it too has met it's demise via my toilet. Honestly it's so annoying, this will be literaly the 5th phone that I have dropped in a camode. I tend to carry them in my back pocket because trying to find a cell phone in my dark Bermuda triangle of a purse is frustrating to say the least. so after I pee I yank my pants up and plop! into a lovely urine filled toilet. But this time it was different. I simply had too much crap in my hands. If you happen to have a split level house you know what I mean. It's like stuff that gos up stairs sometimes works its way down stairs and you have to haul it back up at the end of the day when your about to retire. so My hands were full of stuff and I put it on the back of the toilet and like in the movies watched in in slow motion slip off the back of the crapper and plunk, into the bowl. Luckily it was not urine filled for a change, what a treat that was, fishing it out of a clean toilet. *rolls eyes* I start crying, I mean the frickin' plastic wasn't even off the stupid phone yet! Called my by house phone and got told how I shouldn't bring my phone around water....(thanks mom) that was full of sarcasm ya know. So all the money I have stock piled to hold me over for summer has to be dipped into to buy yet ANOTHER cell phone. I suck. So this morning I take wet cell phone to store, trade for a lotus cell phone (i always wanted that one anyway) and crossed my fingers that they could transfer the numbers because I don't memorize any numbers. I got really lucky, it worked and after that the rumor finally never turned back on....it held out just long enough to give me all my numbers. I would bury it and have a service, but the battery would leak into the ground. It was a good phone, even if I only had it for a week and a few days. *sniff* The new phone is nice and it's purple (that's important for some reason) the buttons are flippin tiny though so texting sometimes seems to be slow. I wonder if they make a cell phone for the full figured gal? hummmm. or water proof phones...
So mom called me today and said that the bank finally signed the papers for the condo. I don't really know what the means, but I think it means it's almost mine or kinda mine. still don't have keys though uuuggghhh. I hate moving. but can't wait to have a washer and dryer. ahhh the little things in life......