Rocket’s Red Glare

So much has happened already today, I am going to take the lazy way out and make a list. I’m just so exhausted. You should know before I launch into the list that I am so happy right now, I’m grinning while I write, and Rob is walking around singing, “Devil-Fart Bread, Devil-Fart Bread.” (He’ll kill me for telling!)

- My parents and sister came here last night to take measurements for insulation and drywall. My sis was driving me up a wall, and my mom was copping an attitude over something, and my dad was just trying to git ‘er done.

- I had the best time at The Home Depot (THD) with my Daddy!!!! Mom and Dotty did girly stuff like looking at paint-chips (losers!) and Daddy and I picked out drywall, buckets of screws, plastic sheeting, insulation, interior doors, stain, and schtuff.

- To prove what a farming community this is, I’d like to describe (because loser me didn’t plan to have my camera at THD last night) the following scene. Dad and I were walking down the “two-buh-four” aisle, and you know how there are usually huge garage-type doors which open from the outside so they can get their fork-lifts in and take down loads of “two-buh-fours”? Well… looking down the aisle, the door was open and the sky was bright blue with huge, fluffy, cottonball clouds and about 20 feet beyond the door was a cornfield, higher than my 6′ tall head. The sun was shining on the corn and I smiled. It was a good moment.

- Rob finally was able to get away from work and made it to THD by 7:30. He’d had a work “emergency” which basically means that the individual who was acting as his team leader is a ding-bat who needs to be slapped repeatedly across the face. Puh-leez! Rob is the person their customers ASK for, and this chick took one of his tickets and made him do this other one. She messed up everything she touched, like the Midas-touch in reverse. So Rob cleaned up after her. She got to go home at regular time on the Holiday Weekend and Rob was a good-guy like always! (I love you Bibba!!)

- We awoke this morning at 6:30 AM. We had to haul ourselves out of bed and get to THD to load up 38 sheets of 4×8 drywall and various sundries to go along with it.

- Dotty called 5 minutes later announcing she was at Mc D’s just down from our house, did we want coffee, no we do not.

- We got to THD at 7:30. It’s in a town called Owosso and it’s about 14 miles from here. The BIG town, though it’s still pretty small. They have several fast food restaurants, all of which went in after I was 15 years old except Mc D’s, which had the only one in the COUNTY for 20 years, and now there must be 10 in the county just of Mc D’s.

- The chica at THD said we needed to have a proof of insurance, so Dotty and I high-tailed it back home to get the proof of insurance. We got back to THD and they’d rented our truck right out from under us. Laser light show at Rob’s face. Coming right out of his eyes!!! My calm hubby turned a little angry and luckily back again. The Guy who helped us at the store last night said that he’d give us the truck gratis for our multiple trips to GET the truck.

- Rob, Dotty and I all came back to Town to get breakfast at Nick’s. We called en route and got our food to go and ate at the park in town. My favorite one, kitty-corner from Little Caesar’s and Durand’s ONLY stoplight.

-The Guy called and we dropped the sundries off at our house and Rob and I drove like mad to get the truck. They used a fork truck to get the drywall loaded and we managed to get 6 huge rolls of insulation in Rob’s Car. The Amazing Hyundai Ellantra 5-door hatch, pictured below.

We loaded a bale and a half of R30 insulation plus two interior doors on top of the drywall in the truck and headed home to Dotty who helped us unload.

- We were just about dying by the time we finished and we were 15 minutes late getting back to THD, but The Guy didn’t charge us one penny for the truck because he’d messed up and we had to wait, etc.

- We got Taco Bell for lunch (oh yeah!) and headed back here to get the dogs and go hang out at my parents’ house for a while. I think we were so anxious about the morning and had prayed so much over the whole situation that we didn’t realize how tired we were. Coming back from my parents’ house, we were getting so sleepy.

- So when we got back to the house, I took a shower and fell asleep for 2 hours before Rob even finished his shower. We just woke up an hour ago and I’ll tell ya what… it’s so awesome to see three rooms full of building materials.

God is so amazing and so good to us. We are blessed beyond belief and I have such a hard time believing that this is US and this is our home we’re buidling on. It’s so amazing and I am in awe.

- Before I started typing this 45 minutes ago, Rob showed me the bread he got for communion at church tomorrow. I asked if they had any “regular” bread and he said, “Only Viennese and Pumpernickel… but Pumpernickel is the devil bread.” I corrected him, saying that Pumpernickel translates as Devil-fart bread.

Have such a great weekend! Pray for my dogs, Kodiak and Tutanka, that our neighbors don’t send out so many fireworks tonight that they are injured or that their nerves are shot. It’s not even sundown and the doggies are in an uproar because they’ve done two charges that sound like cannons.

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