Leanne

The woman that I do housework and yardwork for during the day is fucking crazy. Pardon my language, but she really is. Her house has crap piled up to the ceilings. Just random junk. Towels, cushions for chairs, wreaths, dolls, random decorations, table cloths, lamps, storage bins of the aforementioned crap, tables, chairs, plates, cups, shoes, clothes, books, candles, etc etc. The list goes on, but that is just a small sample. The woman is a pack-rat and never throws anything away. So now the situation has gotten so bad that she can't find things she has bought, so she goes out and buys more of the same thing (let's say cleaning supplies for example), so now she ends up with 8 of the same thing, unused and still in the package, but she just can't find it because it's buried under all the other crap in some random room in her house.

So I took her out to CVS yesterday because she's old, has MS and can't drive. Now, if I were in her situation with the stuff in her house, I easily could have gone in there and spent $25 max and be out of there within 15 minutes. But we spent an hour and a half in there and she spent $150. She bought everything that was on sale, even if she KNEW she had 8 of them back home that she could find and use. She bought a HUGE thing of paper towels for example because they were 25% off, and she said that they only mark down paper towels once a year, so she has to buy them even though she has three other huge boxes of them downstairs that she can find and use. She did that with everything that she bought. She bought two gallons of ice cream because it was buy one get one free, even though she has SIX gallons of ice cream in her freezer.

Now don't get me wrong---I love the woman. She's very kind and sweet and would do anything for you at any time. But she's just nuts.

She also thinks people are stealing things from her house left and right (when in reality she probably just can't find it under all that shit she has).

So I brought her to a store tonight so she could get a table for her hallway, and she saw a small cat made out of clay that was maybe a foot long and 6 inches high, and she freaked out and SWORE that it was the one missing from her living room. She was pointing at it and swearing on her mother's grave that it was THE one from her room. Now I have probably seen a 1000 of those in my lifetime in tons of different places . The woman is nuts.

Allyson is here right now bugging me as I write this.


So what else?

I am excited about reading this summer. I have a huge list of books and have already read two of them. I am so excited! Yay! I think the people that work at Barnes and Noble know me now, and probably think I am the biggest nerd cuz I finish books that I buy in like a day. I buy most of them rather than take them out from the library cuz I like to write in the books and underline and put post-its in the books too, just in case you were wondering why I spend money on books. It's the obsessive-compulsive English major part of me.