nachomama

Yep I think we got roughly the same law, cover it and if you remove gotta be biohazard dudes all suited up. I've been sleeping next to it, well other side of my wall, for at least 20 years. But I do have insurance companies want to dump me periodically, the first insurance company was merging then I got "liberty mutual" and after I signed up they called me back after a month and said "oh we don't cover asbestos" I was like "I didn't hide that from you" so then the country mutual people who I recently got rid of because of things now progressive which did give me a good rate but it's not really progressive as the homeowners insurance...some affiliated thing. We might be losing grandma, took a turn for the worse overnight in hospital. "Assessing" waiting for word

☹️ I just switched companies because it saved me SO!MUCH!MONEY! >( So they always do a drive by at least and certainly my paint was in terrible shape but also I have the asbestos so if you can get them to insure you in the first place, they do keep a stricter eye on you because of the liability. The siding does shut them up because "it's covered" I don't really see how that keeps you from getting asbestos cancer but whatever. Like if you have asbestos shingles that aren't painted does air circulate and blow it at your lungs? I get that with insulation etc. I think siding is not the classiest but I do think in my case will help me sell my house rather than deter from it because of the asbestos factor. Hell anyone buying my house is knocking it down to build something better. I think once I do this they leave me alone as long as I never file a claim (and I never have) If they don't like the neighbors tree all up in my business then why is his insurance not worried about power lines etc? because they're collecting money and don't care until he wants to make a change.

My boss' mother will be 85 in February. While I was gone she fell getting out of a golf cart going to a Georgia Southern game. I think her adrenaline kicked in and she popped up and claimed "I'm fine, I'm fine" but couple weeks go by and she aint feeling too good. When I got back I thought she sounded a little hoarse and thought she might have a cough or something. turns out she's got a cracked sternum! and if you're 85 you aren't gonna heal from that right away. If you're 18 they'd tell you don't jump from high places and you'll be good in a couple of weeks. If you're 85 I guess they shoot cement into you. Literally gluing you back together. I assume it's not something i could just go pick up at home depot. Also I'm getting quote from painters/handymen for my house because insurance is yelling at me. Over 5 years ago I got a quote on siding from Home Depot and it was $11,000. That was siding only, no windows or repairs. I've got 1 quote so far for siding, repairing my shed, repairing my porch and replacing the 3 windows in the front of my house. $13.5 it's steep, I don't like it but I think it will shut the insurance company up forever. I have asbestos siding and if you keep it covered supposedly no danger, siding is permanently keeping it covered. trust me, can't afford the abatement. I got another quote coming today.

wow! I do not know what silly place that might have been usually I just sleep in a walmart parking lot. The day after I graduated from high school, my mother was in the hospital and couldnt attend so my niece and I were driving to Albuquerque to go show her the video. I got pulled over doing like 80 and the guy went easy on me but my niece and I were laughing our heads off because when he asked for proof of insurance and we opened the glove compartment toast fell out. We had been to some restaurant the night before and my niece didn't eat her toast so she wrapped it in a napkin and logically stored it in the glove box. How he didn't think we were high or up to shenanigans I dont know. This is my same prison niece who has always been a bit whacky, she used to snack on raw rice. As in minute rice, on the shelf, just pour a little handful and chomp away. I feel like she said it once and then because everyone was so freaked out she had to keep up with it. I don't think it was ever a thing she "really" did but we had to witness her doing it so she wasn't a liar. We had frozen cherries in the freezer and we would put a few in a cup and stab them with tooth picks to munch on and I remember her racing into the room with a skewered cherry and shoving it in my face and screaming "CHERRIES!" I'm reminded of this because for christmas the prison lets them buy special commisary gifts and it's got flavored instant cocoa, coffee and creamer, candy things, cookies and those chocolate cordial cherries and she's super excited to get her hands on some. Last year at christmas they let them order mini pies and she ordered 12, 3-4 of each flavor she only ended up with apple and pumpkin but then proceeded to eat them all in one day.

back up, what did you do to warrant a gun pointed at you????????????? My father always kept a pistol under the seat of his car. He was fond of Dirty Harry so it was a .357 magnum that could blow your head clean off, if necessary. I don't think my father ever encountered a need for said pistol in any of his travels. He did not do road rage. However, when we were little and took road trips with evil grandma (his mother) he would pull over to help someone with a flat tire or go fetch a can of gas if he saw people in need. And always cautioned my grandma if anything happened, the pistol was under the seat. Now, what on earth did he think was going to happen? These people were lying in wait and shoot him....whats grandma really gonna do? grandma gonna take them out? plus, grandma don't drive. In 75 years bitch never drove...so once she kills these people you gonna get the 4 year old in the back seat to drive? Pre cell phone so can't call for help. anywho my dad was a moron and the one time he needed a gun, leaving a shady place of business (both shady as in dark and shady as in no business being there) he got robbed walking out of said establishment and they marched him to his car where they proceeded to steal the gun from under the seat. My dad was also the dumbass that had $500 cash on him at all times. He couldn't be bothered to carry a checkbook and didn't believe in credit or debit cards so if he was going to the grocery store, restaurants he was paying cash so he always carried plenty. They got his money, his CB radio and his gun, didn't take the car it was a piece of crap. From then on he took to carrying a teeny tiny pea shooter in his pocket.

Jason, the college roommate who lives on Oahu, says road rage and really bad driving are a thing in Hawaii. We did learn the shaka wave thingy that if you want in to traffic or some such polite driving ness is required so in case we did something stupid we would not get rammed off the road. I felt like this was personal, kind of a gang/drug/young people thing but still not taking any chances. Everyone we encountered were super duper nice. I always avoided getting a tattoo, mostly because I didn't want to get anything I'd regret in a year or longer, nothing cliche or a flower or a butterfly. (My sister got a unicorn on her boob and it looks like a goat now) My niece tattooed a flower on her stomach then had a baby so now she has a wiiiiide flower. So Wendell isn't gonna sag or stretch, and I think I love him.

Jimmy Osmond and Randy Jackson should have formed a duo. I think I forgot to tell you we were almost on Cops Hawaii. Coming home one evening 2 cars sped past us and I didn't think too much of it, just kids I assumed. Next thing we know the car in front is faking a right turn and then hopping back into traffic to avoid the truck following them, trying to fake them out. Truck kinda nips them. Then totally rams them, there were sparks, I thought the car was gonna flip. Truck came at them one more time and fully pushed them off the road. We were bad citizens because we failed miserably in getting plates or even our stories straight. All of us differed on what kind of car it was. We immediately slowed down because we didn't want to get in the path of mr. big truck in case he just wanted to push other people off the road. We kinda followed him a minute from a good distance but we gave up because we do not know where we are and have no good witnessy statements. Also didn't really check on the car, last we saw thy were on the side of the road, we did go look next day for marks on the road or parts of car that might have fallen off. It was freaky man. We couldn't find a local news channel, the cable at the condo gave us CBS los Angeles, Chicago any freakin city besides local.

But we did have a fantastic time, there are crazy roaming chickens all over the island, like in parking lots and gas stations chickens, chickens everywhere. Why? no idea but Michelle tried to touch a baby and the mother chicken flew at her it was hilarious and no one got it on film. I got shave ice, I got dole whip, if it existed to eat or drink I ate or drank it. We went to swap meets, they made me go to church which was fine but honestly we did everything.

I kicked the crap out of a coffee table at our condo and so my pinky toe was all swollen and purple most of the time, going out to the beach the waves knocked me down and I fell on some rocks so my hand was all scraped up. I spent 12 hours in the airport yesterday leaving because I turned in the rental car and they all left at 8 am so I had to wait til my flight at 8 pm. lord I am sooooo tired.

survived haven't seen the walking dead finale yet. Here are some pictures, Road to Hana which is windy road up in the mountains where you get all kinds of waterfalls, swimming holes etc. couple rainbows we encountered, couple beaches and I got a turtle tattoo. His name is Wendell, for my sister, she was Wendy but we had a cat when I was little named Wendell and I was so stupid I thought his name was "Window" because he just sat in the window all the time. Wendy lked turtles and the myth in hawaii that the islands were formed onthe back of a turtle or that what you see above the water is just the back of the turtle and under the water is a turtle. So meet Wendell.

Awww sweet baby

Do we know yet if you're a grandpa or a grandma?

That is FANTASTIC!!! Congrats grandpa

I've got boarding passes! I think I'm packed, I'm sure I'll forget something vital. Starting to freak out just a little bit. Driving to Atlanta tonight, 8 am whoosh off to hawaii.

CHICKEN! you’ve got 2 hips you only gotta break 1. Seriously, what are you even doing with your bones? Break a few.

Damn that’s a shame. But you went out like a rockstar.

Did you survive?

I literally have better chances of winning the lottery than finding my rich hawaiian. I do not know if I should be flattered or offeneded, someone yesterday told me "congratulations" and I'm all "on what?" she said "the baby" THIS WOMAN THOUGHT I WAS PREGNANT. I laughed and said "I am 800 years old" she laughed and said "you really not pregnant?" I said "No just old and fat" flattered she thinks I could still get pregnant. offended shes calling me fat.

me neither. I think I'll sue, that was my destiny. Now how will I buy my own hawaiian island?

this is very true. I try to be a halfway decent tipper but I'm poor I did leave some poor girl a bunch of quarters because I was scraping the bottom of the barrell money wise but I did make a smiley face out of them. :D On one hand you could just NOT tip, quite frankly as a "foreigner" we expect you to be a jerk therefore our expectations can't be lower. Hee! Hawaiians are like Canadians, just infallibly polite. Jason used to joke that even criminals in hawaii if they robbed you they'd say please and thank you. Hawaii is most def a bucket list for me. I did retrieve my credit card which is a Phew! Now I'm down to my packing list, get my car serviced, get my hair cut (gotta look fabulous to land me a rich hawaiian dude) of course the week I'm going to be gone is our sign up for health care week at work. So I have to do it tonight. Usually I thought they gave us a whole month, usually from mid November to Mid December but it just opened yesterday and closes the 18th and I'm gone. I voted early so I don't have to do that today. Just collect my $1.9 billion dollars when they finally declare me as the winner.

Next Tuesday I'm headed to hawaii. I'm freaking out. I have so much to do. This weekend I was cat/house sitting for my friend and her cat hates me. Won't come out when I'm there so I took myself out of the house so the poor thing can eat or poop in peace. Went to this barbecue place which was great. When I gave my credit card to the waitress I stacked my "to go" box on top of my phone/wallet and took 2 steps to go wash my hands and was gone less than a minute. When I got back my box and phone were gone and I started freaking out. The girl was back very quickly, she essentially thought I forgot my stuff and had gone to look for me outside. So panic over I signed my receipt and went on my way. Back at home it wasn't until 7 pm ish that I looked and couldn't find my credit card. In my panic I had forgotten to take it out of the sleevey thing they give you to pay with. Called them, yes they have it I can fetch it after work when I go back up to see if the cat has pooped or eaten. I had just made my reservation for the rental car in Hawaii, says I need to present the credit card and my ID to claim the card so I sure didn't want to have to cancel the card. Can I make my life any more complicated?

dang you're good. I know Jean Shepherd is not around to narrate but also I think the director of the original movie also directed Porkys (also amongst my favorites) and he and his son were killed when a drunk driver hit them. I know the dad from the movie died but the mom is alive (84) but they've recast Julie Hagerty

I never quoted that but "you'll shoot your eye out kid" and "fra-jee-lay" are big in my house. I even have a little night light leg lamp. You plug it into a wall socket so mom doesn't have to break it in a tragic vacumming accident. FUUUUUUDDDDDGGGEEE

They've got original Ralphie AND his brother. Original Scut Farkis. I think original buddies as well. I always find it odd how much "wizard of Oz" stuff is background to themovie. In the mall visiting santa there are winged monkeys and I think in the parade. Which I always figured the original was somewhere post WW2 and wizard of oz was 1939 so it existed but seems random. Maybe it's more of a 1939 timeline and it was advertising to get you to see the movie. My mother was the dolt that got her tongue stuck to a flagpole. Grew up in Iowa and somebody told her to do it and she did.

Oddly enthused about the new "christmas Story" coming out. And saw a preview for yet another John Wicke.