You guys (the reader) are pathetic.
Not a single comment about Elisha Cuthbert?! Man, I think all my bar talk and relationship talk has made me lose my key demographic: The Horn ball Elisha Cuthbert-Loving Male 18-35. Jeez people she’s gorgeous! We need to get back to the basics people!
Well I guess there’s just no pleasing some people.
This week has been weird. Trying to get the routine of having my life back. Between bar, work, and relationship, and working out again there was a need for Tony chill time. Currently I’m devoting some of that time to fixing up my modest little home a bit.
I rent a little 2/1.5 townhouse in Miami Shores FL. It’s nothing much to speak of, but it’s home and I love coming home to it at the end of a long day. Even when the freight train rumbles by at some god forsaken hour of the day (I’m about 100 ft away from train tracks on the east side of my house, and the train comes about 15 times a day). You really get used to it fast, and it adds a little je ne sais quoi.
However my little home has many flaws, some of them which are in my power to control. The first flaw is the horrible shape of a the landscaping just outside my door. I have 2 10′ x 3′ plots of earth on either side of my walkway that are overgrown with weeds and covered in ugly pebbles and mulch. I’m hiring this dude my folks know to clear out this area (who actually told me that he had no tools and no car, and asked to pick me up to do the work, I told him no dice and he found a ride and some tools). I’m going to start a little garden which I’m excited about. The plan is to plant mainly shade loving herbs and maybe a couple of vegetables like peppers.
On Wednesday I took some initial steps to toward the beautification. I cleared my grill from the potential garden site (which lines the gated path to my “front” door, which is really back of the house) and put it on the side of the house. While I live in an ok neighborhood, I wouldn’t give my grill a good chance of surviving out there in the open, so I bought some steel wire and a heavy duty master lock and locked the grill up the wrought iron security door on the side of the house (I’m sure the condo association is loving that). I’m going to get a little smoker and do the same thing.
I also got my Bob Villa on inside and installed an electronic programmable thermostat which should save me money. I’m spending a couple of hundred dollars on these improvements to a rental, but I”ll get much more enjoyment out of the house, and I figure the $24 bucks on the thermostat is going to save me a bunch of money during the summer. My old thermostat was just a mess. My landlord is fair too, so maybe I can negotiate a little abatement in rent.
So I bet during all that talk about gardening and home improvement I lost the last of my Male horn balls 18-35. Come back please!
Elisha Cuthbert People!
She is so effing fine.
