whoooa

 Eric kind of pissed me off this past week, and to be perfectly honest i'm not really through being pissed off about it. He's got friends all over the country because of the industry he's in. Coverings is the largest international tile showcase in the world and it always amazes me. Partly because of some of the shit people do with tile (insane gigantic mosaics, an entire bathtub carved from a massive piece of quartz, etc) but mostly because i forget he's a rising star haha. People in the industry look to him as an expert in a hell of a lot of specific fields and i forget that, and i'm reminded of that every time we go to Coverings because it takes us THREE DAYS to see the whole shit because we keep having to stop every 20 feet to shake hands and respond to "ERIC!" 

  But he's got a buddy out in Salt Lake City who does extremely well, but just took on a job involving large thin tile. Eric is about as learned in installing that stuff as one can be, so he contacted Eric and asked if he'd be interested in coming out and making sure it's installed and handled correctly. Without actually mentioning it to me, or discussing it, or anything, he just up and decided to tell me on Thursday "Going to Salt Lake City!"

Oh? Are you? When?

Sunday

Excuse me?

*cue dawning realization he needs to navigate this conversation like a mine field*

   I'd never tell him he can't go. Of course he can go. Even if i did tell him he can't go, he could still go. We have no kids, we're not starved for money, we have no pressing engagements, we're not even married. But i'd never just up and decide to fly off somewhere without fucking mentioning it to him, so the fact that he did hurt. I was pissed. We argued about it for a while. I'm pre'much over it at this point but i'm still annoyed. My petty win was "I'm not driving you to the airport." lmao

  Whatever, the job is definitely worth it. Expenses paid, $500/day, which is good because that's just about exactly what it'd take to get Eric to fly somewhere for a job.

  Also on the travel docket is this June, we're going to Denver and then Steamboat Springs CO for a week. His brother lives out that way and is getting married, so that's what we're doing. That trip is literally eating 100% of my PTO so this fucking time around, this wedding better last. And i doubt it will. Because she's like a carbon copy of his ex wife. Dumbass. 

Moving along we're planning Seattle/Portland for sometime in the fall i believe. Idk.

And then his one sister Amanda is moving to Australia with her husband, they're house shopping now. Idk what the fucking deal with that is, but there are tentative plans for Christmas in Australia. Which, would be FUCKING AWESOME if coach seat tickets weren't $1400.00. Eric might have that kind of money but i fuckin don't! Jesus christ, $1400 for COACH? So then i was like well fuck it, if coach is 1400, if it's another 1400 for first class then FUCK IT we'll do first class. Yeah first class is upwards of $5000. *two giant middle fingers* I can't justify over a thousand dollars for a shit seat on a shit airline for 28 hours. Hell no. $800, DONE. $1000, i'm not thrilled but i'll pay it. $1,400, fuck outta here. So we'll keep shopping around for ticket prices but unless we can bring it waaaaayyyyyyy down it's not worth it for me. lol Amanda is nice and all but she isn't that nice.

   His OTHER sister Colleen is shopping for a house as well, but she's....she shouldn't be shopping for a house right now. She's about to poop out a baby in less than a month, she's really hormonal, she really wants to start nesting and stuff and so she's just like WHATEVER A HOUSE ANY HOUSE WHO CARES. The house she's looking at? I'm not kidding there's an Amtrak railroad not 100 feet from the back deck. Not one hundred. FEET. It's RIGHT THERE. No fence. No border of overgrowth or anything. RIGHT THERE. And she's about to have A BABY. But BEYOND that railroad, is like 16 acres that they would own. That's what they want, they want acreage.....but for like NO REASON. It's not like they're trying to farm anything?! Idk, they're weird, and the house itself is a piece of shit. Eric has tried talking sense into her but she won't hear it and i really honestly and truly think it's just hormones. She doesn't wanna hear anything bad anyone has to say about it. 

 She actually sent me a message on fb about it. Like how she thinks everyone is shitting all over it and i was like "..........UH"

Lmao "I NEED AN ADULT" like what do i say? i agree with them, i think she's making a terrible decision. But it's not really my place to tell her that, and i'm good enough at reading social cues that i can tell she's just looking for SOMEONE to agree with her. 

SO i didn't, but i didn't disagree with her ever. I just said "Take everything everyone says with a small grain of salt. Eric is a perfectionist, Dave and Katy are of the mind that if it's not in the city of kingston it might as well be on the moon and they couldn't care less about it, Amanda has a house budget WAY higher than you guys and the one thing everyone agrees on is that the railroad is a huge deal. And i agree. That railroad is REALLY CLOSE to the house and it's Amtrak so there's gonna be a train on it at LEAST once every hour. But only you and Mike are gonna know what's truly important to you and Mike and it's your money and your decision. Homeownership is brutal as hell but if you're ready to make that committment then only you know what house is right for you."

I think she's gonna put in an offer, buy the place, three months later something like the well or the septic system is gonna shit the bed, that's gonna be $15,000 to fix and they're gonna be FUCKED. That's what i think is gonna happen. *Sigh*