Zombie soccer players

8-21-13

Creepers on one hand and Zombies on the other. Soccer will be gruesome this season.

I was more nervous than even normally for this soccer meeting. Most of the parents seemed happy, but one dad looked skeptical. Ken assured me he is a good guy, having known him from last year. He had just dealt with a coach last season who has now been blackballed from the organization. He seemed happy by the end, but it made me a little unsure of myself.

He was the least of my worries, though. There was a grandmother there that was standing in for her daughter, who is the mom of a player. Turns out the grandmother is a former board member. Her daughter also is. So are both husbands. Grandma was pretty disenchanted with the region. Oh, and by the by, her good friend was the former treasurer. She didn’t take it too kindly when I mentioned how much work I have done as the Treasurer in cleaning up the system. I did mention this BEFORE I knew she was friends with the old Treasurer. Sigh. She was pissy and cranky, and I really hope she her daughter isn’t a bitch, too. The good news is the kid is very sweet.

Ken got the family room mostly wired up at Steve. I think there are maybe a couple more boxes, but he put in all new boxes and even created a couple of new outlets, including another one to the catio. Hopefully the electrician has heard from the city on the grounding rod so that he can get things done ASAP.

Lowe’s is coming this morning to do the kitchen flooring estimate. Hopefully it is easy and they can get to work on it ASAP. I can’t put in the appliances until the electrician does the outlets in there. This is why I am anxious to get that part done. Once the floor is in, I want to put the appliances in. This will allow for some more space to open up in the garage so that as we move things over we have room. Plus, I can probably then start to populate the kitchen with some items that are not used as much and get my kitchen in order.

Hopefully Ken can talk to Frank today about his truck. I would like to get the piano and the storage bins over to Steve this week. The main goal for this week is to be moved out of our current living room so we can be ready for new panels in the current living room by Sunday’s end. It is actually a pretty realistic goal, so this is good.

Thankfully the whole weekend is ours to work on house stuff. No parties or soccer events. Woo!

My boss is driving me nuts this week. He is going over the agings and nitpicking all of these good accounts to try to find more money to collect. We are under the goal. He needs to calm the fuck down. If he didn’t just allow bad customers to have large deals, we would not be in this situation. Sigh. He also is just so incredibly out of the loop for the most part so he panics on things he knows nothing about. He is not making it easy for me to come in every day.