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Jill stepped up to the plate today and was busier than a one armed paper hanger. : 0 )
Had her hands full and Butchie asks her to make him a drink......she sounded like moi.
Like I'm doing nothing.....she says with exasperation in her voice.
He gets miffed and tells her he has offered to help her with an edge to his voice.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, but he did notice the vacuum in the livingroom and knew how to use it without being asked.

   Noontime Cheryl called me back to say she wasn't going to come. Too much laundry to do.. Shayla up late on Facebook and is still sleeping.. Hasn't done her excercise routine yet... some of the usual excuses and some new. 
Still thinks some of the people that will be here are laughing at her behind her back becasue she lost all that lottery money.
Have not been able to convince her otherwise. ....sigh!
That ..........and she hates Jill.  Legitimate reasons....I don't think so, but whatever..
Can't  change her mind on it.... I do think my Cheryl is bi-polar. Her ups and downs are so drastic.
Would never suggest she get advise. Others have and they are on her shit list.  sigh!
Cher talks....like I write in here.  blab,blab,blab,blab,blab,blab, blab.
You can't get a word in edgewise.  She just goes on and on .  If you do say something...she doesn't hear you....just continues on as if a word wasn't spoken.  
Consequently, I don't think she has what you call one good friend.
Oh, she still runs into old friends from the neighborhood and thinks the world of them.
Some she chummed around with, but everyone went their own way once out of their house and don't visit or call. She has to call them.
Cheryl would give you the shirt off her back, even if she needed it more.  That's why she gets so upset with mankind and what she calls this cruel world.
Quite frankly..I couldn't be a friend of Cheryl's.
If she feels in the least slighted, she will say some nasty things and does.
   Jill couldn't be more happier that she doesn't want to speak to her or be around her.
Says she don't have any more time for her shit and drama. Good riddance says Jill.
This isn't the first time the two of them stopped speaking...final time now says Cheryl.
Oh, just remembered what this time is all about.
She didn't get an invite to Jill's son Ryan's wedding.
Ryan and Sarah paid for their own wedding and had 90 guests...what they could afford.
Jill and I both tried to reason with Ryan about inviting Cheryl.  I even offered to pay for her and Dana's plate.
He wouldn't budge the number of times we tried to reason with him and was getting madder and madder.
Told us that Cheryl in the 10 years he was with Sarah could not even remember Sarah's name and had to ask him everytime she saw them.
Jay and Kim invited, Michael and Sally invited and Michelle and Joe invited.
Jill was his mother...invited.. The other four uncles and one aunt ( Cheryl) wasn't.
He wasn't close to any of the others. Hardly saw them and it was their day, not ours. Period!
Cher was upset the other day that she didn't get an invite to one friends son's wedding.
Bet she don't stop speaking to Carol......but she was hurt.
So Jill gets the blame because she feels she could have made Ryan invite her.
They think they are too good for me... she's stuckup...everytime I see her she doesn't speak to me....they look at me like I don't belong at your house....they think it's Jill's house..I feel like an outsider....she looks at me funny.
All this from Cheryl after the wedding.

  Okay back to my day.
Hubby showered and meanwhile I made our bed and vacuumed .
Invetibly..he always says upon entering the room," you Fucked with my bed again"
His humour............................ack!  Never has made me laugh saying it.....guess I'll see how I feel if I outlive him when he isn't around to say it..... if  I miss it.
The sweat was pouring done my face and I did not feel , kick up your heels, happy. I shit you not!
From there it was out to the back yard to pick up dog shit. 
So one by one, two by two, three and four people are coming.
Randy.............
Jay and Kim, Tom and Dee.....Kim says to moi, " she know's how I feel about them. Why did she invite them?"   Surprise........she did not chew and screw.
Shrugged my shoulders at her.     She never sat or went to whatever part of the yard they were in.
It's obvious to them and ANYONE that Kim does not like Dee Dee and Tom.
Nephew Drew with Pat. Ryan without Sarah ( she came at 530 after work), and of course Butch had Alex and Chris had his grand Jamie.
So I'm thinking this isn't so bad afterall.
Way to much damned food, but what the hey.
Apparently Jill had told Ryan to invite some of their friends.....they have been here before...okay here I go with names, ? and ? with Autumn and Skylar. ? and ? friends that recently started dating and are going to FL the end of this month with them.
Next.grandson David with Jen and Jimmy and Jaiden.  anddddddddddddddd friends of theirs from the place they lived befoe they moved....? and ?. Strangers to moi.
Young Gil came...then went to NH to get his girlfriend Jacke from a softball game. Took her home and came back.
Logan was in NH at his other grandparent's beach house .
Carl Proulx whom my kids have know since they were 5 on up came by. He and Jay and Kim are fast friends.
Hubby and I hadn't seen him in years.
How am I doing????   ; 0  )
Kids were in the pool, out of the pool, in the house wet, back outside...Would change out of their swim wear to turn right around and put it back on to swim again.
The last little angel...Alex left with Butchie at 8:50.
   Come back when you can't stay so long.  ; 0 )  I whispered.

Chris had one drink from his bottle of  Captain Morgan and Jen and friends brought the quart down to half full.
The half gallon of rum was drank halfway down by Jill, Butch and Tom.  Dee Dee brought her own vodka.
Hubby was sociable to everyone. Sat outside with them quite awhile.
Once I had him fed......I hit the bed and stretched out to watch tv and RELAX. Even worked a little on my baby sweater.
My work day was pretty much over. Surprise, surprise!!!! 
The only fly in the ointment was one big downpour about 5 p.m.  Everyone raced to pick up stuff that would get ruined and raced indoors.  Was over in 15 minutes or so.  Don't know where the hell that rain came from. Never heard we were going to get rain.  Was needed though .
Still have a shit load of food left over. Kabobs and ribs a plenty.
 Chis must have bought and cooked a good 30 lbs or more.
The skunks were out tonight lovin all the scraps . Had a real smorgasbord.
Hubby is making zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's. We just plum wore him out ; 0 ).....he's been making zzzzzzzzzz's off and on ever since he came in before 5.
   The beans were good, the barbeque mac salad was not a winner.
They all like mine and it's so darn easy. Boil up mac, drain, run under cold water . Chop up 1 onion, slice thin 3 or 4 stalks celery, chop up 1 green and I sweet red pepper .
To this you empty a bottle of Phieffer's Sweet and Sour salad dressing. Stir and refridgerate.
Can be made the day before or in the early morning. Also you can add other stuff you like, such as pimento, sliced olives, sliced hard boiled eggs, grape tomatoes, whatever  To each, their own.

   
Randy at left ,Dee and Tom in back at table, Jill and Butch and Chris on the right.

Jamie shooting her grandpa with water gun

Hubby by himself. Everyone deserted him. : 0 )

Carl talking to hubby. David behind them on cell phone, Chis and Jamie in the pool.

left to right...hubby,Ryan,Pat, Drew

Autumn

Jaiden and Jimmy

? with back towards you, ? in black, Ryan, Chris, Dee Dee, Jill

Jaiden

? at table

Jaiden and ? and ? at tableJen,Butch and ?

Tracie helped me carry in my groceries the night before and I never said a word to her about the cookout.
No one seems to like Tracie and if I had invited her, people would have scattered faster.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!! Naw, jes funnin!
She did know that we had one when she came later in the afternoon and saw her trash can filled with our trash. 
Where she doesn't live in her parent's house, I thought she wouldn't mind if we used it.
If you are wondering ...yes I feel guilty because I know she is hurt she wasn't asked to come over..sigh!
Here in our town the town supplied us with one trash can a year ago that can be lifted by an arm on the dump truck. They only have to pay a driver's salary now. :0(
That is all we are allowed to fill and the top must be closed. Otherwise we ourselves have to buy one or more and pay extra taxes.
Damned am I ever so glad that all my kids are grown and off except for one. ; 0 )
I would have had to have had at least 2 more of those suckers. I shit you not!

   A/C is on. Going up into the 90's today with high humidity.
Weather person saying it will be the hottest and muggiest day this week.
Forgot to mention that Jill cleaned up all dishware that wasn't disposable and pans.
 Saw her cleaning and wiping down and moving chairs back where they were to begin with.
She threw a load of beach towels in the washer and washed them.
When I was ready to call it a night , Lady was in her room where she likes to be under the bed.
Opened the door and called to Lady softly.
Jill  was sound asleep with the tv going. ;0)

   My chihuahua spent the entire day in Lady's kennel by our bed.  Her choice, not ours.
She does NOT like little kids.
Poor Lady.. The little girls thought she was a puppy cause she is so small. They were forever picking her up.
She would try to hide in her kennel, but Ginger would not let her in. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's meant stay out!
I remembered when...........at that age.......I dressed my pups and kitty's up like babies.
Poor things. :0(  ....  hey, they never seemed to mind it....:0)
Didn't mind the doll carriage rides either. hahahahahhaha
That's my story and I'm stickin to it! So there! ;0)
    Looks like we will be eating leftovers today and lovin it.
Maybe I'll even send Tracie over a plate .....
Things look good in my neck of the woods today.  Another day of R and R for moi!
Except of course for cleaning and feeding the pets . Can do!
Unless I hear otherwise.................yesterday was a success story.
I shit you not!
That's All Folks!