Men that is. Apparently my Hubby sure doesn’t! Like I said before Hubby has been using the guest room for his “bike shop”. I’m perfectly fine with that. In fact, I suggested it. I had previously been using it as storage since most of our guests prefer to sleep on the couch or the pull out bed instead of the old falling apart day bed I have in the guest room. My only rule was that Hubby was to leave my stuff alone. Just push all the boxes of storage stuff over to the corner, and leave them be.

I gave him a few bags and old moving boxes to use for bike parts. The last time I went in that room was when we moved the bike out to take it to the welder. At that time Hubby had his parts all stacked and labeled in boxes on the other side of the room.

I had to go in there again today to look for one of my suitcases that wasn’t under my bed like I thought it was. I fully planned on having to search through my own boxes of crap to find it, but I wasn’t very happy when I saw it sitting in the corner with the bike parts. He’s using my practically brand new suitcase to store greasy parts! Why? I mean seriously does he think I’d ever think that is okay? That’s what the old boxes are for! Get them greasy, then throw them out!

Ugh! Men!

Man I am totally stressing, and for once it’s not because I’m worried about the bike. I know exactly what’s going on with the bike. It’s safely tucked away in the welding shop where it will soon come to life again. As for me, I’m freaking out so much I feel like I might need to invest in some extra term life insurance just in case I keel over from all this stress and anxiety.

Never in my life did I think it would take so much energy and effort for 2 people to take a measly 4 day vacation. I guess it doesn’t help that Hubby has absolutely no desire to help me back. I pulled out a few of his favorite t-shirts, most of which are motorcycle related, then I dared him to touch them this week. I went to pack them this morning only to find half of them in the dirty clothes pile. Ugh.

I got an interesting note from Alexa Hernandez of IRWIN Industrial Tools and BernzOmatic. She wanted me to mention a contest that’s going on right now, and I definitely think it’s something that could be of interest to a few of you.

IRWIN launched a contest this week called “Tell Us Your IRWIN VISE-GRIP Story”. All you have to do is share some of the interesting ways you have used VISE-GRIP locking pliers or wrenches around your house or job. The contest runs through October 31, 2008, and you can enter or see other entries by clicking here.

Why should you enter? The grand prize is an IRWIN VISE-GRIP custom branded chopper worth over $25,000. It’s custom build by East Coast Custom Cycles.

I definitely think I’ll try to talk Hubby into entering. After all he is a carpenter, and I’ve seen him use Vise-Grips in many interesting ways. I should talk my dad into entering, too. He keeps Vice-Grips everywhere, even in his barn with his horse supplies because there are just so many uses for them. Heck I remember using a pair of VISE-GRIP pliers to hold part of my stirrups strap together when it broke on me.

I’ve been holding out on buying a new front stay because I was really hoping the old one could be straightened. I wasn’t crossing my fingers or anything because it looked pretty rough. I have seen others that look just as bad be straightened before though, and we got lucky. Hubby informed me today that the stay was fixed which saves me about $120.

I was going to order a new set of flush mounts today, but then I remembered I have to buy a baby gift even though I’ll be missing my friend’s baby shower this weekend. I decided to get her some baby bedding. A friend and I split the cost, but it was still pretty expensive. I’ll have to wait until next week to order the flush mounts.

We’ll be out of town this week, but as soon as we get back we’re kicking things in high gear. We’re so closed to being done!

Last night was so much freakin’ fun! Alli got little A a little Honda CRF50F dirt bike. It’s going to be his big present from Santa, so we’ve had to keep it hidden, but he wasn’t home last night. We took advantage of him spending the night with his Grandparents and played with the dirt bike.

Man was that little thing so much fun! I, of course, about fell off of it a few times. I looked like a total idiot riding it because I was wobbling all over the place. The handlebars are bent though, so we’ll have to get replacements before Little A gets it from Santa. It’s a used bike she picked up for a great price.

We did get some videos, but they’re small cell phone videos, so sorry about the quality.

Alli has a nice rock in her backyard that became a decent little ramp.

We all looked hilariously large on it, but it is a little 50 after all. Hubby looks three times bigger than the little bike.

Hubby and I talked about buying us a couple little “fiddies” and riding them around when we take out the air soft guns. He was threatening to take one of the Nikon rifle scopes off one of my Dad’s rifles so he could rig it up on the air soft gun and shoot at us as we were riding around.

And yep, that’s exactly how stupid we act when the kiddies aren’t around to witness the adults being idiots.