Don't know what I found yet.....

Hey y'all! 

I've been busy doing all sorts of things lately. Very few of them things that I want or like to do. The only things I have been doing that I like is traveling, but I didn't get a chance to see anything that I wanted to see because I had to rush though everything....

I've been doing the handyman thing for the past few months since the storm because there is such a HUGE need for people to work down here, but that has been a pain the past month because it is so hard to find materials here. Right now we are waiting for trees to grow so we can get some 2x4's to build walls. The worst part is, little guys like me get squeezed because all of the big companies have the cash to buy whole truckloads and store it ahead of time. I, meanwhile have to spend a whole day in line, not getting paid, waiting for stuff to be unloaded by people who don't want to unload it.

It took me 3 weeks to finish a fence for someone because I had to wait for 8ft fenceboards.

On top of all of this, I have to renovate my house, work, and help my fiancee with her house and the wedding plans. The last two jobs I did I haven't gotten paid on because the clients are pissed that it took me soo long to get it done.

I went on a vacation to Seaside in Florida for a week (I'll post some pics later). It was nice to be someplace where everything was clean, stores were open, and everybody smiled. There weren't any lines, even at the Home Depot there! I went in and out in less than 5 minutes.

For the previous 3 months I've been talking to Claudia about moving somewhere else, but she was adamant about staying here in the New Orleans area. The first thing she said repatedly when we got back into town after a week in Florida was," Man this place is a dump!".

I am soo stressed out. We both own houses, but nobody wants to buy anything down here because everybody is waiting. Waiting to see if we get hit with another storm, waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild the levee system, waiting for thier insurance companies to pay them so they can get thier lives together, waiting for trees to grow....

What a mess.....