My New Walkway

Grass & Weed Killer $612
Solar Lights $60
Black Plastic $24
12 Bags of Egg Rock $50
6 more Bags of Rock $27

Burning off 3 pounds from lifting ridiculously heavy bags of rock: PRICELESS

Some things money can't buy, for everything else there's Mastercard!! (or in our case-American Express!)

So your kid wants a dog huh?

So I have had some friends staying with me and their 3-year-old daughter was outside playing with my dogs yesterday afternoon. I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to see my dogs interact with such a small child because they are amazing! They never snap at her or growl or anything else scary and they allow her to torment them to a certain degree without even walking away. In fact my 120-something pound lab/mastiff mix is pretty much in love with her. Follows her EVERYWHERE! My other dog is a golden retriever. See totally adorable picture :-) So now you know the background...

So like I said, she was outside playing with the dogs yesterday and my phone rings....it is my neighbor and he says his daughter wants to come play with the girl in my yard. Sure no problem. So I go outside and this girl and her younger brother are hanging out talking to the little one in my yard through the fence. We do the reach-over and he passed the kids into my yard. Who then start SCREAMING in terror at my dogs. Uh....did you NOT see them through the fence? My dogs of course are like "what the hell is wrong with you? Maybe if I lick your face you will feel better". My neighbor does NOTHING. He just starts talking about how he would love to get a dog. UmmmKay....this only lasted about 5 mimutes and we were passing his kids back over to him because if they screamed and cried for a second longer I was going to have to start screaming myself.

My friend's daughter asked me why they left...I told her because they were scared of the dogs. She said "Axl was just licking her and giving her kisses." Out of the mouths of babes. Dear Neighbor, please don't get a dog until: 1. you build a fence, 2. your children learn to grow a pair and 3. they are old enough to help with the responsibility of it all. Thank you.

The Three Theory

You know you have heard that "everything comes in threes"...well at least bad things like death and such. Why don't good things come in threes? Well, I guess maybe if you were expecting triplets you could claim that but that leaves a very small portion of the population. So here is my terrible three for yesterday:

1. I got pulled over in the morning for having a headlight out. No fix-it ticket or anything just a warning to get it fixed. GREAT. So I went to the auto parts store after work. The minute I popped the hood to take the old one out this guy came up and offered to help me. I got the "poor silly GIRL thinks she can do this" look. I was tired so I just let him do it...but idiot me I didn't pay attention. So he pulls out the old bulb we go in get a new one and while I am paying the cashier the guy goes out and puts the new bulb in. When I return to my car and switched on the headlights it still didn't work!! Turns out that the "smart GUY" replaced the light for my brights NOT the regular headlight. *Smacks head* and returns inside for the right part. Stupid boys....

2. My mom recently got herself a trainer and started hitting the gym hard (class reunion year, you know how this goes). Anyway, she has been having wierd spells during some of her workouts so the trainer suggested that she go get a complete physical which lead to some other tests and finally she found out yesterday that she has an abnormality in her heart...uh, WHAT? They are waiting for insurance to approve an angiogram to see what it is exactly. The doctor "isn't too concerned and thinks it might be a blockage that they can get out with an angioplasty, but if I start getting chest pains I am supposed to go to urgent care". Holy Crap....

3. When I moved from California to Texas I had everything except my car loan switched to a bank here. I couldn't get a better rate for the car loan so I left my Credit Union account in Cali open in order for them to take my car payment out of. I started by sending checks written to myself every month to my mom to put into that account to pay the loan. Well, she always got them there late and then I found out that she would sort of forget about them and then give them to my sister to take. Since my sister has an account at the same bank it made more sense to send them to her. Loan comes out the 1st of every month like clockwork. So why did she get the check Monday (the 31st) and yet here it was Thursday (the 3rd) and my account is showing deliquent because she still hasn't taken the check??? ARG!! I have to find a better way to transfer my money :-(

On top of that there was a lot of crappy-crappy files at work that required me to spend more than 50% of my day at the various courthouses and the tax assessors office trying to find some answers...no such luck. So, why is it again that bad shit comes in threes? I am ready for some good news now.