Stuck dog

I have been listening to a little yappy dog for the past hour now. He is under my house.

He belongs to an elderly couple who just moved into the apartment complex next door. They were walking their dogs and Little Yappy got off his leash and went after one of the cats. The cat ran through the crawlspace door and went under the house. Little yappy, who's name I now know is Dexter, followed and has been barking, non-stop, at the poor trapped kitty since 6:45 this morning.

Dexter's owners are a pretty frustrated. The dog is new and doesn't come when called, plus he is too focused on cat right now. They are sitting outside the crawlspace opening, calling him. Dex isn't even hearing them over his own barking. I was out there with them for awhile and they kept apologizing to me for the noise and I kept telling them not to worry about it, even though Dexter is starting to get on my nerves a bit. I wont tell them that because they feel so bad already.

At this point, I have no clue what to do about this.

Landlords and bosses

Oldest Son called me this afternoon to see if I would get the number for the realtor renting the apartments next door to us. He wants to move.

I was afraid to ask because moving means he would be leaving his job, being that he lives in his bosses apartment complex.

Apparently one of the tenants, they are all EMT's or paramedics for the ambulance company, had a birthday party over the weekend. The party was held inside his apartment but spilled out into the courtyard. The story I am getting from OS is that one of the employees was mad because she was not invited and called to complain about the noise. I don't know if she called the police or the boss.

When the boss came in this morning she called a meeting for all her employee/tenants and basically chewed butt. They were told that they are no longer allowed to have alcohol, not even in their own apartments. Now, I can see why she would have a problem with her employees drinking if they were on the job but all of them were off duty. She also said that one certain female friend of the birthday boy, who was the one making a lot of noise, was banned from the premises. The noise maker in question is also a friend of OS and DIL's so he spoke up and said that being he is a "paying tenant" he should be able to have who ever he wanted as a guest in his home.

The reply he got was, "Speaking as your landlord AND your boss, I can say who you can and can not have as a guest.

He is so ready to quit and move.

He has been wanting to leave for awhile now but he knew with a baby on the way, he had to have his ducks in a row before making a decision like that. His good friend has been trying to talk him into applying with Southern Pacific. I hate to see him leave a field he has worked so hard to get into but if he is burnt out, which I think he is, then it doesn't do him or his family any good to stay. This mornings meeting was the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak, and he sent the application. I know right now he is pretty mad so we'll see what happens when he cools off.

On the flip side if he did leave, my Peanut, my Baby D, would be living in Green Town. Maybe even next door? Is that too much to hope for? For the first 13 years of my life, I lived right next door to my Gma and Gpa. I have to say, it was pretty awesome.

Happy Birthday C

This is C wearing the hoodie that J and I had made for her bday. We let her pick the quote for the back. She wanted it to wear to the movie premier. She is still trying to talk us into letting the girls ride the train down there to go with her. The jury is still out on that one.



I guess if you aren't reading the Stephanie Meyers books it wont mean much to you though.

You just know that R and A-Boo Boo want one now!

First day

This is what I woke up to at 6:20am...

Hubby (singing) - Good morning, good morning
Today is R's first day of school
Good morning, Good morning to you

R (screaming) - NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Stop it! Stop it!



The house is mine again and its way too quiet.

Everyone will be here later this afternoon. My baby will be here sometime today and I'm making enchiladas for dinner.

I already got a text from R. She is NOT happy. When she got to her first class this morning she found out that her ex-bff was in the same class. I'm hoping that this might get these two back together but we'll see. They haven't talked for almost two months.

Girl drama!

Weekend Update

GNO was Friday night. We had our troubles but in the end it worked out just fine. Well, except for missing two freeway exits, backtracking for miles and getting the time of the movie wrong.



The movie was AWESOME! Musicals aren't for everyone, I know, but if you haven't seen Mamma Mia yet, GO! I enjoyed it so much I bought the soundtrack the next morning and after playing it a few times, Hubby wanted to go see it.

We had dinner at a 50's type diner called Johnny Rockets. It was pretty good. We also stopped in for root beer floats after the movie.

When we were leaving the theater someone noticed a big, green, Hulk statue in the lobby. Okay, we just HAD to have our picture taken with the Hulk.


with the Hulk

doing the Hulk

I see a Hulk theme here. It must be the green shirts!


C is visiting for five days. Hubby made her favorite, hamburgers, for dinner on Saturday. He made her other favorite, chicken nuggets, for dinner last night. He also made breakfast for everyone yesterday but C didn't eat eggs and bacon with us, she had another hamburger. She LOVES his hamburgers! J and I took her to the guy here in town who made the girls shirts for the Breaking Dawn party. We are having him make a hoodie for C for her birthday, which was last week, and we let her pick out what she wanted to have printed on the shirt. Its for the movie premier, which she wants to go to and is a whole other post, of Twilight. Yes, she is hooked on those vampire books too!

We also went to see Mamma Mia! C and Hubby wanted to see it and I had no problem watching it again. J wanted to go see some horror movie called Mirrors but was a good sport about it. Mom hates musicals and only went because she didn't want to be left out. Everyone loved it, of course, and I was asked to burn copies of the soundtrack for the two who didn't even want to go see it!

Oldest Son and DIL are bringing Baby D over today because C and the girls haven't even got to see him yet. Its nice having her here. I wish she would move back.

Sunday marked the 7 year anniversary of the day Dad died. Flowers are put on his grave but its not the family gathering, like for his birthday. We did the first few years but we decided not to anymore. Its easier to celebrate the day he arrived, not the day he left. We are going back to the cemetery tonight though, since C is visiting, so we can re-do his birthday candle lighting. Dad, you are still missed and thought of every single day. I wish you were here to see Baby D. How you would have loved him.



That is all...

GNO tonight

After countless emails, a bazillion text messages, a gaggle of phone calls and endless drama, we will be going to see Mamma Mia tonight. As for the drama, I wont go into it, basically because I don't know what the "it" is. The Swan is being very secretive and vague and we have been trying to figure out if she just doesn't want to go, or cant go, or what. She just wont say. I tell ya, trying to arrange a time and place for six women to meet is not the easiest thing to do.

We want to go on a cruise together and we have trouble arranging a time to go to dinner together.

Anyway, its settled. Dinner and a movie. Leaving at 5pm. Be there or be square.

What I am about to say next pains me greatly but here goes. I have to go take a nap or I wont make it through the movie tonight.

There, I said it.

I had to work today, and while it was a fun job, I had to fill in all the paint color chips in a new paint display, I got up too early so now I am very sleepy.

And can somebody tell me why there are there so many different paint chips for the color white? 100 different shades of white and not a single one of them was actually named white.

Just wondering...

Also, last night The Driver came over and we went to Wally World so she could buy a new camera. I hurt myself getting into her car.

I KNOW! What the hell?

She has this very low to the ground Mustang Cobra and she parked it way close to the curb. I had to twist my big ass self like a pretzel to get into the thing and today I'm walking with a limp and my hip hurts.

Getting old sucks.

Hope I don't fall asleep during the movie.

Celebrate

Happy Left Handers Day!

Going for gold

Watching the Olympics is exciting. Watching someone from your hometown competing in the Olympics, way exciting.

One of the girls on the Olympic softball team is from Bear Town. She is even related to a relative of ours, but then, who isn't related in some way or another when you live in a small town.

When she came up to bat one time tonight the commentator said where she was from and also said it was the "Raisin Capitol of the World", which it is. It says so on the sign right outside of town. Then they went on to make a few cracks about the town's claim to fame. Who hasn't heard of Sun-Maid Raisins, Mr. Announcer Dude? Seriously.

Raisin. Capitol. Of the world!

Anyway, back to the Olympics. So far, the US team is kicking butt. Too bad this is the last time that softball will be an Olympic event. I just hope that by the time A-Boo Boo is in college they will have reinstated the game because I could very easily see her going to the Olympics.

Go USA!

Initiation

We went to see Baby D today. Drove two hours just to hold a baby for a little while. Yeah, I'm hooked!

Oldest Son had R help him change the baby's diaper while we were there. Baby D decided to give R the golden arch salute!

The look on her face was priceless.

I had forgotten that little boys do that so I never even thought to tell her to watch out. I'll have to show her what to do to avoid it in the future.

It was pretty funny though.