driving home in the dark

why does it have to get dark so early???? I hate driving home in the dark after work, it makes the evenings too short.

comcast again

Again, I'm having troubles with Comcast. For the past month our internet has been spotty. Works, then doesn't work. Well, when I work from home, this is bad. We had an outage today for about 4 hours (adds up when those 4 hours are my work day).

I called comcast and it took me forever to get a person on the phone...then I had to give them all this info...then they transfered me and I had to give that person all the same info again.

Seriously, isn't comcast rich enough to have your info transfered when they transfer a call.

My blood was boiling....and I don't remember a time (recently) that I've been so mad...I hate that this sort of stuff makes me mad, but it's been going on for a month!!!

Anyway...I hope Comcast does something about their awful phone system and terrible internet connections.

just had to get that off my chest....phew...all better.

blisters

I so don't have pretty feet, but wanted to show you how much I don't love blisters. I wore high heels for the first time in almost 5 years...ouch! I got a total of 4 blisters!

Ethiopian Food

We went out for Ethiopian food tonight, since it is my sister's last night here. I really tried to like it, but ahhhh! We couldn't even finish 1 plate of food shared between the 3 of us.

Sorry to anyone that likes it. I just can't stomach it.

DMV

3 things I hate doing - going to the DMV, dentist and GYN. This is a shot I took of the DMV after it had closed. All these people still need to be seen.

crazy lawsuits

Disclaimer - I didn't research these, I got these in an email forward, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were all true. It's a long read, but will make you think WOW, can this really happen?

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards"! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?

That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.

7TH PLACE :
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

6TH PLACE :
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hub caps.

5TH PLACE :
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

4TH PLACE :
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

3RD PLACE :
Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113, 500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions ?

2ND PLACE :
Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

1ST PLACE:
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded h er, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

awful diapers

In my quest to find decent diapers, that are reasonably priced, I decided to try Huggies. They're name brand, they're commercials say they are reliable.....WRONG! Huggies suck....actually, they don't suck up any of the peep and poop.

NEVER BUY HUGGIES...they don't work. I've had more leaks and explosions with these diapers in the past week, than I have had in the past year with my Costco generic diapers.

Poop - gross, but funny

GHOST POOPIE: The kind where you feel the poopie come out, but there is no poopie in the toilet.

CLEAN POOPIE: The kind where you poopie it out, see it in the toilet, but there is nothing on the toilet paper.

WET POOPIE: The kind where you wipe your butt 50 times and it still feels unwiped, so you have to put some toilet paper between your butt and your underwear so you won't ruin them with stains.

SECOND WAVE POOPIE: This happens when you're done poopie-ing and you've pulled your pants up to your knees, and you realize that you have to poopie some more.

POP-A VEIN-IN-YOUR-FOREHEAD POOPIE: The kind where you strain so much to get it out, you practically have a stroke.

LINCOLN LOG POOPIE: The kind of poopie that is so huge you're afraid to flush without first breaking it into little pieces with the toilet brush.

GASSY POOPIE: It's so noisy, that everyone within earshot is giggling.

DRINKER'S POOPIE: The kind of poopie you have the morning after a long night of drinking. It's most noticeable trait is the skid marks on the bottom of the toilet.

CORN POOPIE: Self explanatory.

GEE-I-WISH-I-COULD-POOPIE POOPIE: The kind where you want to poopie but all you do is sit on the toilet and fart a few times.

SPINAL TAP POOPIE: That's where it hurts so badly coming out, you'd swear it was leaving you sideways.

WET CHEEKS POOPIE (The Power Dump): The kind that comes out so fast, your butt cheeks get splashed with water.

THE DANGLING POOPIE: This poopie refuses to drop in the toilet even though you are done poopie-ing it. You just hope that a shake or two will cut it loose.

THE SURPRISE POOPIE: You're not even at the toilet because you are sure you are about to fart, but *oops* --- a poopie!

moldy bread

I don't eat white bread too often, so it kills me to see our bread go to waste...yuck!

Mosquitos

I love this time of year, but do not love the mosquitoes. They're even biting baby O...anyone got a good bug replant that is safe for babies?

grey hairs

i got my first when i was 21...now almost 10 years later, i really need to start highlighting my hair...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

housing market stinks. and so do the taxes.

YOUR HOUSE as seen by...

Yourself

Your Lender Your Buyer Your Appraiser Your Tax Assessor

i'm guilty . . .

. . . of talking on my cell, but I always try to stay in the right lane and speak on speaker phone.

filling out job apps

we were at the store yesterday and my sister decided to fill out a job application...look at some of these questions.

Cleaning the bathroom

yesterday

Yesterday our good friends had their son fall out of their 3rd floor window. I think their son should be ok which is truly a miracle.

We went to the hospital to visit them in the PICU. I got lost and was wandering around the PICU floor, it was so sad to see all the sick kids there. It's probably one of the worst things a parent would have to go through. And as we were there, I probably heard the helicopter land about 3-4 times (I can only assume they were bringing sick kids there.) I guess I am grateful that there are awesome hospitals and medical staff that can help them, but is really is so sad.

My heart really goes out to any kids that are sick or are suffering in the hospital. Seriously, this is something that a parent/kid should never have to go through.

since i don't like meetings...this might come in handy for my church meetings

SLACKER MEMBER SERVICES

Home teaching getting you down? We care when you don't have time to. Can't get that persistant Ward Leader off your phone? Home& Visiting Teaching interferring with your
TV, Golf and manicures?? We can help!

We'll do your Home Teaching for you. For a small monetary fee, We will send one of our smiling trained representatives to the homes of your families.
Basic Visit. . . . .. . . .$10 Basic Visit plus Spiritual Message . . . . . .$15 Birthday card plus Basic Visit/Spiritual Message/LOVE..... . .$20
Is $20 too much to pay for peace of mind and a 100% job well done???

Call us at 1-800-752-2537. That's 1-800-Slacker.
Because of heavy volume, an extra $15 will be added for the last day of the month.

OTHER SERVICES: Meetings: We will send a well dressed representative to
the appropriate meeting to take notes for you and report back:
Ward Council Meeting(fully awake). . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$30
Ward Council Meeting w/ written report. . . . ........... .$50
Presidency Meetings (with eye contact). . . . . . . . . . . .$20
PEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25
Sacrament Meeting /S.S./ PRIESTHOOD. . . . . . . . . .$20
3-hour Sunday Block (best value). . . . . . . . .$50 (Surcharge of 10% for long stake meetings)

Talks and Lessons: Did a Bishopric member call, chit chat, and assign you a talk? Tired of using late Saturday night preparing a lesson? Well, free up your time. No need to spend countless hours pouring through scriptures, writing and praying. We'll do it for you! All talks are guaranteed to last 15 minutes. Add $1 for each additional minute.

Basic Talk (any subject assigned) . . . . . . . .$20
Scripture Talk (basic + 5 scriptures). . . . . . .$30
Deluxe Talk (scripture + 1 poem + 2 G.A. quotes).$40
Basic Lesson (40 minutes) . . . . . . . . . . . .$25
Deluxe (Basic + eyecatching visual aides). . . . . . . . . . .$35
Super Deluxe (Deluxe + Cute Handouts). . . . . . . . .$45 Due to high expectations, centerpieces and floral arrangement, Relief Society lessons are slightly higher. Due to lower expectations, priesthood lessons receive a 10% discount.

Last but not least... Our Casserole Service! You just can't possibly throw together food for various Ward occasions, WE CAN! Our basic services include:
Funeral Potatoes (very soothing)
Green Bean Mushroom Soup and Crunchy Onions Delight
rubbery Green Jello with Carrot surprise
CheezWiz/TaterTot Surprise! (guaranteed high fat)
Each delivered to your house in scratched Corningware marked with your name on masking tape! They'll never know you didn't make 'em!
Here you have it! We take all the work off of your shoulders and put ours to the wheel.

Häagen-Dazs Brown Sugar Ice Cream

I love ice cream, but this is Gross! It has like a film of fat that was left over on the spoon and in my mouth. I couldn't even finish it. Yuck!

meetings

don't like em.
at work . . . at church . . . anywhere for that matter . . . nope, not a fan.

ticks

This week Pepe went out to seed the lawn. In the morning, I woke up to him jumping out of bed saying, "tick, tick, tick." He had one climbing up his leg. Not only to I not love ticks, I hate them (I rarely use the word hate, so you know how much I dislike them.)

I really hope we no more our in our house. YUCK!

drunk drivers

Great advertising.

Seriously I have no tolerance for people who drive drunk...none.

thowing up so hard your body shakes

Warning: This post is not to be read on a full stomach.

So I got sick this past weekend . . . ahh!  I was throwing up every 20 minutes from 9:30pm - 4:30am Sunday night.  I hadn't eaten much that day, so it was mostly dry heaves.  I usually don't throw up and in fact, when I have been sick in the past, I've wanted to throw up, but just can't get myself to do it.  Anyway, I was throwing up so hard that literally my entire body was shaking.  If you count everytime I threw up that night it was probably 100 times.    For some reason this reminded me of being pregnant (I didn't get morning sickness with Baby O) and I feel so bad for anyone that has morning sickness.  Anyway, it is almost a week later and my stomach still feels like I've done a million situps.

One bonus, I lost 5 lbs because of this.