Day 143
Today was one of those days. Actually it started 2 days ago! One of those days that goes on for a few …
Sigh.
It started when I had to get Mobes out of the hosta patch after she used the newly de-sodded yard as a Slip ‘n Slide after I watered the backyard (a bit too thoroughly). She ended up upside down against the back fence in the middle of the hostas. Stuck in the flowerbed. The look on her face was obvious embarrassment – if a dog can be embarrassed … she was.
The mud felony that followed was her bounding into the house – one giant mass of mud and leaping all over the new family room carpet as I was on my way out the door with a dead mouse, courtesy of Oscar. It was worse, cuz I thought it was a toy and nearly picked it up!
Today I started off my errands with a stop at Dunkin’ Donuts. I had a coupon for a $2 frozen coffee drink. It sounded good and worth a try. The one sip I had was great. Then I promptly proceeded to dump the rest of the contents onto my lap, my car seat and on the floor of my van. I was already too far from home to go back – so I spent the rest of the day looking like and feeling like I had wet my pants. NICE.
From there I went to the bank and made a deposit … which cost me $9. Thank you Bank of (Rip off) America. Had an ever-so-nice conversation with two absolute incompetent idiots at that bank. That was fun.
On to the bank where I hold my business account. I was told by Einstein the Teller (and of course he spoke broken English) that I could not make a deposit to said account because the name was different for the account holder. I told him, “Yes, my company is a DBA.” He did not know that meant Doing Business As … and we had to get a manager involved. Another brainiac.
After a few more stops and horrid traffic I came home to A&T at my house (or as they should be known – AT$T because they are so pricey). I called last week and was scheduled to have the old phone lines removed as they are low and sagging and draped (literally) across my neighbor’s basketball hoop. The tech was to come “sometime” between 8-7 last Saturday. Love that small window of time there … and then no one showed. However, when I called today to make Appt. #2 the gal “helping” me kept telling me that the tech reported the work complete. And I kept telling her that the tech was a liar. Not in so many words … but nearly.
Anyway – I came home to find the guy ready to remove my phone box. He said the orders were for him to remove the phone box and the lines. I never said anything about removal of the phone box because if they removed that – well, I’d have NO PHONE. Hello!!!!! He said it was a good thing I got there when I did. I’ll say.
Then I talked to the electrician who did work for me a couple of weeks ago. He was completely baffled why the work he did in my upstairs office closet was not to my liking. Other than it looked like some 5th grader made a light out of orange juice cans and some tin foil – it was nice. He is coming back. Or so he said.
Then I made an appointment, Number 2, with Sears to repair my gas range. Tweedle Dum painted my igniter last week saying it might help or it might not. By then I wanted him OUT of my house. He thought he was really funny with his one liners (ala: Rodney Dangerfield) … I didn’t find him humorous … just merely fantastically annoying in a creepy – LEAVE ALREADY – kind of way.
The garbage guys didn’t pick up my 2 ton bucket of yard waste … for the second week in a row now. Guess I’ll have to call and find out what the scoop is. Is this a monthly thing? I don’t know. So, I had to wheel this super heavy garbage can back into the garage for another week (or more).
So, to top it all off … I decided to crack open my bottle of Jose Cuervo Light Margarita mix and have a glass as I made myself a late dinner of grilled chicken salad (ooh, yum … w/feta and blueberries and strawberry vinaigrette). The drink kicked my butt! I am so sniffy and stuffed I have to go take an allergy pill so I can continue breathing … yes, it was one of those days!