Catching Up

Here are a couple of late Memorial Day pics. My sister with Ella. So cute.



It's been a long week! Since I was off Memorial Day I had to make up work hours Tuesday through Friday. Thankfully, after some long days I was off early Friday!! Richard was off too, which gave us a chance to both get things done around the house.

It was so nice not to have to work Friday night when Richard left. I put the time to good use by cleaning up around the house and taking care of things!

Saturday was far from relaxing! Richard had to get up at 4am so he could go do a side job. He woke up and went about getting ready, I stayed snug in bed...for a short while! He came in a few moments later, explaining to me that Phoenix was obviously sick. He hasn't been feeling well this week for whatever reason. Not sure what's wrong exactly. Richard walked into the hall only to discover that our poor baby had made quite the mess in the guest bathroom and it had "traveled" into the hall. I'll spare the gross details aside from that.

I do find it interesting that he went into the bathroom. I mean he's a dog, he could have done it all over my rug! In my sleepy stupor I was wishing he would have just so I could have rolled it up and thrown it outside.

Richard was finding the whole thing quite comical as he was loopy from not nearly enough sleep.

So at 4:30 on a Saturday morning I was helping Richard get all his things together and cleaning up one big mess. The lovely irony of the situation was that I had run out of paper towels the day before. What did people do before paper towels? Thank heavens, as Mom can attest to, I had lots and lots of extra rolls of toilet paper. LOL! Hey, God works ALL things together right? So after using a whole roll of TP to clean everything up, bleaching the floors, cleaning up again, mopping, and letting it dry, going outside to let him out and stop inhaling bleach fumes, and Lysoling the floors we headed back to bed at 6:30. Not exactly what I had in mind for Saturday morning but okay.

He seems to be okay now, hopefully he'll be fine because neither him nor I want to go to the vet. He HATES the vet. I'm not a huge fan either.

Well, I hope everyone elses weekend didn't go as crappy as mine. Yes that was completely intentional. Shameless I know.

I need to stick a new recipe in here. Will try to get around to that soon.

Sunday evening we got a call from Kate asking us out to dinner. So we headed on over to Cracker Barrel and had a nice dinner with them. It had been quite a good while since we'd been able to get together with anyone so the company was nice.

This week has been crazy! Richard had taken Monday off. We did billing and took care of several other things. I had noticed that the phone wasn't working, but didn't think it a big deal. Well, later we realized that our phone line wasn't working...again! This is literally like the fourth or fifth time in the almost two years that we have lived here. So Richard called and the earliest it could be fixed was Tuesday by 6pm or 7pm. So much for work!

Then that afternoon we went grocery shopping. As we were checking out at Sam's we heard loud booms of thunder! So we went running out loaded up the truck and quickly headed home. The storm was nasty! We got home just in time. A few minutes later it started pouring and hailing! I hadn't seen hail in years so it was really crazy seeing it. Naturally once I got my camera out it had stopped. I did manage to take a pic of some on the back door rug with my camera phone.

Tuesday Richard worked most of the day and I cleaned the house and this and that as I was not able to work since the phone was out. The AT&T guy finally showed up right before 6pm. He finally got a dial tone to come up, then informed us that something inside the house wasn't working. We tried all the jacks and found that the one in the office, the one I need, wasn't working! Isn't life interesting! Needless to say Richard was able to switch out jacks and now our office works and everything is back up and running...for now! Hopefully we don't have anymore problems. We were just thankful Richard was able to take care of it and we didn't have to pay AT&T!

So today I am back to work. All is quiet on the eastern front. Hopefully it stays that way for now!