Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I think I mentioned this before, the company brings in vendors to sell their products at the convenience store right in the campus. It is very nice to have these little shopping while at work. I have bought a few books, men’s shirts and plates from these vendors. This morning I saw the flier on a wholesale clothes vendor coming in tomorrow for half a day. I am curious what types of brands and line of clothes they are selling. I really like the Minnesota Twins collection they had two months ago. They were reasonably priced and by 2:30 p.m. a lot of their merchandise were sold.   I hope tomorrow’s merchandise is a good lot. :)

My co-worker invited me to her parents’ farm last weekend. I wanted to go but I had to decline since some things cropped up on Friday that got me busy the entire weekend. She wanted me to visit her at the farm because her brother had organized an atv racing between the siblings. I have seen ATVs but have not ride on one. Think I will be too scared unless I’m the passenger, not the driver. I will be driving it slow! :) Today she told me they had fun, no crashes. They even had a little competition between the little nephews and nieces too. Argh, now I wish I went…..oh well, there will be another time since this is an annual summer activity for them.

I chance upon this this article on Yahoo yesterday morning. 

Once I started reading it, it reminds me of DB.  English is his native language.  Yes, his spoken English is, of course, better than mine plus all the slang and some phrases that really get me “urh….”, however, I have to say his spelling sucks to high heaven.  English is my second language or is it third? :)  After going through ESL (English as Second Language) classes and writing classes at the community college, my writing improved, way better when I first got here, although my spoken still sucks.

Anyway, I want to say is this.  DB’s usage of “you’re” and “your” is so apparent, it just irks me to death.  Example, “Your welcome.”  Drives me nuts seeing that on text or emails.

And when he writes “The dogs are board.”  I have to read that sentence again to get the meaning.  It should be “bored” not “board”.  Another one I see very often amongst my coworker is “tasty”.  Some of them write “taste” and DB spell it that way too when I say the chicken was tasty.  Another big one this manager uses is “my bad”.  I think that is slang but it’s not a proper sentence and I’m picking up on it once in a while and I will catch myself once I say it and then correct myself.  I will say, “It’s my fault/mistake.”

Oh since I’m at it, he still says for example, “I doesn’t like the shirt.”  WTH, right?  I have to correct him, “I don’t like the shirt.”  Sometimes I know he is saying it wrong on purpose but in emails and when I read his cover letters, I have to correct his grammar and spelling and like the article said, spell check do not check some words that are not right for the sentence. 

Not boasting here but I told him he should be teaching me English, not the other way around.  Yes, no?

….you see a depressed person wasting his/her life away doing nothing about it.  Worse still is he/she is not enjoying what God has given to him/her.  It is extremely sad.

Sometimes talking to the depressed person is not easy either.  He/she might not want to talk about the problem that is bugging them.

The doctor is the best medicine for these kind of folks.  The doctor will prescribe the “happy pill” if worse comes to worse for that person. 

Been there done that, and I’m glad I’m out of this depressed mode.  I am hoping this person will come out of this shell very very soon.  It is nerve wrecking, I know.

I am debating should I spend a couple hundreds for a whitening serum for my dark spots. Those darn dark spots are getting darker and with me in the sun every day just for 30 minutes is enough to not make it any better. I do have sun screen on but I do not see any improvement at all except that I don’t get too tan on my face. I know prototype 37c is a good wrinkle fighter, that I don’t need as of now. I rather find a good dark spot serum to lighten those darn spots. I have one in mind to buy but whether I want to spit that much dough for a bottle of cream, that’s what bugging me. Will have to sleep on it for a few more days.