Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

Sunday mornings are DB’s time of the day.  He get to listen to his old country songs on the radio.  So happened this morning we were in the kitchen putzing around for our usual coffee.  This song came on.  Listening to it, made me uneasy.  I know DB was listening to it coz he was very quiet.  After the song was over, I said what an awful song to listen to.  He said I wouldn’t know how it is since my siblings and I had not have these environment in our family, our upbringing were a total opposite. He said there were  many times he and his siblings had these bad dreams in their sleep.  It always sadden me when he talks about his family and the environment he was brought up in.

Skip a rope skip a rope listen to the children while they play
Ain’t it kinda funny what kids all say skip a rope

Daddy hates mama mama hates dad
Last night you should’ve heard the fight they had
Gave little sister another bad dream she woke us all up with a terrible scream
Skip a rope skip a rope…

Cheat on your taxes don’t be a fool what was that they said about the golden rule
Never mind the rules just play to win and hate your neighbor for the shade of his skin
Skip a rope skip a rope…

Stub ‘em in the back that’s the name of the game
And mama and daddy are the ones to blame
Skip a rope skip a rope listen to the children while they play
It’s not really funny what children say skip a rope
Skip a rope skip a rope

This “what if” keeps popping up in my head.

What if DB goes to Texas and gets a job?

What if he goes to Texas, when I will join him in Texas?

What if I quit my job?  But the job pays good for now tho it’s a dead end job, however, the company provides good health benefits, insurance?

What if I don’t quit my job, I stay back with the boys….man, that will be a lot of work for me!

………..Will cross the bridge when it gets here.  I’m a worrier, I think a lot.  Can’t help it.

I was chatting with Pearly this morning on Yahoo.  No, I didn’t re-install Yahoo Messenger in my pc at work.  I used the regular chat box on Yahoo.  Works good but the drawback is I cannot retrieve the archives.  Oh well, can’t have the best of both worlds, can I?

Anyway, we chatted about calling overseas and how expensive to buy minutes on the calling cards.  She mentioned instaling Skype on my PC.  I will have to talk my sis to install it on her PC and we can chat for free.  Each time my sis and I chat on the phone, it’s endless.  And calling land lines and cellphones are cheaper too.  I’m sure it will be cheaper than using my calling card.  Well, I did checked Skype, a call to a cellphone number to Malaysia is $0.067 per minute.  At least I can call my parents frequently instead of having them to call me.

When I was in KL, my friend Deb took me to Suria KLCC.  It was the first time I was there and I was so glad that I got to go see what the Petronas Towers look like.

We walked almost every floor and till I had to pee. So happened we were on the second floor, the floor where all the designer stores are located.  As I was walking I saw the sign for bathrooms and told Deb I’m going to the bathroom.  She told me not to go to the bathrooms on the second floor.  Why I wondered??

There.  Because it’s a Premier Paid Toilet.  Whoever needs to go do their business and so happen you are on this floor, you have to pay RM2.00, and exact change, too.  I should have paid the RM2.00 and take a look what so special are their bathrooms that one has to pay that much pee or poop.  Does it not smell like the other non paying bathrooms?  I wonder if they are spotless and dry?  Must be some fancy schmancy toilets, gold trimmings with bidets??  :)  Wonder how many people has patronize this Premier Paid Toilet?  I suppose whoever thought of this idea thinks that if one can afford to shop on this floor, he/she can afford to pay the RM2.00 for a pee or dump.  Can’t be curious anymore coz maybe the next year or two when I’m in KL, it’s not required to pay anymore. 

I was on the phone with a friend this evening and we had a conversation in regards to same sex marriage how she supports it by legalizing it, but I am the opposite.  I don’t care if you gay/lesbian but I do not believe in same sex marriage.  Yes, some companies do not include their significant other/partner in the insurance coverages.  She told me about her instructor who is gay and her partner was involved in an accident and almost in a vegetable state.  She was sent to a nursing home by the girl’s parents after she came out from her coma, where I suppose in a nursing home they do not have to purchase incontinence supplies.  Because there was no insurance coverage provided for the instructor’s girlfriend, this poor girl had to stay in the cheapest nursing home and now that she is living with the instructor who is caring for her occupational and physical therapies, she is able to walk and move her arms. 

I still think that companies nationally should include the employees’ partners to the benefits package, but do not pass the damn law to legalize the marriage – so that they can “have” kids which I have read in the news that many gay couples are doing now.  But isn’t it weird, as a child to be brought up with a pair of parents of the same sex?  My coworker and I had this conversation before since our company has this employee resource group for the gay/lesbian and trans-gender, we two totally disagree with congress passing the law on same sex marriage.  I know some states has this law passed, California as one of them, and I think Maryland, too.  And if the Democrats wins the Prez election, we will definitely won’t be seeing this same sex marriage thingy.  Anyways, my thoughts do not worth a cent…..