Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I always look forward to weekend but the past weekend I dreaded it. It was just one of those weekend I don’t want to be home at all, I mean I don’t even want to step foot in the house.  But I know I can’t.  I have the boys to take care of.  I did go out to Macy’s at the Mall of America to get what I wanted, went to Joann’s craft store to look around since there was sales on notions. I didn’t get any notions but was quite tempted to check out the Beading Tools that were on sale. I told myself I will not start something new now.   I guess I’m just in a slump myself.  It sucks when one is in a slump, you will drag the another down too.  I sure is thankful I have a job to go to.  I know I complain about my job but I still get up every morning and drive myself to work.  It gets me off whatever I don’t want to think about.   So now instead of huddling over the  PC on FB, I should get my sewing stuff together and start making myself a shoulder bag I wanted to make for a very long time.  Hmmm, maybe that’s what I should do this afternoon.

DB is a hardcore TV addict.  No joke, he has to watch TV when he is prepping dinner, or when he gets home, the first thing he will do is turn the TV on.  We have a TV in the dining room now and we installed a dish TV a month after we moved in.  I was kinda against it but then I thought since he is paying for the bill, I’d let it go.

Having satellite dish instead of cable has its advantages and disadvantages.  I much prefer cable because when it rains or any bad weather, the cable will not lose signal.  Satellite dishes do, however cable has fewer channels than satellite dish.  The cable company we had frequented usually comes with a package with internet and or phone.  However this time around we just wanted TV channels, no internet and what not.  So DB stuck on with his favorite dish TV provider, Direct TV.   I left it to him to settle this “TV” thing since he is the who will be watching the most.

Direct TV do offer a few direct satellite tv offers.   There are quite a number of packages to pick from.  I had already told him to pick the minimal but that fella still insist on some channels like Fox Sports North (FSN), ESPN, Western and FX and some other channels I can’t even remember.  I cannot remember which package he picked, I think it’s the Choice package, since it was priced very reasonably and the channels he wanted are there.

Since DB is paying for all bills, I don’t really care what he wants to  order for channels but I still want a moderate looking statement every month.  Anyway, he told me since we are only getting two receivers, the bill will drop tremendously compare to four receivers.  I have to agree that the statement is better looking and I do like how Direct TV have their tv pricing fair with other companies with the channels we have and the price we pay plus it includes all the local channels, too.  I’m up for that.

Friday I was out again with Nadine. This time around her sister came along as we were going to the mall by her house. Her sister and brother in-law came for a visit from Moscow, their 2nd time in Minnesota. Her sister is about 4+ months preggie but she don’t even look like she is with child. Ok this is what i want to talk about. Her sister is super anal. She wants to get the best prenatal vitamin but could not decide which to get. Nadine told her most brands sold in here are good brands. Even store brands are good. Her sister said she will never touch anything store brand. Wow, that was obnoxious of her. I told her I have known friends who took store brands prenatal vities and everything was fine with them. I guess she rather spend the extra bucks to get the best out there. Nadine and I just rolled my eyes, fed up with her sister.

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.