Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I was looking through my wardrobe last weekend before I went out to Macy’s.  All I have in my closet are tees and more tees.  I counted how many blouses I owned and sad to say only 3 blouses that are decent looking.  Since I started with this company I have drastically changed my dressing style.   At my previous company 12 plus years ago, I had to dress up for work – dress pants, blouses, shirts, skirts and dress shoes.  No jeans, capris, khakis, tees, tennis or anything that resembles comfort like scrubs!  The ex-boss was very adamant that jeans and tees does not look good in their company on Fridays.  Even jeans pair with a good buy sweater is not a go.  Yes, I had to dress up 5 days a week.

When I got to the present company, I didn’t have to dress up because of the scope of my work – working in a dusty file room all by my lonesome.  I don’t have to meet no clients or customers.  If I have to it’s once in a blue moon.  The temp worker who I replaced said her boss said she could wear anything casual as along it’s not shorts or sleeveless.   She said she even came in once in her uniform scrubs after her early morning vet tech job and her boss was alright with it.  As long as it’s clean, that’s all it matters.  She said the scrubs were the best clothing ever invented.  I can’t agree more with her.  Morever, you don’t have to worry about what to wear for work every day, that’s a big plus right there!! :)

I actually bought a pair of women’s scrubs many years ago just to wear it at home for days when I have no where to go just being a couch potato.  Whenever I go to the vet, the vet techs are always dressed in colorful scrubs and some even wore printed scrubs.   One of my future job to work in a vet office so I can wear scrubs and don’t have to fuss with what to wear daily.  So yes, my wardrobe has changed tremendously since 1998.

DB has a room in the house set up with his office desk, printers and his two pcs. Yet he is not using the room. The room is still in a state of mishap, mishap of cables. He said he needs to get another Linksys router so he could finish up moving his stuff around in the room (office). I told him all the routers he has in the umpteen boxes he has he could have use one of them. He then can at least start moving some of the crap that he had started setting up by the dining table. I shall see when he will finally get moving.

These days I have nothing much to write about….contemplating, again, if I should close this blog.  I don’t update about myself or whats going on much.  This blog has become a making money blog, not much, but enough to pay the server and extras for miscellaneous.  The money part is tempting enough for me to keep it going but the thought of having to put in non paid writings in between them is giving me a headache.  Will see what I decide to do

I wanted to go downtown in the city we live for picture  taking but days are so darn hot and with no air conditioning in the car, I decided to stay home…Stay home to play more games on FB.  Actually I’m playing some and ignoring a lot of the others.  I have quite a few books laying out on my desk staring at me, begging me to open them up.  I opened one up but the temptation of Frontierville is right there.  Terrible isn’t it?  No self-control nor will power to just shut down the pc and read my book.  Guess the book is not as appealing as the game! :)  Or, I can clear out more boxes that are sitting in the house.  Dang, the power of FB games!

Anyways, I have been baking cakes and meals almost every week.  I never take pictures of them since they are just so-so according to me.  DB said they are damn good.  I baked couple of recipes from The Pioneer Woman’s cooking site and Lesley’s.  The weekends are now for errands and cleaning on Saturday; Sunday’s church and cooking/baking for the week’s meals.  It does saves a lot of time during the week to think of what to eat and then prep them.  I’m lazy that way.  Plus DB is beat when gets home from work.  He works about 9 hours a day, 6 days a week.  On top of that, that fella does not go to bed early either….so pretty much he is asking to be tired. :)  Asking him to help out after he gets home from work is pointless.  He will say “Give me 10″ meaning he will take a 10-minute nap which normally turns out to 30 or more minutes. 

Ok, enough of my nonsense.  Here’s to a great weekend to everyone.  Will surf the cooking websites soon for recipe ideas.  Tee-da-loo!

My car has been acting really weird for many, many months.  It started last winter.  I had to send the car to our local mechanic once in December of last year to get it fix and I told them to do the bare minimal.  It has to do with some spark plugs which they only fix 3 out of 6 coz I was short of cash but the guy at the shop said it will not last.

After the the fix, the car was running a little better and it does not take 15 minutes to warm the car up.  But then after 1.5 months, it got worse.  DB came back from TX and he changed all the 6 spark plugs.  There was something else wrong too, I can’t remember.  The car was running better but not 100%.  Now after 4 months, something else came up…..first of the air conditioning is dead which is not that bothersome.  What is bothering me and DB the most is the constant vibration,  chugging and it takes forever to get up to speed especially getting on the freeway.  DB thinks it’s the fuel filter problem.

Last week, DB went to the auto parts store and bought a fuel filter for my car.  Came home he worked on it but guess what?????  The damn filter connector snapped and low and behold, DB was soaked with gasoline.  We cannot drive it since the connector broke. So, we had to call AAA to the rescue – tow the car to the nearest shop around our area. 

Everything was was run by pressing a button on a remote..

We wanted AAA to tow it to our usual mechanic shop but it was too far. The closest was a place that was cut throat. A simple fix cost us $120+ and we were trying to save some cash.

After the fix, the car is still not 100%. DB wants those guys to change the plug wires but they quoted us $500 for the parts and labor. Well, I don’t think we will be taking our vehicles to them. Now, I don’t know if DB is going to attempt fixing it himself or taking it to our usual shop. The shop quoted us a price of $350+ (parts and labor). Man, that is expensive for me too…..pay day, i can’t wait for you to come sooner.

Remember the orthotics I picked up last month for my plantar fasciitis?  They are working slowly on my right foot, definitely, but not exactly on the left.   Will talk about that left foot later in a different post.   But the purpose of this post is I want to bitch at my damn insurance company…cheap ass bastards.  Can you smell piss and vinegar in this post??

The pair of foot inserts final total is $726.00.  The doctor’s assistant told me earlier insurance usually covers all or at least half of it.  I said that’s fine.  Patient paying 50% of that amout is not too bad, fair share.

Yesterday received the statement from the clinic.  Blardy hell!!!!  The frigging ins company only paid $201.66 for the inserts -  a quarter of the bill!  And of course the BALANCE DUE (in bold) of $524.34 I have to cough out.  Sorry la, I have to make payments every month instead of paying it off in one lump sum.   The clinic better accept that as it beats the crap of no payments at all.  It looks like the weekly lottery ticket is part of my shopping list now.