Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

Darn, I forgot about this week’s Photohunt again.  It just hit me while I was checking my emails.   Here is it for this week’s theme: Messy.  My messy office at home.  It has been in this condition since the beginning of this year, I think, or in July.  I know for sure I got rid of some of the text books from last year.  Yeah, I’m not a very tidy person.

I’m so getting used to these 3 days off, and work one day and off another few more.  I better enjoy it while I can coz after next week, we won’t have any days off (federal at least) till January 21 for Dr. MLKJr’s day and then February 18 for President’s Day.

I had the day (Friday) off yesterday.  Went to Cole’s Salon for my haircut in the morning.  That girl still can’t get what I wanted for a haircut.  It snowed when I got home, more like a nuisance snow.  Not much but enough to coat the driveways and streets to make them slippery enough that every one needs to slow down.  I went to get my text books for school which costs me a bomb.  For two books, one used and the other brand spanking new, the total came to $168+.  Damn expensive if you ask me.  Then drive all the way back to my neck of the woods for groceries. 

Yeah, I bought a set of flannel linen for our bed.  DB washed them this morning and they are now we have fresh flannel linen for tonight.  Will have to see if it’s warmer for DB.  I don’t mind the cotton linen but DB finds it too cool to lay on in the winter. 

Today I hardly did much.  Vacummed the carpets and it was just horrible.  Dust and dog hair and more dog hair and dust.  Coopster really need a brushing again, but I have not got to it yet, and they need a bath too.  DB’s going to bathe Ranger tomorrow.  That dog has more problems than I do.  This time around he has an ear infection and is on antibiotics and ear drops for 10 days.   Oh, and I was putzing around on Facebook this morning.  I found a classmate of mine from when I was in my secondary school.  We were once in contact but lost touch for many years.  Thanks to Facebook, we are now back in action.

And for dinner, I cooked noodles, those dry noodles.  Didn’t bother to take a picture coz it just wasn’t what I wanted.  I should have cooked the noodles in hot water first before dumping it to the wok to fry!!!!  Lesson learned.  We are also trying to use up the ham as much as we can.  DB is having ham sandwiches every day.  He said will make bean soup with the bone, but will see if he will do it.  He is so into getting his computer fix right now.

For now, it’s movie time for me.  That’s what I have been doing every night since the week before Christmas.  Thank you to Blockbuster Online, yeah, but I’m thinking of signing up with Netflix.  They are cheaper for the same amount of rented DVDs.

TTFN, folks.

Since I moved to the States, I have been buying a lot of calling cards till I bought one permanent one from Sam’s Club where I can add more minutes at any time.  I will buy 1500 minutes for $65 plus and to place an international cellular number, I will only have about 100 minutes.  That really stinks majorly.  Pinshark.com has all the international calling cards for all different countries, and phone cards for domestic calls, too.  They are very cheap, for example, for me, international calls to a cellular number in Malaysia, the card will cost approximately $20 and the amount of minutes is about 2,800.  Of course, the price of the card and number of minutes depends on which phone card you would like to purchase.  It saves heck a lot of money if I were to purchase one of these cards.  Pinshark.com carries all the different brands of phone cards that are out in the market.  Their website is easy to maneuver around.  It has a category for consumers to choose the right calling card where it has all the answers for my questions, at least for me.

Wha-ta-heh, the boss is here.  Actually every one in my department came in today.  My boss had the morning off and came in at noon, came in with her hubby and FIL for lunch and tour the campus.  Good thing I have only 45 minutes to go and then three days off.  Will meet with Forrest’s (Simmie’s BF) sister to collect the vacumm cleaner and shampoer at 5 today.  She will drive up to my area instead of me driving to Lakeville to  meet her.  Very nice of her.  For now, I have to act busy, pull up the Excel spreadsheet of reports and pretend I’m working on it.

When I was in KL, the changes in that city were kinda over bearing.  The last I was in KL was in 1994, I think, it was not as crazy as compared to what I have seen now.  The traffice jams never seems to change; the high rise buildings are just coming up and with all these condos for sale almost all over the city.  They are those luxury to the medium priced condos that I am sure will be taken up with a snap of a finger with all the foreign expats in the city.

My SIL gets to leave prison for Christmas, actually because of good behavior, she was out on Christmas eve.  I did not talk to her, but DB said according to his other sister, this SIL of mine had colon cleanse while she was in the lock up.  This is because of all the toxins in her from her drinking and drugs usage, the build up was bad enough to almost kill her.  She is now a completely new person; she put on 30 pounds on her, reads the bible every day, and not as trashy.  No wonder MIL said she feels very happy.

Since I  walk the boys all over the neighborhood for over a year now, I have seen a lot of houses with real crappy mailboxes.   Yeah, when I walk, I do look the houses and its yard and surroundings.  The residents on the street where I live, some of them do maintain those mailboxes to the max.  I have seen some owners totally take pride of their mailboxes with the new column mailboxes made out of bricks with the house number engraved to the column.  Very impressive looking. 

Mailboxixchange.com  has all the mailboxes you can dream of.  Some of the owners bought their residential mailboxes from this site.   Majority of them are post mounted and of course those with columns.  Then the area where the townhomes are, these townhomes are quite spendy.  They are those one level townhomes with basements.  These townhomes’ mailboxes are those of the commercial mailboxes type.  They are made of heavy aluminum and is approved by the United States Postal Service.  There are about 16 individual boxes and each comes with their own keys for each unit. 

Mailboxixchange.com has a variety of mailboxes’ manufacturers like Whitehall, Salsbury to Ecco.  Each product is 100% guaranteed for customers’ satisfaction: 100% refund for a return and the product is good for 30 days after delivery.  This website also markets items like plagues for addresses, and curbside decorations.

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I’m back to work on this Thursday, but it’s just for today.  It’s not as quiet as I thought it would be.  One of my co-worker, Ms. E, is here which I thought she’s off this entire week.  Been here for two hours and I have not done a thing.  There are a few prescription claims I have to submit, almost $600+ money right there.  Maybe I can get my pair of Clarks I want so bad.  Yeah, not that easy.   What will I do for the rest of the day?  Probably write paid posts and act busy.