Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

SD came over this afternoon and DB and I are still waiting for her baby to arrive.  My coworker asked me yesterday if I was already a grandma.  Hahahaha, I will be the youngest grandma ever then.  Yeah, I am anxious to know when she is gonna deliver, anxious to see the baby.  Hey, some thing in me must have changed.  The word baby coming out from me??  Unusual, but I guess working with a few ladies at work with babies, kids and teenagers, I have heard them all about babies, the terrible twos, threes, the stress, family, relationships, and other stuff.

So, this Saturday we are going to have a Que, plan out the weekend and hopefully it will make the baby come quicker!  Trick the little one.  Stupid, but I think we are still gonna have a barbeque since it’s gonna be nice out before it starts to pour in the night.  Every one told me the first baby will always be late.  Whatever it is, I am hoping for a save and smooth delivery.

Ohhh, dog gone it, I forgot to ask her if I can post pictures of her baby on my blog.  I thought about asking her some time ago and I forgot again.  Got to remember to ask….

It’s Memorial Day this coming Monday.  it will be a 3-day weekend for us, no work till Tuesday.  I have been waiting for a break (after 4 days off 2.5 weeks ago).   Me tired.

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My coworker invited me over to her house last Sunday just to chill.  She is one of those lucky ones who married a rich guy, lives in a nice neighborhood where you see all these sweet luxury cars in their garages.  This lady is one cool woman.  When we got to her house, it was my first time there, my jaw dropped.  She has an immaculate yard, all trimmings, flowers, shrubs and even the pool were just to perfection.  They are doing all these spring cleaning on the yard and pool all ready for the hot summer days to come.  So, here she is showed me the pool toys her hubby bought for the kids: pool water polo and a floating basketball game for their 3 kids.  Of course they have their neighbor and relatives over most of the time.  I have to say those toys will be well used then.

I was over at Nadine’s house this afternoon since I got out from work an hour earlier.  The corporate office in the east coast had an early close since Monday is a holiday, Memorial Day.  Anyways, I was surprised to see her tearing down the one and only guest room.  She removed the wall paper which to me was ugly and carpeting too.  That was a lot to do.  Asked her why, she said her mom commented on the wallpaper, and that said it all.  She even got rid of the old spring box bed and bought a memory foam mattress bed.  She said they have one in their master room.  It is the best bed she ever slept on.  Yeah, I can’t wait to get one myself.

Yesterday morning at work I overheard a manager telling her subordinates a car was on fire over at the back of the parking lot.   She was walking to the skyway and saw it all.  As she was getting into the other building, the gas tank blew up.  There was one car next to the car on fire.  Good thing there was only one car next to the burning one, if not….. I can’t imagine the disaster!!

After 10 minutes of what I heard, the entire office were talking about this incident.  One of the managers’ husband works closer to the side of where the incident happened, he called her wife which she went right right to the skywalk to see what was going on.  I didn’t bother but so happened my coworker needed me to run downstairs to the copy center to drop stuff off, I was able to see the burnt up car with the fire trucks and men still out there.  The car next to it was still in one piece.

Speaking of car starting on fire on its own, my BIL’s car started on fire, too, last month, actually exactly a month ago.  The below pictures shows how bad it was.  What survived was the wife’s lawn mower.  The rest of the garage was useless.  He runs a detailing business in his garage and all the stuff were toast.  They have to tear the garage down and build a new one.  Man, that really stinks.

BIL’s Chevy Impala a gonner

The garage got it, too.

BIL said he came home from work, parked his car where he usually did, went in, changed, got something to drink, sat down and he heard someone shouting “fire”.  He didn’t think much about it til he heard much more commotion outside.  He went out and saw his car and garage on fire.   The engine started a fire and was so high, it got the garage also.  Dang, that is scary.

All the years I have been with my company, the best part of my job was being the system administrator for the company’s recruiting system.  I still wish I am part of the recruiting team, however, because of my department which does nothing but all compliance and legal stuff, recruiting is out of the picture when the company outsourced recruiting to a vendor.  My boss had to take my system administrator cum recruiting responsibilities away. 

Being in the recruiting team was fun for me.  I had the opportunity to meet other hiring managers where I can now put a face to their names.  I hear so much about them, but can’t picture what they look like.  When you are in the recruiting team, I have to deal with the background checks, too, which is also done by another vendor.  The company conducts these checks for all candidates who are offered a position with the company.  These include the last 7 years of education, employment, criminal checks, and depends on the position, driving records and credit will also be checked. 

Sentrylink.com is a site where one can conduct a check on anyone.  Like any other background check sites, if the employer intends to conduct criminal background checks, the employer needs to inform the applicant/candidate via a form that the company will be doing such pre-employment checks through a form to release their information/records to the employer.  

Having the background checks done on candidates will assist the employer if the candidates have given any false information on their application forms.  I have seen background checks come back with flags on them for criminal/driving records that were not specified by the candidates who were offered the position, or falsifying their education or prior employment. 
 

Spring is here, I think, because of the wacky weather, and the golf courses are now in full action.  Our neighbor are looking for a golf partner to golf with him.  DB said he would if only his feet does not hurt him so much.  The neighbor guy said he just bought brand new golf balls last week because the ones he had were gone missing or just too old.  We told our neighbor guy to get the other neighbor who lives across us for a few golf sessions since that guy is an avid golfer. 

My company has this fitness challenge which started today.  I registered as a team to compete with 184 other teams within the company.  How this works is you score 1 point for every 10 minutes of physical activity you do.  Sex included, I wonder?? :)  Anyways, I am glad I signed up coz I’m slacking in the exercise department.  Yesterday was the hardest I have ever worked out for a long, long time. 

I brushed the boys 20 minutes each because of them shedding their winter coat.  They must be several inches shorter now!!  There were fur all over the yard!  Great stuff for the birds to build their nests.  Next, I bathe them and cleaned their ears.  So far so good.  Thought I would vacuum the house upstairs and downstairs.  That did it!!  After doing the stairs to the basement, I was walking like this “?”.  My back was about to break to half.   A back breaker, alright.  I didn’t wanna do much after cooking for the week.   Sat on my butt and placed orders on Photobucket.  Online shopping to stimulate the economy!

So far, today, I have complete a 15 minute walk: walked the floors in the building and took 25 minutes to walk the walking path during lunch.  We are getting really crappy weather lately.  It has been raining very frequent, seems like every other day.  I don’t mind the cool weather but the darn rain can go away for a while.  When it rains, no walks for us.  Spring storms, you gotta love it.