Just Stuff

We are supposed to have our last heat wave of the year this week. I am so ready for sweater weather if only so I can start complaining about how cold I am instead of how hot.

Yesterday we pulled our morning glory vine out of the front flower bed. It was getting just way too creepy and was infested with some tiny flying bugs and the leaves were all eaten up and it was huge and grabbing onto anything that walked by, so into the green waste can it went. I'm now afraid that it will creep out from the green waste can and into our bedroom window in revenge. I am also afraid of the spider that will be coming for revenge. I had my hand out to open the front door the other day and there was a HUGE spider right by the doorknob just waiting to get into the house. I swatted at it with the mail that was in my hand BUT IT KEPT COMING AT ME so I kept swatting and swatting until I had swatted it into the yard. I found a spider egg sac on a morning glory leaf as we were cutting it down so now the spider is wondering where it's babies are and I'm pretty sure the spider will be coming to get us, too.

But the flower bed looks way better not having a rambling bug infested half eaten morning glory vine in it.

That was about all we got done this weekend other than the usual grocery shopping and laundry and stuff.

And here is why people don't go to the doctor even if they have insurance. $185.00 for blood work even after the insurance adjustment. And that's just the bill for me, we haven't gotten the one for Keith yet, but according to the explanation of benefits we got from the insurance company for him, the bill will probably be in today's mail for another $185.00 or so. And that is exactly why routine doctor's visits get put off for months and months.

Randomness

I was awakened this morning by all sorts of banging noises and my still asleep mind at first thought that Keith was slamming doors on his way to work or something, but if he was on his way to work then he was going to be really really late. So, I check the closet to see if somebody got locked in there, but no, it was Buddy who had gotten stuck in the bathroom. He likes to play in there because the slick floor is great for sliding his toys around and he had knocked the door closed. He was in there with his tailless big furry black mouse, his most favorite toy these days. I had bought two of them in a package, one white and one black, and for some reason he has only played with the black one. He's played with it so much that its tail had ripped off. I don't get why he doesn't play with the white one.

It is supposed to get up to 80 degrees today.

Daylight savings time always screws me up for a week or so while my inner clock re-adjusts itself. The whole thing is kind of dumb if you ask me, why not just stay on real time like the rest of the world does? At Keith's work they told everyone to come in at 7 instead of 6 until the days get long enough to where there is actually light at 6 am instead of trying to work in the dark. Then when the days start getting hotter and hotter they'll come in at 4 or 5 so that they're not out there in the midday sun. So, at least he gets a little extra sleep for a few weeks until he has to start getting up in the middle of the night again.

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, a 'holiday' that has become just another reason to drink until you are stupid. I remember being in grade school and the horror of going to school on St' Pat's day and having totally forgotten what day it was and you didn't wear anything green so you had people pinching you all day long. Do kids still do that?

I tried making french bread (from the 5.00 dinner cookbook) last night and let's just say that it would have been easier and much tastier to just buy a damn loaf of french bread already! I think I remember why I've never been much interested in making bread now.

I need to go finish vacuuming and maybe even clean the bathroom now.