Everybody Crap!!

I bought Steve's wedding ring at the Shane Company, and it was time to take it in for a check-up. While it was back with the jeweler I got to talking to this cute little Asian guy Kevin, it started dumping down buckets of rain outside, and Kevin told me this story.

One day lin I las a rittre boy, my mom went to the sto, and it stalted to lain leally leally hald outside just rike it is light now. Befo she come home I put a whore bunch of soap on the sidewark, and when she come home she srip on the soap and she far down. Arr the glocelies fry errywhaile!! And errybody raff and craappp!!

I raffed so hard when he told me that story, and it's fun to tell people. My friend Patty was with me, and she has the kind of raff that fills the  room, we told each other that story all the way home. She's a trainer at a local credit union, and every time I find out that somebody is going to work there I ask them to tell her "Madge says errybody crap" 

We Have A Winner!!!!

Thank you all for playing "Comment on the Dog Pee for Coffee"
After serious deliberation, I have chosen.............

Cheryl: with "Hey, look Mrs. Calabash, the mutt has created a Master-pee-se,...... ha cha cha chaaaa"
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

If you haven't been over to Cheryl's place click the link, she's a great writer, you'll enjoy your stay over there.

So Cheryl, email me your address and I'll get your $5 Starbucks gift card out in two shakes of a puppies tail.

I'm Really Frustrated!!!!

I’ll be taking off for vacation, and I have let Henry’s family know when I’ll be gone. My only concern is that he gets to take a shower, I have filled his freezer with yummy food, I have talked to his family and friends to make sure that he’s being checked in on. And today I left a message for his daughter in law to make sure that someone is giving him a shower every week while I’m gone. I have been taking care of him for 16 years, he is family to me, and I care.

Her response was this

"You don’t know what we do for him, you should check in with us. Jim gives him a shower or a bath every two weeks. You are pissing me off to assume that we are not going to be taking care of him while you’re gone, and next time instead of leaving me a message you should talk to me face to face."

Well the reason (obviously) why I left a message is because I knew that this would be the response. They neglect to make sure his basic needs like showering often are met, and then they get pissed off when I tell them to make sure that they take care of him.

I had to make him a doctors appointment and call Cheryl and tell her he needed a ride. I asked if Jim could do it or if I had to find somebody else, she asked why, I told her  he had diarrhea every day for a month. (surprised that all I heard was crickets? It was one of the longest pauses I had heard in a long time) She said that Jim Could take him. Jim was there every week, you can't tell me that loving attentive family doesn't know when there's a medical problem, and you can't be around him for more than about twenty minutes without knowing about his bowel movements.

They also didn't know that the chore worker that they hired through the service had been stealing his meds, or that all the other one did was sit around and eat his food. I stopped cleaning when they hired the service, the girl who stole the meds was fired as soon as I found out that she stole from him, the guy that ate the food didn't clean at all, after a month the inside of the toilet was black. They fired him too, but if I hadn't been around to check and make sure everything was good, they would never had known.

By the time I pay for my gas to drive there and take care of him for 3 hours, I'm only making about $5 an hour. I obviously don't do it for the money. They'll probably try to fire me, they can't and they aren’t going to scare me away.

I really want to put lots of information about his family here, so that when people are searching for them they will find out how shitty they treat him. She is sort of somebody in town, people know who she is. I don't want it to come back on me, so I won't, but I sure would like too.

Dog Pee Picasso – The Series – Praying Angel of Jimmy Durante

I thought it was just a fluke, but now I know it’s not. Riley is officially an artist. I don’t know how he knows what the Praying Angel of Jimmy Durante looks like, to my knowledge we’ve never watched a Durante movie, but the boy has done it again.

Look at the great detail, the weak chin, the nose, the hair just so. It’s totally amazing.

There’s even dots that imply that there should be a caption bubble up there.

I have a $5 Starbucks gift card to award to the person with the best caption.

I’ll give you some time, I’ll pick a winner on June 17^th. Have fun!!

OH! The Things You Will See!!!

Last Sunday we went to the Folk Life Festival in Seattle, I love the FLF mostly because it's one of the only times of the year that I get to go to "The City" and I love the energy of the city so much, but mostly I love the freaks. Steve says that I'm a "freak magnet" I'm not sure how true that is, but I'm pretty sure that it's not a bad thing.

The following is a pictorial of our day at FLF.

This is the cool plaid SUV we saw on the way, the bumper sticker says Scottish Pride

This puppet was singing You Should Be Swinging on a Star



This chick has issues, she loves squirrels so much she had one tattooed on her leg






What a cool group, they reminded me of a bunch of singing pirates, except for the drummer, he reminded me of a homeless person or a caveman and Mary Kay Latourno there in the dress played the bamboo pipes with flip flops

  

Space Needle



This is the mirror man, I know it looks like a statue, but he's a performer




Look closely you'll see that's not his beard in the pony, it's his hair tied under his chin



 

Another street performer, look how skinny he is

He was wearing an old UW Huskies cheer leading skirt.... SO HOT

It wasn't especially warm, probably about 60, I think the kid in the rain coat has the right idea





I bought this cool wine rack at the Packwood Flea Market on Saturday for $4.50







Monday we bought a bunch of flowers to plant in hanging baskets, I always over-buy and wound up having to make some new flower beds too.





Jacque is Going to Save the World

I've got posts in the hopper, but I'm too busy right now to put anything up.

Jacque has a great idea for world peace, hit this link, go read it now, go, just go!

I Spent the Weekend on Jack





The Yellow Line is the Route We Took

 This is The Jack. It belongs to our friends Lee and Kathy Geist, they charter rides at the Alderbrook Resort in Union WA. This is their website http://captainleellc.com/jack.html  The Jack is a beautiful boat, if I ever had the opportunity to own a boat it would be one like The Jack. They keep The Jack in Shelton, and to bring it around it's a 16 hour ride. I took this picture in the Edmonds Marina.

We saw lots of porpous's, seals and sealions. Lee is very knowledgable about Puget Sound history and wildlife. He is really good at pointing things out and telling stories about them. When you go out with them, you always come back having learned something new. They are great hosts.

After we docked, we went up to Anthony's and had some appetizers, strange thing about the lounge in Anthony's, there is no view of the water or the marina. Design: Fail

 It's amazing to me how many mansions are on the coastline of Puget Sound. Hotel sized Mansions, perched atop the bluffs, most of them right at the edge, I'm sure they weren't at the edge when they were being built, but they are now, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

I feel so relaxed today, and I still can feel the boat when I'm sitting. It's a good thing.

Product Review Time...

I received these BrytonPick Floss in Seconds samples from Tomoson.com. In exchange for the picks I am supposed to give my objective opinion. They have not paid me for my opinion. But I'm happy to give it. Don't buy them. They were weird to get used to using, I had to look in the mirror for the first few times. They didn't get between my back teeth, and I sliced the hell out of my lip, these picks are a very thin metal and razor sharp. As much as I hate to use string floss, I've never put my lips in danger by using it. I reccomend you stay clear of BrytonPick Floss In Seconds.

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I Won Some Awards!!!!

I won two, count them, come on just do it, two awards from Quirks! How fun and exciting!! What do I have to do to keep them moving along, well, this, specifically...

1. Thank and link back to the person giving you the award. Done2. Share 7 things about yourself. Done
     1. I am not a dog groomer, but I just washed and cut all three of my dogs hair, and ummm it's uhhhh   artistic (which is my way of saying, looks a little crappy, but what are you going to do)
     2. I like Canadian Whisky
     3. I sing a mean "Funky Cold Medina" at Karaeoke
     4. Right now I'm supposed to be working at cutting back the ivy from the road, but I'm blogging instead.
     5. I'm going to zipline on my vacation this summer
     6. I really wanted James Durbin to win American Idol
     7. I'm a comment whore
3. Award 10-15 blogs you think deserve this award. Done
      HERE WE GO!! Congrats to you all, please accept both of them.
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http://www.mak2chi.com/

http://chicktuition.com/

http://larissathinksalot.blogspot.com/

http://boomergeekgirl.blogspot.com/

http://howtobecomeacatladywithoutthecats.blogspot.com/

http://lizfirsttime.blogspot.com/

http://zivainferno.blogspot.com/

http://www.tokenblogger.com/

Actually, ya know what, check out all the links over there to the right, I wouldn't follow these folks if they weren't worth my time. Oh except the last one, that's the crazy soon to be x son-in-law's bat shit crazy dad, and I just want to keep an eye on him.

4. Contact these bloggers and let them know about the award

Grimacing Maniacal Lemmings

I am not a speller, I try, I try so hard, but consonants and vowels never fall into the right place for me. I keep a blank word document up during the day and test my spelling skills on it before writing comments on other blogs or responding to emails where spell check is not available. I’m very self conscious about my lack of skills. The title of this post “Grimacing Maniacal Lemmings” was one of my spell check sheets from the other day. I think they probably look something like this. I’m pretty sure it would be like the rodent zombie apocalypse.

P.S That is John McCain's mouth, just in case you were wondering.