Today's Smile: Funny story

A co-worker sent this to me and I got a laugh so enjoy!

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner. I took out my wallet, got out ten dollars and asked, "If I give you this money, will you buy wine with it instead of dinner?" "No, I had to stop drinking years ago", the homeless woman told me. "Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?" I asked. "No, I don't waste time shopping," the homeless woman said. "I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive." "Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?" I asked. "Are you NUTS !" replied the homeless woman. " I haven't had my hair done in 20 years!" "Well, " I said, "I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you out for dinner with my husband and me tonight." The homeless Woman was shocked. "Won't your husband be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting." I said, "That's okay. It's important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, and wine."

A Texas Thanksgiving

Sean and I had a really nice Thanksgiving in Texas at Sean's grandma and grandpa's house. I feel like all I did while I was there was eat. I must have gained at least a few pounds. Although Sean and I tried to exercise. We ran on Thursday and walked on Friday. So it probably could have been more pounds....

Sean's grandma fussed over us the entire time and it was nice to just sit and relax. I also finally got to meet Sean's Aunt and Uncle and their kids. Everyone was super nice and we had a great food fulled time. I love Thanksgiving, it is my favorite holiday!!!

How was everyone else's Thanksgivings?

de-flea-ing the house

So Charlie definately has/had fleas. The boys also seemed to have a few on them. So they all got Frontlined! That was an expensive trip to the vet!!! Then after the 24 hr waiting period I 've been washing and vacuuming the house like a mad women. Our bed being the first thing to be stripped and washed. I did the puppy beds last night. I have tons more clean/vaccuming to do this weekend. Plus lots and lots of raking! I can't see any grass in my front yard just leaves! More on that later.

I hope to not have to use any chemicals to get rid of the fleas. So keep your fingers crossed.

The cat has fleas

I'm almost positive that Charlie has fleas. I'm taking him to the vet today. I feel awful that I didn't realize it sooner. He hasn't been scratching more than usual I don't think but he is shedding little black worming looking things which are apparently flea dirt. He was due for his annual check up any way but he is not going to be happy! We'll see how it goes.

A fun football weekend!

Sean and I had an awesome weekend! Saturday we got up bright and early and drove to Indianapolis to meet up with Scott, Megan, and some of Megan's family to head up to South Bend for the Notre Dame, Navy game. The car ride up was pretty uneventful however we did see some deer. Once we got there we took a tour of the campus. It is a beautiful campus! We got to see where Scott and Megan got engaged (the particular bench is in question.... :-) ), were married, and had their reception. All beautiful spots!

We ate some brats from student run stands before the game and did some tailgating. It was Scott's birthday and almost Megan's sister's boyfriend Adam's birthday, so we had a cake and sang. Then we headed to the game. Since tickets can be hard to come by we all split up to watch the game. Sean and I were at one of the end zones and luckily in the sun pretty much the whole game. Thanks to Megan's mom for getting us tickets!!! The game was quite exciting and the fans and band were really into it, so it made it more fun. I had forgotten how much fun college games can be! Unfortunately after 3 overtimes ND lost to Navy. However it was hard to be too upset about it since it was the first time Navy had beaten Notre Dame in 43 years!!!

We ended the night with a birthday dinner for Scott and Adam at Texas Road House. Thank to Marilyn (Megan's Mom) for dinner!!!! Once we returned to Indianapolis we basically all crashed. We headed back to Ohio fairly early Sunday morning since Sean has 4 exams this week.

I may have to add Notre Dame to my list of teams I cheer for! Go Buffs and Go Irish!

A cold tuesday morning

Not only was it 35 degrees this morning but I locked myself out of my house at 8:30am. Sean and I recently installed a keyed lock on the door from the house to the garage. Well I went out into the garage right before I was about to leave to throw an empty bag of dog food in the trash. I shut the door behind me so Charlie wouldn't sneak into the garage. When I went to open the door and go back in the house it was locked! At first I was in shock like this can't be for real! Yeah, so I had locked the backdoor after letting the dogs in and of course the front door was locked. There is a lock box on the back door from our buyers agent still. I thought I remembered the code, but no luck. Also I'm not actually sure there is still a key in there anyways.

So I had to walk next door to my neighbors house and ring the door bell. I wait a good 2-3 minutes and she answers the door in her house coat and PJs. It is obvious that she has just gotten up which makes me feel awful. Anyways she let me use her phone and thank goddess Sean answers his cell. He rarely answers! So he had to come home and let me in. I spent the next 20-25 minutes in my quite cold garage organizing. I'm still cold!!! Probably will be all day! At least I had real clothes and shoes on, instead of PJs or something.

So lesson learned: Hiding a key in the garage and possibly outside.

House Guest

My Mom is visiting this week from Colorado. So far we haven't done anything too exciting. Saturday, we took her disc golfing because the weather was beautiful. She enjoyed it and is even talking about getting some discs of her own! Sunday, Mom helped us with yard work. She picked up all the apples while I hacked down my tomato plants. Monday, we went to trivia at a local restaurant. It was a lot of fun plus good beer. Today she is helping me paint my bedroom while I'm at work. I plan on helping her after work today and tomorrow. Hopefully we can get it finished so I longer have to live with the ugly brownish, pinkish, beigey purple color.

Toby is growing on her although he is at the bottom of the totem pole still because he kept getting his feet muddy every time he went outside yesterday in the rain. He just had to keep checking on his hole that he dug! Although he knows he will never be number one since that spot is firmly held by Max (Mom's only human grandson) he is at least hoping to tie Quincy!