Thursday, October 18, 2007

Rain, rain, go AWAY!!!

The cooler weather is nice, but the rain is getting to be a bit much. It's going to take forever for the leaves to dry enough to rake. By that time there will be twice as many too. Hopefully tomorrow will be nice and sunny. And cool!

I forgot the to take my car in today for the exorcism, um, I mean, the checkup. We had to have a new garage door opener installed on my side of the garage today. The guy called yesterday and said he'd be here between 10 and 11. Okay, I can drag myself out of bed by then. I talked to my dad later yesterday and he told me the new Costco was opening today. I really wanted to go, so he said I could go with him since he already has a membership - I was really looking forward to that too. I thought he was going about 11 or so. Oh no, he called me this morning at 7 freaking 30 to tell me he's getting ready to go. Oh no. We have to do a blitz at the hospital once a year, just generally a test over the mission statement, policies, procedures, etc. I was up until 2 last night doing the blitz, so I wasn't going to get up at 7:30, even to go to Costco.

Today was garbage day, so after Steve went to work at 8, the stupid dogs (mostly Toby) felt it his duty to alert the neighborhood that some maniacs were stealing garbage. The only problem is he had to do it from the living room. I just got him to shut up about 9 when the garage door opener installer called to say he was running early and would be here in 15 minutes. Oh hell. So much for sleeping in. I did get a really cool new garage door opener out of the deal though. My old remote died last week and a new battery wouldn't revive it, so I had to go buy a new one. But our opener was so old, the new one didn't work with it. Hence, the new set up. I love it! I even finally moved into the 21st century by getting a keyless entry for the garage! I feel like I rich person now! ha ha ha ha....

When he was done I went out and got a haircut and my brows waxed (ouch). I have an MT conference to go to this weekend and my bangs were past my nose - again. I swear, I wish the rest of my hair grew as fast as my bangs. Although now suddenly I think my gray roots are showing pretty bad, so I'll have to color my hair again pretty soon. If it's not one darn thing, it's 10 others.

Mitt Romney is going to be speaking at the Council Bluffs library tomorrow and I'm thinking about going. I'm not sure where the library is. I e-mailed Meg about it and she told me it's in the basement. I guess she thought I meant the event itself, not the library. I hate driving in Counciltucky though. I can't find anything over there and the streets are just a nightmare. Avenues go one direction, streets go the other direction, but I can never remember which is which. Then they have the named streets... What a mess. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

My Haunted Hyundai

I have a haunted Hyundai Santa Fe. Seriously. For no reason whatsoever the alarm will go off. It's no fun being awakened at some ungodly hour of the night, or morning, by the dogs wailing because the car alarm is going off. In the garage. This afternoon it went off in the driveway. It's happened before, but now it's happening with more and more regularity. I called the local Hyundai. They don't perform exorcisms, but they're going to take a look at it on Thursday. Wish me luck.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Sucko Monday





This is Toby at our DA meeting on Saturday. He had a blast chasing other dogs around.


The rain and drizzle continue. Which is okay I guess, give the trees a last good watering before winter. My damn computer is not fixed yet. Grrrrr. I took it into work again today, if I don't get a hernia dragging that thing in and out of the house, car, and hospital, it won't be because I didn't try! They were installing some new electrical circuits in the hospital yesterday and since some people didn't understand the difference between "shut off your computer" and "log off your computer" IT was busy today trying to repair/replace fried CPUs. Consequently, my computer was not on the list of things that must be done this morning, and since I had to leave to go to the doctor at 12:30 I just left it. I was assured it was the firewall and they had fixed it, but they hadn't had time to test it yet. They said I could take it home and if it didn't work - are you ready for this? Bring it back tomorrow. No effing way. Pardon my French. I've taken that thing to work 3 freaking times in the past 4 working days. And when I bring it back home tomorrow it better damn well work or I'm hurling it into the middle of the street. The thing that kills me is I haven't' had any trouble with my firewall before. Never. Or my antivirus. I've spent $100 of my own money on spyware (which the transcription people told me I had to have) and a new modem (which our IT people told me I had to have), and neither one of these things was the problem! Agh! Oh, and the other good news, they're not reimbursable expenses. Whatever.

So, Steve came home Thursday, I worked at the hospital on Friday, we did something together on Saturday, but all day yesterday and tonight he's painting at his stepmother's house. It kind of pisses me off. Whenever I'm working he whines about how we could be doing "something" (God only knows what, hang out at Borders, no doubt!), if I didn't have to work every night or be on call; but the day I'm off during the weekend and the night I'm home he takes off. If I hear one time this week that I never want to do anything with him, I'll throttle him, I swear. Of course it would be a different story if it was our bedroom and bathroom that was being painted... (Or even patched - in regard to the bathroom. Patched would be good.) I told you, Meg, it won't happen this year! LOL!!


I should upload some of our dachshund pictures from Saturday, that would be good. You can never have too many dachshund pictures.




I can't remember the name of the 2 dogs at the top, I think the one on the right is Diamond. The bottom two are Alta and Martha. I have no idea which is which, though. Aren't they cute in their Hallowiener costumes? Obviously not made for long dogs, but cute nonetheless...






Spaz, the little puppy, had the older dogs running in circles, he had so much energy. It was fun to watch them running around. I wish I had taken more pictures. There were about 50 people and 40 dogs there!