Exciting things have been going on in our household for the last week or so… first off, Nate got a new job. Congrats to him! He starts on July 14th. Second, that means that I finally had to buy a car so I could, you know, get to work somehow.
I bought a “gently used” Hyundai Elantra. Here is what it looks like:
I am big pimpin’.
I just got an automated voice message from Comcast informing me that - “Good news!” - their words not mine, they are going to be performing maintenance in my area soon, and that will include upgrading our cable lines.
If you recall, I hate Comcast with the passion of 1000 suns. We have several channels that over time have stopped functioning, and Comcast has told us it is because of degraded lines coming into our house. In short, there was nothing we could really do about it unless they ripped up the road and replaced the lines. I assumed (making an ass out of you and me, of course) that this would never happen and I resigned myself to purchasing the shows on iTunes that I could no longer watch on TV. I’d rather pay extra money than have to deal with the RAT BASTARDS at Comcast.
This maintenance will cause “temporary disruptions” with our service. Based on my luck, that means that we will be permanently without cable and my head will explode. Why, oh, why does this have to happen to me? I’m hoping that this will magically fix all of our problems, but I have my doubts.
More updates as they are available.
And that means it is time for walks in the park, and that of course means it is time for encounters with people who refuse to leash their dogs.
We took Chelsea to Frick Park today to play frisbee (well, Nate and I played while Chelsea peed a lot and looked around), and we encountered about 12 dogs not on a leash. One particularly crazy dog veered dangerously close to Chelsea, and I think I overheard the owner assuring us that his dog wouldn’t bite. Good for you, but my dog will! So don’t get pissed at me when your unleashed dog gets all up in my dog’s business.
Another dog came barreling straight for Chelsea. Since I am stupid, I always like to take these moments as an opportunity for Chelsea to actually hang out with other dogs and realize she doesn’t hate them. This never happens though, and she snapped at the dog. The owners were about 500 feet away, and they nonchalantly called “Lucky” to come back. Lucky actually was lucky… lucky that I didn’t kick his ass. Stay AWAY from my dog!
Last night, Jeopardy had a question (answer, I suppose) regarding “pwning n00bs.” Then, right before they went to commercial break, they had the guy from the clue explain in detail what exactly the term means. If my grandma starts pwning n00bs, we’re all in trouble.
I just noticed that CNN has little t-shirt icons next to some of their headlines now. If you click on them, you can buy a t-shirt with that headline on it. In theory, I’m sure this sounded like a good idea, but I’m not exactly sure what the process is for choosing which headlines get the t-shirt.
For example, why would anyone ever want to get a shirt that says this?
Sunday was a day of deals for the following reasons:
You can’t beat those deals!
There are a few things I look forward to everyday. They are: (1) Getting the mail. (2) Watching Jeopardy!
Today one of those things was taken away from me, for the second time in just a few weeks. Penguins pre-game BS was on instead of Jeopardy. Since the mail delivery sucked today, I’m pretty much in a sour mood right now. I get it - sports are important in Pittsburgh. But the actual game is important, not some jerk-ass reporter interviewing a bunch of yinzers talking about how “we’re going to turn it ar-ahnd tonight.” I need ALEX TREBEK!!!
34 minutes into The Real World tonight, I canceled my Tivo’s Season Pass and turned off the TV. I am officially done watching this horrible, horrible show! I think the people on this season have reached the pinnacle of grossness. I hope someone infects them with smallpox.
To kick off the summer pool season, my townhouse association (which will hereby be known as “The Association” to sound creepier) hosted a coffee, juice, and bagels party poolside this morning. Of course we totally forgot about it and went to brunch at the Quiet Storm instead, but I saw several of our neighbors snacking on free juice on our way back home. Maybe if all of our neighbors weren’t 85 years old, we might have an interest in getting to know them. Plus, I had already drank a lot of juice so I didn’t need anymore.
Speaking of our neighbors, I am sure they all think we are morons because we have the worst garden (if you can even call it that) in the neighborhood. I really tried to make it nice, I swear. It looked really pretty for literally one day, and then half of the flowers died and the rest of it was taken over by weeds in what seemed like a matter of hours. Now there are just a bunch of dried up grassy plants/weeds laying limply in our small plot of land. Last year, I ripped everything out in a rage and then just replaced it with potted plants (I forgot that half of that sh*t would just come back the next year though and look terrible again… stupid plants! They are like the Hydra… you cut off its head, but another grows back in its place). I think I will do that again this year… I think I will cover the whole damn thing with cement just so it stops looking so stupid. I would take a picture of it to post here, but I am really too embarrassed. I just don’t get it! My thumb is definitely not green.
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