Tresa's Blog

I had a bad week last week, (see here and here), as of Friday it wasn’t over.  UPS was supposed to deliver a bank deposit by Friday,  by 11 am Friday the envelope had traveled all of 20 miles instead of 100.  I find this out online so I’m trying to get more details by calling UPS.  My first mistake, they are the ultimate in press 1 and we will make your life miserable and run you around till you can’t think straight phone information services.  So I put the tracking number in by phone and the phone system says they have no idea where the package is but it hasn’t been delivered which is a lie according to the online tracking system.  So then it says press 2 for further information, I do and it says put in tracking number and then you can talk to a representative, so I put the tracking number in and it says it has no idea what happened to my package but I will need a valid tracking number before I talk to a representative.  Can you feel the love I’m experiencing for these people right now?  I go through the rigamarole again and twirl the dead cat, I’m getting frustrated.  So I curse D@*& You.    Instantly a voice comes on the phone and says we will connect you with a representative right now.

So now you know the proper use of cursing.  Package was still in KS when it was supposed to be in MO, nothing could be done about that, they can’t even give me credit for it till it actually gets delivered but I got to talk to a human and that is worth something.

I should be working on double checking web pages (I tend to lose interest when it’s not actually a deadline or anything) or I should be working on a classified ad site we are starting up (excitement is in the air, I feel like Craig on Craigs list or @ least igs since my cousin has done the hard work so far).   I looked @ the translations and decided that I hoped all the people who use the site speak English because I’m not to sure about php and other languages and wordpress and all that fun stuff.

I have worked a bit on my other blogs, mostly Florence View, we’ve had a refrigerator go out and resurrect and then an ac fan go out, windshield crack, trailer quit, locked out of a motel room, and the dog got dirty which went on my Animals Blog.

So that is how you make a completely link filled paragraph, wasn’t that simple?  OK, it’s not complete but it’s close.

So where have I really been besides facebook?

I got to watch episode 4 of Mad Men.  You know the show to end all shows?  I am a little younger than Sally in the show and I find it endlessly fascinating.  Jon Hamm finds me fascinating too.  OK, he’s my friend on facebook and I think it’s the real one, since I have my eye for my portrait picture maybe he likes my eye?    Anyway episode 4 was on twice last night and that was the FIRST episode I’d gotten to watch live.   I’ve got AMC @ home but just got it and haven’t had a chance to be home for the sacred hour.  Now I have been partially satiated.   To further the effect of the 60s last night I can go to their discussion. I have been there some but I need to go back REALLY badly so au revoir, sayanora, adios….buenos noches…….

And BTW does ANYONE understand Rubicon?  I’m going to have to look it up……….

My phone fell in the dog water twice this spring here in the truck.  The second time did it in, that’s one insurance claim.  My husband lost his phone on the tractor, almost had another claim but we found it in the middle of BFE in stubble.  It’s been so hot lately that there’s condensation where the hot under the truck bunk meets the cool ac air and there’s a bit of a puddle on the floor on occasion. (we  blamed it on the dog till we figured out what it was!!) I don’t use my phone tethered to my computer up front much anymore because of the dog water incident.  So I drop it the other day and don’t notice it and guess where it lands?

You’ve got it, you win the prize!! (no prize, it’s called a figure of speech).  The phone was in the puddle of water in back, phone was fine but I said enough is enough, the phone is DRAWN to water. (sort of like coffee and my cadillac, I had an eclipse for years, kept it pristine, get a cts and I’ve spilled gallons of coffee in it!  The dogs have helped greatly though, and then there was the strawberry shake on the floor.)  So I put my phone in the laptop case and zipped the cover, the photo above is of said case with tether cord going inside.  I know it’s hard on phone batteries getting that hot but it’s going to have to be a mighty big water puddle for the phone to get wet…….

The regular phone case won’t let me plug into the side of the phone so now I have the biggest phone case in history, does the trick though, I don’t drop it in water!!

Just wondering if it’s any coincidence that the two shows on worth watching are Bethanny Getting Married? and Monsters Inside Of Me.  Just Saying……

1. I did Jillian Michaels  hideously hard tortuous EASY Body Sculpting workout yesterday, the 20 minute wimpy EASY one with the cool down and warm up and all that.  Henceforth Ms. Michaels shall be known in this house as that nasty person, said in the voice like the slimey guy on Boston Legal like naesty peersun.

2.  I will TRY to quit equating my husband who does not do anything necessary on the computer except entertain himself with auction sites and games with a corvette driving down a gravel road slowly.   This happens mostly when I have been trying to get some work done all day and he comes home and gets on the big computer and plays solitaire immediately…

3. I do believe I am justified when we come home after being gone ALL day since EARLY this morning and ending up driving 400 miles in answering him when he asks what I have to feed him (he’s had breakfast and a HUGE DOUBLE cheeseburger on the way home) with ” OH, snarl since I was home all day just lazing around I whipped you up all sorts of good things to eat…completely justified ………

Ms Michels may regain my good graces soon….it didn’t hurt when I was doing it….And I do love my husband, it’s just hard to be nice with these aching tired muscles…

BTW Image is from here..

My husband has been off work for almost a whole month now.  Partly by design and partly because of circumstances.  Availability of work and a wedding and HIS family reunion.

He’s in the house.  He’s on the computer.  I’ve gotten used to cooking every two hours, he’s got high blood sugar but we are doing ww bread now, it’s in the bread maker.  I’ve moved to the apple laptop and given up on the desktop computer.  I cleaned bathrooms yesterday, I will clean closets tomorrow, I’m contemplating washing windows.  It’s been raining but……we can be together 24/7 fine in the truck where he is occupied.  The house not so much, for example I’ve had to take the clicking ink pen or the aimlessly swatting flyswatter away from him more than once.

So I decided he’s on the computer so I decide to watch What Not To Wear.  He takes like 5 minutes of this and has to take the remote away.

So where do we go then?  We go to the CATTLE  AUCTION channel, I suppose it’s a whole channel, it’s endless, cows running around in a field and an auctioneer.  Pretty close to pure hades.  He keeps looking @ me till I finally blow after about 10 minutes..he’s actually commenting on the buyers and cows, I’m heading for the rubber room.

Then it’s the religious channel, then the shopping network, then the exercise channel……any of them are better than the cattle auction although, we are on the PSX 90 or whatever it is…..I told hubby to go for it, meaning he does the psx 90, not me!!!

Supposedly he goes to work tomorrow, we watched bad movies yesterday, April Fools Day was one, he found something that watches the earth now on dish, can we watch grass grow next?

I swear I’m going in the living room and watch what I’ve taped of Grey’s Anatomy, House, and Mad Men!!!

Image from: Mirror

OK people, I need a diet where I can eat everything I want which is basically unlimited after 6 pm when you aren’t supposed to eat?  Before 6 pm I can take food or leave it but after 6 it’s like feeding frenzy time, the dog even gets worried…yes I have to fit into a dress this weekend for youngest sons wedding, it looks OK with the STRONG panties (we won’t call it spanx or a girdle, it’s STRONG panties) but moving is a bit of a problem.
Also I REALLY don’t like pretty boys who think they are Gods gift to women but aren’t because pretty boys usually have a defect (yep that’s it), I will tell them if they ask me.  They need to GET OVER themselves and do their jobs.   I used to look BETTER than their girlfriends so they might as well face facts, they will be the 40 year old or the 50 year old soon and they won’t do it NEARLY as well as I do!    And while they are at it they need to develop a personality because they may have to rely on that later when the face goes….
Snotty people in general are on my hit list for tonight but we won’t go into that…please forgive me if I’ve ever been snotty, catty, or cliquey, I mean I know I can’t open my mouth without being catty sometimes but you must admit it’s entertaining if nothing else?  Rude people who have no reason to be rude in general get my goat, I don’t know why us regular humans try sometimes……I think if people are just unfriendly a small shock would not be out of line….ZAP….did I say that?

Thank goodness I sit here by myself and work on the internet most days…..others may be thankful too, not sure….
End of Rant.

Because only a genius could have dsl for 3 months, think it’s a tad slow but just be so glad to have something a bit faster than satellite that she doesn’t care.  Then husband hooks up mac ibook of his yesterday (yes you read correctly, he does have his own laptop, can hook it up, and I let him use the ibook, actually less chance of him getting a virus or screwing something up) and ibook gets blazing fast speeds.  I’m supposed to be getting 12M dsl which I presume to mean megabytes a second?  I’m getting almost 8 on the ibook this morning.  I’ve been getting almost 1 on the windows box, cutting edge hp 5 years old with windows xp (well it was cutting edge 5 years ago!)….  So I’m thinking the wireless adapter on the windows box is limiting the bandwidth.  BINGO!!!  For laymen OLD networking stuff is BAD (this is what comes of hooking up wireless without hooking up ethernet @ all because I CAN!!).  So I use the actual ethernet cord that came with the modem, hook it up stringing it carefully through the slot on the back of the computer desk, and I’m getting blazing speeds (well 1.5 to 6M) with the windoze box.   Problem is the cord is too short and to go all through the house the modem has to be up high so the laptops will work in our bedroom, not that I use it much there but I CAN!!!

So I dig an old ethernet cable out from behind the computer desk, I”m telling the truth here people do NOT make fun,  I haven’t messed with ethernet for a year or so (try 3 or 4)  but this desk has sat in this spot for 4 years…anyway the modem is on the shelf above the computer since the cord (that is still hooked to it temporarily)  is too short for it to go on top of the desk and I just sat it there about head level on the shelf while I tested the cord, the computer box  is down in it’s little enclosed space down below so I have to pull it out……THE CORD IS STILL HOOKED UP and is being pulled through that little slot in the back of the desk….!!!! Crash bang boom the world goes black, I didn’t hit the floor but the modem hit the top of my head.  I’m not bleeding but I’ve got some seriously thick hair.  The great part is I wait till my husband is gone to do all of this!!  He didn’t witness it but he wasn’t here to tell me NOT to do what I did or take care  of me….  It might be a good thing he wasn’t here to see it…

Modem still works, my speed is good….head hurts a bit…

Happy Fathers Day to All fathers today!!!!

That is my foot and no I wasn’t standing on my head, it was just easier to take the photo like that.  The bandage is the big deal, not my blue veins or the chipped toenails (I really do have skinny ankles but all angles made them look like tree trunks, that’s why the weird angle if the truth be known, OK, are you  happy now???).

How did I hurt my foot?

I cut it,

letting the dog out,

last night, on the door,

the back door to our house which isn’t particularly dangerous to most functioning humans.  It’s a really old door and has a piece sort of sticking out @ the bottom.  Evidently I stepped back and although I have calluses on my heels (the older I get the more I think my feet are trying to grow hooves) I guess calluses aren’t that much protection.  the little piece of plastic that is meant to protect the bottom of the door cleanly sliced into my heel about 1/2 inch.

I am not going outside to do gardening until it @ least closes up.  With my luck considering I am the first (and probably the last) person to stab herself with a door I’m not risking getting the heel wet and or dirty.

This is the dog trying to fathom what in the world mama could POSSIBLY be doing as I was taking above picture….

I can see him thinking has she gone nuts.  Why is she holding the phone by her foot?  Why is her foot on the coffee table?  Will I have to help her do something?  I think I’ll sit by Daddy and maybe he will get up and get something to eat?

Oh and this dog? I  don’t mean to be gross but you usually have to keep a wound away from a dog because their instinct is to lick it and try to make it better for you?  Not this dog.  He’s like EWWWWWWW get that THING away from ME, it’s bleeding, what do you think woman I took the Hippocratic oath while you weren’t looking.  Get it out of my SIGHT!!

Or that’s what he looks like to me?  He does run if he thinks you’re bleeding.

Wife: breaks off light-bulb in garage sale lamp.  Tries to get base out with needle nosed pliers but can’t because she broke the light-bulb by tightening it too much in the socket.

So she takes it to husband, he looks @ it and spends approximately 3 seconds loosening it.

Wife says, “I couldn’t get that no matter what I did, how’d you do this, this is why I have such a big strong husband, THANKS!!”

Then she says “is that enough or do I have to lay it on thicker?”

Husband tells wife to do a physical impossibility which we will leave to your imagination.