Weirdness in my life

There's no way to say this delicately. My mom left my dad today.

They're both in their 50s and this was their second marriage for them both. I've seen it coming for quite some time so I'm not too stressed out about it. They'll bother be better off this way I think.

My sister is the one I'm worried about more than anyone though. She's much more about this family stuff than I've ever been. It's even worse since she's still in college... in Tampa, FL. I can only imagine how weird it must be for her!!

Other than that, I'm left thinking about the mundane effects of this whole thing. Who's keeping the house, or are they selling it? What the hell am I gonna do with all the stuff I'm storing in their basement?!?! When I go home for the holidays where am I staying?

Weird.

Good fences make good neighbors....

until their little brats start throwing stuff over the fence!!!

So our neighbors are kind of "white trashy." They had kids young and their kids had kids young. Now grandma and grandpa are baby-sitting 4-6 kids so their parents can be kids... In and of itself that's not too much of a problem. The kids are there on the weekends during the school year and pretty much every day in the summer. They're noisy, rude, and everything else you would expect from unruly children. I can deal with that! I've never complained ONCE about the noise, or them riding their bikes on my lawn, or them taunting my dogs through the fence. No harm no foul.

Here's the problem: shit's coming over the fence and it's NOT toys. Well, toys are coming over too, but that's not the problem. They're tossing rocks, trash, and whatever else they can find. It's bad enough that we have to go over the lawn and pick this stuff up to prevent damage to the mower.... but recently there's been some dangerous stuff coming over. We found some kind of decorative, metal, garden spike in our yard. It could have seriously injured someone or even killed a dog when it came over the fence. Yesterday I almost got beaned in the head by a rock while I was doing yard work!

I decided enough was enough and went over to talk to the "grandpa." Knowing kids are a touchy subject, I was VERY polite. I showed him what had come over the fence so he could see it's kind of a serious problem. His response? Hostility and "that's what kids do." He said that he doesn't bitch about my dogs barking (which I don't allow before 11am or after 8pm and try to limit to an hour or less... but "that's what dogs do.") so why am I bitching about his grandkids? I told him my dogs had to go to the vet twice now because they injured themselves on the stuff their kids are throwing over the fence. He started yelling at me and slammed the door in my face! I heard "grandma" talking about how I'm being ridiculous as I walked back to my house.

Am I being ridiculous? They just need to control their little brats!!

Benny needs a home!

The 14 days is officially up and Benny is officially "my" dog! We got his dog license and HomeAgain is in the process of transferring his microchip into my name. In the mean time I've found out that Hilliard has a law on the books that prohibits anyone from owning more than a combination of 4 dogs & cats. That means we really need to get Benny placed into a good home as soon as possible. The cops aren't knocking on my door or anything, but that's the last thing I need. We have 4 dogs of our own and that's enough for now. Know anyone who wants a dog? He's seriously an awesome dog, we'd keep him if we could!

Botox is good

I had my botox injections on the 31st. They got the IV in fine, knocked me out, did their thing, and I went home all doped up on valium! My stomach felt weird for a few days... not really upset but it felt like I swallowed something prickly. That's passed now and it does seem like the botox might be helping. Here's hoping!

Employed!

Well, Franklin University is officially dumb. I got a letter in the mail on Saturday saying "Sorry, you ain't good enough." My friend on the inside tells me that they didn't hire me, but they didn't hire anyone else either! They have some temps working there now... but I guess there's been quite the shakeup in the department. They hired a BUNCH of temps and they're instructing current employees to document things in a way that it's OBVIOUS that they're writing the training manual for their own replacements. Guess it's not so bad that I didn't get hired!

I did, however, get a job at the local pet store! PetPeople is where I've been buying my dog food for about a year now. They carry the high-end food that I have to use because of my dogs' food allergies. It doesn't pay the best, but I get 15% off all my dog food and 25% off everything else!

Funny

Can't help it. I just HAD to post this.