AT&T minute is WAY longer then a Mommy minute!!

I spent the entire 4 day weekend waiting for AT&T guys!!! After the big thunder bolt stuck something near our house, we lost:

electricity
phone
Internet
cable
alarm system

... Not to mention our garage door wouldn't work! So the AT&T guy was suppose to be there between 1 and 4... (in AT&T time that is 5:00 or 6:00).

So on DAY 1 of none of thee above working - at 5:30  he finally shows up and he trouble shoots everything and figures out that he did all he could do to fix the issue, but now I need a line man.  However.... because it was so late he couldn't get anyone to pick up the ticket until the next day.

DAY 2 of none of thee above working -  the next morning, which is Friday, we had a line man show up about 11a.m. which was 3 hours later then scheduled, (again AT&T time).  But he got everyone up and running... except one outlet... and of course, the garage door.

Then that same day after he was done at our house,  I had to go to my daughters to wait for the AT&T guy to come to her house. I just wanted to take this guy with me!  I thought I could save time this way.... unfortunately life doesn't work that way and neither does AT&T! 

DAY  3 .....On Saturday one of our cable outlets didn't work so I call at 2:00, they give me the time slot of anywhere between 4 and 8!  We waited and waited and waited..... never did show up!  So I had to call and find out the deal! 

DAY 4 ..... Sunday at 9 in the morning he shows up!

I hope lightning never strikes that close to my house again.... and not for obvious reason.... just for the simple fact that I don't want to have to call AT&T again!

Fall

I love the weather outside when it is sunny, yet when you go outside there is a cool nip in the air and the air smells cold.  When the grass starts to turn and all the spiders disappear.  Cold enough to wear sweaters and drink coffee on the porch.  Color still lines the trees, but you know everything is fixing to fall from them and clutter the streets and the yards.  

Great Answers? Or Smooth Talkers?

I was trying to trap my aid in an uncomfortable situation....One aid at a time.

Here is the conversation I had with one of my aids while the other one was out running errands.

Me:     I am listening to the "Oldie station" and I know all the words!  What does that mean!?"
Chance:     It means you must listen to a lot of different music!

Never know about these two!

So, I am thinking that was a GREAT answer!  But I ask him.  What do you think Clay would say if I asked him the same question.  He laughed cause we both just knew if given the chance, Clay would tell me how old I was.  So when Clay walks in I ask him the same thing....

Me:     I am listening to the "Oldie station" and I know all the words!  What does that mean!?!?"
Clay:    "Well, music ages faster than we do.  I mean, a song from 2002 is old school now.  But you wouldn't say a 10 year old was old....  So I think you are listening to songs that have gotten old.....  But you are not old."

I'm telling you..... he's good!

Everyone should have a personal Shopper!!!

At work today, Katie stopped by on her lunch break.  While she was there Ryan came by to take my order on some Yukon gear.  I always buy XL Unisex, but since Katie was there... she was telling me to buy a different size in a "ladies" instead because I have lost so much weight.  So I ask Ryan to get me a jacket so I can try it on.... He brought the entire rack!

 TO MY OFFICE!

 I might could get use to a personal shopper if this is how ya get treated!!!

Dennis is cutting down my Shit again!!!

My sad little Rose bush looks like a Cactus!!!

Years ago, while I was directing a play, Dennis went to the store and bought a chainsaw.  I didn't think anything about it.  I thought with me being busy and away some days & evenings doing the play... he would enjoy more time alone around the house -

I was wrong.

Coming home from choreography one Sunday afternoon.... Dennis had put his new toy to use and cut down, not one.  Not two.  But THREE trees in our back yard.  I WAS NOT HAPPY!

He also cut down all my favorite vines that grew up my garage and over the door.  I thought it made our house look like a cottage, but he thought they looked messy. 

That was years ago, and you would think that I would have figured him out by now.  BUT NO!

Today I see him pulling weeds... so I go outside to find a rather large pile of '"my flowers" , which he says were 'dying', on the sidewalk.  He then looks right at me and with all seriousness he says...   "Don't go in the back yard."

Of course I went straight to the back yard and saw my Rose bush, or the place where my rose bush once stood just the day before and I might add full of roses, was now... GONE......He tells me he did that last year and it makes it come back even bigger the next year.

There isn't much more he can do this season... but I think I might hide his cutting thingys anyway!