Feel Like Complaining

Go check out the funnest meme around started by Blue Monkey Butt . You get to complain and others love you for it. My taste buds are dead! WTH! I have always heard that when you get older your taste buds kind of don't work anymore and you can't really taste good food like you used to. But I didn't think it would happen so soon. I've probably noticed it the last year or so. My once favorite foods are tasting so blah. Popcorn, my dinner staple on Friday nights for the past umpteen years just doesn't have the same flavor, even with butter. I'm salting and spicing up my foods more because I can't really taste them. Last week I made chicken fajitas and it tasted like crap. I kept adding cumin, chili powder, more cumin and chili powder. It still tasted like carpet. WTH! Even the hot salsa didn't even make me break a sweat. Now, that's just not right. I've always loved spicy foods but if I can't even taste it anymore, I may as well eat baby fo...

Go check out the funnest meme around started by Blue Monkey Butt . You get to complain and others love you for it. Pull this knife out of my heart will ya. Last Saturday, one day before we leave for vacation and emotions were high but happy, my just turned 15 year old daughter drops a bombshell on me. She said that she wishes we weren't FB friends because she's got things she wants to say and she doesn't want to me to see it. WTH? And I mean WTH! First I told her that she's forgetting that her uncles and older brother are also her friends and she has to watch what she says. AND even though she is only 15, prospective colleges and/or employers will be looking sometimes. I asked her if she just wanted to use cuss words like all the other kids. Nope not that, she just wants to unload. WTH , who doesn't, that's why I blog. She's having some boy issues and wants to vent I guess. So why do I need to leave the room? Maybe I comment too much. But I CAN shut...

WARNING!!!   If anyone has an aversion to the F word, you may as well pass on this one. I just had to use it. My 10th WTH! To see more, go see Blue Monkey Butt . They are the highlight of my week! THEY STOLE MY BABIES! WTH? If you've been reading for awhile you know that I've been making glass totems. I've made ten of them so far and have kept them all. Last week as I was leaving for work I saw this little ball on the sidewalk at the end of my alley. It looked like my dogs ball. WTH? How did that get outside the fence, she doesn't even play with it anymore? I saw a guy next to a car talking on his cell phone so I didn't want to embarrass myself by getting out of my car to look at a stupid ball. Before I got to work I pulled over to call my daughter and tell her to go look at it. I assumed she did and didn't hear back from her so I figured I had made a mistake. Because if it was my dogs ball, that means that someone had been in our yard. I forgot about...

What the Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy of   Blue Monkey Butt . They are full of attitude and funny stories. No wonder why I like them so much. Go check them out and feel free to play along sometime. Our city is pretty large, a little over 200K people. But for a city this large we are seriously lacking in a decent off leash dog park. WTH ? I know there are dog lovers in this town by the amount of dog groomers and boutiques. There are a few areas that people and their dogs frequent a lot but they're not official dog parks. There is one nice fenced one in the Valley but it's a bit of a drive. So that's why we were so excited to hear of one being built on our side of town. My husband drives by it every night on the way to and from work. He's been watching the area for any sign of life. They have 1.3 acres and plan to have a fenced play area, doggy day care and self service doggy wash. They keep putting up a Grand Opening sign but still nothing is...

What the Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy of   Blue Monkey Butt . They are full of attitude and funny stories. No wonder why I like them so much. Go check them out and feel free to play along sometime. Homework Over The Summer??? WTH? My daughter is in Honors English. She has been since 7th Grade and will be again later this fall as a Sophomore. So to be in the Honors class you have to do a homework assignment and if you don't, you are out. Just like that, right from the first day of school. No assignment, no Honors. WTH? First they have to buy and read a novel from a choice of about 30 books. No problem for my daughter; she lives and breathes books. Then they have to journal their novel with their choice of two formats to use. That's where I get lost. Format #1 is a Four Square Journal and format #2 is a Triple Entry Journal. And then they have to create a 4x6 note-card with pertinent information from the novel, so they can study for the AP Literatur...

What the Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy of   Blue Monkey Butt . They are full of attitude and funny stories. No wonder why I like them so much. Go check them out and feel free to play along sometime. You may remember that last summer while on vacation my usually bright daughter dropped her camera in the ocean. WTH , this was after we told her to put it in its case, just not her pocket. The water was not deep but enough to make it croak. When we got home I called a few local camera repair shops and they were so backed up and didn't like working on Casio's anyway. They have trouble getting parts for them. I went online and downloaded a work order for repair and paid $25.15 for overnight shipping to get the camera there. WTH . Twenty-five bucks for shipping is not something I would normally do but she would be starting camera class soon and needed a working camera. After many emails and phone calls later I suspected the outcome; it was too damaged to ...

WTH Wednesday was started by Blue Monkey Butt . You need to go take a look at these funny sisters and their readers. My daughter needs to grow more feathers or get some fat on her. She is a tiny little thing so I  her 'bird', which she despises. I keep our house relatively cold cool, about 65 max. The older couple I work for keep their thermostat set at 75, summer or winter. WTH? By the time I leave there, I'm about ready to pass out. So I'm very content to come home to my meat locker and chill out. Lately it's been about 40 outside in the morning, so I don't turn on the oil filled heater for my daughter. When it's colder I turn it on and lay her robe on it so it will be nice and warm when she gets up. Most mornings I hear "Why didn't you turn on the HEEEEEEEEttttteeeerrrrrrrr, it's freezing in here?" WTH? I'm so hot I'm sweating and she's cold. The first thing she does when she gets home from school is heat up her ri...

A fun little theme started by the Blue Monkey Butt sisters. I have such a hard time making my rants short and this one is probably no exception. I work for an elderly couple and a few months ago I took the the wife to a store where she had basically picked out a lift chair and we were just there to pick a size and color. But I felt like she still needed to be talked into buying it. It was roughly 1800.00 with all she wanted included with it such as heat/massage and independent actions of the back and footrest. I kind of pushed her and told her that she deserved it so she bought it. It was delivered three weeks later and when the kid unpacked it and set it up the wires stripped in the back when she was trying it out. WTH? A brand new chair and it's already broken. It took them another three weeks to bring in a new back for it. The tech gets a new back totally on and then figures out that what was really needed; a new seat where all the wires are. WTH? I could have told him th...

What The Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy at Blue Monkey Butt . Jump on over to read what the other sassy ladies have to say about their day. Ever since the outbreak of the swine flu I have been doing my best to stay healthy. I've mastered the sneezing and coughing into the elbow techniques. I've been washing and sanitizing. Sanitizing and washing. My hands are raw from being so damn clean. So WTH happened? I caught a cold. One of those real fun ones when your head is so clogged, you can't speak, breath, or eat without your mouth hanging open. My family really must love me to put up with the blob of pajama wearing-nose honking-nasal rinsing-woman that I was over the weekend. WTH , how in the heck can this happen? I don't hang out with visibly sick people. I wash after coming home from anywhere in public. I wash before preparing food. I survived a ER waiting room full of sick people. Are run-of-the-mill cold germs stronger and mightier than swine fl...

What The Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy at Blue Monkey Butt . Jump on over to read what the other sassy ladies have to say about their day. This past Saturday I took a chance and headed over to my local Walmart for their early Black Friday sale. They're going to be holding early sales up until Thanksgiving. This particular sale was all electronics, including XBoxes, Blue Rays, big ass TV's and laptop computers for 298 bucks. I've had my eye on a laptop for a long time and I figured with a minimum of 10 per store I had a chance. I always feel guilty when I buy a big item so I truthfully told my husband that it was a WANT and not a NEED. He knew I have been wanting one for a long time so he said to go ahead. Not that I need his permission but it made him feel better, ha. I drive up to the store a little before 7:30 as the sale started promptly at 8:00. There was no one outside. WTH? Am I the only one here? Didn't they get the memo? As I get closer t...

What The Hell Wednesday was started by sisters Elle and Stacy at Blue Monkey Butt. That sounded like something right up my alley so here is my What The Hell story for the week. Halloween has come and gone but before the big day we had a local dentist on the morning show talking about his Halloween Candy Buy Back Program. What the hell? He was offering to buy back candy from kids who bring in their loot for $1.00 a pound. What the hell? He claims that all that candy ruins their teeth. Well so does fluoride but they advocate that don't they? Last year he received a little over 300 pounds of candy. But we're not talking guns here people, candy is not going to kill you. Sure, you might get a gut ache and maybe a cavity. But if your parents are as bright as they think they are by trying to sell your candy that you worked so hard to get, why don't they just tell you to brush your teeth after eating the bad, bad candy? What in the hell is the world coming to when a kid can...