It's Amazing 2 Me

Just fascinating what they can do these days. (You can click on the pic to make it bigger.)

6 months along on August 10.
We will have to set a new plate for Thanksgiving dinner. How many of us are there now? Let's see.. oh well, they're not all coming. But I think there are 17 of just us; including daughters & sons in laws. Who I consider a full part of it.

In my life: I continue on a path of breakage and ruination. Everything is broken again; yes, everything. Everything around me is broken or not working properly. I don't want to talk about it.

The dogs especially, are not working properly. Our main goal is to get Mercy in to the vet to get a manicure because she's slashing us to bits with her nails. We can call them Mercy cuts, heh. I won't cut them myself anymore since that time with Einstein... so maybe Thursday if we can swing it.

Watch yer backs.

Well, What???

One of our sunsets. Please ignore the phallic shaped thing; it's an umbrella. I don't know how many pics I've taken of sunsets round here. I have them all in a folder. The best thing though, was the double rainbow I captured when Bob was in the hospital. **rummaging** Nope, can't find it.

Ok, yesterday my goal was to try out the new "Watch It Now" feature on Net Flix, where the movie is streamed right to your computer. I was going to do it the night before when I found it, but I was tired.

So, yesterday the Net Flix site was down. All day. Whatever. I'm getting used to this. I don't even want to do it anymore.

I'm still waiting to see if I have to go "Downtown" for jury duty grrr. It's just not possible for me, but I don't know if they will agree. I wrote them a long sob story about how we would lose the house if I lose my paycheck, blah blah. and this is true. What if it's a trial that goes on for 6 months??

Maybe I should open my mail.

We bought a new card game called "Fluxx" that we played with Boob and Kim, and it baffled us considerably. We are going to play it with Farmer & Carol this weekend ahahaha. Should be fun. By the way - we both think that Farmer is just like the exterminator in "Over The Hedge". Has anyone seen that movie? Alex forces us to watch it every time he comes over; he loves it. Anyway, Farmer is definitely the Exterminator.

Mercy now weighs 44.5 lbs; she's catching up with Einstein by leaps and bounds. (literally) That's what she does a lot of, leaping and bounding. All that bounding! sheesh. Bound, bound, bound.

We have a new boxer puppy at work; he is so cute. I will put a pic in here later. There are 3 dogs at work now, I like it. Maybe if my other boss gets a puppy next I will be surrounded in constant puppyness for the next year. but I may lose part of my mind.

Kyle & Ryan are coming here tomorrow for Bob to watch. It's supposed to rain, too so it will be HELL, what with the dogs and etc. Ah well. We're getting a routine.

Julie says she has a new 3D sonogram of the baby-to-be so I'm begging her to send it to me.
via email and then I will show you. I don't know though - Julie says every time she ever had to deal with computers, it was stressful. Jeff has a handicapped symbol on their desktop that he labeled "Julie" . Evidently her stuff. Well, me too! darn things. My accountant says they're from the devil. Maybe he's right.

and we will see Scott, Christine and Lydia on the 11th of August. btw, Scott called me the other day - scared the heck out of me, because he never did it before and I thought something awful happened. So I think I sounded a little strange on the phone. But he just needed Glenn's
phone # for the family history thing he's working on. (thank God!)

Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best bye yall

At Least I Have A Head

Received this email from Directv:

YOUR RECENT CALL TO DIRECTV
DIRECTV Account Number: *******
July 22, 2007

Sara , thank you for your recent call to DIRECTV. Did you know that you can access your account information 24 hours a day by simply logging in at directv.com?

When you register your account online, you will be able to:

• Pay your DIRECTV bill or sign up for Auto Bill Pay
• Upgrade your programming or hardware
• Order Pay Per View movies and events
• Update your email subscriptions

Visit directv.com and take advantage of 24-hour online access.

I sent them this reply:

Yes, I did know that I could do this online. Thank you.
Unfortunately, after I went online, dropped the premium channels and changed my basic package, my DVR service was deactivated.
Call #1 (Wait: 10 minutes) The call resolved the issue - but only until I hung up. I had to re-call (Call #2) (Wait: 15 minutes). That call was disconnected almost immediately after reaching a representative.
Call #3: (Wait: 10 minutes) resulted in a permanent correction of the problem.

But! the premium channels that I had dropped (my main reason for doing anything) were now back on. I tried to drop them (again) online, but was told there would now be a $10 fee, for cancelling within 30 days and to call a representative.

Sigh.

Call #4: (very short wait, early Sunday morning ) - I was told that after the charge appears on my statement I should call to have it removed, and that there is no other way to do it.

When I call to have that charge removed I will have made a total of 5 very tedious phone calls as a result of trying to do something online.

Thanks for your help.

Swing Away

Yay.

Two of the fidgets will be here overnight tonight, so we have bleached the pool (the fish were in it) refilled it, and it awaits. As does the swing. Can't wait.

I Fixed The Water Bowl Problem

We are all very happy.

Mercy Me

Here she is. Right next to the water she just dumped. Again.
And everything I own has teeth marks in it now.

Blogger has some interesting new features that I don't know how to use yet, and also, may never know how to use. For instance, I may or may not be able to put a short video clip in here at some point. Sunday I had the cam on the fish but I found that watching fish is really BORING, they just go swimming round and round, after all. We were in the tent/gazebo/credenza and closed up the sides because it was chilly, yet we were watching the fish on the laptop in there - until we couldn't take it anymore. (we have to get a life, definitely, definitely.)

This weekend while watching the news I kept hearing talk of travelers traveling on this "holiday weekend"? What? Is everyone except me off work until Thursday??? I don't get it. The holidays are getting longer and longer until finally we'll have to declare a work holiday where we go to work for awhile. My bosses aren't up to speed yet - I'm all for it.

I hear it's supposed to rain on the 4th. It never rains on the 4th! It rains on the 5th, because the fireworks have shaken up the sky! Doesn't it? It's because of all these idiots around our house that have been doing fireworks since last Friday, along with shooting guns in the air. I don't understand the satisfaction in doing that, by the way, unless you just like loud noises. Which I don't much. Especially since we're dogsitting Shiloh who gets all stressed about it and we don't need more dog problems round here.

That reminds me (why?) of the boys - they're being potty trained. This makes life interesting when we are babysitting. A lot of fast running around and proud announcements; I suppose I should record all the conversations because we all sound like idiots, except for the boys, who I presume know what they're doing.

Ok, I'm leaving to go measure the tree rope for the swing! Take care, and wear your helmets.