Why?  Because I missed Keely’s Random Tuesdays, and I can’t keep all these thoughts in my mind for Mrs. 4444’s Friday Fragments…

Yesterday morning about 5 am lightning struck the field across from our house, blowing the transformer on the electric pole in front of our house.  It shook the house so bad that it actually woke me, which is a good thing because of course our power went out.

They got the power back on around 9:30am, but the telephone company didn’t bother restoring their service until after seven last night…

An entire day without internet service… It sucked.  It was a lost day.

I’ve spent this morning calling around for an insurance quote for our homeowners insurance, because I hate my insurance agent.  I love the insurance but hate the bitch I have to deal with locally.  So far I haven’t found any cheaper though.  I wonder if I could call the company themselves and see if I can buy direct instead of through the bitchy lady…

Advertising:  It makes the world go round, but what about all the freaking spelling errors in ads.  I saw this ad this morning – would you buy a product that had spelling errors in the packaging or the ads?  PROOF READ PEOPLE!!!!

In just three week?  was it too hard to add an S??????

But then what about the fact that it’s clearly two different women? Note the belly button ring on the after picture – along with the hair, the after woman’s hair is much longer, and straight…  Hair doesn’t grow that much in 3 weeks!!!!

What bull!

A weekend alone! The kids are going on the annual family camping trip with my parents, and my sisters and their families.  They leave tomorrow around noon and won’t be back until Sunday night.  My husband is going to his annual family thing Saturday and Sunday.

And I’m staying home, by choice, but I use the dogs as an excuse so that no one questions me.  It is true though that we can’t get a puppy sitter for our Jack Russell, because everyone is afraid of him.  And as for taking them to the kennel, I’d have to drop them off tonight, and wouldn’t be able to pick them up until Tuesday, because the kennel doesn’t allow pick ups on Sunday and Monday, because officially they’re not open, even though the kennel is at their house.  How stupid is that?  I’d have to pay for 3 extra days, at $17/day per dog, with 3 dogs, that’s an extra $153 for time that I don’t need my dogs kenneled.

Either way, I hate the family camping trip, and am looking forward to some time alone.  My hubby and daughter will be home Sunday night, but my son is going to go on an extended camping trip with just my parents for an extra week or two, they’re not sure when they’ll be home.

Speaking of dogs, my parents now have one.  A small Pomeranian mixed little girl wandered into their yard yesterday, dragging her own pretty pink leash.  No identification tags at all, but instead one that’s engraved “Best Friends”.  She’s adorable, and quite friendly, wanting to sit on anyone’s lap, and looks rather well taken care of, so she hasn’t been on her own very long.   But no one has come to claim her, and obviously she’s a spoiled little lap dog…  Now I’m stuck taking care of her while they’re away, and searching for her owner.  I can’t bring her to my house, because I have two unfixed males that would just love a girlfriend, and I have no idea how to tell if a female is fixed?  But she’s so lonely down there alone, with only the kitten that lives under the porch for company…

We live in the country, not more than 500 people within a 5 mile radius, so how they heck do we get so many lost and stray dogs????

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