I'm about to throw the Samsung Indulge out the window

Here is my good friend, Michael, talking on my phone with my new extended battery in place. On the right is what my phone used to look like.

So my phone is awesome...when it is not dead. I have a wall charger, a car charger, an extra battery with its own docking station, and yet I still can't seem to keep my phone charged for very long. I've turned off 4g and all auto-syncing and I've ALMOST given up Words with Friends. So I attempted to research Droids with best battery life and the search kept bringing up horrible battery life.

I went to MetroPCS and the lady confirms my suspicions that all Droids have bad battery life. Sigh. So anyway, I ended up buying a HUGE extended battery that it supposed to last longer.

My purse now weighs 20 lbs with all my batteries, chargers, and my new huge phone.

I hope everyone is having a great day!

20 somethings and stupid things they do

So my son's friend locked his keys in the car last week and had to pay a locksmith $100+ to get his keys out. Well he did it again last night and didn't have money to pay for a locksmith again....well go figure. He invited my son to help him break out the window of his car. He figured that is free and he could just tape cardboard over it. 


So anyway, it was free for his friend, but cost me a little copay and some time today. My son got glass in his eye. We went to see an opthamologist. Yucky. I watched the doctor take tweezers and pull a small shard of glass out of my son's pupil. Oh and the bill was $750. Thank goodness for insurance.


My kids are driving me absolutely batty. I can understand why some animals eat their young. :)

Stupid things I did in college

My son went to his first day of college today. Long story, but he had to make some schedule changes. Well he had a big space between two classes, so now he is taking dance improvisation. WTH is that? I'm guessing it must be the opposite of synchronized dancing. I'm thinking this might be right up his alley.

So it got me to thinking about stupid things I did in college. For my gym classes, I took gymnastics and ballet. I was very limber and a gymnast already so that class was an easy A.

I knew ballet so that should have been an easy A too. I was waiting tables at lunch and my ballet class was immediately before work, so I 'skipped' quite a few ballet classes. Fortunately, I knew the poses and was pretty good at it.

I showed up one day and started putting on my leotard and one of the other girls said  "You don't need to suit up, we have our final exam today". OMG!!! We had a very small ballet book that we were supposed to read. Well, I never even OPENED the book. I think it was the history of ballet, and a lot of names, places, etc. (I only guessed that based on the test.) So anyway, I got an F on my final, BUT because of my ballet prowess, I managed to pull a C in the class.

The other thing that wasn't really my fault. I needed an upper level literature class. Well, I worked a lot so I had to find classes to meet my schedule. I ended up taking a lit class that doubled as a women's study course. Well let's just say I was the only hetereosexual in the class. And because it was Victorian literature, the books were all written by women (Bronte) and about 800 pages each. So I was working two jobs, taking 4 classes and had to read 6 of these books in addition to my other text books. Oh and the homosexual, pink-haired, Canandian teacher hated me. Another C.

By the way, I never included by GPA on my resume.

Goodbye to Lucy and now I'm a mechanic

Friday night I was up late and Lucy was just cleaning herself and seemed fine. I wake up Saturday morning and where is Lucy? I don't see her. That is because she is at the bottom of the cage dead. I was so shocked. This is a picture of Lucy with her favorite friend, Billie Jean.

A short history. Three or four years ago, I had a dream that I had a bird. The next morning I told my friend, Diane, about my dream. She told me that her friend had a parakeet that no one paid attention to and she wanted to give it away. I figured it was meant to be, so I took her.

The kids thought Lucy was annoying, but I loved her. Lucy sat out on the patio in the evenings with me and she always woke up in a such a good mood and sang with the outside birds.

My boyfriend is a gem. He brought over a nice coffin for Lucy and dug the hole. We had an intimate backyard burial. Rest in Peace my little Lucy!

So, on another note. The boyfriend was out of town at a fishing tournament. I'm not sure I should be left alone on the weekends. My weekend cost me $350. I shopped for my house, but everything I bought was on sale or at a really good price. By the way, my house is rockin'. Everyone says golf is expensive, but it would have been much cheaper than shopping.

My headlight bulb on my car went out. I called the dealer and he said it would be about $150-200 to replace the bulb. I told him that the manual has instructions on how to do it. He said the book makes everything look easy and that he's had guys try it and end up bringing the car in.

I bought the bulb ($50???? Really for a little bulb...see pic) Well, after a weekend of shopping, I was determined to NOT have to  spend another $150-200. I manned up and replaced that bulb myself. So basically, I have now proclaimed myself as a BMW mechanic. If anyone needs a bulb replaced, I will do it for $50. Seriously it took me maybe 15 minutes. So to the guys who can't change out their own bulbs....you are a bunch of ________.

Flying hashbrowns?

Friday we had our Xmas lunch for work. Went to Grill on the Alley. Awesome! It was a beautiful day and they let us off work early. Don't tell.

Anyway, I had the top down (on the car) and my clubs in the car. I stopped at the driving range to practice. Not a pretty swing on Friday. I was topping a lot of the balls, but I finally got myself straighted out. Also a very nice man at the range gave me a bottle of wine before I left. You gotta love people who store extra wine in their vehicles!

So Friday night my boyfriend came over and picked me up to go to his house. I left my car in the garage and the top was down. When he was bringing me home on Saturday, I realized my keys weren't in my purse. When I got home, I found that I had left them on the coffee table with my Ipod and workout towel.

Well, yesterday I get in the car and hmmm.....the windows are rolled down. When you take the top down they automatically roll up and I leave them that way. And, my seat was not on my setting. I'm guessing that someone went out joyriding Saturday. RYAN!!!! Oh and he has hit more curbs and popped more tires than anyone I have ever known.

Hayley said he snuck her car out a few weeks ago. She was furious. She knew it because the passenger seat was laid back more than normal and there was a McDonald's hashbrown in the floorboard. He denies it, but hashbrowns don't fall out of the sky into closed cars.

McGyver and Weight Watchers

My daughter parked her car behind the garage today. Typically not a big deal, but she was not home and had her keys with her. My son was starting a new job early in the morning and I told him I'd drop him off. My daughter's friends came and picked her up at 5:30 am to go to the airport to send off another friend.

Well with the help of my son, I managed to almost turn my car sideways in my one-car garage and get out. I was an inch from the garage wall and an inch from swiping my car all the way down against my daughter's car. When I was done, I felt like McGyver without the duct tape. Of course, right when we got in the car to leave, my daughter showed up. Sigh.

Okay, public service announcement. If your doctor seems like an idiot, he/she probably is. I've fired two doctors over the years that were horrible and now my mom has been butchered by a doctor. The doctor even told her that she didn't know what to do next and that maybe she should see a specialist.....after sending her for a gazillion hospital visits and butchering her. Nice. Her new doctor is even shocked. Anyway, just be careful out there. Oh, I have a great doctor now and I hope he never moves his practice.

Well I started Weight Watchers, but haven't really lost any weight, but not really gained any weight either. I can't blame them. I certainly did not stick to the eating plan last week. The great news. I bought their stock right before Xmas and it's up more than 17%. I'm seriously thinking about selling already to lock in the profit. Woohoo!