Could have burned the house down Saturday

Saturday morning I decided to build a little brick retaining wall near my back patio. I'm outside sweeping my patio and a tarantula jumps out at me. I about had a heart attack. Well, I came inside and decided my project could wait.

In the mean time, I had some pork chops thawed out that needed to be cooked so I decided to throw them in a skillet. Next thing I know, I'm in the front yard planting flowers and herbs. I venture to the back yard and decided that I'm doing my project after all. I grab my caulk gun to use my brick glue. Well, the glue is so hard that I can't get it out, so I decided to microwave it. Thank goodness because I forgot I had pork chops cooking. Dodged a bullet there. I went inside and my ventahood thingy kicked itself on...I didn't even know it had that ability so at least it was sucking up the smoke. I did microwave my brick glue and it softened it up nicely.

So speaking of caulk guns, when Hayley and I lived at the apartment, she came knocking on my bathroom door all weirded out. She said some guy called and said he was bringing his cock over. It was the maintenance man who was coming to caulk my kitchen sink. Hahaha.


This is from my blog last October about 40 minutes of being blonde: 

So I've had fleas in my yard and on my animals all summer long. Yesterday, the Home Depot guy recommended a different spray with Nylar, so I bought it. I came home and  hooked it to the hose. I sprayed the flower beds really well because the dogs like to sleep in there. I also did the front and side yards. I went around to my big backyard and did all of that too including under the shed.

So I go to unhook from the hose and the bottle was full. UGH. This bottle didn't only have the tab to open it  up, but another button that had to be turned and then pushed in. So anyway, I had to start all over. Basically, I spent 40 minutes spraying my yard with water. 

Well this Saturday, my boyfriend is spraying liquid nitrogen around his yard. He has done both the front and back yards and spent quite a bit of time on it. He says this bottle has lasted 2 years and he's still got a bunch left. The  look on his face is priceless when he realizes he did what I did last year. He has had the same bottle for 2 years because he hasn't sprayed any of it on his yard. He's not even blonde.

Relaxtion Center of Plano

So this is probably the first and last time I'll ever say this:

"I did too much cardio this week."

My lower back is killing me. Well Dave Ramsey would probably advise me NOT to spend money on frivilous things like massages, but sometimes you just have to ignore Dave.

So this Relaxation Center is close to my office and I thought I'd check it out. I called and an hour massage is $65 and 1/2 hour is $45. Well logic would dictate to go for an hour, but Dave was sitting on my shoulder. I realized it would end up being an extra $25 with extra tip and that is a week's worth of fast food lunches, so I opted for 1/2 hour.

I get there and its so dark that I can barely see to take off my own clothes, but very soothing. The lady comes in and starts to massage me through the towel. I thought maybe she was afraid of skin on skin contact. Boy was I wrong! Soon after I'm naked and she's got the oil out. 

Towards the end of this massage she has hopped up on the table and is straddling my thighs and massaging my back and butt. All I could think is "Am I going to see this on the Internet?" I have never had anyone do that before... well at least NOT during a professsional massage.

Anyway, I feel like a brand new person. I had no idea that my calves, shoulders and triceps were even sore until she started on me. They have a customer for life.

So today is the day, I go to the driving range and practice. Finally!

Another blonde moment and my electricity contract?

So last year I bought a new higher performance laptop because I was doing some contract work which required it. Yesterday the battery quit working. I was so peeved. I was griping to my boyfriend about it. So while I was griping I went to see what kind of battery I needed to order. I pick up the laptop and notice the battery is missing. So now, I'm thinking who would steal a battery and not the laptop? Well, the battery must have fallen out. I found it next to the bed. Everything is back to normal...if there is such a thing.

So yesterday while at work, my cell rings and its an 866 number. I was curious so I answered. It was TXU. They say my electricity contract is expiring. Now, I don't remember anything about a contract. I told the lady that TXU turned on the electricity switch when I moved in and I just pay the bill each month. She says that I had a 2-year contract and need a new one. WTH? So I had to sit through this huge spiel and be recorded so that I can have electricity. Then she wanted to put me on that yearly averaging plan. I told her my electricity was between $75-100 a month so I could care less about averaging.

Those of you who know me know that when I get insomnia I turn on Investigation Discovery channel or HLN and listen to true crime...which is why I'm convinced that everyone is out to kill me. So last night, I'm sound asleep and all the sudden there is someone else in my bed. My first thought is I have some axe-murderer neighbor in the bed. Well, it is my 18-year old daughter with a blankie and a barf bowl.

There are only three times my daughter wants to be around me:

1. When she doesn't feel good.
2. When she wants me to pay for our mani/pedis.
3. When she runs out of money and wants Pei Wei.

It is a cold day in Texas. I planted my garden too early and everything froze except the broccoli. I almost replanted this weekend. Glad I didn't. It might freeze here tonight....It's the middle of April. I thought I lived in Texas.

Why I Love Historic Frisco

I've lived in Frisco for 15 years. I'm in my third house in Frisco, 7th house I've owned in my life. I had a house in East Frisco. I had a pool put in, then a year later, I sold it to get married and moved to a much larger house...temporarily. 

Due to a divorce I went from a 3400 sq foot house to a 885 sq ft house less than a mile away in  historic Frisco. This was due to my daughter only have 2 years of school left in Wakeland. Most of the Wakeland neighborhood was WAY out of my price range, so this was my only choice. I remodeled this  house completely.

https://sites.google.com/site/constance9301/

I can sit in my backyard and hear kids hitting baseballs. I hear the parents cheering them on. I also have Mockingbirds, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Hummingbirds, Robins, hawks and other birds.

When I sit in my front yard, I can watch the school buses caravan down my street, I see Careflight (not so good), firetrucks, hear the games at Memorial Stadium and I can hear the fireworks at Pizza Hut Park. 

I can easily walk to Frisco Square, Pizza Hut Park,  Frisco City Grill, Mannys, Double Dip, and Grovers.

I'm close to a big park and pond.

This one of my neighbor's  house. You can't see in this picture, but they have beautiful stain glass windows.

Randy's Steak House is also in walking distance, but out of my price range. I have eaten there and it is really good food.

When I go for a walk,  also walk past the FHA (?) pens. The black cows always run to the fence to greet me. I love them.

I love where I live; however, I'm ready to move to the beach when my daughter gets her own place.

I miss sashimi

I used to go to Market Street to get sashimi all the time. For the past 2 months, no sashimi. Well I got to the bottom of it tonight. The sushi chef guy was there. I asked him "Why no sashimi?". Well, apparently the corporation he works for said they were not making money off of the sashimi because the price of fish had gone up so they quit offering it. WWWAAAGGHHH. I've been so upset over this. I mean there are restaurants around here, but they are not cheap especially if you have  glass of wine and I don't particularly enjoy dining alone. :)

So my boyfriend is really sick. I told him I hoped he didn't have bird flu and die. He told me that he hoped I didn't get West Nile from my mosquito bite tonight and die. Love. 

So this warm weather has been awesome. I need to hit the driving range, but I've decided I need to lose 10 pounds. I typically do 15 minutes of weights and 15 minutes of cardio. The last two days, I've done 15 minutes of weights and 45 minutes of cardio. I'm on a roll. 

Things I learned this Easter

To start the morning off. I took my Catholic boyfriend to a nondenominational church. As we are walking up to the church, he starts asking me and Hayley if he needs to do the sign of the cross, where is the holy water, when does he kneel, what does he need to say, etc. Hayley told him that all he needs to do at a nondenominational church is to sit down and take a short nap. By the way, he really enjoyed the service.

Next was on to Mom's house for a huge Easter lunch. Horror of horrors. Mom's corkscrew has been broken for years. It only had one arm, but now the screw was missing.  So my brother has a great idea to push the cork through the bottle so we did that which was a little messy.

But so while we have an empty bottle of wine with a cork in it, my stepfather wants us to place a bet. He says he can use a napkin to get the cork out of the bottle. What he didn't tell us that this trick was going to take about 40 minutes. It got quite scary towards the end. I was sure my brother was going to be going through a wall as he was pulling this napkin and cork out of the bottle while my stepfather was holding it. So as a public service announcement, I'm posting a youtube showing the short version of this trick. Skip to about 40 seconds to see the cork come out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL5xkO95XG4

Also, for my brother, I'm posting a new workaround in case we ever find ourselves in this situation again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPz1nkiwLI