A Beautiful Day In the NeighborHOOD

I think that Carlos is getting what I had...poor guy. BUT after yesterday's 100 degrees in our home we were determined to do something about the heat in this house. We went to Lowe's and bought some things to put on our roof...I forget what they are called, but anyway, by the time we got home, Carlos was really sick. He decided to push through it and climb into the attic. The only way that you can get into the attic was through the hole OUTSIDE...and what does a ladder say to the kids in our neighborhood?? Why, that it is time to come over and visit! Bring the dogs and the cats! So Carlos is in the attic, we sit on the front porch and talk. Adrian occasionally climbs the ladder to "check" on him. This is all calm and sweet, but earlier today....about 10 kids were filling up water balloons and chunking them at cars passing by....of course that started something so 3 other cars kept passing by throwing water balloons at them, jumping out with water guns and chasing these kids....and from there it escalated to BB guns and paint ball guns....sigh...it is a BEAUTIFUL day in the hood!!!

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Sick, sweating and watching Lord of The Rings

I feel absolutely awful. I think I had a relapse and am in bed sweating watching Lord of the Rings. There really is no better movie to watch when you are sick. You can't help but feel a little better because nothing you can possibly go through is even close to Frodo. I am on the 2nd dvd, Two Towers, and its getting really intense. I am also SWEATING because it was over 100 degrees in this house. Right now its at 90 now so its really getting cooler. That is great huh? Why am I sitting in a house that is this hot? Why isn't the air conditioner on? It IS on!! Yes. It has been on all day and this is why we need insulation. This is why our electricity bill is 400 plus every summer. My wonderful husband has been investigating options and I think that we are going to get this fixed. Insulated. BUT before you feel too sorry for my sweaty, sick self, my room has a window unit and its a cool 70 in here. :-) I took a picture with my cell phone of the thermostat to prove how hot it was. Do you see the black line that is past 90? Well it WAS on that, till I opened the windows. It was cooler outside the house than it was inside so I thought that opening the windows was a wonderful idea. It was. I could only open 2 since the rest were painted shut. Good idea though. So about me being sick. I have been and it sucks. My throat hurts, I cough, and last night I ran a fever. BUT I am getting better, thank God! Hopefully tomorrow I will be back to normal. Well they just threw Worm-Tongue out of King Theoden's Hall. Better get back to the movie!!

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Kicked Out of Bed

Poor Carlos. I coughed all night long. About 1Am Carlos rolled over and just said, "What do you want to do???" I had already taken Tussin but it wasn't helping so I said well, I guess you should go sleep in the other room. He didn't argue. Off he went with his pillow and cell phone. I didn't stop coughing so I guess it all worked out...for him.

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Cats and Neighbors....

So we just moved back to our old house. We brought Carlos' kitten that he found named Moses. Carlos' rescued Moses and we took him to the vet right away because he was very sick. $50 sick. It was totally his cat too cause it always slept on his records and knocked out when he was djing...The neighbors started to come over and visit us. Ashley and Adrian. They had dogs and liked Moses. Ashley soon gets a little cat of her own that she names Bella. And eventually I let Adrian "adopt" Moses with instructions on keeping him away from the dogs. I even sent him with a book on how to care for cats. He loved him and we were actually kinda relieved to not have Moses anymore (I feel guilty about this and you will understand why later). We were all happy...then last night we woke up and heard the dogs next door going crazy. I mean crazy. Then we heard Moses. Crying. Today I went outside and Ashley runs over and tells me the cat was lost. I knew right away where it was, so I decided to go and call for it. I went to the back yard and I saw him on the neighbors back porch. Whew! What relief!! I called him, and he moved quickly towards me...dragging his back leg! I was like oh my gosh! So Adrian jumps the fence, and I run inside to get a box. I dump out all the water bottles and take Adrian the box. We put Moses in the box and we all just stand around and look at the cat. He is just chomped on. I don't know how he is still alive. By this time there are about 5 different kids in our yard and we are all just looking at this kitten. We are all broke so going to the vet is not an option. I call my brother and he comes to pick up the kitten to put it out of its misery. We are all sad. Ashley, Adrian and I sit on the porch. Ashley is near tears and asks me if I want to cry. I say no and she doesn't want to cry either. I finally just want to go inside so I tell the kids by and tell Ashley DO NOT let your cat get near the dogs. An hour or so later I hear this screaming outside, so I open the door and look across the street and Ashley is standing in her driveway screaming "BELLLLAAAA!!!!" I yell, "Ashley, what is wrong?!" She tells me that Bella is gone, so I walk across the street and I am like what happened? She points to the tree and tells me that Bella is in the tree. So I walk back across the street, get a flashlight and we see Bella. Calmly sitting in the tree. (I think she liked it up there) Her brother Adrian comes out climbs the tree, then someone walking down the street comes up and asks us if we need help, and I say no cause I don't even KNOW this guy. Adrian drops me the cat, I give it to Ashley and leave saying, "Ashley, don't let the cat near the dogs!".....I have had enough of cats and neighbors...

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Sooo...I am a blogger....

This morning I got up and was reading all these different blogs on the net...you know how you do that and you get caught up in a really crazy "web" ? You go to one persons site and from there another and another till you don't really know how you ended up on the site that you are on....and in some ways wish you weren't cause its kinda weird?? So my husband gets up and I am showing him two sites that I went to and he tells me I should blog. I don't want to blog. I like to read other peoples blogs and besides everyone else has waaay cuter blogs than me. So in typical fashion he tells me that I am just as interesting as everyone else and I just have low self esteem...nooo I say, I don't have low self esteem! He has to design me a cute one and then I will blog cause I don't know how to do all the designing stuff. Then he tells me that its easy and just to start blogging on one of these sites....I don't want to start at the bottom and work my way up I tell him...he just looked at me and so here I am. "Blogging" I guess if you look further down you will see where I wrote some in the past but I never let anyone read them till now..so here goes...and I DON'T have low self esteem Carlos!!

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