Fun at the Park!

Saturday the weather was nice, warm, sunny and windy!  A perfect day for playing at the park under the blue bridge!  I picked up Beth and Gavin early in the afternoon.  We stopped at Rebels to get chicken and taters and drinks and headed to the park for a picnic lunch and then playground fun!

 

I am always talking to Gavin in the car and our conversations truly amuse me!  I hadn't seen him seen Halloween and since he started school, I'm always curious how school is going and what he does. 

 

Our little conversation went like this...

Me: Whatcha been doing in school?

Gavin: Same thing we do everyday.

Me: You have a girlfriend?
Gavin: NO!
Me: You have a boyfriend?
Gavin: NO!
Me: You like Miss April?
Gavin: Stop aggravating me Stace, I'm trying to look out the window!

 

I almost peed in my pants and Tooter about choked on her tater!  That little boy truly makes my heart happy!

 

When we got the park, all of the parking spots at the park and within a 2 block radius of the park had signs on them from the police department that you weren't allowed to park there at 11:00.  We didn't get there like till around 12:30 so I didn't know if the event had already happened or not.  Other people were parked in them, so I did too.  I figured I would be able to see if police or tow trucks were coming to move cars.  I found out from someone that there was a Veteran's Day parade at 3:45.  I just left the car in the spot I was in, I didn't think we would be there that long.  It probably wasn't an hour later and the police came by and said that people needed to move their cars or they would be towed.  I had to end up moving the car to a parking garage a couple blocks away.  And then even at that, I had to exit the garage by 3:30 or we would be blocked in until after the parade.  We ended up leaving at 3, and had a great day at the park!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We tossed lots of pennies into the fountains, so we hope to have lots of wishes come true!  Gavin definitely has my dad in him with how he stands watching stuff with his hands behind his back!



 

 

 

 

After we left this park, we drove out to Yellow Creek Park to walk around and hopefully take a few pictures.  Well that little junk point and shoot wasn't working out to well.  And I was definitely jealous of all the people out there with their DSLR cameras.  I sure wish mine would be coming back from the repair shop soon!  I should of waited till I was out of commission with my surgery to send it back in :(  Stinkin' thinkin' on my part!

 

 

 

 

Hopefully I'll have my camera back before all of this fall color is gone and I'm laid up on the couch for 4 to 6 weeks!

 

50 Ways You Can Tell You're in a Dachshund Home

I found this on Facebook earlier and new it required it's own blog post!  We have two doxies...Hershey & Reese and absolutely love them to pieces!  I couldn't imagine my life without them in it!

Numbers 8, 11, 12, 30 & 36 definitely apply at our house!

50 Ways You Can Tell You're in a Dachshund Home

1. Every purse and coat pocket is rifled when you walk through the door.
2. The bed has sausage shaped lumps under the covers.
3. The doggie door is only 8" high.
4. You're face gets licked by a dog standing on the back of the couch.
5. When you come into the house after being away only minutes and you are greeted like you've been gone for 10 years.
6. When someone hands you a tennis ball as soon as you walk in the door.
7. When the owners introduce their Dachshund as their oldest son.
8. Footstools are placed strategically around the furniture and bed.
9. The house is decorated with Dachshund items.
10. The owner is decorated with Dachshund items.
11. Gates are placed in each doorway.
12. After the doorbell rings, you can't hear a thing for 10 minutes.
13. The alarm clock is set for HIS wake up time.
14. Dachshund "nose art" is proudly displayed on each window.
15. There are at least 45 balls laying around the house.
16. All socks, underwear, and shoes have holes in them.
17. The sign outside the house says, "Dachshund Lovers Parking Only."
18. You have to look before you take a step.
19. All squeak toys no longer have squeaking ability.
20. The doors to many rooms must remain closed.
21. The owner's bed never remains made.
22. Rugs and furniture are all dark colors.
23. The cat litter box magically cleans itself.
24. You will find dogs instead of clothes in the laundry basket.
25. When you arrive, you find the living room covered with chewed up toilet paper rolls, Kleenex, etc...
26. All snow is shoveled from the yard to protect the "Ta-Ta's" of male Dachshunds.
27. You notice small fox holes in the yard.
28. You are kindly told not to eat the green beans and carrots because they are for the dogs.
29. Toy boxes are bone shaped.
30. All waste baskets and trash cans are elevated at least 3 ft. from the ground.
31. There is a Bissell Green Machine always within reach.
32. A cupboard is full of tiny clothes that were purchased before the owner realized that Dachshunds would rather remain nudists.
33. Company doesn't come around much anymore.
34. The owner talks a lot about getting a super king-sized bed.
35. The living room looks like it's covered with snow due to the batting which came out of de-stuffed toys.
36. Blankets cover each piece of furniture for better burrowing purposes.
37. The owner has no food yet his Dachshund has plenty of premium dog food.
38. The mailman is warned, "Watch out or he'll bite a hole in your sock."
39. The mailman passes a brightly colored card to other mailmen saying, "A dangerous animal lives inside. Do not use mail slot."
40. Bricks are placed inside trash cans.
41. The Dachshund gets kisses before the owner's significant other.
42. The owner runs around looking for a "sitter" if they're going to be gone for more than a few hours.
43. It is too dangerous to walk around the house without shoes because of partly chewed up Nyla-Bones.
44. Little blue pee-pads are placed by the back door.
45. You notice that the Dachshunds receive more Christmas presents than human kids.
46. All the owner's computer "favorites" are Dachshund related.
47. The grass is mowed very very very short.
48. There is always plenty of toilet paper to pick up poops.
49. The owner's bed is covered with no less than 4 gutted toys, 3 balls, and 2 nyla- bones.
50. You are immediately told not to sit in the dog's chair.

Rental Car Madness

What an ordeal yesterday was!  I had to take the car to Lefler's in Newburgh to have my new bumper put on from where the kid rear-ended us a couple weeks ago.  I dropped the car off around 8:00 a.m. since that's the time that Enterprise got to their office inside Lefler's.  Well the lady in front of me was having problems getting a rental and it took alot longer than it should.  Once it was my turn, everything went smoothly and off I went in a stupid-looking car - a Chevy HHR.  It is similiar to a PT Cruiser which I am not a fan off.  I felt like I was in hunkered down in a little silver submarine.  I didn't like the car, but dealt with it cause it was only going to take a couple of days to fix my car.  When I got to work, Seth from Lefler's called and told me that when they got my new bumper out to paint, it was damaged and that it was going to be Wednesday or Thursday before another bumper would be in and that it would be Friday before the car was ready.  I was fine with that, it just meant that I was driving the stupid-looking rental car longer.  Yeah me! 

Well yesterday at work our delivery lady was out so I do the deliveries when she's out.  I was out doing the afternoon deliveries, there was maybe 5.  I was at my third destination and when I went to turn the key to turn the car off, it wouldn't turn.  What the heck?  I tried everything I could think off - made sure the car was in park, made sure the break was off, backed up and moved to a different spot, looked for buttons to eject the key, everything - it was not turning off.  I knew I wasn't stupid and that I had been in and out of the car all day with no problems.  At this point, I'm starting to fret, cause it's getting close to 3:30 and I still have deliveries to make and can't just leave the car running with the key in the ignition, and great, now I have to poop too.  So I called Greg from Enterprise and told him what was going on.  He was just as dumbfounded as I was.  He had me back up and drive around the parking lot and then try it again and nothing.  He drove out to meet me where I was at and he couldn't get it turned off either.  It was the craziest thing ever.  I suggested I drive the car back to the Enterprise office in Newburgh and they get me another vehicile, which we did.  They took that car to the dealership and come to find out that that little situation apparently happens often with that type of car.  I'm glad to know I wasn't crazy and couldn't figure out how to work the car, even though I had been driving it all day.

So now I'm driving a nice big fatty SUV, a Kia Sorento.  It's nice. But.  Yes, there's a But.  LOL!!  When I got in it yesterday to leave Enterprise, it was close to 4 and I was calling my boss to let her know what was going on so I really wasn't paying attention.  I got in the car, turned it on, put the gear shift down in the 'D' and off I went.  As I was hammering it down the highway I noticed it was shifting, or not shifting, really weird.  I thought what the heck is going on.  So I pulled the car over into a parking lot to assess the situation.  I thought, Lord, please don't let me have to call Greg at Enterprise again.  Luckily I got it figured out.  Apparently the transmission is like my car and you can drive it in auto or manual and I had it switched in the manual position and was driving it in low gear trying to hammer it at 50 mph.  LOL!  Whoops!  Once I got that figured out, all is good.  What a day yesterday was!

Don't make me go "Subway Drive-Thru" on you!

Last Saturday I had to work until around 1:30 and was starving when I got off.  I was going to my sister's house in Rockport and there really is no where to stop to get something to eat between downtown and her house going the way I go, except for a Subway inside a gas station.  And since I'm trying to eat healthier, I decided to go there.  I pulled up to the menu and waited for someone to take my order.  Keep in mind I am a patient person for the most part, so it takes a lot to get me aggrivated.  I sat there and sat there and no one acknowledged that I was there.  So I back the car up and pull forward again thinking they will hear their beep mechanism and acknowledge that there is a car at their drive-thru.  Nothing.  So I kindly give a friendly little toot of the horn.  Nothing.  I know they are open because the big, neon open sign is on and I can see people moving around inside the restaurant through the big picture windows they have.  Now I am starting to get mad.  I thought about driving up to the window and tapping on it to let them know that they have a customer, however I'm sure they would spit in my food.  I kindly toot the horn again and nothing.  At this point, I am flaming mad.  I'm on my period, I'm starving, and there is no where else to stop along the way.  So what do I do?  I grip the steering wheel with both hands, take my foot off the brake and STOMP on the gas.  My tires squeel as I go speeding through the drive through and blaring my horn past their window.  I wonder if they saw me then??  LOL!  Even turning out of the gas station back onto the road, I gun it and squeel tires.  I was so flipping aggrivated.  I know now how ridiculous and possibly dangerous that situation could of been, but I.WAS.MAD! 

I'm still chuckling just blogging about this.

A Tuesday Funny

Expressions for Use on High Stress Days


1. You – Off my planet!

2. Not the brightest crayon in the box now, are we?

3. Well, this day was a total waste of makeup.

4. Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.

5. I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.

6. Allow me to introduce my selves.

7. Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.

8. Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.

9. I’m just working here until a good fast-food job opens up.

10. I’m trying to imagine you with a personality.

11. Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you weren’t asleep.

12. I can’t remember if I’m the good twin or the evil one.

13. How many times do I have to flush before you go away?

14. I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?

15. Can I trade this job for what’s behind door #2?

16. Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?

17. Chaos, panic, and disorder- my work here is done.

18. Earth is full. Go home.

19. Is it time for your medication or mine?

20. How do I set a laser printer to stun?

21. I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.

Some wedding funnies

Shawn and I went to a wedding last night for a new co-worker of Shawn's.  The wedding was in Huntingburg at 6 CST at the Huntingburg Event Center.  Since he said it was at 6, I never looked at the time on the invite, only the address of where the wedding and reception would be so I could look up the directions on how to get there.  It was an hour away, so I figured we would leave at 5.  We always run late for everything anyways.  Well then yesterday morning Shawn says he thinks Huntingburg is an hour of ahead of us.  So I look it up and they are, which means we need to leave around 3:30 or 3:45 so that we will get there before the wedding actually starts at 6 EST with is 5 CST.  Shawn went to work and I took tiny puppy to the vet and then ran into my mom on my way home and went yard saling with her.  Time got away from us and I didn't get home until 2:30, so I was rushing around getting ready and taking care of the dogs before Shawn got home and before we could leave.  Shawn got home late so it wasn't until 3:50 before we left.  Like I said we always run late for everything.  We finally get up there with about 10 minutes to spare.  It's supposed to be an outside wedding and there was lots of chairs set up at the gazebo by the lake.  It was freezing outside last night.  As we are pulling in the parking lot, the place WAS packed and no one was sitting outside.  I told Shawn they probably moved it inside since it was so cold outside.  So we walk in and the reception is in full swing.  I thought cool, people are already mingling before the wedding.  Shawn signs us in at the guest book and then asks one of the attendants if they decided to move the wedding inside.  The lady then proceeds to tell my husband that we were probably at the wrong wedding reception.  LOL!!!  Apparently there were 3 receptions at this place.  LOL!!!  Some poor saps are probably wondering who Shawn and Stacey Glenn were.  LOL!!  We find the room we are supposed to be at.  There isn't hardly anyone there.  The groom comes over and starts talking to Shawn and that's when we find out the wedding was at 6 CST (our time) and not 6 EST (Huntingburg time).  So for the first time in our life, we WERE ACTUALLY EARLY to something!!!  You know what that means now, we got to sit outside longer in the freezing cold with the wind blowing off the lake waiting for the wedding to start.  Oh, how I wish we would of been running late!  LOL!! 

Overall, the wedding was beautiful, the bride was beautiful, and the reception was fun with with lots of yummy food and cake.  Congrats Chris and Marissa Eye!