I hope that everyone's had a good day.

I hope that everyone's had a good day.  I'm finally home, so I'm happy about that.

I saw both of my parents and my brother today, so that was nice.  Then we saw Shaun's parents and that was pretty funny in a few different ways.  They gave Shadow rolls of quarters this year.  They did that last year, too, and that's ok.  I don't think that is totally unheard of.

But I feel like the gift they gave me was pretty out there.  They gave me 9 packs of gum.  LOL  I would take offense except that I have been at their house when I've had a sore throat and have asked for a piece of gum, so they knew I would chew it (even though I generally don't, but there are times that I will).  So that was pretty funny.  😃

THEN, the food.  Look, I'm not making fun of Shaun's mom for her inability to cook because I have that, too.  I don't give a shit.  It's not something I'm good at or care about, so whatever.  If I know that I have company coming I'll order pizza or bake a frozen one or something like that if we're not going out.  No biggie, right?

Well, for Thanksgiving and Christmas she tries to cook.  She probably shouldn't, but she does.  LOL

Let me preface this piece of my story with this bit of information:  We had lunch with Shaun's parents at Logan's on Monday.  His mom ordered some food - part of which was a loaded sweet potato.  She didn't finish her food (she never does) so she took a bunch home.  Most notably, she took the sweet potato home because I watched her scrape it out of its skin, all the while wondering why she didn't just pick the whole thing up and stick it in the box.

Well, when we got there she said "I made some sweet potatoes for you."  I like sweet potatoes and usually have one whenever we go out, so she knows I eat them.  For Thanksgiving she made some sweet potato something that was pretty good, so that's what I thought we were having.  Nope.  It was very obviously her leftover loaded sweet potato from Logan's - scraped into a tin so it could be re-heated.  LOL  Needless to say I did not eat it.

She totally cracks me up with her "cooking."  My first experience with that was when she brought us some muffins to work one day.  Shaun had warned me about her food, but at that point I didn't know better and thought "It can't be THAT bad."  Only after I took a bite of one of those muffins did she disclose that she'd put cereal and Red Hots in them.  She just makes up shit and does whatever.  She's also brought us moldy cookies.  LOL  Hey, it keeps things interesting, at least.

BUT, from now until forever the rule is that we're stopping at my mom's house first on holidays so I can eat real food that isn't old and / or experimental.  LOL  I think that is totally legit.  😃

Anyway, yeah, glad to be home, hope everyone had fun, and now I'm off to wash a dog.  ❤

(And for the record I am not complaining about the gifts or the food.  I don't really celebrate Christmas so I don't have any expectations and therefore I'm not disappointed about anything.  I just found my day to be funny and interesting, so I thought I'd share.)  😃

I know that a lot of my friends aren't big fans...

I know that a lot of my friends aren't big fans of Wal-Mart for various reasons, but I'm too poor to have a choice.  It's walking-distance from my house and I can afford it so I shop there A LOT.  Like, for almost everything I need.

So they are doing this thing now called Savings Catcher (where they compare prices to other stores in the area and give you the difference back if they find a lower price), so I signed up because why not?  Any little bit of money I save helps.

I also have a BlueBird card that I use for pretty much everything.  I load my entire paycheck on there every week and I use it to pay all of my bills.  I prefer it to using a bank - because no fees.  It's not even possible to overdraft on it.  I prefer to have my card declined to being slammed with a $35 fee when I'm obviously already broke as shit.

So, if you sign up for Savings Catcher and have the money you get back from that sent to your BlueBird account you get DOUBLE the amount back until February.  So the Savings Catcher has found $7-ish dollars in the last week for me and since I've had it sent to my BlueBird card I've gotten $15.  That is not nothing and all I've had to do is scan my receipts in.

Just thought I'd share that for any of my broke ass friends who might be interested.  🙂

Picked up my Epi pens today.

Picked up my Epi pens today. Kind of wonder if they are necessary. I've been eating chocolate for two days, and haven't kicked out my dogs, or cut down my trees. I guess it won't hurt to have them, just in case.

So quiet and calm out, and then...

So quiet and calm out, and then suddenly lightning hit so close that it set off Shaun's car alarm.

Decided to go to Wal-Mart, but they don't have power, either. I've never seen it so dark over there. Now we're at Los Arcos. LOL

Power is out.

Power is out. It's not storming - barely even sprinkling, yet Nappy is freaking out. Can't help but wonder if she's scared of the unexpected dark. Big old weenie.

OMG, cats are NOT my favorite.

OMG, cats are NOT my favorite.  Especially not today!

So I was making my rounds this morning - same as I do every day.  Most of you are well aware that I have 20-something non-human kids, so I like it when things go smoothly.  Today, things are not going that smoothly.

Right now I have a lizard-shit covered cat stuck in a plastic bag hiding behind my couch.

Not only is the cat covered in lizard shit and stuck in a bag AND hiding behind the couch, BUT she made about a hundred laps around the living room at lightening speed with the bag stuck to her, therefore flinging lizard shit all over the place, too.

Thanks a lot, Addsie (ADDC = A Dumb Drooling Cat, as named by Shadow).  You really are dumb as hell.  Maybe next time leave my trash bag alone when I step out of the room for 2 seconds to let the dog out.  K, thanks.

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She just came out of hiding so I could free her of the lizard shit trash bag. Looking all afraid of me - like I did that to her! Jeez. Of course I get blamed. LOL

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It's ok - I'm laughing, too. You can't have a house full like I do and be mad when something goofy like that happens.

Everything is all cleaned up now and the cat is sitting there giving me the stink eye. All is right with the world. LOL

I have had a pretty good weekend. 😃

I have had a pretty good weekend.  😃

I am FINALLY (after the summer of depression and working not so much) caught up on my bills.  Not a lot of money left over for gifts, but I did manage to buy both Shaun and Shadow something small, so I'm done.  The gifts probably won't arrive before Christmas, but no one cares.  I love that we just do things our way.  ❤

I have spent most of the weekend cleaning, napping, and playing Mario with my guys.  LOL  It's been AWESOME and relaxing - which is just what I think I needed.  😃

I'm working tomorrow and Tuesday, so anyone who wanted to hang out I can't those days.  But any day after that, I'm probably free.  The only plans I for sure have is that I'd like to go to the new Ulta in Gadsden (preferably before my coupons expire!) so I can check it out.

I'm off to wash a dog and clean the dog room, then hopefully Shaun will come back and we can finish that world we unlocked that kept kicking our asses.  LOL  Since I slept late today and still napped, I'm pretty wide awake right now.  😃