Yard Stress

I've been trying to catch up on all my housework, yardwork, etc since the kids started school again. I've been needing to mow. The thing is....the lawnmower won't start. It's just a simple push mower, but I have no mechanical ability whatsoever (even less than I used to since I am now married to a mechanic) so I have no idea what's wrong. I just know it's frustrating as heck!

My husband brought over my father-in-law's riding lawn mower. I knew how to drive our old rider but this one is so different from that one that it might as well be a helicopter. I have no clue how to even start the thing, even less use it to mow.

My husband is currently working longer hours to complete some jobs in time for the harvest (the EARLY harvest, mind you!) so he is unavailable for consultation.

So my yard will just have to look like crap!! Is there any stress thats' worse than the stress of not being ABLE to do anything?

Monsters Under The Bed

I never put anything under my bed. I have never put anything under my bed since I was five and feared those nasty little green monsters that jump up and bite you if any of your extremeties go over the side of the bed. Why would I give those monsters a comfy home? Nope - it's always bare under my bed.

Lately I've been keeping a set of weights under one corner of the bed (right next to the edge) and a shoe buddy under the other corner. When I clean my room I usually have a lovely pile of garbage under my HUSBAND'S side of the bed (I keep a garbage can under his table and I swear he misses 80% of the time and never bothers to pick it up), but I only move the whole bed once a year to vaccuum under it.

I was cleaning my room today and smelled a dead mouse. I couldn't find it anywhere - even after I cleaned up the mound of trash under my husband's side of the bed. So I moved the whole bed.

You would not BELIEVE all the stuff that was under there! All my missing shoes were under there, a bunch of DISHES were under there, every dog toy in the entire house was under there. My missing bath scrubby that I couldn't find and bought a replacement for was under there torn to shreds, as well as SEVERAL items of dirty clothes....mostly socks. I can only guess that my lovely new additions (the two puppies, now 8 months old) are using under MY bed as some kind of lair where they keep all their crap! I could not BELIEVE I was sleeping over all that mess!

So I cleaned it aaaaaaaaall up (I did find that dead mouse) and I put smelly powder down and vaccuumed the whole thing and NOW I have to remember to check under there occasionally because adding the two pups has given me basically another bedroom to clean! LOL

I wonder what they think of it now that it's all clean and bare like it's supposed to be? HaHa who knew I would bring REAL monsters to live under my bed? LOL

Bad Hair.....Month

I have three hair cycles.

Cycle one: My hair is normal. I can style it if I want it to look nice and if I dont style it it looks like I didn't style it. This cycle lasts about three weeks.

Cycle two: My hair is unusually gorgeous. I dont' have to do anything to it and for some inexplicable reason it still looks like supermodel hair. This cycle lasts about a month. It is so pretty with just washing that I want to cry. Before you get too jealous, however, you should know I have a price to pay for this gorgeous hair. It is cycle three.

Cycle three: (and the cycle my hair is currently going through) My hair looks AWFUL! ALL THE TIME! NO MATTER WHAT I DO! It looks like the world's worst clown wig. It's frizzy and breaks and splits no matter what product I put on it. Curling doesn't work. Straightening doesn't work. The only thing I can do to make it look like I give a crap about it is to just shove it all back into a ponytail and try to weigh down the frizzies with hairspray. THIS cycle usually goes around a month or 6 weeks depending on the time of year I get it. Since it's summer I'm guessing I'll have it for the full 6 weeks. It drives me crazy! I have to deal with it every few months! There's nothing I can do!!

No moral to this story - I'm just sick of my ponytails and thought I'd share my frustration ;)

Heat Wave?

These last few days have been DISGUSTINGLY humid! The heat indexs have been 115-122 (Farenheit). DRY heat would be okay...but nooooo! HERE it has to be so humid that just standing outside causes you to loose half your body weight in sweat. The heat WITHOUT the index has been getting higher and higher!!

According to my van here was the temperature earlier today:

And later it seemed it was too hot for my van to even REGISTER a temperature!!! (Either that or something is wrong with my van LOL:

IT'S HOT!!!

Take me out to the baaaall game!

Yay! Superfun night at the ball park! It was wicked humid out...I was pretty sure it was humid enough to kill an elephant. We got to race snowcones to see if we could eat them before they melted completely (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who lost that race) and we had huge hotdogs! I had a "junkyard dog"...

...once you took off the pickle and the olives it was GREAT! I'm tempted to try a version of it at home sometime but we almost never have hot dogs.

Our team won (of course!) and here's a couple of awesome baseball shots I got :D

winding up for the pitch, and the pitch:.

That's right.....awesome!