Time's Out!

So, the first week of March, I started my job.  A week later, I filed my last unemployment form.  So, it wasn't very much since it was only for one week.  I had to fill out the paper form though, since I had worked part of the pay period.

Today, I stopped on the way home from work to fill up the car with gas.  I used my unemployment debit card.  The sweet thing about that, is that it just stops when there's no more money on the card.  I think it stopped at $31.56.

And that was the end of my freeloading.

Okay, it's not freeloading.  I don't feel bad about taking a measley amount of money while I was not working.  I did work prior to that.  And I am working full time now.  In fact, I have been warned by my superior to not make so much overtime.  I'm not afraid of work, and I had not been avoiding it.  I had been trying to figure out my life and my next step.

For now, the next step is to work as much as I can.

And enjoy life and my family and friends as much as possible. (Yes I realize that we don't really have friends here, but we do have friends.

Anyway, that's that.  I'm in the work force.  And if this job doesn't pan out in the next 17 months or so, I can't file a new unemployment request.  So, hopefully it all works out.

Unnecessary

A few things that are unnecessary:

1. boob jobs
2. steroids
3. microderm abrasion (I don't really know what that is)
4. botox
5. viagra for old people (yes, I said it)
6. dressing on the side (because you know that's more dressing than if it were tossed in the salad)
7. pepsi one
8. sugar free caramel sauce (?)
9. different types of gatorade
10. insomnia
11. abc family channel
12. the TV guide channel
13. malware
14. contact requests from strangers on yahoo
15. bullies
16. pet lemurs
17. mean people
18. bad feelings
19. hurting innocent beings
20. non HD TV programming

Goodnight!
XOXO

Domestic Bliss

Ah... the approach of summer.  The hot days, the cool nights, the mosquitos, the kitties lick bathing, the puppy snoozing, and the pool as clean as I've ever seen it!  So, yeah, the pool is still kind of cool, and we could put the solar cover on it - if the solar cover were clean and we planned ahead.  But, after work, it's warm enough that I can bare to go in and frolic around for a bit.  And it's so refreshing.

But, there's always the question of dinner.  What do we want for dinner?  We don't really have any food in the house.  It's kind of late, so I don't really feel like cooking... what to eat?  Probably something kind of unhealthy.  But, I still gotta finish the laundry, and it's getting close to bedtime (it's 7:59), and I still have other stuff to do!  Where does the time go?  Well, half an hour in the pool cleaning it and swimming in it, and a hour at the beach (shhh... we aren't supposed to take Rudy there!) already slashes into my after work time.  So, could I budget my time more?  Sure.  Do I?  No!  I mean, I was off work for 10 months, and I sure stopped learning how to budget my time efficiently.

So, anyway, let's end this once again with pictures...

 Rudy's tired after the beach!

 Stinksy, being a  Nawlins boy, loves his hot sauce!

 The Fuzz in the purple room.

Stinksy on the big shed thing in the lanai and The Fuzz in the purple room looking out.

Ridiculous, I know

So, today was the first day I officially went all the way into the pool.  I mean, I had gone in to my thighs, and dangled my legs in the water before.  But I had not gone in and gone all the way to the "deep" end - which is about 4 1/2 feet.

Oh, I could regale you with the whole long sordid tale of the pool.  But, it's really just pathetic and shows me in a dumb and lazy light.  Basically, if I had either gotten a professional to come and check out the pool when we first moved in, or I had bought a new filter cartridge and a nice automatic pool cleaner, the pool would have been nicely maintained all these months.

But I didn't.  I searched on the internets.  I tried different things.  Other than the most obvious.  Changing the filter cartridge.

So, I hadn't gone swimming in the pool. Until today.  It was a hot one.  But, by the time I went out back to check the chlorine levels, the sun had gone down enough that the palm trees cast a shadow on most of the pool.

And the water was a bit cool.  Even though it was hot today!  I'm guessing the new filter cartridge I put in yesterday had something to do with that, because the water is circulating about twice as fast as it was with the dirty old cartridge.

So, it was great to go in and cool off.  Although, I need to vacuum out the bottom a little more - hopefully tomorrow.  But it would be nice to just come home from work and jump in every day!

Well, I don't want to disappoint you puppy lovers, so here's some photos of the puppy! The puppy with the dirty mouth.  They should make Orbits Gum for puppies.  At any rate we should probably start cleaning his dirty mouth!

Ewwwwwww

So, are you tired of me blogging about the puppy?  If so, then you might not want to bother reading this!

Seriously.  Stop reading if you don't want to hear about him.

So, he's already become a little troublemaker and a terror.  He bites.  And he puts everything in his mouth.  He reminds me of a shark.  Mouth everything to decide whether to eat it or just play with it.  I mean everything.  If I didn't have anything to do, I would start listing everything that he's put in his mouth.  Well, I can list the things I remember.

paper
more paper
cardboard
cigarette wrapper cellophane
toilet paper
twigs
mulch
grass
weeds (dude, he likes weed)
socks
sweaty shirts
a random dirty wife beater he found at the park
plastic bag scraps
cat food

Oh, and a tampon applicator.

No, not mine.  That would be gross.   But a stranger's tampon applicator, that's fucking disgusting.

 We decided to walk him up and down our street.  So, our only neighbors who have been friendly were outside.  They have two little girls.  So he stopped to look at them.  We tried to get him to walk, but he wanted affection.  But, they didn't come up to meet him.  So we tried to get him to move.

And that's when he saw it.  A pink tampon applicator with the plunger pushed in.  Yuck.  And he picked it up.  He put it in his mouth sideways.  And we I tried to take it out of his mouth.  And then he turned it sideways, so that it was all the way in his mouth.  The neighbors said, "Oh, he found a toy!"

So, in front of them, we had to force open his jaws and pull the used pink tampon applicator out of his mouth.

Fucking disgusting.

Really?  I don't think I can ever let this dog lick me again.

Too Tired

I'm lame.... I'm going to skip out again on the blog... I'm just going to show you a couple videos instead... again.

What I've Learned About Having A Puppy

1. It's a lot like having a baby (so I've heard).
2. You have to balance the time between doing things "for" the puppy - like work, and cleaning up after him, and spending quality time with him.
3. Puppies are even dirtier than I thought they were!
4. Puppies can have that new puppy smell and dirty puppy smell at the same time.
5. Puppies hurt when they bite.
6. Puppies can play as hard as big dogs right before bedtime.
7. Puppies don't give a shit about stepping on shit.
8. Puppies act like sweet little angels in public and love everyone they encounter.
9. You really have to keep your eye on the little fuckers.
10.  I wonder what my puppy is doing now - I have to go check.  He was laying in the dirt hole that he dug in the backyard.
11.  Puppies can eat balloons. (This happened before we got him, but the evidence was in his first poo on our front lawn.
12.  It's gross to have to pick up a puppy's warm coil of shit right after he goes.  It's way easier to let it dry up for a couple of days and then go around and hope you've picked it all up.
13. Puppies are like celebrities.  When people see them, they think they have license to pet them, play with them, pick them up and do whatever they want to without asking permission from the entourage.
14. Puppies are louder and more work than kittens.
15. Puppies get attached to people way faster than kittens do.
16. I love my puppy, but for my next dog, unless it's a pomeranian for the FP, I probably will adopt a shiba inu, that won't be as young as this little guy.
17. Strangers will go out of their way to talk to a stranger with a puppy, but they won't give a nonpuppy bearing stranger a second look.
18. Everything is interesting to a puppy except for what you want him to focus on.