Really?

My love of infomercials has inspired a blog before, but I found a couple on youtube that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share with anyone who still reads my blog.

Enjoy!

Have I Stooped?

I hope my blog doesn't just turn into a rant blog but I have to rant at the moment.

Feel free to stop reading because this is more of a therapy for me than entertainment for anyone else.

Instead of giving a big back story I'm just going to say that the owner of our building, Gregg Bragg, is....mean.

He told us he was going to see how possible it was get central heat and air in our building, and it IS possible, but it is going to cost him $5,000 (pocket change for him, might I add) so he told us he was just going to get us window units.

Well here is the problem with window units in our apartment:

The windows in our apartment are OLD and rotting away and there is about a 1/4 inch gap where the wood has rotted away from the glass and it allows all kinds of things (including precious COOL air) to escape.

The electric wiring in our apartment is OLD. Instead of having outlets that have two plugs (both being grounded) the outlets we have have three plugs and none of them are grounded. And the outlets are few and far between, so they are all occupied.

If he is going to give us window units he can at least buy NEW window units instead of giving us the circa 1970 units his handyman (and newly hired handyman sidekick) just installed.

The handyman was given orders to put a window unit in the bedroom and hallway (those windows are literally like 10 feet apart). But given the old electricity there are no outlets in hallway, so that means he put a unit in the kitchen instead. Plus the handyman was given orders to not put window units in the living room because the living room faces the street and that would "look tacky". Well we LIVE in the living room! I'd rather have a window unit in the living room then the kitchen!

All he does is cosmetic work! Make it look nice and no one will ask questions.

I saw a poll on his stores facebook page (Cover to Cover books and gifts) asking what the design for the awnings on his newly refurbished building should look like.

I am tempted to post a comment on that poll that reads something like this:

"How about instead of sprucing up the outside of the building, you fix the inside first!"

UPDATE:

Jessie called Gregg to inform him of our disappointments and I think he was trying to win her over by telling her of his plans to give us HEATED SIDEWALKS, but we aren't won over!

SCREW THE HEATED SIDEWALKS!

If You were a Fly on my Wall

If there was a Fly on my Wall this is what he'd be Thinking.

"Oh great Tacy is home. I hope she doesn't sit down in the living room and start singing to herself again."

"Well I guess I don't mind if she sings, but does she realize how LOUD she is singing? She is singing to herself after all, why does it have to be so loud?"

"Oh good! Here comes her sister, maybe she'll shut up now...WAIT! Why did she join her singing?! Don't they realize how off-key they are?!"

"I wish these girls could open their window and let me out, I've had enough!"

"You've got to be kidding me? Reciting poetry? They are reciting poetry? Why on earth are these two girls reciting poetry to each other?!"

"Now they are laughing. Is there any reason for them to be laughing? No! But that doesn't stop them, they chuckle and wheeze and chuckle and wheeze."

"yay! Jessie left to go get in the shower, maybe Tacy will just sit down and watch a show on Netflix."

"Is she talking to me? I don't see anyone else in the room. Is Tacy really speaking plain english to me as though I could respond? Oh... nevermind she is talking to the rabbit."

"Good, she turned on the TV, now maybe she'll be quiet."

"Now why is she crying?"

"Now why is she laughing?"
"Now why is she crying?"

"Now why is she laughing?"

"What is that waffely stick thing she is swinging at......SPLAT"

(I've been kinda bored lately)

Personification

Why do I love this?

And why did Jessie and I spend almost an hour watching other youtube videos posted by klaatu42?

Because it is cute :)

Olive

I noticed that I never blogged about my bunny!

Meet Olive.

She is a lionhead bunny.

She was born January 27th and we got her on March 12th.

She is the cutest thing ever! She hops around our house and uses a litter box and everything.

Her hair is CRAZY long!

The picture above was taken the day we got her. She was tiny.

She is now about double that size and not nearly as black!

We named her Olive cause she was our little black Olive, now she is more of a little grey Olive.

Little White Lies

For a little over a month I've been working in the pre-school classroom.

The other day the teacher and I were using a hot glue gun to put pictures up on the wall (it is the only thing that will stick to the cement wall).

At lunchtime one of the boys said to me, "Miss Tacy, Jakeb has something in his pocket."

I asked Jakeb what he had in his pocket and he said, "A mini water-bottle. I brought it with me to have on the bus in case I get thirsty."

I asked him to take it out of his pocket and he pulled out a glue stick.

I held it and looked at him said said, "What did you say this was?"

He again told me it was a mini water-bottle he brought in case he got thirsty on the bus.

It made me think of what I tried to get away with when I was 4.

Happy Holiday!

I've always considered myself patriotic.

I love the USA!

So today I want to wish everyone a happy National Anthem Day!

My book of 2,001 things to do before I die tells me to memorize the second verse of the Star Spangled Banner.

For a good chunk of my life I thought the second verse was what is actually the fourth verse so memorizing the actual second verse wasn't that easy of a task.

Nevertheless I did it!

Woo-hoo!

The Little Things

Jessie and I got a coupon in the mail the other day for $3.00 off a large Casey's pizza.

Jessie pulled out the coupon to see when it expires and found out it expires February 31st.

Hmmmm

Ya Never Know

I love the Antiques Roadshow.

On Sunday I was watching a show on PBS and I saw a "Tomorrow on Antiques Roadshow" clip and I thought one of the people they showed getting an appraisal looked very familiar.

I tuned in last night to watch and I totally knew someone on there!

You don't have to watch the video, but it's here just in case you want to watch it.

Watch the full episode. See more Antiques Roadshow.

I had to go to physical therapy for my arm and the lady getting the appraisial (Joy) was my physical therapist. Well actually she isn't a physical therapist...she was more like the assistant who helped me do all my arm exercises and stuff.

During therapy we'd talk about the Antiques Roadshow and how much we love the Keno brothers!

It was just fun seeing someone I know on there!

...And it's still snowing!

Yay!

A Blizzard!

And it's still snowing!

We are all stuck at my parents for the night...well all but Nathan who, after unsuccessfully trying for an hour to dig his truck out of the snow, decided to walk home to check on his cats.

Hmmm....not the brightest considering the snow came halfway up Jessie and when I went out to take a picture of Jessie I couldn't see 1 foot in front of me due to the wind.

Fun!
I can't wait to build a snow fort tomorrow!

The Fugitive Moment

I just had a birthday and I can't believe how much I've already lived.

When I was younger (and I am still young...this isn't an 'I'm so old' blog) I seemed to have so many hours in the day, and now I feel like I have so few.

It is already February.

Can you believe it?

I was listening to a hymn today and it said:

"...our time as a stream Glide swiftly away

and the fugitive moment refuses to stay."

It has made me think: What do I do with my fugitive moments?

I have missed quite a few, I've made the most of some, and I hope I have the sense to do the best I can with the ones that remain, because they DO refuse to stay.

This life is meant to be enjoyed, and I know one thing for sure, I'm not going to "waste" my fugitive moments being busy.

"Screw you cat!"

My sister Jessie LOVES animals.

We caught a mouse in my parents house and the mouse was breathing its last breaths and Jessie cried because it was a dying creature.

Animals, though, do not love Jessie.

Jessie and I are on a committee planning a bingo night in Nauvoo. The first meeting we had concerning the bingo night was at a ladies house and she has a cat that she said is "overly loving" and she apologized ahead of time for the cat, because it would probably try to jump in laps or rub against our legs.

It did jump on peoples laps, and it did rub legs, just not Jessies.

Jessie had to go to the last meeting by herself and the cat again was being it's friendly self just not with Jessie.

She was relaying me the story and she said, "...I think I just want animals to love me too much, well SCREW YOU cat!"

Haha.

I thought it was funny.