It was a frustrating day yesterday, but kind of in a funny way. Everything was perfectly “normal” around here until it came time to go run a couple errands. I got outside and dug inside my purse for my keys and came up empty. I knew immediately what had happened. Hubs took them and forgot to put them back, which wouldn’t normally be a big deal except that he had gone to work (engineer for the railroad) and was in Wyoming! He’s already lost — or as he would say, “misplaced” — his set, and we’ve only had this vehicle for 2 1/2 months! What can I say. I love the man, but he absolutely loses everything. Oh, by the way, the 15th was our 26th anniversary, so YAY us!

OK, so getting back to my frustrating and kind of funny story. I ended up having to call my daughter, who was with her friend Zach, and they came and picked me up and took me to run my errands. Another YAY for having a cool daughter who doesn’t mind doing stuff for her mom. Which brings us to last night (smooth segue, eh? ) She and her best friend Tesla came inside (Zach was out in the car), and they asked me if I needed anything from Wal-Mart. They were bored. LOL What a silly question! Of course I needed something from Wal-Mart. I always need something. So I gave her the short list and off they went. About 20 minutes later my cell rings. It’s her. She says, “Mom, I got everything and we checked out and I ran the card and the cashier says it told her there was no money!”. I was perplexed, to say the least, but not panicked. I came straight to the computer and checked our account on the bank’s web site. Everything — checking AND savings both said **** for a balance. Then I panicked — until I noticed that nothing was loading properly and everything said “we cannot display your transaction at this time”. I realized then that all of their electronic crap was down. So my poor daughter, feeling quite embarrassed and humiliated, had to leave the groceries there, come all the way back home to get a check, go all the way back to pay for them, then come all the way back to bring them home. I was feeling really badly for her, but she said when she told the cashier I had checked the web site and everything was down, she asked “Credit union??”, and when Callie told her yes, she remarked, “What’s new?”. I didn’t know they had a problem with that. It’s never happened to us before. Anyway …. it was just weirdness that you look back on and shake your head, roll your eyes and laugh.

I guess you could say there’s this kind of … weird .. thing … that sort of runs in my family. I don’t know how far back it might go, as I was too stupid as a teenager and young adult to question my grandmother about it. Believe me, I kick myself for that all the time! Anyway, my grandma could never wear a watch. Every time she did, it would stop. I remember thinking “Hmmm, that’s very strange”, but never really giving it any deeper thought than that at the time. I wish I had. Why? Well, because now my daughter — get this — causes street lights to go out. I kid you not! I’ve been with her when it’s happened! When I made a humorous comment about the street light going out as we drove under it, she said “That happens to me all the time, Mom”, and she was completely serious.

In questioning her further about it, I have learned that not only does she put random street lights out when she passes by — whether on foot or in a car — but there are two specific street lights in town which always go out. Well, one of them actually just flickers intensely while she is under it, then stops as soon as she passes, but the other one always goes out. Now, is that interesting or what! She’s never worn a watch, so I don’t know if she would stop them like Grandma did or not. I should get her one just to see, huh.

So what do you think causes that? Some kind of electrical exchange perhaps? Does she have a force field around her? LOL It would be cool to hear what some of you scientifically-minded people out there have to say about this. But regardless, I think it’s cool.

Electric Exchange, Electric Personality, Electric Fields

I had the weirdest thing happen to me last night. I was just standing in my kitchen, when all of a sudden I got a really sharp pain on the top of my right foot. It felt exactly like I was being bitten by something! I looked down and nothing was there, but I kept an eye on it to see if it was going to swell or something, just in case the little scoundrel that bit me had quickly scampered away. Well, nothing happened, so I thought it was simply another weird thing about me. Then it happened again! And again, and again and again! It kept happening for HOURS last night! So now I’m certain it’s another weird thing about me, but it comes close to tipping my personal weirdness meter. What do you think could cause something like that to happen? It hurt like hell, too! It felt like whatever WASN’T biting me had big ass teeth! LOL! I dunno. A phantom spider, maybe? Or no, I know! It’s the pissed off spirit of a spider I killed! Yeah, that’s it. The little turd was getting back at me!

Bwahahahahaha!!!

Spiders, Bites, Pain, Ghosts

It’s so friggin’ hot. I’m sitting here sweating, but too stubborn to turn the A/C back on. I shouldn’t have to run it at night! LOL Now, would someone PLEASE tell me why dogs roll in the stinkiest stuff they can find??? I swear, they’ll run from a bath, but positively dive into shit! WTH?? My Golden, Daisy, came in the other night from playing out in the back yard, and I heard Hubs ask, “What’s this all over her back?”. I was like, “What? What’s what all over her back”, then walked into the bathroom to see. OMG!! I’m tellin’ ya’, it was NASTY! I wouldn’t get any closer than I had to, so Hubs smelled her and quite matter-of-factly said, “Yep, it’s shit”. Great! Guess what that meant? It meant I had to wash her, cuz she’s MY dog!

First I tried with really wet paper towels, followed by Clorox wipes. LOL No good. She still stunk. So I had to practically wrestle this 90 pound girl into the shower, and wash her whole right side. Why a water dog who LOVES swimming hates showers is beyond me! ANYway, the dog shampoo I grabbed on the fly was, of course, the one with Omega fatty acids in it, so it smelled like fish! Oh WONderful — fish AND shit! I just about puked. It was all I could do to finish.

Why oh why do they do that???

Dogs, Bad Dog Habits, Dogs Rolling In Stinky Stuff

Wow, what a strange night last night was! First of all, there was tons of lightning, but only about 3 drops of rain. It was so strange. The light show was awesome, though! Totally loved it.

Then later my cell phone rang, and it was my daughter. She was at Dave’s house (my son) and said, “What do you do with an injured bat?” I was like, “An injured bat!?”, to which she replied, “yeah, an injured bat”. First thing I said was to stay the hell away from it! Bats are notorious for carrying rabies ’round these parts, and then I told her to keep Dave’s dogs out of the yard and not to let them get near it. Then I asked her what was going on. She said that they had been in the house and heard a strange noise. She thought nothing of it, thinking it was just the water heater or something. It was, as she described, a squeaky noise. Dave got up and went out to the back yard to look around, and quickly came back in and said “There’s somethin’ messed up out there!”. LOL! He grabbed his big flashlight and they all (Dave, Callie and her b/f Darin) went out to see what it was. What they saw shocked them all — two bats on the ground beside his house! They’re not sure if they were fighting or what, but Dave told Callie it looked like one was chomping on the other. Anyway, the one doing the chomping flew away immediately; the second one just laid there, but when Dave would shine the light on it, it would start flapping its wings and making that funny squeaky noise. Somewhere along the line it got to a pipe running along the bottom of Dave’s house and starting hanging from it! LOL You know, like bats do. Dave slowly walked closer and shined his flashlight on it again, and that’s when it suddenly got pissed off and flew directly towards his head! LOL Scared the crap out of him! LOL! Oh man, I so wish I had been there to see that!

After the whole bat thing was over, another lightning show came along. Totally cool. It was truly a batty and beautiful night!

Bats, Lightning, Dry Lightning,