Interesting Summer…

…to say the least. July was filled with invaders and the water outage incident. August held adventures, disappointments, happy spoiling, and lots of messes. I have been really bad at blogging lately, and I know that. I plan to be better. Mostly because I’m forgetting things I wanted to share. But as with a post or two back, this one will be lengthy as I try to put everything I’ve wanted to share with you all in words. I’ll try as best as possible to put things in chronological order….

I don’t remember if I mentioned this, but Issi’s getting married! :D And she and Andrew asked me to marry them. I, of course, said yes right away; cuz let’s face it, I’d do anything in my power to help them be happy. She deserves happiness, she’s overdue. But it was weird, for a week or two I felt weird about the getting ordained part. Why? I dunno. After prayer though, one morning I realized I was perfectly fine about it. And it’s something I can do for them. :-) I am still me though. So in procrastinating, I nearly lost the link (reorganized favorites and it got put in an odd folder :P ). But it’s official! I’m listed in the database, I can officiate weddings now. Now to figure out what to say… I promise not to be TOO silly. :P

Mid-July, I woke up to get ready to go to a doctor’s appointment with Mom (she likes company), only to discover the water had been shut off. When we moved here, the land lord told us to transfer the water bill to our name. Mom called and told LADWP to do so but they failed at ACTUALLY moving accounts. We had no idea. LADWP is our energy provider as well so we just figured it was all in the one bill. Land lord complained, we called again. They assured Mom it was taken care of and that was the end of the matter. But when we called that day, the bill was still in the land lord’s name and hadn’t been paid since a month or two prior to our moving in…. And to refresh memories, move in date was Oct. 31st 2008! >.< They wouldn’t turn the water on until the bill was paid in full. >.< Hot day, can’t shower, can’t flush, can’t wash my hands, can’t do squat! Yep, that day was fun. Mom had to borrow money from Nana real quick before going to her appointment (because she HAD to do that before going to the LADWP >.< gee thanks), but Nana only made her feel bad like on an hourly basis. As if magically we’d have well over a thousand dollars appear in a bank account. Yeah, we asked Dad to come to our rescue. :-( Which while we’re SO grateful, we did feel bad about having to ask. I haven’t really talked to Nana since, not that I talked to her on a daily basis before. Anywho, bill was paid, water was turned on, and since we had to pay in full regardless of it not all being our bill, we got a month or two’s credit. We’re still pissed the land lord didn’t warn us the water was going to be cut off. The bill being in their name went to their address, so we never got those warning bills. Jerks.

July was filled with invaders of the feature creature variety…. The kitchen was crawling with ants one day, which after not long prior having to face the ant invasion (minor in comparison) was NOT fun. Ants all over the floors, all over the cat food dishes, crawling out the doorways, and a few even found their way on the stove of all places. What started out as Mom telling me to sweep up the cat food area cuz of a few ants turned into a nightmare hours later (and yes, I did sweep like she’d asked). At one point I dumped out two bowls full of dry food, most of the dinner serving of wet food, and a few left over cookies. And cuz I can’t see them very well, I just sorta blanketed the whole floor with comet until they were all dead. That was a fuuuunnnn night. I cleaned that entire kitchen. By night’s end I was exhausted and thoroughly annoyed.

Other creepy crawlies and critters…. Well, it’s summer so the spiders are coming in to hide from the heat. It feels like I kill at least one spider every other day. One was on the ceiling over the sink.. Now I didn’t want it to jump down on me while I was washing dishes, so I squirted water at it in hopes of knocking it down. But the bugger hung on to a spun thread! Dangled there with its legs all flailing about. It was so disturbing! I had to bat it down and rinse it down the drain. And then there’s the fun skunks that frequent the house... or did anyway… One time we came home with food and had to wait ‘til the skunk left the doorsteps! Ick! But I bought moth balls to deter them from hiding under the house. So naturally they stopped showing up. The mere threat must have scared them. :P

August started off with a second cancellation on movies without a word. Despite saying it was going to be a fun day with pizza and smoothies from our fave joints in the theatre/shopping center, she cancelled on me and didn’t even bother giving me an excuse even after the fact. I was bummed even though I told myself not to get my hopes up. But I was cheered up by some Daddy spoiling. :D He found Doctor Who seasons 1-4 at a reasonable price! And he bought them for me! :D It’s been almost a month since and I still squeal (at least inwardly :P ). Mom’s friend wanted to see the movie with us, so Mom said we’d go the following weekend. By now I learned my lesson. No further mention was made about it. And I was perfectly fine. I’ll catch it on DVD as with the last two. Eventually I’ll make the brave leap to watching movies at a theatre on my own for those I REALLY want to see.

Doctor Whoooooooo :D

Sarah came to visit earlier this month, so I went (down? up?) to visit her. I took four busses in a two hour stretch (counting waiting at bus stop time) to get to her. It was an adventure right off! But the trip was pleasant. Most of the bus connections were literally at the same stops so I had little to no walking to find unfamiliar busses. It rocked as far as first time trips on a bus. And the day only got better! We ate at BJ’s near the beach. Man I missed their pizzas. Then took a bus to Crystal Cove beach where we spent the afternoon playing in the sand and water and in my case getting sunburned. :P I took LOTS of pics on my cell phone, but I’m not gonna post them all. :P

Sarah Day Pics:
(minus pics of Sarah cuz I forgot to ask permission.. not counting her hands and feet next to her sand spidy :P )

Finally… Pixie’s sick… She’s got a UTI (urinary infection). It’s not pleasant for her or us. Mom noticed she was off Friday, and Dad took me and Pix to the vet Saturday before our day of play. She got shots, one of which was long lasting antibiotics to spare us any pill giving, and the vet said she’d be better soon… Well not as soon as he said, but she is on the mend. Least she’s not having as many of those kinds of accidents… Nope, now she’s throwing up… Mom says it’s probably a side effect of the shots. >.< Peachy. But bleh. She seems to act like she’s feeling better. Her poor lil bum area is all sore and tender still though so she’s not running around yet, but she’s asking to play lil more now. GOOD sign. Kinda sucks that this had to happen after I finally cleaned house last week though... Cuz now I gotta THOROUGHLY clean as soon as she’s all better.

Anywho, thanks to the constant mopping up of messes all night, this blog has taken me WAY longer to write than I had planned and I gotta get my butt to bed now!

Hope everyone stays cool!