Randomness

A while back my husband & I were trying to think of what cute, short phrase to purposely teach his African Gray to say. He, laughing so hard barely able to speak said, "buy me a boat, b*tch"! I had to laugh because we had discussed trying to buy a boat large enough to accommodate our family yet not be an ocean liner. We even window-shopped new & used boats. Ultimately, we ended up putting money on new, larger, more efficient appliances instead. After all, those are used daily compared to the number of times we would actually all get together on the boat. Plus the cost of storing it etc. Not to mention we have many, many home improvement projects, desperately awaiting our attention. So, today here in the U.S.A. is Father's day and to celebrate we all went to see The Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer. It was great fun, despite being a $70.00 expense. This was followed by going out to dinner for Chinese food & stopping to see if the home improvement store was still open - it wasn't. On the way back from the closed store there was a very eye catching used boat for sale. It is Father's day so we humored him & all waited in the car while he checked it out - and boy did he ever check it out! So once we got home, driving with dad's sales' pitch a lot of the way, I turned around to leave again. I went to the grocery store & got a helium Mylar balloon I'd seen there before. It was the shape of a sale boat & said, SS Dad #1 dad xoxoxoxo . I brought it home, handed it to him & said, "here, your b*tch bought you a boat". It was pretty amusing.

While we were sitting in the car waiting for my husband to finish collecting in tel on the used boat, we looked around at whatever was there to entertain ourselves. Oddly enough, we were facing a do-it-yourself-car wash (that's not the odd part) & there was a sign posted on it that said "No Mud No Grease". I'm guessing if your car had mud or grease on it, chances are, you'd want it washed off-so apparently you would need to use a different car wash that that. Seems pretty ridiculous, like the sign should have said, "Only come if your car is clean"

Once home mulling about, I discovered tons of soap suds & a bit of water all over our kitchen floor. I figured the repair man messed something up when he was out last time but I was wrong. It turns out my niece's fiance had been kind enough to do dishes for us. Well, bless his heart, the dishwasher has been broken since they moved in & you've got to give a guy credit for trying. He used the type of dish soap that is for doing dishes by hand, rather than the automatic dish-washer soap that we have stored under the sink. When we opened up the dishwasher all that could be seen was soap suds. It was hysterical. Moreover, seeing a big built guy 6 feet 4 inches in height get all embarrassed about it & feel bad was even more hysterical. I told him the God's honest truth,"If you mess up in this house, you have to know you are going to get teased about it forever because (then using a term they'd be familiar with I added;) that's just the way we roll."

A dog in the neighborhood is barking tonight. Ever notice how dogs bark with a bit of a rhythm to it for the most part? I always wonder what happens when the dogs sometimes stop mid bark. hm? Another one for the mystery books I suppose.

Until next time Dear Readers, Be Blessed!