YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a big moving truck at the neighbors house!!!!! THANK GOD!!! Emily says "Good now we can play out front and not have to worry about the mean dogs!" No longer will we be woken at 6am to GATORGATORGATORGATOR. UGH. No longer will we have to endure their loud screeching fights. No more!!!!!!!!!!!

Macy

Did I mention that I'm at odds with the "i" in her name? It makes me feel strange, like it's not quite the "Macy" sounding name. When I say her name, I picture that "i". So I'm dropping it personally until I figure out what to do with it. Officially she's "Maicy". Unofficially, to me at least, she's Macy, Maycee, Macey, who knows. But doesn't it look off now without the "i"?

"Shew"

Macy's motto must be "pick a word and do it right". Shoe. Pronounced SHEW. To be more accurate, elongate and whine: shewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Every shoe is pointed out. Every shoe that's on has to come off "SHEWWWWWWW". She's even progressed to whining "shews". A shoe on the floor? SHEW. On a person? SHEW. What if my foot is resting on the chair where she wants to sit? With a sweep of her hand to dismiss the offending shoe, it goes something like this "yabba dabba yabba dabba SHEW!"

Someone died today....

Someone died today on our block. We're still not sure who, but we think it's the elderly alzheimers victim who lives two doors down. I was looking out the window and saw 2 cop cars pull up, quickly followed by 3 undercover cars, a traffic unit squad car (??) and a large supervisor type vehicle. High drama! My first thought was the gal across the street called the cops on the boys who play ball in the street all year long. Next came an ambulance followed by the fire chief's car.

The undercover cops run in with their hands on their guns, the EMTs grab the gurney and go flying in the house. Not one minute later, out they stroll, gurney empty, pack it up and zoom off. One minute after THAT, the zoom back up, jump out again without a gurney, grab their bags and rush inside. Odd. We joked "maybe he wasn't dead after all?" Just cracking jokes of course, we didn't think there would be a death in the house. But by that time there was a crowd of people on the porch crying, so we figured it had to be a death.

All but one cop leaves, ambulance leaves, Chaplain pulls up, detectives pull up, and Coroner pulls up. Detectives? Interesting. They're there for over an hour and then leave. Of the 3 people that live in the house, only the elderly man was unaccounted for. Yes, we stood in the neighbor's yard and counted. We're that bad.

So what started out as high drama ended very sadly. I'm thinking perhaps it was suicide by gun. That would explain the guys running in with hands on guns, the 8 squad cars, the chaplain, the detectives, the EMT guys walking and and then coming right back out (because clearly he was dead), stuff like that. Very sad.

OK, so I'm an idiot.....

Has anyone seen those FOREYES commercials where the guy says that? "OK, so I'm an idiot".

OK....so I'm an idiot. I just told BBW that I would be more than happy to be their summertime manager, perhaps even permanently.

OK, so I'm an idiot. To emphasize how much of an idiot I am, please read #8 of 10 Things Said To Me Lately.

In the realm of all things rude....

This one just takes the cake. Literally. It's the Kitty Litter Cake that I made for Reilly's 8th birthday party. It was beyond disgusting. And served in a kitty litter pan with a litter scoop.

Dumb Neighbors

I can't wait until the neighbors move. They have a sold sign on their house, but it hasn't closed yet. They have two pitbulls, Gator and Venus and they are SO FREAKING OBNOXIOUS. Every morning at the crack of dawn, the lady is out there yelling GATOR GATOR GATOR GETHER GATOR GETHERGETERGETERGETER GETER VENUS NO NO NO NO NO NO VENUS NO and the dogs play while she wakes up the neighborhood. They're cute dogs. I thought they were docile dogs. But lately I've been waking up to snarling and fighting and GATOR NO STOP IT GATOR STOP while Gator attacks Venus.

Nice.

Now my kids aren't allowed to play in the front yard. Don't tell me that Pit Bulls are fine unless they've been bred to be nasty. These dogs have not been bred to be nasty. They WERE nice friendly docile dogs. But now out of the blue I hear snarling and fighting? WRONG. I've heard enough stories of Pit Bull maulings where the owners and all the neighbors, even the victims, say "oh and he was such a nice dog, too, never aggressive".

They can't move soon enough.