A couple weeks ago she called me saying that her dog was really stiff and sore and cried every time she touched her. She was asking me what she could do for her. (Apparently I’m not only her computer fixer, I’m her veterinarian too.) I know her dog is young and I asked if something had happened to her–she said she didn’t know, maybe she got hit by a car.

Where to start on that–first off USE A LEASH AND TIE HER UP which I told her. I told her she could give the dog an aspirin but only one of the old fashioned white ones. I specifically said not advil or tylenol, it has to be regular aspirin.

Shortly after this, maybe a week or so, she said again that her dog was all stiff and sore. I said obviously she has something wrong–take her to a vet. That was as far as that conversation went.

Last week I was talking to her and she proceeds to tell me that she was waiting for a call from a lady about a boyfriend for her dog. HOLD ON here, WTF?! I said what are you doing? She said she was going to breed her mutt dog to a male Samoyed because she thought they would make cute puppies. I said to her, I wouldn’t do that. She asked why. I said well first off, why make more unwanted mutt puppies but more than that–your dog obviously has something wrong with her, why would you do that to her. She just said yeah, I suppose.

I’m sure that she went ahead and got her dog bred. This is how stupid she is. If she really loved her dog like she claims, she would take her in and find out what’s wrong but she won’t.

This morning my cell phone rang and I recognized the number as one of the guys I work with. I answered and he says what did you want? I said, I didn’t call you. He said he has my number on his answering machine on the caller ID and it said I had called today (like I don’t know if I called him or not). I said, i didn’t call you today–I called you last week but I haven’t called today.

He then went on to question me about having called him today. HELLO–I DID NOT CALL YOU TODAY! If you are going to have modern electronics, learn to use them or don’t have them!

Stupid old fucker!

Oh my god!!!

As I’ve said before, I don’t have many friends so I guess I shouldn’t scoff at the few I do have but I tell you, this one is driving me fucking crazy. Really I shouldn’t say she’s a friend–she’s someone I tolerate who really fucked me over in the past. Why I am tolerating her, I don’t know.

For some reason, she seems to think that I am her computer fix it resource. The problem is, she knows NOTHING about computers, seriously–NOTHING.

The other day she was messaging me asking how she could find out what search engines were on her computer. I had no idea what she meant. I said it’s not on your computer, it’s on the internet. If you want to use yahoo go to yahoo.com or if you want google go to google.com. She has no idea what I meant OH MY GOD.

Today she called me on the phone saying she had gotten an email from her internet provider saying that she should use firefox instead of IE for a browser. Seems that wildblue is endorsing firefox. She asked me if I use firefox which I do and have been for 2 years at least. She was trying in vain to figure out how to download firefox by clicking the link in the email wildblue sent her OH MY GOD………….I sent her a link directly to the firefox download so then she says on the phone she clicked run. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Click save, not run! She then asked me if firefox would just get rid of IE after she installed it. Ummmmmmm NO! I tried to explain that they are 2 different programs and that she could leave IE on her computer (she wanted to take it off) and just not use it. Then she asked me if it just runs in the background or what. Ummmmmmm NO–OH MY GOD!!! I said no, it’s just there like any other program. If you don’t use it, it just sits there not doing anything like having a box of old clothes in your closet. In the meantime she was going through her email and proceeds to tell me that she had an email from wildblue telling her to click to update her password. I said I wouldn’t click anything. She says why (as she’s clicking I’m sure) and I said haven’t you ever heard of pfishing. Her response? Oh, I don’t pay attention to that stuff. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! I said to her that this is why she has all the problems with her computer that she does. Because she doesn’t pay attention and she doesn’t want to learn anything either. How fucking annoying!

Thankfully the phone rang so I got rid of her.

Years ago I learned why I quit trying to make achievements in my life. It’s because it never worked. I get temporary lapses where I actually start to think that I can have better things in life only to get smacked right back down again.

This whole new house thing is one of those times when I thought I could have something a little better only to get smacked back down again.

We knew from the beginning that this was the too much too far house yet we forged ahead anyway. Part of taking this on was that my husband was to look for a job closer to home and we knew that any frivolous spending would be out of the question and we also needed to immediately get our other house up for sale in this wonderfully booming economy and hope to find an idiot to buy it.

Well here we are only 5 months on and it’s all gone to shit. My husband has not looked for a job closer to home, we have not put our other house up for sale because he won’t do the work it needs so we can put it up for sale, gas prices have continually gone up, we have a room we can’t use because it gets no heat, we have assholes driving their fucking snow mobiles through our yard (YES I AM STILL PISSED) and we have skank trailer trash neighbors from hell. We also have a water bill where the rate just tripled (yes 3x) and my husband working short hours.

My husband has been getting partial unemployment but the amount he gets has gone way down because his old job is now off the work quarters. Before if he missed 3 hours of work he would get about $117 in unemployment, now he misses 15 hours and gets $97. And here’s more fun yet–he got his W2 form yesterday for the unemployment and low and behold no income taxes were taken out of it. So he got $4000 in unemployment with no taxes out so that guarantees we are going to have to pay in on both federal and state income taxes and we have absolutely no money to do it with.

The moral of the story is that we are so screwed.

What we need to do is put the new house up for sale RIGHT NOW and hope like hell someone wants it but quick before we can in any deeper than we already are.

Damn my memory lapses for ever thinking that I can have anything decent. It just doesn’t happen and I can’t fix things so that it will.

Yesterday was my sister’s birthday so I waited until evening to call and say happy birthday. I didn’t want to bother her at work or I would have called during the day. Seems I shouldn’t have bothered to call at all.

Evidently she was watching the evening news and it was far more scintillating than my conversation. She wasn’t saying anything and since we were both on cell phones I said, did I lose you? She says what…….oh, no, I was watching the news.

(insert sad face)

Your fucking announcers for the AO tennis SUCK!!!!!!!

Actually, let me be more specific. Why do the female announcers–Mary Carillo, Mary Jo Fernandez, and Pam Shriver–SUCK?!

These 3 bitches all use to play tennis so you would think they would understand more about the sport and would chose their words more wisely when they speak.

I can never tell which of the 3 is talking as they all sound pretty much the same to me; however, during a live match between Petrova and Radwanska one of your stupid announcers asked the other what she thought Petrova’s main problem was that kept her from achieving a higher ranking. The response? “She’s a head case.”

FIRE THE BITCH NOW!

That is a horrible thing to say on international television about someone. These stupid female announcers are awful anyway. Every major I watch, they have the same 3 announcing and they go into the dumbest stories and make the crassest comments about people and they continually get stuck on the exact same subject. Another example of these horrible announcers dates back to 2006 and YES they are STILL harping about it in 2008!!!! At the 2006 women’s final of the Aussie Open, Justine Henin was playing against Amelie Mauresmo. Henin had to retire from the match, she had a stomach problem. It was never expanded upon what the stomach problem was and it doesn’t matter. She retired, Maureso won. OH MY GOD. The one announcer (don’t know which one) went into a full out tirade about how you don’t do that in a final unless you’ve broken something or have things spewing out of you onto the court, you do not retire from a major final. I thought then it was a totally unnecessary tirade by the announcer—how did she know but what poor Henin did have things spewing out of her, like diarrhea for example.

I kid you not, yesterday this same announcer went into the tirade again about Henin retiring back in 06.

FUCKING STUPID BITCH!

Shut the fuck up! You’re a washed up former player, who knows why ESPN has hired you, be happy you have a job, announce the match and keep your stupid comments to yourself!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

If you’ve read through my posts of the past you will know that I like watching professional tennis and like all fans of all sports, I have my opinions of players and situations.

This past week has been the Australian Open tennis and I have been faithfully watching into the wee hours and more with one 5 set match having lasted through the night and past 8:30 a.m. my time. Yes, I am a faithful watcher!

Among the players who I don’t like, American James Blake tops right up there (though not at the top–that’s reserved for Maria Sharapova). The other night he played against Sebastien Grosjean. Blake has never beaten Grosjean, and he has never come back to win a 5 set match when he was down the first 2 sets yet some how miraculously, Blake beat Grosjean much to my chagrin. This isn’t the only match that has gone the wrong way Aussie Open, there have been more where the stats do not support the outcome. While I realize that stats are made to be broken, it all looks suspicious to me.

Back when I was a kid, I use to watch wrestling which eventually came to be known as the WWF and is now the WWE……….the E standing for ENTERTAINMENT. This change meant that they finally were acknowledging what many knew–it was all FAKE, it was for ENTERTAINMENT. It was not to be taken seriously, and was basically all a hoax (like those “reality” shows on TV).

I think that all sports should have the E included in them. It seems to me that they are all prearranged as to who will win.

Maybe we should have tennis E, baseball E, golf E, etc.

Another example of a place where the E should definitely be added is football. As a Packer fan and a cheese head I have to say that I am more than a little pissed off that the Packer’s lost to the Giants and are NOT going to the super bowl yet the way the Packers played makes me realize it’s the E theory once again. Since I watch most of the Packer’s games on TV, I see time and again how poor calls by the referees seem to favor one team and rarely is that team the Packers. The Packers/Giants game was no exception. The Packers played for shit, no doubt about that; they also had a lot of calls against them where they were flagged for doing the same as the Giants, yet the Giants got no flags.

It all has me wondering again if all sports should just have the E attached to them so that people realize they shouldn’t take any of it seriously as it seems the deepest pockets dictate the outcome rather than who is the better player or team.

I had to call my MIL today to look up something in the local newspaper for me. I kid you not, she did not say hello or anything she immediately cut in bitching about her drunken son and how he’d called her and put her in the middle between him and one of the other brothers and on and on.

Finally I interrupted her and said HEY–look in the paper and find me this. I was just as unpleasant as she was.

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I didn’t post this right away because I haven’t been able to type much since I hurt my arm and sprained my hand when I fell a couple weeks ago. I’m doing better now and ready to tell you about this one.

On Friday, December 21, my MIL called me crying because her bank called to tell her she was overdrawn and she didn’t know why and on and on and on. She said the bank couldn’t help her with her checkbook until the 26th and she didn’t know what she was going to do and oh my god could I come and help her with her checkbook. Although I absolutely didn’t WANT to do this, I did want a semi-peaceful Christmas so I agreed to go and try to figure out her mess. As I walked in the door of her house, I see that she bought a brand new 32″ LCD TV (she just got a new TV last year) and she also has a brand new LCD TV in her kitchen too. Well….is it any wonder she has money problems? Fuck no!

I spent 4 hours with her sitting over top of me whining that the bank was fucking her over as I was recalculating her checkbook. What I learned by going through only 4 months of her checkbook was truly amazing. One thing I found is that the woman cannot do math. She had swings (errors) of up to $500 in some places where she’d just simply fucked up the math. The other problem I found is that she doesn’t write down half of her debit card transactions. It’s no wonder her checkbook is a fucking disaster. Now, there is more (as if there wouldn’t be) but I first want to say that back at the end of September, my MIL has this same problem. She was overdrawn, her checkbook was a disaster and the bank went through and tried to fix it for her and started her with a fresh check register and what they thought was a clean balance.

Well, I worked and worked and tried to fix things while she stood over me harping about being broke and crying because she can’t live on only her social security. YEAH RIGHT. OH MY GOD! The amount of money this woman has spent in the last 2 years on nothing but pure SHIT is astounding. She has literally blown through over $80,000 (yes EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in 2 years. You wouldn’t believe her checkbook and the money she’s spent. Restaurant after restaurant, gas up the wazoo because all she does is run the roads, shit at craft fair after craft fair, clothes she doesn’t even wear, knick knacks she doesn’t have out because she has no room, more lawn ornaments and lawn furniture even though her yard looks like shit because of the over 50 lawn ornaments she has now, and tons of money spent on her sisters to show off. She and her one sister go to lunch every Friday–I see now why her sister goes–MIL pays for it every fucking time obviously. What my MIL doesn’t realize is that when her money is gone, her family won’t act like her best friends any more (which she deserves IMO).

By the time we (hubby was with me) left that day, we thought we had her into the realization that A. HER MATH SUCKS and B. SHE CANNOT SPEND SPEND SPEND. Yeah right again. Just so happens that on Christmas eve, her dad (yeah, he’s alive yet) gave her a gift of $5000. She made it a point to brag to all of us at Christmas about this and now she would be ok for a while(?!) with money.

On the 26th, I talked to my dear MIL and she was on already about shopping and I simply said to her…..remember, no more frills (the understanding she had with my husband on the 21st). WELL–I got my fucking head bit off and I was told IT’S MY MONEY AND I’LL DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH IT.

Well lemmetellyasomethin………this is the LAST time that will ever happen because the first time she whines to me about money again, she is getting a fucking ear full.

I was pissed when she told me off and I’m still pissed now to think that I took the time to go help her out and then she turns around and acts like that. It won’t be long until she’s overdrawn again and calls me crying to fix her checkbook. NOT HAPPENING! I don’t know where she thinks money comes from but I’ll tell you now, this woman needs an intervention. She just can’t help herself but to spend money and I don’t know what she thinks she’s going to do now that she’s got herself broke. She doesn’t have health insurance of any kind and has no contingency whatsoever for emergencies. She is so obsessed with material possessions that she will go out on the worst days in the blinding snow to go to fucking Wal-Mart to spend money on shit she doesn’t need. It’s nuts.

All I know is that when she cries to me again about money, she’s not going to like the response.