Diving off horses

You know what? Screw what I said last week about the $2.99 gasoline.

$2.39 gasoline, baby!

I filled my gas tank this morning, from empty to full, for less than $40. And I'm elated over it. That sucker is such a hog. But thats what I get for thinking I need to be an SUV owner.

In other news... Its cold here in the many lakes state. We had our first snowfall of the season yesterday. Accompanied by 40mph winds. I decided to ditch all my errands last minute and stay home, curled up in my chair with my book and many dogs piled on top of me. It was quite a relaxing day.

Except for the whole Melby episode. We dont go there today. My ass still hurts.

My deepest apologies... Still no camera, which means still no photos. But I'm working on it, man! Just chill.

Back to work.

Happy Monday.

Stay warm.

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Today is my daddy's birthday.

Happy Birthday, Dad!!!!

Tomorrow him and Red and Jen's man, Jake, are going out fishing. Sounds like they will have a perfect day for it! And tomorrow I get to run dogs around. Can't wait.

Happy Friday everybody!

I Told You So

It has already been a week since I last bitched to ya'll about my broken camera last. Which is still not fixed. However, Red and I decided that since he needs a fishing camera anyways (Definition of; Fishing Camera ~ A camera in which wife, er Em, doesn't care whether or not hubby; Red, drops said camera in the lake because she's got the new camera safe at home) that we would just go ahead and buy another camera of the same make and model (are we talking about a car?) and then when we have time we'd get the old camera, now called the fishing camera, fixed as cheaply as possible.

I think that my old english teachers might not be thrilled with my run on after run on after run on after run on in the previous paragraph. But you know what? None of my old english teachers read this blog anyways. So I think I'm safe.

Stay on the subject would you? I'm trying to tell a story here.

Back to my cameras. Well, we'd bought the original camera, now the fishing camera, at a store. It was a great camera. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned only 2 months after the expiration of the manufacturer's warranty. My exact response to this news "Awww MAAAAN!"
So, while we searched for a good camera fixer upper place, we decided to buy the new one on eBay. I found a great deal, half of the price of the original one new, and it was packaged in the new box and came with all sorts of extra goodies. And the seller had over 15,000 positive 'feedback' responses. So I knew he could be trusted. We recieved our camera in the knick of time. But it was broken. I think maybe broken during shipping. Dammit! However, because we'd done our research on our eBay seller before making the purchase, we knew he would replace it at no cost to us. And he is. I shipped the broken camera back today. The broken eBay camera, not the broken fishing camera. Come on, keep up.

So, the good news is that a new camera IS coming. The bad news is, I still have no photos to share with you, my precious readers, today.

Unless... Do any of you know who Doc Bar is? No?
This is Doc Bar.

He's only like... The greatest cow horse ever to live.

I am a lost soul...

....without my camera.

You all remember my rut when my computer broke down, dont you? Well this is just like that. Except worse. I have no camera! It finally broke. I say finally because, well lets face it, I am not so good to my electronics. I have never put a cd back into its original case. I have a whole tower of cd cases from the 90's that dont actually have cd's in them. Where are the cd's you ask? I dont know. You tell me.

I am a little better with DVD's. But not much. Ask Red. Ask him if his woman ever puts the movies back into their cases. This is another reason why he makes me rent Netflix movies. He cant be charged for the damages that way.

And my computer... Well, lets just say that my computer and I have a very love/hate relationship. If the mouse doesnt move like I want it to, I drop it from a few feet above the desk. I dont kid, I swear that it makes the computer run faster. And if the computer locks up, which is always does, I bang on the keyboard. With my fist. And I swear it unlocks the computer. I dont kid!

My camera... Well I am good with my camera. Its small and very precious to me. It is my connection from here to there.. It enables me to share my visions with you, my dear readers. However, as punishment from the other electronics that I abuse, the electronic god has decided that he was going to make me pay... By taking away my most prized electronic device. Jerks!

So as I wait for the new camera to arrive, I have no photos to share with you. And I'm sorry. And I'm also sorry that I havent posted in almost a week. And I'm really sorry that I havent updated Wyoming Sun in over a month. I'm really, truely sorry.

But not that sorry, because I started a diet. AGAIN! And diets make women crabby. You take away my chocolate and think that I'm going to be in a pleasent mood? Think again!

Gas & Logic

To say the least, it's started out to be a rough morning. But being the Minnesota girl that I am, I am trying my best to see the silver lining.

There is a silver lining, right? Right?!

Of course there is. I had to fill up my SUV fuel tank this morning. No, that's not the silver lining. But it brightened my mood to see that fuel had dropped to $2.99 per gallon. I'm writing about it here so that there is a date attached to the price, because I want to be able to show my grandkids when it was that I rejoiced over $2.99 gas. Sick, huh? Yeah.

I have a question for you all, and I am trying hard to see the logic here. But there is none. Whilst I was in the gas station, I went to grab a Mountain Dew. Yes, I love Mountain Dew. You leave me alone about it. I grabbed a 20 ouncer, which cost $1.49. I glanced over at the 1 Liter bottles of MD and noticed that they, too, were $1.49. What?
Than I happened to look a little further over and there were the 2 Liter bottles of MD. $0.99. WHAT?!

If someone would be kind enough to please explain this mystery to me, I would be thrilled.

Thank you have a nice day.

For real.

Why Red doesnt let me rent movies anymore...

I'm a proud member of Netflix.

I'm one of 'those' people who can't seem to return a movie on time, so Netflix seemed like a good solution for the dollars I was spending in late fees every month.

Originally we rented from Hollywood Video. $4 per movie, but you got to keep them for 5 days. That was reasonable to me, considering that the previous grocery store I used to rent from would let me keep them until 7pm the following day, which I swear they must have known that that would be impossible for me, then charge me 99 cents every single day it was late. So in reality, I would be saving $1 per movie...

Well, a couple of years ago, we moved away from Hollywood Video, and around the same time, they went bankrupt anyways and left town. We were stuck. Then I discovered Netflix.

About 2 months ago, I requested 3 movies from my Netflix account. I received them... And I still havent sent them back. And you know what? They dont care! But, because I havent returned them, that means I havent gotten new ones to replace them. (Yikes) So about 10 days ago, we rented 2 movies from our local grocery store. We watched one of them. And then I forgot about them. And forgot about them. And continued forgetting about them. Until yesterday. We get a phone call, they want their movies back. What movies? I say. Oh.. Those movies. I still hadnt watched the other one.

I returned them last night and said I would pay the fines right away. You wanna know how much those fines were? Huh? You wanna??!! No, you dont wanna. Let's just say...

We could have bought those movies for less than I had to pay per movie in fines. And I didnt even get to watch one of them!

And this is why... Red doesnt let me rent movies anymore. If you are anything like I am when it comes to movies, can I highly recommend you check out http://www.netflix.com/. It will save you lotsa moolahs.

Happy Friday, folks!

My Mercedes

I have a Mercedes. Wait, no, I had a Mercedes. Not a vehicle persay... But a dog. Those of you who have been reading this since it began back in the stone ages (or like 6 months ago) might remember my Mercedes.

Merc was found chained up in the back of a farm, next to another Great Dane who was deceased. She was underweight, had many skin issues, and her immune system was compromised. But she was still so sweet.
Terrible photo, yes... But you can see what filthy conditions she came to me from...

She's eating a little food out of a can that a representative for our rescue had brought along before he snapped this photo.

I received an update from Merc's new owners today. Joy doesnt even begin to describe what I feel in seeing her so happy.



I miss you, Merky!

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My own baby girl starts puppy school today.

Okay, that's not completely acurate... I actually start puppy school today. Frankie will join me next week and the remaining classes after today.

I really hope we can learn something together. Because I dont know how many more pounces off the belly Red and I can take.

Wish me luck.