Just Another Bend In Journey of Life
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Just some blah blah from yours truely| You Are Scooter |
 Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick. You're always willing to lend a helping hand. In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going. "15 seconds to showtime!" |
How nice is that? The funny thing is that in school some people DID call me Scooter! I really don't think that muppet "fits" me but I thought it was humorous in my own little world. Purely because of the name.
Bug wants a puppy. One of her friends just got an all black male Pom. He is SO cute. His brother was still available but I have decided against a male. Thinking back to all the dogs that we had while I was growing up, the females were always better. In the aspect of being well behaved as well as holding their bladder! So I've opted to not call on the brother. I have searched high and low around this area as well as parts on MN and WI. Do you think I can find something I want that is reasonably priced!? Ugh. I even listed a "want" ad on our internet classifieds for a small dog. Someone did just list a litter of Bichon Frise--3 female and 2 male for $350 but I really don't care for the look of that breed. I dont know why but I just don't.
I'm waiting for one woman to call me back tomorrow. Apparently she was out of town today. I think it was her daughter that answered. She lives about an hour away from me. I came across the website for their kennel last night. I'm VERY leary of them. It seems that they'd gotten a rather large grant from the state to build a larger kennel. On their website they have 35 different types of dogs listed!!! Now, there are only so many people up here. I live in an extremely rural area. EXTREMELY. On their website they do have pics of the outside of the kennel. None of the inside, only a description. It's fairy new. I'd say they got the grant to build in the past 10 years. Anyway, I've never heard of these people before. They have the name of a vet listed so I decided to call him today. I had called the number on their website but kept getting a fax machine tone. Anyway, the vet gave me their home number to call them. Seems that they are divorcing. But here's what I'm torn about. (Obviously bc I'm SURE this has crossed your mind already.) THIRTY FIVE different types of dogs?! My first thought--- Puppy Mill. How can it NOT be a puppy mill? I did do some reserch and there was an online petition for this "puppy mill" but the majority of the ppl that signed it dont even live NEAR here. I'm sure if I live an hour away and didn't know about it, how can someone that lives in TX or CA know about it!? You'd also think that IF it was a puppy mill, with it being so rural up here and the Humane Society watching your EVERY move that it'd have been plastered all over the news and shut down. Yet, that has never happened. They are advertised in the phone books as well as their website... Ok, so whether it is or it isn't a puppy mill, I can't help but to wonder--- are they inter-breeding? So I'm stuck with the question of do I or do I not get a puppy if they have what I'm looking for? Ok... update here. I was just reading again and it says "To be sure our puppies arrive at your store free of stress"......... ok, so they ARE selling these puppies. So are ALL puppy mills bad? Or is it that you just hear about the bad ones? Do I try to save an animal from them??? What do I do??? I guess I could ask to see the inside of the kennel and go from there. If I think the conditions are bad I will report them.... Still, do I get a puppy from them? I'm so torn. I'd love to save an animal from those conditions but.... Oh IDK!!!!
In other news. The house next to my Aunt and Uncle is up for sale. CHEAP. Ok, everything up here is cheap. I only paid $35,000 for my house. Yes it's small but what's $35,000?! It's 2 bdrm but I have a GREAT yard. There are a few drawbacks however. I have VERY limited storage. The basement is gross so I refuse to go down there which is actually no big loss. I have a very small amount of cupboard space etc. So my Aunt calls me the other day to ask if I want to sell my house and buy their neighbors. After I hang up w/ her my Uncle calls me at work. Ugh. I told him to tell the woman that I would come over and look at it. When my Uncle was helping her out w/ her garbage the other day she asked him if he knew of anyone that would be interested in her house. Her husband just passed away and her kids are here cleaning it out to move her out of town with them. I looked at the house today. While I don't quite have the privacy I did before, it does have a big back yard. Possibly bigger than what I have here. In fact, I'm pretty sure it is. It has blueberry and raspberry bushes, apple tree and possibly a cherry tree. Very pretty. The house has 3 small bedrooms, one of which would be a great playroom/computer room. The living room is a bit bigger than mine. The kitchen has a BRAND NEW stove, built in microwave, under cabinet new coffee pot and new fridge. Beautiful. The sink is newer and bigger than the "barbie doll" one I have here. The cabinets are huge! There's storage ALL over the house. Although the bedroom closets are smaller. There is a full bathroom which is a LOT smaller than the one that I currently have and it's freaking PINK. I HATE PINK!!! There is another 1/2 bath off of the kitchen. Both toilets are brand knew in both bathrooms. From there is a small walk through where the washer and dryer are as well as more storage space. There's also a really neat ironing board that is INSTALLED into the wall. You just pull a thing and out it pops and then you fold it back up! Really neat. You can then go out into a little porch/mudroom area. There is the main door to the outside and then to the garage. There is also a closet in this room. The garage is spectacular!!! There is a heater in the wall in case I want to tinker around with stuff (ya know bc I'm SO into my car fixing and wood working!!!). The garage is a 2 car so it's quite big. He built a room off of the garage for whatever reason. Some sort of office space. There is also a fold down ladder thing that you can pull out of the ceiling and go to the attic in the garage. It's fully finished and not "icky" in the least. So MORE storage there. You can go either into the house or to the backyard from the garage. The yard is really nice. Now there is a big pine tree in the front yard which is just ugly. Plain and simply. Ugly. I'd take it down. There's a little shed in the backyard which is painted SO cute. He also has plants and rosebushes all over the yard as well as other flowers. Just really really pretty. I like the house. It's bigger than this one but not a whole lot. Not to mention that Bug has no friends here but they are all over on that block!!! All her friends. Oh there's so many pros and cons. At first my Uncle said that she was going to be moving in Jan. Well today I found out that she'll be moving by JUNE!!!! On Tues I got a raise so I was figuring that I could save the difference that I'd be getting towards the down payment right? Ya, well that's not going to happen! So now I have to figure out how I can come up with the money in a VERY short time!!! Ugh. I really don't want to sell this house. I figure my house payment including escrow isn't much. Under $400/mo. So I could rent this house out for $425-450/mo and make some money on it right? I could find someone to rent it I'm sure and put the extra down on the new house payment... IDK. I'm just torn. I've only lived here for a year so if I sell it I'm going to make NO money on it. None. I don't even think I'd make enough to put a down payment on the other house. IDK. I'm just very torn as to what to do... I could ask my Grandpa for the money for the dp but IDK if he'd give it to me or not. Then I'm faced w/ having to pay him back and that would take quite some time. So the question is WHERE am I going to get the money to do this?! I need some creative things here people!!! She told my Uncle she wanted $45,000 for the house which means I need $4,500, unless I can talk her down, but still. I'm still looking at at LEAST $4000. Ugh. Is there something I can sell? Something I can do at home to earn money? Any legit typing jobs out there that anyone knows of? IDK, if anyone has ideas, let me know. Thanks in advance.
So ya, this week sucks too. Big surprise huh? Tuesday when I got a raise I thought "Yay, this is going to be a good week". Ya right. My Aunt in FL called that evening to tell me that my Uncle passed away. He'd been sick for 2 years w/ cancer. He'd gone into remission once but it came back. Very sad. But I'm also glad that he's nto suffering anymore. After watching my Grandpa, I do NOT wish that on anyone. Terrible, terrible thing. So in a sense it's much better that he's passed. And maybe my Aunt can finally get her life back to normal for the first time in 2 years. I sure hope so. She's going to be bringing my Grandma back to her house in a few weeks. She's getting old too and I hate to keep putting it off and finding excuses as to why I can't visit. I need money for gas and for us to eat on the way down and back and that's about it. I hopefully can manage that. :) I did ask my cousin if her daughter L can come w/ us and I'd take her and Bug to the zoo. L's never been to a "real" zoo before (we don't have one here). I asked my Gma to let me know in advance when they're coming so I can make plans. Ok, so then today I go to start my car to bring Bug to school and drive myself to work and guess what?! IT DOESN"T FUCKING START AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH. Talk about piss me off. I called my Uncle to pick up Stella for school and my cousin was already at work so I called her to come back and pick me up. Talk about irritating. Still won't start now. I'm hoping it's just a dirty cable again. Keep your fingers crossed!!!! Oh and keep them crossed that I can come up w/ the money for the house too!
On the flip side, my black eye is *almost* gone. ALMOST. Thank God!
