Our ghetto style trampoline

This is how we do things ghetto style! We laid down the boards and cut some metal strips and screwed them over the trampoline. We also had to put some cinder block stepping stones and some flat rocks under some of the corners. We also hammered down some six foot poles to help it from sliding when they jumped. It is still a little crooked! Oh well. Go ahead and post these on how not to set up a trampoline safely!

Something Exciting!

Well I do have an exciting story that I forgot to share! I woke up to get ready the other morning and opened my closet door and my room started filling up with a really nasty smell. I didn't know what the smell was, but I knew it wasn't good. I sniffed around and couldn't figure out what it was, so I unplugged everything and left for work...as I was late as usual. When I got home that night it still stunk and was a little more potent. So when Brian came over I asked him if he knew what it was. He sniffed around and decied it was coming from teh water heater (you know the really creepy one in my bedroom closet! Those of you who have been to my apartment know what I'm talking about!). So he unscrewed teh fromt panel and much to our suprise it had been on fire inside. It had burned so much inside of itself that it had melted the wires in half! So, nothing makes you feel safer than ghetto water heaters! The good news is they came out the next day and replaced it while I was at work, this does make the closet a little bit less creepy, not much!

Dance Recital

Well apparently Ang is really dropping the ball on telling me how to do the video thing, I like to pass the blame like Dr. Mikey whenever I can....So here are some pics that I took. And by the way Anglea, YOU'RE FIRED!

Here's your new post!

Well, I'm sorry I have been slacking! Nothing too exciting is going on. Brian and I set up the trampoline that I bought, what two years ago?, for the girls. His plan is to have someone come and dig it into the ground. For now we were going to just level off the ground, but when that was too much work for two shovels......we gave up and Mguivered it. I do not have pics yet, but I will take some this weekend and post them. You could label them on a trampoline sight as "how not to set up a trampoline". Ava and Grace are complete maniacs on it, Ash is scared. They will spend hours out there. The great part about the enclosure is, you can zip it and leave them in there for a bit, not that I would ever do that!
We were jumping the other day and I was bouncing the girls, I bounced Grace so good that it thrilled her and made her nervous at the same time, and she peed her pants! Which of course her and Ava thought was hilarious. She didn't want to stop jumping because she didn't think that it was "that much peeps!"
Work is work. It was Dr. Mikey's b-day the other day so of course we had to make a big deal out of it. He was actually nice about it the first part of the day. But of course as the day went on he went back to his regular sunshine self. We had two clients that came in that day that were going to pay, and we have to notify him as soon as they do. Client A is a woman and client B is a man, both of which he has just met with the day before and today. So the womans check was for 7,000 and the man was paying a deposit of 500. He changed the name of his practice over a year ago, but never filed it with the state. So the bank will not allow us to deposit checks in the new name, duh! Well client B got a certified check for $500 and made it out to the new name. When one of the office girls went back to tell him that both had paid but client b made the check out wrong, he flipped out and called a "meeting". So we all had to go into the exam room where he reemed us out for 10 minutes. He asked who had let the patient make out the check wrong and one of the girls began to answer and stuttered, he cut her off and started fake stuttering back to her! He then told us that "he didn't need this kind of stress on his birthday!" Ummm, milking it a little? Once he settled down for two seconds and he figured out that the check was for the smaller amount, he reemed us again for him being confused about which check it was, because he doesn't care about the smaller check! Just a fun insight into some of the daily joy I get at my job!

Fourth of July

Nothing much going on with me or the diva. Still trying to figure out how to do these posts. Ang is supposedly going to give me instructions on how to post Ava's last dance recital....we'll see if I'm smart enough. Other than that I figured I would try to post some fourth of July pics. We were pretty casual. Of course no matter how many sparklers you buy, it's never enough! Ashlyn was to scared to do the sparklers which pleased Gracve and Ava to have more. Other than that they did a little swimming in the little pool.
Ava was being a little hose hog and squirting the other girls. She was trying to pretend that it was a fun game, but I'm pretty sure she was the only one liking it! She kept luring them in saying that she wouldn't spray them, and then she would. I guess if they keep going back for more.....








So that was our forth in a nutshell. Sorry, I'm not too great at adding the pics yet. I'm trying!

Life at my new job

Well to give you something interesting to read about, I will let you in on my new job. I am the office manager for a spinal decompression clinic. The doctor, "Dr.", is a real gem. Most days start with a really nice pep talk where he asks us for our positive energy and concludes with him telling us that we can either go to the top with him, or we'll be fired! This is just a sample of his wonderful attitude!
Now this story may sound like fiction, but believe me it's as real as it gets! I was in the room with him, a coworker and a patient and his wife for a report of findings. In this appointment he discusses with the patient his diagnosis as well as the length and cost of the treatment. This particular patient (who happened to be a one armed man) did not like the price and told the doctor that it was a rip off and that he was like a used car salesman. The Dr. got irate! Both "mature" men started yelling at each other, with the patient making threats and the Dr. telling the patient "you deserve your pain!" As they continued to fight, the patient asked the Dr. if he wanted to take this outside and pushed him (remember he only had one arm!). So I got to call the police and write up mine and the doctors statements!
It doesn't end there! The following day the patients wife called the office and said that she needed to pick up their x-ray and MRI. I told her that there was no way that he would allow them to come into the office, but perhaps I could meet her in the parking lot. I then had the pleasure of calling the Dr. on his cell phone (he was at lunch) and told him they were coming to pick up their things. He yelled at me on the phone and then hung up on me! Then when he got back to the office and proceeded to rip my butt off, telling me I had no right to say they could pick up their stuff. I told him he had no right to keep it!
He later could down, but he still likes to make comments about how he could have kicked his ass! Blah blah blah! He thinks he is so cool because he can come up with a bunch of one arm derogatory comments.
So it is fun working with the other girls because we all make fun of him behind his back! He likes to think that he is into "The Secret" and all of this positive energy stuff, yet he is the most negative person I have ever met! And by the way.....you're fired!

1st entry

OK! Quit hasseling me! I set up a blog......no there are no pictures or anything else, but I am working on it! More to come soon.........