May 29, 2010

  • Pissed All Over Again At The Beast


    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    We had rain and thunderstorms roll in here today so we ended up losing our TV satellite.   I decided I would throw in a movie or two until the storm passed us.  I tried one, then another one, another, etc. and NONE of them would work in the DVD player that the Beast swapped with mine while I was gone.  I was so totally pissed that I was ready to throw it at the Beast or beat him over the head with it.  I went out and started to take it off the big TV to take it into my room and he had the NERVE to ask me what I was doing.

    I just kept disconnecting it and told him, *What do you think?*  He then said, *But you have the one from here on your TV!*  To which I replied, *It's a piece of shit!  I tried 10 different movies on it and it said it couldn't read any of them!  I don't care that it's only two or three years old!  It's totally useless and I am taking mine back.*  Know what he said?  *Gee, sounds to me like the DVD is broken!*  YA THINK?????

    He really hated me taking it off.  Not because he watches any DVD's.  He's stuck on his news programs and Glenn Beck type programs or else, depending on the season, either football or basketball.  That is ALMOST the extent of his interests.  I do catch him occasionally watching some old movie or other on Turner Classics but he usually can't sit still long enough to watch a movie.  Even his basketball finals can't keep him in front of the TV; he goes into our room, gets on his computer and has the sound up loud so he can hear how the game is going.  At least, that's what he says.

    My TV satellite is back so I am watching some of my usual Friday fare but my DVD player is where it needs to be.  If our weather continues to be bad tomorrow, at least we will be able to watch movies.  Sheepie wants to watch 2012 but only in daylight.  That way she can shake off the doomed feeling before she goes to bed. 

    She told me she can't watch monster or alien type movies before going to bed because her mother (Buttmunch) used to tell her that she had to make sure the closet doors were closed to keep the monsters out of her room.  That's back in the days she believed in monsters and worried about them.  Now, although she says she doesn't REALLY believe in monsters, she won't get out of bed during the night (after watching a scary movie) even to pee but will wait for a couple hours until daylight. 

    That reminds me a lot of Chewlee, who will close my closet doors here in my room to keep the monsters out.  She thinks she is locking them in and I have no idea where she came up with that unless it's something the Princess or Johnnycakes told her.  Who knows at this point?

    The Princess and Sheepie went shopping for a gift for Chewlee's birthday party.  I was told it would be here since there won't be a lot of people coming.  Tara is in Ohio to see her oldest son's graduation and then to wait to bring her two younger kids home for a month to visit.  So it will more than likely just be us and them.  It won't matter but I sure hope we have a little bit of good weather so she can enjoy her pool for a bit.  Since they will be moving to an apartment, I think we will be keeping the pool here for her to enjoy.    Since I will probably have her on Saturdays again, that will be fun for her to enjoy during the summer.

    Sheepie came home bragging that she had eaten Mexican food for dinner (she and the Princess ate before they shopped, I believe) but she hasn't eaten at the really GOOD Mexican restaurant yet.  She was a bit disappointed in it but I promised her the kind of Mexican food you only get from one's run by families.

    She went to bed early yesterday and again tonight.   She has to wait until she talks to the boyfriend (who is apparently a workaholic from the amount of hours he works).  Then she can go to bed happy.  We will run up to the shopping center near Walmart tomorrow because she saw a Claire's there and she loves the inexpensive but cute jewelry they sell.  She *just wants to look*.    I want to stop in at Sally's and see if I can pick up a hair cutting razor so I have it here for cutting stick-straight hair.  It makes a much nicer layer than scissors can.

    Time to get this up for you all.  Love ya and I wish you good weather.  If you can't have good weather, at least stay inside and safe.