In The Negative

I really feel bad for neglecting my blog, but maybe this way someone can stop by my blog and get a little surprise because I finally posted. We like surprises, right? I have been a little busy lately with the house, the new job, the dead yard, and whatnot. What? You have no idea what I am talking about? Oh, that's right! I haven't written about any of that! Silly me. Well, the house is fine, except for the window screen that Bear devoured so that she could jump through the window. I didn't know she had it in her, but apparently a second more than nine hours away from Mike and I is just too much for her to take. She had to jump out the window to get to us. Which brings me to the next topic - the new job.

I was hired where Mike works for a seasonal job checking tax forms. I can't say it's exciting, but since it is full-time, the pay is enough to excite me. If you want to know more about it, just imagine reading tax forms all day and looking for things like missing commas and periods. Are you asleep yet? WAKE UP! I do, however, like working in the same building as Mike and being able to go to lunch with him everyday. On the other hand, Bear does not like it at all. She is a bundle of nerves when we get home. I guess she doesn't appreciate us bring home the bacon. She would rather just spend time with us. What's that all about? Geez, you would think she loves us or something.

As for the yard, we received at notice from our city that we have 15 days to green it up or we get a $125 fine. Never mind that is was already dead when we moved in, and that we have no secondary water, and that we have more weeds than grass, and that it costs $50 just for a few bags of mulch. NEVER MIND ALL THAT! We will just wave our magic wands and make it beautiful! If that doesn't work, all we can do is hope the city will work with us. It is tricky knowing if they will, since almost every attempt we have made to contact them has been ignored. So here's to hoping that 15 days from now, we won't be $125 poorer. (Oh yeah, plus all the money we have to pay to fix up the yard and water it.) I guess I have already passed the $125 mark.