Archive for May 28th, 2009
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Yesterday was a nice day, no sun and no breeze to speak of. Nice and cool. Just one of those days to enjoy outside, and we did off and on all day long.
Well, today is shaping up to be the same way. No rain in the forecast, no sun in the forecast and no breeze. Just a nice cool day. Even our dog enjoys staying outside on days like this. Right now, the lawn maintenance guy is out there mowing, so when he is done, will take her out and chain her so she can stay outside for a while.
Oh, Coco our dog has discovered a new snack she loves! The other day the wife bought some butter flavored corn puffs. Well, they aint butter flavored! Bland tasting so instead of tossing in the trash, tried Coco and she loves them. Told wife, we could put the entire container out and she would eat it all. Wife did bring over the second bag (we had bought 2 bags, lesson is not to buy something that looks delicious) to our neighbor for Coco snacks.
We went down to Osceola earlier this morning to do some grocery shopping at Fareway. Out of tea, and wife was going nuts in not having any ice tea. And bam, they are selling 93% lean hamburger in 10 pounds tubes at 99 cents a pound! We got one tube, and first got 2 more tubes for our daughter, but wife called her and she said she would take 5 tubes if we can get them. So ended up buying 6 tubes, one for us and five for the daughter. $60 is not bad at all for 60 pounds of 93% lean hamburger as at the meat counter, they had the same on sale for $1.99 per pound! And yes, got enough tea bags to make ice tea for the next week. Had Folger’s on sale for $5.99, but we have enough coffee put back so did not buy any. Every time we check out, my wife gets a bottle of her starbucks coffee and I get a bottle of orange juice, for the trip home. Today, no orange juice! But they did have for once some spicy hot v-8 juice, and that of course was delicious. And 70% less calories than orange juice, something my wife pointed out (ignoring that her starbucks has like 1000 calories).
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Soon after being transferred to a new duty station, my Marine husband called home to tell me he would be late – again. He went on to say that dirty magazines had been discovered in the platoon’s quarters and they had to discipline the whole squad. I launched into a tirade, arguing that many men had pictures hanging in their quarters at our previous post, so his new platoon should not be penalized for something trivial.
My husband calmly listened to my gripes and then explained, “Honey, dirty magazines: the clips from their rifles had not been cleaned.”
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The first testicular guard “Cup” was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.
It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
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TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO A CHEAPER HEALTH CARE PLAN:
(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor’s office include “Take a left when you enter the trailer park”.
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is “Gus” from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care Coverage is “an apple a day”.
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) “The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges,” is not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is “embalming”.
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M’s on them.
AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED A VERY CHEAP HEALTH CARE PLAN:
(1) You ask for Viagra, and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape!