Turkey attacks and bubble baths and general lazyness
A Monday morning after a three day weekend is like drinking a glass of orange juice after brushing your teeth.
A turkey attacked me this morning. It was the oddest thing. One of the doors to my work resides with a wide alcove
and when I walked into this morning there was a turkey standing in there. I am pretty sure it was a turkey. It was not a turkey buzzard
I know that much. It was pretty big and had the whole turkey waddles thing going on it’s nose. The turkey saw me
spun around a couple of times in distress
then took to the air
flapping it’s wings at me. I yelped and jumped back
almost dropping my donuts and milk. Finally the turkey flew over my head and disappeared.
I went shopping at Big Lots this weekend. The trick to shopping at Biog Lots is you cannot enter it with a specific list of things you want to buy. Rather
you need a general idea of what you need
and then keep an eye out for any other surprises. For instance
I needed soap. I ended up getting goat’s milk and oatmeal soap. It smells pretty good. I want to take a bite out of it.
I also found myself some bubble bath. I enjoy a good bubble bath
however I do not want to come out of it smelling too female-ish. No lavender
rose water
or vanilla for me. Before I was simply taking some of my old spice red-zone body wash and squirting some into the tub. That made a nice manly bubble bath. However
at Big Lots I came across a bottle of Orange and Ginger bubble bath. I sniffed it and decided it did not smell too feminine. It made a lot more bubbles in the tub than the Old Spice stuff did as well.
While at Big Lots I encountered the ‘Worlds Slowest Employee’. I had bought a roll of duck tape that ended up not having a price on it. So the cashier called over the intercom for a store employee to do a price check. So this employee comes around the corner
looking like she was walking in water. It was almost as if she was moving in slow motion. The cashier gave her the roll of tape
and she turned and slooooowly started moving to the back aisle. ‘Oh Shit’ I thought. ‘This is going to take a week’. It took almost ten minutes. Does not sound like a long time… but it is. I should have run back there myself. I told myself that again when she came walking back…with the wrong kind of tape. She picked up paint-border tape instead of duct tape. At that point I just gave up and paid for what I had and left.
I took all three cats to the vet over the weekend. They yowled and moaned the entire way there. They got their shots and their checkups. Shit ended up costing me three hundred bucks. I was shocked. It’s only once a year they have to do it
but I think next time I will space it over thee months
each month for a different cat
so I will not get so wallet-gobbled all at once. They need their shots
though. Too many stray cats have been running around the yard. If one of them got sick and died because I was too cheap or lazy to take them to the vet
I would feel pretty bad.
Sometimes embarrassing things happen when you are deaf. Some guy started talking to me at the vet
I had no clue what he was saying
and did not care much
so I just smiled and nodded. After a while I realized he was talking about how his life-long companion dog had just been put to sleep. I realized I probably should not have been smiling as much as I was.
I fixed my hottub cover on Saturday. I put the new foam in and it seems to work ok. The bag that was holding the old broken foam inside the lid had burst open and spilled chucks of Styrofoam all over the place. It was quite the mess. I then cleaned out the tub itself
giving it a good scrub and then re-filling it with water. It seems to fire up OK
but when I got it in last night I noticed a faint smell. Not quite a burning smell
as if something was on fire
but a faint smoldering smell. I think some crud or bugs or a lizard or something had gotten on the motor or heater while it was out of commission
and when it fired up again it slowly burned it off. Hopefully it wont burn my house down. And hopefully the smell will go away.
I picked up some concrete for my outdoor shower
but ended up being too lazy yesterday to do anything. I ended up sitting on the couch and lamenting about how lazy I was. I did manage to clean my bathroom and the front sun room
so that’s something I suppose.
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