Nothing new has happened

I can go back to work and claim that for the most part, my weekend was boring! I did not sleep on my new couches much yesterday like I wanted, but I did get a cat nap in for about an hour in the afternoon. It was nice. But the thing is that my wish came true and I was bored! YEAH! I wished for that, I did!
Now, if I could just keep the dogs off the couches, that is my next wish. Anybody have any suggestions? When I am not home, I know where they will be. I did buy them their own beds, So far, my little dog is using that, but I had to put it on the loveseat, so she would understand. I also took in it my room last night and put it on my bed so she would get that it was where she is supposed to sleep. The big dog got a rug to sleep on, but I'll be damned if I am going to haul that thing all over the house!
Please, if you have any training ideas, let me have 'em!

Guess what I got.....

I mentioned it in my earlier post. I was gonna check out a couch, we were looking on Craig's list and found some possibilities. I'm very impatient when it comes to purchasing stuff. If I decide I want something I don't want to go days and days looking at all the possibilities. I know about what I want and when I see something that comes close enough I get it. I have never been really sorry about any of my decisions, unless it came to some men. Usually what I buy is good enough. I don't go for fancy schmancy stuff either. I just want what works and looks relatively okay in my house. My daughter called a couple of numbers but had to leave messages. I sent out a couple of e-mails and got responses almost immediately. I made one phone call and the lady told me I could come after 4 to see the couch AND loveseat she had for sale. Someone else was going to look at it tomorrow. By then my daughter had taken her friend to work, so I called her to find out how available she was going to be for the rest of the afternoon. Which, since she is not working at the moment, her availability to me is open. (It had better be) So I called the woman back and we set up a time and I got to moving. We got there at around 6:30 I looked, I liked, I sat, I liked, I gave her the money and we made two trips home and back to pick it all up. We brought the couch home first with most of the cushions then went back and picked up the loveseat. Eighty dollars!!!!!!! And it is a really nice set. It's black and beigey stripes, with three cushions for the back on the loveseat and five cushions for the back of the couch. Or whichever way I want to put them. The cushions all have the same color scheme, but three of them are black with beige ovally looking things all over and the other cushions are black background with beige pasley print. Totally me. I am so excited, I may sit around on them all day tomorrow! (Or sleep on them) Now, we just have to train the dogs to stay off. These are nice enough that the dogs don't get free rein with them.

Now my frontroom looks so small. I always have felt I had a fairly big frontroom. Now, not so much. At one point while we have lived here, we had furniture to fill the room, but I got tired of it, or it broke or what ever, and I would just get rid of it and never replaced it til now.

If you notice in the second picture, the training is going well with the little dog. Um...she runs me, I don't run her.

OH! and behind the loveseat, you can see my new "window" it's all ready to have the tropical beach painted on it. Don't mind the mess, in the back ground either...I have still not put away my toys...I mean tools yet!

So far, so good, maybe

I am on the first day of my weekend. There's so much I want to do, that I cannot decide which to do first. That's bad, cause when I feel this way, nothing, but NOTHING gets done.
I did work on the floor of the "room" a little today. I did get my laundry closer to the garage. I did look at the dirty dishes. I called Comcast to straighten out a glitch, but to fix it for good, I will have to go to their office and I don't feel like going anywhere. But then again I might. If I go out, that means I have to list a bunch of stuff to do while I am out and that means I could go to the Salvation Army store and look to see if they have any couches. I don't own one of those, and have been wanting to get one. So I may go out and see what I can find, then swing by the Comcast office and fix the glitch.
So sorry to say this to those in the east of the US. But I have to say it. There is sunshine in my town today. It is warm, how warm I do not know, but warmer than it has been. The only time I have been outside today was earlier in the day when it was still too cold to be out there in my jammies. That still didn't stop me.
I went out to find out why my big dog looked like he wanted to attack something or someone. And...the reason he looked that way is because that is exactly what he wanted to do! Ya see, my middle daughter is not that smart. She had some friends over last night and as her story goes they were watching TV. They all fell asleep. This morning when the BOYS left, somehow they knew not to come through the house and snuck around the back to the gate. (Which in these parts is a really, really stupid move. They have to make noise to use the gate, and it is not a very much used way to escape this property. The dog knows that. I had the back door open and when they went out, the dog did too. So I went out to investigate and found that they had gone through the gate and were trying to get over bushes I have growing on that side of the house (for a REASON) I met them in the front yard and told them exactly how stupid they were and what they had just missed, thanks to me! I said to them..."don't EVER do this again...you will be missing body parts the next time, cause I will not call the dog off." They said to me..."Yes ma'am." Then I reamed my daughter out for being stupid AGAIN.
This is supposed to be my bored to tears weekend. Not getting off to a great start are we? But then this is nothing compared to the past.
I need to go and see if I can get some laundry done. That will motivate me to clean my bedroom somewhat, cause I have to move around in there in order to put my laundry away. Then who knows what will happen next.

Phone Calls

So a few months back, I started getting these phone calls asking for my dad. That is not unusual, because the phone here is in his name. I always just say he isn't in right now, can I give him a message. They give me the information and I pass it along to my dad. This one company kept calling after I had given my dad the message several times. I know my dad would take the appropriate measures to answer whatever questions the caller had and that should be it. No, not in this case.
I finally got tired of taking the same message over and over, so pretended to be my dad. I just lowered my voice a little and they went for it. Turns out that this company had some insurance claim for some guy with the same name as my dad. They asked for an address to verify that I was indeed the person they were looking for. When I gave them as address they didn't have in their records the questions started. Did you ever reside at this address in Texas? Nooo. How about this address in San Francisco? Nooo again.
Then I started asking questions. Like what the hell do you think you are doing here? I want to know what you are looking for and why, I want to know exactly which person by my dad's name you want. What is going on? Is my dad a victim of identity theft?
What this company does, is if they can't find the exact person they want, they generate ALL the people with the same name or even close to it and start calling! And they don't stop calling until they get whatever it is they think they are going to get from you. Or until you threaten them with your attorney. (You know, the attorney who lives in your back pocket at all times for such occasions) They so backed off suddenly. I told them if they called me one more time I would have their license and there would be a law suit bigger than the national debt. (I know that wouldn't happen, but these people who call and harrass you are only getting minimum wage and don't know that)
The phone has been silenced, at least from them.
I got so much rest the last couple of days. It feels good. When I played hooky from school Thursday night I didn't do anything. I had delusions of grandeur. I was going to work on a project for school, but didn't. Instead I went to the shopping center and picked up my favorite treat for dinner. Hawiian BBQ. Came home, ate it, and went to bed. AT 8:30PM!!! Got up early yesterday for my early shift at work and came home to completely vege out. I even slept in a little this morning. I didn't get up until 7AM. So, now I am showered and dressed and ready to do my late shift at work. I get off at 6 tonight. Tomorrow is my "Friday". Hopefully, I will get some things done over my weekend. We are supposed to be getting some pretty weather for my days off. That always energizes me.
I hope you all have a great day.