Monday, July 21, 2008

Short on Time

This is a quickie since I don't seem to have much time these days.

There's never a dull moment in the Whitaker neighborhood where I work. there is a Dari Mart across the street from the shop and last Thursday if you were to drive by in the late morning you would have noticed crime scene tape and two policemen guarding a dead guy. Apparently he went in the Dari Mart that morning and not too long afterwards somebody noticed him face down dead between the newspaper recycle boxes and the phone booth. We think he was homeless man, but I haven't heard anymore on that or what killed him. We're guessing heart attack, stroke, or OD (we see a lot of drug deals and use behind the store). Whatever the cause, I'm just sorry that he had to die alone.

Nothing much to report from out little animal kingdom.

Work is getting smoother every day; I even had time to scrub the bathroom today. My first time to ever clean a urinal; thank you Playtex for rubber gloves.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Helpful Stuff

On may way home the other day I happened to notice this car in front of me with a bunch of those ribbon for a cause magnets on it. I don't normally pay attention to bumper stickers, but all the ribbons lined up caught my attention and then I noticed a cute little pudgy cartoon fly sticker that just had the web address: Flylady.net. I was so intrigued by this that when I got home the first thing that I did was log on to check it out.

It happens to be a website for those of us who feel overwhelmed when it comes to housework and hope every day that we don't get surprise visitors we should invite in. I'm trying it out; I know it can't hurt. I just thought I'd share it with you.

The other helpful tip I haven't tried, but it's easy and cheap enough. I received an email of this lady's testimonial about putting a penny on a bee sting for 15 minutes right after the sting. Apparently her doctor told her about this when she had a reaction to a sting. The next time she didn't swell up and get infected like before. Too bad I didn't know about this last night when Rocky got stung.