Air Pollution and Weather = Outrageous

I just read this on www.msnbc.com - I knew going into reading this that my suspicions were correct and I just had to laugh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30476335/

Scroll down towards the bottom, and see what city ranks number one in the "worst" category. No shock there.

And my other daily outrage for the day - the weather.

Yesterday I was in Baltimore, shorts and a t-shirt, sweating profusely and watching the Angels beat the Orioles (yay!). On a side note, I caught a foul ball at the game. My 5 seconds of being live, on camera fame. It was 90 degrees yesterday.

Today, 24 hours later, I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt, bundled up in a jacket and carrying an umbrella. Its 50 degrees today.

Why? Granted I don't like sweating buckets, but I do love warm weather. Why was DC blessed with gorgeous weather for just a few days only to be doused with rain, doom and gloom for the next week?

Scary

Well I finally have something that is more than outrageous. A man(term used loosely) picks up a AX and starts chopping up a plant while telling the mother of his children " first a plant, next your head" Yes he is in jail, but his parents have lots of money and think he is a good guy who just needs help.This one scared me. He has a background of guns and anger etc. I just don't want to pick up the paper and see her name in it. She is also scared and agreed to go into hiding when he gets out of jail. But she also seemed hopeless as if she expects the worse to happen. Because she has a emergency protective order and he is in serious trouble she does have a very good advocate (not a volunteer) assigned to her.

Stupid Home Depot/Toilet Seat Update

So I finally go there to exchange the broken & USED toilet seat.  I tell her my long story. 

"Let me ask my manager".  I wait.

"Sorry, we're not going to be able to return it cause it's a bio-hazard"

somehow at this point, Muna came to me and possessed my body.

"Oh, NO, This is not my fault and I WILL NOT BE LEAVING THIS STORE WITHOUT A NEW TOILET!!!"  "It isn't my fault that someone returned a used toilet seat and YOU GUYS put it back on the shelf!"

"hold on a minute."  she leaves again and some other chick comes over and says the same crap.

So I yell at her too.. and eventually get my way. I go back and get another seat, take it to the front, exchange it and leave. 

I get home and Chris says, "That's the wrong size"..  WHAT!!!!!  THE!!!!! HELL!!!!! 

So we had to go back AGAIN last night. This time I took Chris and I had to give more hell because she never gave me a receipt..  I just want to be  done with this stupid seat. 

So we won again, got a store credit and bought a seat that is also a training seat for Alex only to get home, install it and it's too small for Chris..  Sorry honey. I'm over it and it's going to have to stay for awhile. 

Funny part of stupid girl. When she was putting in the description about why it was broken, she asked me, "so the hedges are broken?" I said, "hinges" and she  typed in "hedges" Stupid girl.. When was the last time anyone saw hedges on a toilet seat????? 

For someone so smart....

My current outrage is that a darling little two year old insists on being barefoot. Then she insists on walking halfway down the driveway until she sees an ant and then lets out a horrendous scream, freezes and continuous screaming, as if being eaten alive, until I come and carry her back up to the house. Twenty minuets after I had placed her shoes back onto her feet she walks to the end of the porch promptly removes her shoes and repeats the above. Twenty min later......
Yeah who needs a gym when you are walking half way up and down the driveway with a 32 pound two year old twenty times a day.
Oh and Lacey if you think that Alex calling you mom was bad, from some anonymous influence Emma has been answering me, "NO MAMA NO"

The Price Is High

So this is outrageous. But it's also OUTRAGEOUS!! Like you know, the good kind!

I told my sister that I would fly her out to visit over the summer. This was her birthday gift. Even two or more months in advance it's still expensive. Whoever is spreading lies about flight prices coming down ought to stop.

Yeah, it costs roughly 50 bucks more for me to fly to AUSTRALIA than it does for my sister to come out west.

So OZ is on sale from August 2nd to December 12 or something like that. A great place to go for spring! And flights are $265 each way. Wow, a whopping $530 RT. Qantas. Amazing.

Things that cost more than $530:

My Rent

A Good Plasma TV

Oral Surgery (Wisdom Tooth Removal).

Any decent computer, laptop or desktop.

Lipo :)

So doesn't this sound more appealing?

Toilet Seats & Weddings

Here's my first outrage: 

About 10 months ago I bought a toilet seat that I decided I didn't really need. I kept it anyway and stored it in the garage. So a week ago, someone (probably Alex) broke the toilet seat and it cracked in half. AH HA, I've got once. Yeah, now I don't have to spend that $25 again, I've got one in the garage. So after 3-4 days of reminding my husband to change it, I got it from the garage, put it in his hands and lovingly asked him to change it.  :)  He says, "we have a problem".  "what problem?"  "It's broken and it's been used."  How do we know it's been used you ask???  I'm sure you can  figure that out.. Gross!  So, now I have a potential fight with either Lowes or Home Depot (can't remember, so it may be two fights), a broken seat and something to outrage about.

2nd outrage: 

Is more of a statement than an outrage. Chris told me I couldn't go into details. But I should get a badge of honor for all the crap I put up with from Cranky people at weddings. And let me just say that it's hardly ever the bride. They are wonderful.. Most of the time it's the mom, but even in this case the mom was a gem.  No, there are still others that can put me in a funk and I have to just smile.. Ugh..  Let's just say I have to pray a lot while I work. 

My DAILY outrage

My daily outrage and it really is a daily outrage, is the complete lack of flushers in my household. There really is very few steps to going to the bathroom but for some reason my blessed loved ones frequently forget to flush.
It would not be such an outrage if it were only pee but yeah, and it would not be such an outrage if it were only the children but yeah.
Come on, I take a lot of time and energy in bringing food into the house and making meals for everyone but I can honestly do without (for the rest of my life) the aftermath of having to witness just how well I keep everyone fed.