Any old bandwagon will do

It finally happened yesterday. While walking by someone's desk at work I overheard the words "have you heard about the secret?" My head whipped around to see who was talking to who and then pretended not to be listening. I only managed to hear the part about how it was a book before I was out of ear shot. What is wrong with people? No, I don't want to know. I used to work with someone who was into self help books and she was a nightmare. I'll stick with my meaningless trashy magazines and Regis and Kelly, thanks.

It's always something

Just when I thought that the house was totally in order it happens again, something to rain on your parade. I finally called the appliance repair place and they came out on Friday to fix the stove for the landlord, 2 new burners. All that anger and frustration for a half hours work plus parts. Then yesterday we get home from an all day adventure in the city and the neighbors in the front house have some sort of small dog in their back yard, which makes it our front yard. No big deal. I'm sure it's somebody visiting or something. All I have to do is close the gate so the dog doesn't get into our back yard anymore. Everything is just wonderful.....until I realize that every time the small dog tries to bark a shrill, high pitched whistle goes off to shut the dog up, but is actually worse than the dog barking. One small yip and we then get 10-15 seconds of the whistle that pierces like nobody's business. As I'm writing this I have come to realize that the whistle is going off without the dog barking. Oh good, only a few more hours of my complaining before Clay gets irritated enough to go and do something about it. Just another relaxing Sunday at home.