Wednesday, September 24, 2008

666 Strikes Again

No, I don't worship the devil. I am a little concerned about Skip though. It all started when I met him. The number 666 seems to follow him around. The first thing is that the last three digits of his Safeway club card are 666. There have also been the numerous times that we've made a purchase that has a total with 666 or 999 in it. (Remember, we live in Washington, so buying something for 9.99 doesn't count because of sales tax!) The craziness doesn't end there! When I started working at La Center, my lunch account number became 6667.


So that brings me to today. Skip had taken his new truck in to get Lo Jack installed and was given a rental car to use for the day. With his work schedule right now, he sleeps until about 8 or 9 at night, so I was put in charge of taking the rental car back and picking up his truck. When I walked out to the parking lot to jump in the rental car, I noticed the keychain had a 666 on it. So I checked out the license plate, and this is what I saw.

Warning for Parents with Little Boys

Yesterday I was driving along through a neighborhood after looking at a potential house to buy. I was driving nice and slow, enjoying the breeze through my open window when BAM, something hit my car. I slammed on the brakes (which isn't that dramatic when you're going 20 MPH) and turned off my car. Just then I spied two little boys crouched under a tree, with a big pile of rocks in front of them. As I got out of my car, the denial began. I checked the side of my car, and what do you know, there were some nice, new scratches in my driver side door. I walked the boys over to my car and made them look at the damage. By then their mothers had arrived on the scene, and I figured out just why these boys thought it was okay to throw rocks at moving cars. Neither mother really seemed to care, although the one with the guilty boy did give me her information so I could bug her insurance company to pay for my car to get fixed. So the lesson here, if you have little boys with good aim, make sure you don't have big rocks in your front yard! Or just raise them right to respect people and their property!! :) (As I know any friends reading this blog would do!)

Skip's New Truck



Big Red (Skip's old red truck) is on it's deathbed, so last weekend he went out and bought a new truck. It's very bright blue, and it's a really fun truck to drive. I never liked driving Big Red, but I certainly like driving this one! I just might be more willing to give up the Honda once in while!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Sausage Fest

Skip and I went to our first ever Vancouver Sausage Fest today at St. Joseph's. I've seen the bumper stickers on cars since I can remember, but never really knew what it was all about. So we braved it today and weren't dissapointed! There was plenty of yummy food and a beer garden with wide screen tv's showing NFL games. I wanted to go play bingo too, but Skip wasn't into that. Also, it was such a nice day to be outside! Next year I'm getting the girls together so we can go play bingo!

Saturday, September 6, 2008