Outside right now

[alexis]

I walk outside to see if the mail has yet to come in, no it hasn't though by the time I am back from the mailbox after finding out instead of someone mailbox bashing it, they just ripped the door part off and I had to hunt and find it ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #@%^ing kids, I am soaked wet. The weather is just freaking out all over. Last night we had storms that shook things off the walls @ a friends house and now today its blazing hot like I'm walking on the sun.

What else bites? Misquotes that I am allergic too, I don't know many people that can manage to get bit early in the morning but alas I seem to have that wonderful power. I feel like

[aperio]

Muwahaha.. sounds like your week isn't exactly going as planned! If it makes you feel any better, the kids in my neighborhood seem to also have a fascination with destroying mailboxes (and I know I will live to regret ever having said this, so please let us all knock on wood)... but so far they have left mine alone. Luckily I guess it's not close enough to the bus stop for them to bother with.

As for mosquitos... hate em... I am usually taking my dogs on walks at least 3 times a day - two of which are usually in the evening since it is sometimes just unbearably muggy and hot in the daytime for them... and it's like a buffet for the little buggers if I forget the 'off' spray. We actually have city trucks that ride the neighborhoods during certain evenings spraying some sort of chemical (that I'm sure later on in life will be linked to some dreadfully fatal disease far worse than any mosquito bites, but I digress...)

Hope you got your mailbox put back together!

[Chris]

There are a few natural preventive measures you can take against mosquitos. If you take garlic tablets and or vitamin B12 it will help keep the pesky little buggers away. Both make the smell of your skin distasteful to the bloodsuckers. I used to be a mosquito magnet myself. I was watching the little bugs land on my pants and actually work their way through my jeans to get to my leg.

As far as the kids go, not much you can do unless you catch them or set up a video camera. A few years back we had our trash bin (one of the big ones) hit with a car like 4 times in a two week period. One was hard enough to wake us up only to find the thing a good 20 feet away from where it was.


Chris

[dramaqueen]

Bummer, Alexis! Sounds like a pretty rotten day. Those are the kind of days where you just want to go back inside, get under a blanket, grab a book and stay put the rest of the day.
Too bad most people in the real world can't really do that!

[alexis]

Its been really interesting lately like when it rains it pours type deal. I'm about to lose my mind with the kids though and the mailbox deal. Do it right next time, make me get a new one not try and hunt the damn bolt in the grassy ditch area. Can we say vacation time soon? :D