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stoopbeckDad and I have been working on the garden this week. We moved concrete benches and mulched and reclaimed gardens that had become wretched hives of scum and gripeweed and I mowed the front lawn with our new mower (WHICH IS LIKE THE BEST MOWER EVER, OMG, because the one I mowed with back in the day was hella hard, and hella heavy, and my hands blistered up just pushing it around, and this one practically propells itself, yay, it's like walking a large dog-- a large, grass-eating dog, I guess) and we discovered a ginormous yellow jacket nest in an area in which we'd been picking up sticks for over an hour. By ginormous, I mean OH MY GOD, we watched for about two minutes and in that time we counted a hundred yellow jackets going into the nest. A HUNDRED. And that was just for two minutes.
And we sprayed the nest, but now we have all these angry homeless yellow jackets who insist on supervising everything we do in the garden. We stirred up some mulch today, and ten minutes later there were eight of them, making sure we weren't mucking things up. I hate the little buggers.
I had a fun phone conversation today. I called a comic book store in Montgomery today to see if they had a comic book that had sold out nationwide (YAY, because that means a higher possibility of a Deadpool movie, BOO, because that's making it mightyhard for me to get my hands on a copy). The guy at the shop told me, "We have two copies left, and they've been flying off the shelves."
I wasn't going to be able to go to Montgomery today, and they weren't going to be able to hold copies at the store, and he was all, "DID YOU KNOW #2 SHIPS TODAY OMG?!" And I was all, "I DID HEAR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES, OMG" and then he told me it was ridiculous for me to have to go all the way to Montgomery and waste gas, so. He is sending me the two comic books. In an envelope. With an envoice.
He is trusting me to mail him back a check.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE WERE LIKE THAT ANYMORE. SOMEONE I MET OVER THE PHONE IS TRUSTING ME TO MAIL HIM BACK A CHECK BECAUSE I SOUND TRUSTWORTHY. OVER THE PHONE. (By the way, case of Small World Syndrome, he lives in Millbrook. In Pine Level, which is like five minutes away from here. Crazy!) I'm used to people who are like, "SIGN THIS FORM IN TRIPLICATE AND PROMISE US YOUR FIRSTBORN AND MAYBE WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU SOMEDAY IF WE'RE BORED ENOUGH."
This is the best thing that's happened all week. YAY FOR COMIC BOOK STORE GUY!
And we sprayed the nest, but now we have all these angry homeless yellow jackets who insist on supervising everything we do in the garden. We stirred up some mulch today, and ten minutes later there were eight of them, making sure we weren't mucking things up. I hate the little buggers.
I had a fun phone conversation today. I called a comic book store in Montgomery today to see if they had a comic book that had sold out nationwide (YAY, because that means a higher possibility of a Deadpool movie, BOO, because that's making it mightyhard for me to get my hands on a copy). The guy at the shop told me, "We have two copies left, and they've been flying off the shelves."
I wasn't going to be able to go to Montgomery today, and they weren't going to be able to hold copies at the store, and he was all, "DID YOU KNOW #2 SHIPS TODAY OMG?!" And I was all, "I DID HEAR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES, OMG" and then he told me it was ridiculous for me to have to go all the way to Montgomery and waste gas, so. He is sending me the two comic books. In an envelope. With an envoice.
He is trusting me to mail him back a check.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE WERE LIKE THAT ANYMORE. SOMEONE I MET OVER THE PHONE IS TRUSTING ME TO MAIL HIM BACK A CHECK BECAUSE I SOUND TRUSTWORTHY. OVER THE PHONE. (By the way, case of Small World Syndrome, he lives in Millbrook. In Pine Level, which is like five minutes away from here. Crazy!) I'm used to people who are like, "SIGN THIS FORM IN TRIPLICATE AND PROMISE US YOUR FIRSTBORN AND MAYBE WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU SOMEDAY IF WE'RE BORED ENOUGH."
This is the best thing that's happened all week. YAY FOR COMIC BOOK STORE GUY!
