Maxima

 There is only one bug that I can’t stand.  A boxelder bug.  They are really creepy.  Have absolutely no value.  Other bugs and snakes don’t even eat them.  Years ago, I did not buy a nice house once because the neighbors had a boxelder tree in the backyard.  I really hate these guys.                                     

A few weeks ago, a couple of these guys were crawling on the front bay window.  I squished them of course……eewwwwww     Each day as the sun got warmer in the sky, more and more were there every day.  So many that we got emails about them on our webcam!   eewwwwwww     Where the heck are they coming from?  We never had them before.  We don’t have a boxelder tree and neither do any of our neighbors(or we could not buy this house).  I thought we sealed them in last fall when we sealed the wood under the front window….and now that the sun heats up the wood, they are waking up and can’t crawl OUT so they crawl IN the house.   They are kinda dumb and I can just pick them up with a kleenex and squish them.  Yesterday, one tried to get away and crawled BACK into the window sill.  aaaahhhhhaaaaaa…my theory is correct.  Somehow that did not lessen my being creeeped out.  

I have killed over 300 of these creepy bugs.  I can’t wait until this plague is over.  If anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of boxelder bugs in a warm window…..

I was a very naughty girl at work today.

My supervisor is as dumb as a box of rocks.  She told me that she wanted to explain to me some important changes coming up, it would take 1.5 hours.  So, I rearranged my whole day to fit it in.  She reviewed what I knew from a staff meeting a month ago.  It took 10 minutes.  I am thinking…..okkkkkk, where is the new information????

Then I get the drift that she wants to ‘flesh out’ the chart from a month ago.  I really don’t have too much to say…..she likes to present my ideas as her own and I see this is another one of those deals.  But when she mentions that the changes will start in 2-3 weeks…..I get a very naughty thought.   hmmmmm, I won’t be there anymore.  I had to work real hard to not bust out a giggle.

So, I suddenly had all these brilliant ideas on what to fill in for the details in the new work chart.  She almost started drooling as she wrote like crazy to add all these brilliant ideas that she thinks I am going to do.  All this stuff is easy for me to do and I do it all the time but she has no clue to how to even get started or where to find the information.   Giggles are so near the surface….don’t let it out Maxima!  The meeting takes 1/2 an hour.  She leaves so happy to be turning in my ideas as her own and also thinking I am going to implement them and make her look good.  NOT

I keep getting a vision of that part of Sound of Music where the nuns confess to the Mother Superior when they take part of the engine out of the Gestapo’s car.  Mother Superior…..I have been a naughty girl.  (giggle giggle giggle)

Dumb as a box of rocks. 

Well, here I am.  I have been wanting to get this started for quite some time.  I just love to read friends and family blogs.  So, time for me to contribute and give back a little.

Right now I am frozen in time but that will shift on April 19th 9:01pm CST.

More about that on 4/19…..with pictures of course.

Today, I am trying to get the medical billing done.  In America we are allowed to put pretax money aside to pay for medical bills.  When we pay for a medical bill, then we fill out a form and get reimbursed(get the money back) from our pretax set aside money.  Did you follow that?  Ok, let’s say Klaas and I set aside $1000 of our money for medical bills.  That means that no taxes or social security money is taken out of it.  It is our own money but it goes 33% farther because about $350 does not go for taxes but for the medical bills.  Here’s the catch.  If you don’t spend it…..it is gone.  If you don’t have any medical bills that year…..helaas pindakaas, it is gone and you can’t get it back.  Or if you don’t fill out the paperwork, you don’t get it back either.  BIG honkin’ hellas pindakaas!!  It is taken out of your check and ’saved’ for you but you have to provide the evidence to get your own money back.  It reminds me of Dutch vacation money.  It is your money but you are so grateful to get it back and spend it. 

ok….I started to do this in October 2005.  Any bets if I will get it started today?  hmmmmm my favorite political show has Dick Cheney on today….  They said they are going to ask him some real tough questions.  Yah, like….where is the safety on the gun?  hehehehhee  I just clicked off the TV.  Now I have time to do the medical account and get our own money back so I can be grateful.  I promised myself that I can read the Sunday paper when I get 3 pages done.  I will let you know how it went.

-e