Name Confusion

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Velvet's funny post about her daughter misunderstanding musician's names had me thinking about my own name confusion.

When I was 8 or so, a rather stocky person moved to town. We were all introduced to Joey became friends on the playground.

Cut to 10th grade: to keep kids from smoking, our high school removed all the stalls from the bathroom. Modest types such as myself resorted to holding it or, in desperation, the toilet in the far corner.

One day, I was pulling up my pants when I realized someone was coming in the bathroom. Still somewhat exposed, I am mortified to see Joey.

"What are you doing in here??? This is the GIRL'S bathroom," I yelled, finally getting my pants up.

Joey looked at me all confused and finally said, "I AM a girl."

We both just stared at each other dumbfounded.

Finally, I said, "But your name is Joey. That's a boy's name."

The reply floored me: "J-O-Y is a GIRL'S name."

After all those years, I finally realized her southern accent was so thick, when she was saying Joy, I heard Joey. I can't tell you how many of my friends were shocked at the revelation... We ALL thought she was a boey boy.

The Audacity...

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Just when I think dealing with my crazy customers and art students is a pain...

My cousin who works for the major power company in the South was working in a subdivision near Cortana Mall in Baton Rouge. He and his crew had been called to repair the power to the house of an elderly school teacher at 2 a.m.

His crew parked in her driveway and went to work. She blocked their trucks in her driveway with her car and proceeded to yell at them for parking in her driveway. They repaired her power and she refused to move her car. These men are on overtime, away from their families in the middle of the night and this crazy woman won't let them leave... all because they parked in her driveway???!!!

She proceeded to call several news stations, wanting a camera crew to come out and was informed this was not newsworthy. She called the police, who informed her SHE was the one committing the crime as she was essentially holding the electric crews hostage!

She cursed out several of the guys... I know my cousin's crews... these are hardworking, family men. My cousin was the only one she would speak to (I think this is due to us being born so late in our parents lives... we relate very well to older folks.). She really wanted money for them "invading her privacy."

Personally, I would've turned her power back off and said "As long as you keep my trucks blocked, we're going to triple the time you are out of power."

But my cousin called the supervisor who called the Baton Rouge police who took hours to show up and chew out the old lady and make her move her car.

My cousin returned home at 5:30... just in time to cook breakfast and take his kids to school. UGH! I really admire him and his work crew... they get into some crazy situations and put their lives and health at risk constantly...all to keep the power on for others.

Freaky Tuesday

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Just when you think a day can't get any weirder...

I have carpenter's removing some dead wood trim and putting up vinyl siding on a small section of the house. So they're banging and knocking and Mabel is barking.

Then I keep getting emails from someone in Belize who just has to have a cookie kit. I'm already suspicious as Belize is a well-known scam place. This person is emailing me every 5 minutes... "I work in a bank... Can't you let me call in a cc#... why do you insist on pay pal???" I finally just tell them, no, I won't ship there but thanks anyway.

Next, my godson shows up to work in the shop for the first time in ages. Mabel goes berserk upon seeing him. Luckily, the boy got her outside before she could pee inside. I get him all set up cutting rubber and his cousin Athena, my regular worker, shows up.

Mabel is now double (triple?) crazy. Just as Athena bends over, Mabel jumps and clocks her in the nose! Blood, screaming and crying ensues. I take her into the bathroom and hand her tissues and get blood all over me in the process, run Mabel outside, wash up and take Athena an icepack. I called my best friend B, Athena's aunt, who comes over to help. The boy runs in to see what the commotion is and makes things worse, "Your nose is huge." "You have two black eyes."

We put Athena in my bed, send the boy back to the shop and with things settling down, I try to process some orders. I'm on the computer and notice it's getting dark but it's still very early afternoon. I run outside. The temperature has dropped 20 degrees in the last hour and ... we're having a freak SNOW STORM!!!! (Yes, this is Los Angeles!) I thought I was imagining it but you could hear the little kids across the street at the elementary school screaming, "It's snowing! It's SNOWING!"


The white dots in this photo are actually snow... sorry so grainy!

So now the workers need to leave only my house now has no fascia board. They tack up a temporary cover to keep the moisture out and split.

Athena is now in a panic cause all the tissues she's flushed are overflowing in the bathroom. I unclog the toilet and the boy runs in to tell me my window screens ( removed by the workers) are blowing down the street cause we're having 60 mile an hour gusts of wind.

And as I'm trying to tell you guys about it, the power goes out... The winds, again.

I'm exhausted, have a headache (from the winds) and ready for bed and it's only 5:30! Hope your day was peachy.

she's still working...

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mabel lou here... my mom is sad cause she doesn't have time to blog. taxes keeping her busy. but she is still taking me to the creek every day and finding time to try and photograph that flock of blue chickens with big tails. this morning she laid on the sofa for almost an hour reading a book... she always resorts to reading brian andreas when she needs a good laugh. i think doing too many taxes makes her need to laugh.

anyway, i thought i would check in and keep her blog going. before all you folks out there start commenting on what a talented dog i am, figuring out how to use the computer and blog, let me just explain what is pretty much my life's motto and the reason I get away with can do so much: i'm mabel lou, i'm cute and i can.

oh, and sorry about the no caps thing but i don't have any thumbs. mom'll be back real soon.

Dogs on the Beach

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My sister and I trekked to Laguna Beach during her stay here. Laguna is a magical artistic place and one of my favorite places to disappear to. It is one of my sister's favorite places too. During her last stay here, when she was undergoing months of radiation, I swear I saw her come back to life on Laguna Beach.

On this particular visit, we were both amazed at how many doggies we saw, enjoying the surf with their humans.

There were runners... Strollers...

and walkers.

We saw Sunbathers...

Swimmers...

Volleyballers...

There was fun all around...

Some skimmed the surf...

And some just frolicked...

We felt sorry for these next two:

This guy's owner took forever to take off his shoes and roll up his pants and then only let this precious lab play for less than one minute in the water.

And this guy had a broken leg...

The end...