rachelsnowden15

Okay, so I just want to mention a few things that have happened recently.  This will be a fairly short entry.

So, from the title, we are getting a new puppy!  We will be going to pick up our darling in Anniston first thing Friday morning.  We have to drive a long way, but that will give me plenty of time for cuddles on the way back!  He is so precious and adorable.  I can't wait to finally have a little one running around again after so long being dog-free after Candie died.   I will make sure to take pictures and see if I can figure out how to upload them here.  (My camera does not work and Idk if it is possible to upload pics from phone to dA.  Not good with tech...)

That ends the good news.  On to the weird.

Next, I want to talk about what happened on the way home from work today.  I was just driving down Bell Road minding my own business, and all of a sudden this huge ass deer comes out of nowhere and nearly hit my car!  It bounded across the road and into the grass on the other side.  I slammed on the brakes and luckily no one was behind me and I did not hit it.  I was shocked!  I have never in my life seen a deer running down city streets before.  I know I live in Alabama, but it's a city!  This isn't the country, damn!  I got home and told my parents about it immediately, and Dad was like "oh, I wonder if one of the deer escaped from the bison guy's enclosure."  (There is a rich dude on Bell Road with special permission from the city to have two bison [aka buffalo] and other wild animals in his yard.  He has several acres of nicely manicured lawn and a spacious enclosure for the animals.  He even has a small parking lot so people can pull over and check them out.  lol)  Honestly, that is probably it.  It doesn't seem likely that deer can just end up in the city.  How can they be so far from their natural habitat?  What the heck?  So yeah, today was interesting.  I'm still in shock somewhat.  It feels like a dream.  Definitely a once in a lifetime experience.

Now for the bad news.

I am having issues with some of my coworkers and I want to just quit my job.  I love the kids, but I hate working in a place where I am having to constantly deal with staff members' teenage dramas.  The sad thing is that both of these women are in their 40s and have less emotional maturity than some of the actual teenagers that work in the office.  Worse, they are supervisors, so I cannot avoid their drama.  Everyone is involved in it.  Getting tired of it.  Meh...

Can I just rant for a second?  I have two topics that are causing me to pout during my valuable holiday time.  Neither are very important, but are annoying to me.

First, as you know unless you live under a rock, Alabama has held a special election for our Senator due to one of our Senators, Jeff Sessions, becoming attorney general of the US.  The race for his seat (for the remainder of his term) was today, and it was a colossal F-up.  With all eyes in the nation on us, the only Alabama election that has ever meant anything to the entire populace of the United States, Alabama just had to screw it up by the numbers.  There has been yet another scandal associated with the election, and this has the potential to become another Florida situation (you all are probably too young to remember the hanging chads fiasco with any clarity  Look it up).  Anyway, Doug Jones beat Roy Moore by a mere 8000 votes, out of 1.3 million or so.  Since he did not win by more than 1.5%, the law says that there must be a recount.  The only way to end it before the recount is with a concession.  Some individuals would concede, but not Moore.  He has apparently discovered the F-up of the century (ahem, the way it is almost always done...): The military absentee vote was not counted.  (Military absentee is made up of people who are stationed in other states/districts or overseas.  I had to vote absentee once myself, and I doubt my vote was counted then...)  Let's be honest.  Most military individuals are republican, so most of those votes would probably have gone to him.  More than likely it would have been enough to sway the election in his favor.  Moore has already announced that he will not concede and plans to make issue of this first thing in the morning after he has had a good night of sleep.  This is not over.  Who knows how long before we know who will be the Senator?  Meanwhile, Jones is having his victory party, thinking like an idiot that he has won.

Let me just say that even though the military vote is rarely ever counted, that is just not right.  People in the military put their lives on the line for our freedoms, and their votes don't count?  What the hell?  If anyone's votes should count, theirs should.  Every vote should count, and this should stop.  The military is important to me for so many reasons.  Most of my family has been in the military for generations, on both sides.  I think it is an unforgivable sin to mistreat the military.  They ought to throw those people in a hole and let them die a slow death.  Screwing with the election should be considered treason.

Lastly, I found the absolute cutest dress on a website I look at from time to time, and it was cheap, so I considered ordering it.  Until I saw the size chart.  The shoulder width on the thing is 13 inches!!!  I thought that I just must have freakishly large shoulders.  So I looked it up.  The average shoulder width of an adult female, which I am, is 18 inches.  Mine are 19.  SO, who is supposed to be wearing that adorable outfit?   Children?  I really wish these companies would make clothes for regular people instead of pygmies.  I think they would find an uptick in their sales if they did.  *hint hint*

OMG, someone help me.  I am freaking out so hard right now.  I am required to go to 3 meetings (two AA and one NA) in the next few weeks, and that was fine.  Until I looked up where they are being held!  WTF?!!?!?!?!?!?  They're all in the ghetto!!!  I don't want to be killed doing something for class.  Why can't they have them in churches like you always see on TV.  There are two meeting in the city.  One is in the ghetto in an abandoned building that looks like it has been closed since the 50s, and the other is outdoors, literally in a field next to a lightpost.  At NIGHT!!!  Both of them are at night!  OMG.  I will either be shot or bitten by poisonous snakes.  Which is worse!?  What am I supposed to do?  I want to email him and be like "Um, do you know where these meetings are being held?  Do you really expect us to go there unarmed and without full body armor on?  Hm?"  Better have 911 on standby because I will either be killed by the local gangs or have a panic attack.  Either way I'm going to the hospital...

Sorry, people.  I just need to rant and no one is awake.  Curse of being a night owl.  But I am so freaked out and scared that I can't sleep!  I even tried drinking wine to calm down.  Nothing is helping... Ugh!

Rachel