Some things...

...that annoy me:

*my phone service: is an internet based company called clearwire. We pay $50 for high speed internet, and phone service that includes everything from caller ID to long distance to the moon. Well about 3 weeks ago we started having problems. It would ring, give me the ID as to who was calling, but when I answered, no one could hear me. We would think it was fixed and then it wouldn't work. Right now we think it is fixed. But if you call me and get nothing, try my cell.

*clouds. You know the dark days of winter don't bother me but I could sure use some cloudless days right about now. I feel like I live in Seattle.

*lightbulbs that last like 2 weeks. Seriously. I hate GE and their plan to take over the world by telling us that $7 lightbulbs will stop global warming. I had Carter re-fill all our burned out bulbs before my dad came June 12 and now 2 of them are out in my bathroom. Again.

*finding a great sale at the Gap and Banana Republic but finding absolutely nothing that I wanted.

*and finally mosquitoes. We went to a great place to find fossils with a bunch of cubscouts and their families. After my 44 oz diet Pepsi (otherwise known as sweet nectar of the gods) on the drive up, I really had to use the facilities of the woods. So off I trekked with my secret stash of toilet paper that I keep in the car for just such occasions. While bent over in the woods I was madly brushing off those little pests from mine and Olivia's faces when I suddenly realized [too late] the huge expanse of white exposed flesh I was neglecting in my backside.

"Mom!" Olivia cried. "You have a million mosquitoes on your bum!"

And now I have a million bites there too.