A few weeks ago a guy from the Safehaven Roofing company came to our door and asked us if we wanted a free inspection done to see if we had any roof damage from last October's hail storm. As long as it's free, we figured 'what the hey,' and let him go up. Sure enough, he found damage and wrote up a claim sheet and told us to call our homeowners insurance company. We did and USAA sent us a check to cover the expenses to get a new roof! Sweet! The repairs started yesterday morning at 6:15am. Good thing I was not off work and trying to sleep in because they're super loud up there with all the scraping and pounding! They stripped off all the shingles and such yesterday and today they started laying the new stuff. So far it's looking really nice! I can't wait 'till it's all done!
Last night I cooked a yummy dinner. What?! Julie cooks?? Haha, I know, I'm still not sure what came over me. Anyway, would you like to know what I whipped up so expertly? Ok, ok, I'll tell you. It's a little family favorite called Moclasagna. MMMmmm, SO good! Brandon loved it! But what he probably loved even more was just the fact that I made dinner in the first place. Hopefully I can start to make more of a habit of it. But, I don't know... I will miss not having my nacho cheese-covered Mexican Pizzas from Taco Bell... gosh, tough decision. Haha.
Berlin and Josh are laying next to me as I type. And Relik's in his cage, of course, behind me. He hasn't eaten in a while... I suppose I should thaw out a frozen 'Gourmet Rodent' for him. Blech! I can't stand to look at them all frozen over, though... all stiff and rigor-mortised. I feel so bad for them. But it is a step in the right direction from the live mice Brandon used to buy for him. THAT was really hard for me... thus the frozen mice.
We don't have any "big" fish anymore, we sold them and their tank/stand about 2 months ago on Craigslist to a very nice couple who collects large tanks and raises a variety of large fish. Now our only fish is my little beta named Edward. Our zoo is slowly dwindling down, as my bro-in-law, Greg, says. :)
Do you ever get so irritated when you see so many spelling/grammatical errors from different people? Especially at work or on Facebook? I see it ALL the time and I just wonder how people don't know how to write or spell at least decently... I guess that's just my personality. Heck, I know I'm not perfect, either, and there are probably even a few mistakes in my blogs... But the really obvious errors people make just downright bother me! I really want to correct every single one I see but I know I would probably lose a lot of friends that way. Haha. At my work there are 'exceptions' people who work on issues that are unusual and differ from the majority of my department's processes. I wish I could become the "Proofreading" exceptions person that would proofread my co-workers' (even management's!) e-mails, letters, etc. before they're sent out. I'm too nervous to bring the idea up, though, for fear that it would offend people and get me fired. So, for now, I guess I'll just have to do my best to continue swallowing every mistake I see. *Sigh*
