Well, Sylvia my DH is the exception I guess LOL, because he does complain. Not gardening again are you or I thought you did that already, does it really need to be done, do you really need that much mulch. You watching the landscape show again. But then on the other hand he will buy me more plant's :) knowing it makes me happy. Even my kids have heard enough of my gardening LOL. Hopefully this spring DH and DS are going to make me an arbor, this was my Christmas and Birthday wish :) I got one of the pretties garden calendar's I've ever seen.

I checked back here to post a RANT, and discovered it's already here! Thanks jerrod6! Misery loves company. Here's my story of fun and games with BOTH providers. We supposedly had the DirecTV HD DVR and HD Receiver (and new dish) all set to go last month. I paid $299 for the equipment and was told I'd hear from an installer. Nobody called, so I called DirecTV again. After taking a telephone tour of the USA for an hour, I was given a date and told the installer would phone to confirm. You guessed it; no call. I called DirecTV again for another tour of the country -- five cities, as I recall, having to recite my story over and over to each new contact. Another date was set. This time I asked for the phone number of the installer. Of course I didn't hear from anyone and when I dialed the installer's number I got a recording: We no longer service the Chicagoland area. Another call to DirecTV to learn that there is no record of my order or of a date to install anything, anytime. But they will "look into it" and call me. Now Mother Nature steps into the picture. We have a freak snowstorm (8 inches all at once) and the following week is freakishly cold. I call DirecTV and ask them to cancel the upgrade and credit my account. I don't see anyone climbing our roof in this weather. An hour after I cancel, DirecTV calls back and is ready to set a date for install in two days. Having finally wised up to their games I repeat: CANCEL THE ORDER AND CREDIT MY ACCOUNT! And...I call Comcast. Comcast takes my order and sets a date for installation. The installer shows up *early*, but says he only has the HD DVR and a "regular" receiver. (Read on to see if you think he was lying.) Another date is set, a week later. Yesterday another Comcast guy arrives. He puzzles why the first guy didn't complete the installation. We look at the first guy's order sheet and the second guy's sheet; they are identical. Hmmm. Well, then second guy goes out to find the Comcast connection box. THERE IS NONE! Our next door neighbors have Comcast. Comcast has sent two techs out to do an install. BUT... The nearest box is down the street. We will need "Dig and Drill" to lay a line from the box to our house. The second guy assures me they'll do it next week and I should hear from scheduling "tomorrow". I call Comcast after he leaves, wanting to confirm that this will actually happen and am told that all "Dig and Drill" has been suspended in our area...until April. I can't guess how much time I have now wasted on this project between the hours waiting for installers to show up and hours on the phone tapping responses to prompts that don't address my situation. (And how much has this cost each of these companies?!) We are giving this another try. I called DirecTV again. They will come here January 4 and install the HD Receiver/HD DVR box -- and new dish 30 feet up on our 10/12 pitch roof. HAAAAAAAAH-HAAAAAAAAHh-HAAAAAAAAAAH! Yeah, sure they will. Can't you see the techs volunteering for THIS order? (to be continued) -- if I'm still alive after Jan. 4

Anybody else getting tired of the repeats of new shows? What About Brian and Ugly Betty were on this afternoon. I don't like new shows. Got into a couple a few years ago and because the ratings weren't fantastic in the first two weeks they were moved around and cancelled very quickly. Don't try to make me like a show by bombarding me with repeats of the first episode. Promise me you will broadcast the whole first season, and broadcast it in the same timeslot, and then I may think it's worth investing my time in it.

Scott, how cute..LOVE IT. My little Lil will come in the bathroom with me if I'm taking a soak and put her feet up on the edge of the tub, waiting for any drops of water to land on the tub edge so she can lick it up. She does not enjoy her bath time, however she's such a good girl she does sit there very still and let me bath her, she just does not like it though. Same with her hair trims, she will sit very still and sllow me to trim her, not moving a muscle exvept her periodic panting and the look in her eyes tells me she's stressed.