The good, geat, bad, good day

The day started off pretty good. Kids were behaving. Nothing was broken(yet). Then I got the mail. In it?

My yogurt coupons I ordered from ebay(awesome!), a free candle from glade, and my electric bill. Now, normally I hold my breath while reading this because it is always over $230.00. But today, today it was $85.55!!! YEAH!!!! Are you kidding me? I can't remember the last time it was under $100.00. We live in South Texas, its very hot down here so we HAVE to run the A/C. So what made the difference you ask? UNPLUGGING EVERYTHING. That's right, unplug your washer, dryer, microwave, TV EVERYTHING. Unplug it. Its a little annoying at first, but I saved $145.00 in one month. AND, I didn't even start at the beginning of the billing cycle! So next month should be even less! Woo Hoo!

Ok, moving on, now for the bad part.

When I went outside later I discovered something. Our trash can had been stolen! Yes, our trash can! There had been a delivery truck outside earlier that day and I hadn't paid any attention to it, but I'm guessing it was them that took it. I called my garbage company to double check it wasn't them. The lady I spoke to said it happens ALL THE TIME and before they could supply me with a new one, I had to make a police report. So, I called the police, and the not so nice police officer I spoke to had a hard time understanding why I would report such a thing and started to laugh at me. So what did I do? I channelled the inner red Leah who doesn't get to come out very often and I made that police officer apologize to me(in retrospect, I probably got a little sassier than I should have with a police officer, but I apparently DO NOT like being laughed at).

So, now I am just waiting for some one to call me and I guess I just tell them the same thing I have already told 3 people. Whatever. All I want is a new trash can.

But I can't stop thinking, why the heck would someone take MY garbage can? I checked my neighbours, they still have theirs. Maybe the thieves thought they would get some personal information for our trash? Ha, too bad for them I shred EVERYTHING. All they are going to find are a lot of stinky diapers. Courtesy of Steven.

The End.