Dear old Chuck, nothing ever seems to go right for him. No matter how hard he tries everything backfires. The kite will always get stuck in the tree, Lucy will always pull the football out of the way as he tries to kick it, he'll never get invited to a party (unless it get's sent by mistake), and the little red headed girl is never going to notice him. Well that's kinda the way I feel today. It's just been one of those weeks (or so) when everything starts to come undone. We had some electrical problems last week and it cost quite a few pennies to get it fixed and I feel like the electrician ripped me off a little bit. That's part of what bothered me, I felt like he was ripping me off and I didn't say anything, I just paid the bill because after all it was fixed. What is it Charlie says? AAUGH! I believe that's it. Tuesday morning while on my treadmill I noticed the incline wasn't working, it's under warranty so hopefully that problem at least wont cost anything. Then my heat pump went belly up (or if you spent time in the military- tits up). We can spend a small fortune and get a 20something year old unit fixed or spend a big fortune and get a new one. Well with some wheeling and dealing and some loans here and there, I believe where going to get the new one. I'm about ready to go live off the grid, get me a farm house and plant some crops. If only I wasn't so bourgeois. I could live without blogs and facebook, I could live without satellite t.v. (thus without my now beloved Doctor Who), without cell phones and video games and even without air conditioning. But I have to have running water. Yes I could live without those things... but I REALLY don't want to. Then the piece-de-resistance after spending a couple of hours cleaning out a kiddie pool that was given to us. I blew up the top ring and began to fill it full of water. It's about 3 feet deep and quite a ways around so it took a good bit of water to try and fill it up. Try being the key word there. When the pool was about half way full (being positive here) the water begin to flow out of it and it was then that I realized the inflatable ring around the top was losing air, it apparently has a small hole in it somewhere. So as the pool begin to becomes half-empty (negative now, sorry) I let out a nice Charlie Brown, AAUGH! Which warranted some unwanted attention from neighbors. AAUGH! It hasn't' all been bad this week, I started reading a new book that I'm enjoying, work went well, we had free lunch yesterday while seeing a old friend and then got some yummy ice cream from Red Bone Willies, I watched Avatar which I thought was pretty good (effects were really good, story was alright) with my 3 year old (first time we had gotten along in several days) and then last night was a brand new episode of the afford mentioned Doctor Who (as much as I liked Tennant, I gotta say I'm really liking Smith,and the bow tie). So of all the Charlie Browns in the world I'm not the Charlie Browniest, but right now I feel as though I could be in the top 100.
I know how you feel, and on a related note, I always wanted Charlie Brown to tell all of his classmates off in spectacular fashion, or to jump into the cartoons and do it on his behalf. Bastards. Don't let them get you down.
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