I had a great day even though I hate my neighbors

It didn’t exactly start off so great.  Laverne woke me up at 7:30 this morning.  In my world that was 6:30, and that was way too early to wake up on a Sunday.  But after I fed the girls I went back to sleep and made up that hour I lost last night.  So after I slept in a lot later than I usually do, I had a some coffee and a really pretty omelet made with fresh broccoli from my garden.  After my fancy breakfast I was ready to build my new veggie garden.  And then I realized that my next door neighbor was pulling her weeds and mowing her yard.  Now this really shouldn’t have prevented me from building my veggie garden, but it did.  And here’s why: when her yard stops looking shitty, mine becomes the shittiest yard on the street.

I started my day by getting in my garden grubbies and going to the Home Depot.  Because that is what I do everyday — go to the Home Depot.  I’m starting make friends with the people that work there.  Yesterday I talked cars with the guy that helped me haul a ton of dirt out to my car.  Anyway, I purchased the edging for my veggie garden and then got to work on my front yard.  Obviously.  I had to put some plants in the ground that the Pineapple Dad brought me yesterday so it wasn’t a bad thing to do.  And that led to pulling up the weeds and grass on one half of my front yard.  So now there isn’t as much of my yard that looks like an abandoned lot.  And that’s a good thing.  But then while I’m making my yard look less shitty, my crazy bible thumping neighbor across the street decided she needed to clean her car while blaring really crappy religious music.  I had my ipod on full blast and I could hear that crap. Perfectly.  I don’t know what these people do in their cars, but this is an almost weekly routine.*  For the record, I’m not against religious music.  I just don’t want to listen to it.

I took this opportunity to take a break and had a very delicious strawberry, blueberry, and banana smoothie while I charged my ipod.  With renewed vigor and a fully charged ipod, I went back out in my yard and battled the weeds and the religious music.  That’s right, I screamed the lyrics to really offensive music.  I started off with a little Anarchy in the U.K. and ended with World Up My Ass with some other offensive ditties sprinkled in.  The whole time she shot me dirty looks and kept turning up her shitty music.  I “sang” louder and her next door neighbor (who also has issues with these turds) just laughed his ass off.  When I finished pulling weeds, my work was done and I got started on my veggie garden.

By this point, I was pretty whipped but I carried on.  I mean the whole point of today was to plant my tomatoes and eggplants, right?  Well, I got about half way through installing the 60′ edging and could not carry on.  So, it wasn’t hell or high water that got me.  It was exhaustion.  So tomorrow I finish what I started today.

So, in the end it was a good day.  I spent the day outside, got some good exercise, and my yard looks less shitty.

*I could write a book on all the weird shit these people do.  There are many reasons why I don’t like them.

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