Surprises

I was surprised to discover all sorts of cool women's clothing in the Cabela's catalog. Who knew? It's not all camo and rubber boots. I started getting the Cabela's catalogs because I ordered the padded traveling case for my margarita machine from them. So now I get a new catalog from them every other day. Usually they go right into the recycling cause I'm all stocked up on running clothes and hunting gear, but their women's clothing catalog caught my eye and was full of nice, affordable things. I see a few new sweaters and maybe some pajamas in my future, to get me through the cold, bitter winter.

I was also surprised to see a movie on AFN called something like "Within These Walls" which starred Ellen Burstyn and was about the Prison Pet Partnership Program! As most of you know, we were huge fans of this program back in Gig Harbor. My two furry daughters often stayed at the prison instead of a regular kennel, and they LOVED it. The movie was a real tear-jerker, and believe me my tears were totally jerked. I mean, please, when Ellen Burstyn the murderess learned to become a better person by training the rescued-from-death-row adorable lab/retriever mix named Gypsy and then had to GIVE HER AWAY to a disabled person (after we saw a montage of really neato dog training feats), who WOULDN'T cry?

Lastly, I was FULLY surprised, and not in a good way, when my door bell rang at 4:44am this morning. It doesn't matter that I know darn well that notifications are not made before 6:00am. When you are in my situation, it is very hard to calmly think of other reasons why someone might be ringing your bell at such an hour. Turns out it was an airport shuttle looking for its charge. The dude only had a street name, no number. So, he was just ringing bells. Seriously, that should be outlawed during RLBTs. I had half a mind to tell him that, for the 60 to 90 seconds it took me to come to my wits and answer the door, I was fearing the worst, but I just told him I had no idea who needed a shuttle. He asked if I was sure I didn't order it. Are you kidding me? I'm in my gutchies, still half-asleep, and you think maybe I forgot I was supposed to be traveling to the airport this morning? I asked him if he knew the name of his passenger, and he said no. I shut the door and stumbled into the kitchen to turn on the espresso maker, since I was up but not awake, and the doorbell rang again. At this point, I'm thinking he's not just some dumb shuttle driver, but rather he is probably a scary stalker dude, and should I really go back to the door? So I just walked up to the closed door and yelled through it "Yes???" He said he remembered the name, and I was able to instruct him where to go. Dude, maybe next time, you don't start ringing doorbells at 4:44am without at least the name of the person you are picking up...