People are Dummies

An update on the dog/neighbor situation. I don’t remember what all I put in the last blog, and I don’t feel like going back to read it all so if I repeat myself just let it go.....

WELLLLLLL! First thing is Arkansas is one of the few states left where Cruelty to Animals is only a misdemeanor. BUT it’s the highest level misdemeanor there is. Punishment of up to $1000 fines, and/or 1 year jail time. Well when my friend that lives behind us came over here to check on Meeka and saw the neighbors had called the cops, she asked her why. Our neighbor replied that her husband had called them because she was afraid "someone was going around and poisoning people’s dogs" BULL! If anyone poisoned our dog it was her. 

So I didn’t go look at Meeka. I have a weak stomach and that wasn’t something I wanted to see. Well yesterday was our court to say guilty or not, and we went and got a copy of the police report so we could make our decision as what to do. And I was TICKED! The report said that our neighbor said Meeka never had food or water and that he and his wife were always coming over here and giving her food and water. Several problems with that story. First and foremost Our dog was fed twice a day, once in the morning, and once when Blaine got off work late at night. Were our neighbors outside watching us constantly? Who knows, but I doubt it. Second is, of course she never had food when they saw her because she ate it! Hello!!! How many dogs look at their food and think "hhmmmm I will leave this here all day so the neighbors can see it."?

We only fed her twice a day because we wanted her to stay healthy and not develop health issues and plus as you know she was going to be bred in November. And did you know you only need to feed your animal once every 12 hours? Sooooo....Another problem with that is that they did NOT ask or have our permission to feed our dog, especially not table food. Seriously I don’t even know what she could have fed her, maybe she gave her pork, or chicken with bones and she choked on that....And again, one of us is almost always home. When I am at work, Blaine is here, when he is at work I am here, and I think I would notice someone feeding my dog. As for the water thing, again never ever saw them give her water, but that I would not have minded. she knocked her bowl over ALL day long. We tried a metal bowl, we tried moving it far enough away she could reach it but not walk around it, but when she got tangled up, she couldn’t get to it so we moved it back by her. We tried those that fill up with a 2 liter bottle and it keeps filling as they drink, and she chewed the bottle off. So no she didn’t have water 24 hours a day but she was watered at least 4 times a day if not more. And she usually drank it right up, and we’d refill it, and then she would drink a little more and knock it over. Just so happens we had been gone that day and she has knocked it over, and of course she had already ate her food that day and wouldn’t have gotten fed again until that night. AND again, if they were seeing us "mistreating" our dog or not feeding or watering her, why didn’t they call someone? BECAUSE IT’S BULL! And they know it. And if they were "always giving our dog food and water as they claimed then she always had food and water right?

So it’s in the report she had no water, BUTTTTTT what gets me is how they are saying she died. Remember I didn’t see her, nor understand how they were saying she choked. Like I said her chain was NOT around her neck. So picture this in your mind, and think of your dog, or someone elses, A stake is in the ground, and it has a hook on it, you hook a chain or cord to it, and to the dog’s collar. Well when Meeka would get tangled up, the chain would be around the stake, not around her. And she would sit by it (not like she could go anywhere else) and bark her head off until we came out there and untangled her. By the way she did the same thing when she wanted more water.Bark bark bark until we came and gave it to her. Well her dog house is pretty close to her stake because she was always getting tangled and we didn’t want her to be without it if she got tangled while we were gone. The police report said the chain was tangled around the stake, and ran under her dog house, which means she ran around her dog house and didn’t go back the other way, and that she had choked to death by trying to get in her dog house. Basically doggy suicide. They are saying she pulled away from her stake to get in her house until she choked....Is that not ridiculous? A dog, especially our dog, would not have done that. As soon as she started to choke up, she would have stopped pulling away from her stake, and laid by it. Am I not right? If you had something on your neck, and you pulled away from the person holding it, would you not stop once it started to tighten and hurt? Dummies I swear!

Well we paid our lawyer $250 thanks to Blaine’s grandma, and he is going to talk to the prosecutor and try to have it dismissed, or at least the lowest fine possible. BUT if the pros. doesn’t want to do that and we have to go to trial, it’s another $250 to the lawyer, not to mention whatever fines and court costs and possible bail money if we are found guilty....So everyone out there pray it’s dismissed! The only good news right now is that the people who live behind us are going to testify that they have seen us feed and water our dog all the time, AND that when we were going to be gone all day we have had her come and untangle her and give her water....So it will be neighbor's word against our word and neighbors behind our house’s word.....Thought about going to talk to the neighbors on the other side, but I really don’t want to drag more people in it, especially if they could happen to be friends with jerky neighbors. And that is that........

Why Us???

I have been putting this blog off because I didn’t want to seem like a whiner, or whatever, but I am so upset, and mad, and stressed, that I just have to get it out. So as I talked about in my previous blogs Blaine's work screwed him on his vacation pay he was supposed to get the week Isabella was born, then he hurt his neck, and he has been off work from the 29th of May until yesterday, June 18th. Well we all thought it was going to be ok because he had a short term disability through his job, where if he couldn’t work for a short while, he could still get paid. 

Welllllll We call to his work Friday to see why they hadn’t deposited his check in the bank (by the way his last check was $290 for 2 weeks since they ripped him off) and they told us the insurance place handles it since it was disability. So we call them, and they so, oh we deposited $170 today.....I was like WHAT? Why only 171 bucks for 2 weeks, oh, he is only getting $400 benefits every 2 weeks, and the first 7 days is an exemption period and we don’t pay for that. BUT no one bothered to tell us that BEFORE he decided to take the disability......So I have been looking for a job everywhere. I got an interview at this very very very small cafe in Van Buren, which is a 30 minute drive from here, but I needed anything. He called me today and it’s open M-Sat 6 am to 2 pm, and he said I would work part time, and be out by 2:30 or 3 p.m. I said I would take it. 

So I go over to my neighbors, the annoying one, and ask her if she could watch the kids from 2:30 to 3 or 3:30 when I work, and she was asleep, so her husband said he would tell her I needed to talk to her. Then I got a thing in the mail that said we had been pre approved for a vehicle for zero down, and blah blah, well since we can’t pay our blazer payment, and it’s so high anyways, and only seats 5, we decided to check into this. So we got dressed, Blaine fed and watered the dog, and I didn’t even feed the kids cuz I didn’t think it would take too long. We got there at noon, and at 2 the kids were still hungry and having fits, so I was like look, we need to go eat and my husband has to go to work. So they said they had a car for us, and I could come back alone and get it. SO we ate, dropped Blaine off, and drove back....Me, and 4 kids :|.....

By the time I started to head home it was after 4:30. I changed the girls diapers, and went to see the neighbor. She said yes she would watch them, followed me over to my car, talked to the kids while I made Izzy a bottle, and everything. I told her I had to run to take them to Michael’s and go show Blaine the car. She called me an hour later BAWLING her eyes out saying she thought our dog was dead....I was like, OH  GREAT! I tried to calm her down and said don’t cry, and I was like I don’t know what to do....I won’t be home for a while. SOOOO I called my friend and asked her to run over and see if she was dead. She calls me back to inform me that the neighbor called the police on us....And that they are waiting for me to get home. Then says they are taking pictures and stuff cuz apparently she got tangled up in her chain and choked while we were gone. So I start bawling, and Blaine says he is leaving work and coming with me so I didn’t have to go alone. We get here and what’s worse is the officer is one my friend had tried to set me up with a couple years ago........and it didn’t work out. SO yeah! Then he sits here  getting all mean. saying he is doing me a favor by not taking my husband to jail, and wrote us a ticket and we have to appear in court on Monday. "I am doing you a favor, do you understand that?!!?" was his words. I am just so upset and mad. We didn’t choke her ourselves, we didn’t know she was tangled, we untangle her every day. 

We did not pay almost $200 for a dog to KILL it. And having to go through the trauma and tell the kids their pet is dead isn’t enough, NOOOO they have to slap a fine on us or whatever they are going to do. WELL we will go to court and we will defend ourselves! She was fed, watered, had a dog house, was not abused. AND if the nosey neighbor was so concerned we were mistreating our dog, why did she wait until she was dead to call the police? Maybe she choked her....cuz we have had her chained for 3 months and she hasn’t got tangled on her neck ever! just wrapped around the pole thingy. Anyways, see the bull crap we go through? Yes let’s go buy expensive well bred dogs so we can kill them!!! I told the neighbor to NEVER speak to me again. I am so upset right now. We had to get another baby sitter, on short notice, and she lives 10 minutes from here, the other way from where we need to go to work, so Blaine will have to leave an hour before his work, and I’ll drive an hour a day to pick them up.........I hate life right now. 

OOOOHHH I also forgot to mention that my friend said she saw our lovely neighbor stopping every car that drove by and telling them something..........I bet now our whole neighbor hood thinks we are dog killers. Lord help us, and I pray for that woman. I honestly feel sorry for her because she doesn’t have the slightest idea of the wrath she has brought on herself. If she so much as looks as me I am filing harassment, and I am already going to file trespassing.

Little Edit here.....an update on it all. WELL Tuesday my first day at my new job, and Blaine calls my cell about 12:30 saying he drove alllll the way to the new sitter’s house, and she wasn’t home, and no one answered the phone. So I didn’t know what to do. Luckily I got off in enough time to meet him at his work, so since we can’t rely on her, my boss said since the cafe closes at 2 and Blaine don’t have to be at work till 3, the kids can come up there for about 15 minutes! SO that’s good. On the dog case, Blaine and my friend that came and checked on her BOTH said the chain was not around her neck or body, and that white foam was coming out of her mouth. So we think she was poisoned, and I forgot to mention that when I was asking the neighbor about watching the kids, she "confessed" to me that she had been sneaking our dog table food such as steak and stuff.....I find that out then 1 hour later our dog is dead.... Hmmmm makes me wonder. She has never asked us permission to feed our dog, and I never gave it to her. Bad news is that when we go to court, it’s like when you get a speeding ticket, you say guilty or not guilty...Well if we say guilty, we get slapped a fine, and if we say not guilty, it’s reset for trial. So either way we are out money. We aren’t saying guilty because we aren’t guilty, and we don’t have money for a lawyer, so we will have to defend ourselves, and that still isn’t a sure bet we will be found not guilty, so we could end up not only paying the fine anyways, but court costs as well. So I don’t know what to do?!
But I like my job so far, and I  am making pretty decent money for the hours I work. Hopefully we will be able to get caught up on our bills soon, but with neighbors like ours...........Maybe I left something out. Questions?

Bryceton's Room

Well one room down, and one more to go. We finally got his room done. We really did a horrid job, paint on the trim, paint on the ceiling, a few drops on the carpet, and since we did 2 different colors, it kind of bled through the tape and onto the other color. WE SUCK! But it’s a kid’s room and I guess it’s ok if it looks like a kid painted it right? As promised I took pictures, Ignore the painted trim and ceiling and tell me what you think. We are going to wait a while before we start on the girls....SIGH

Summer Fun

My oh my it’s summer time! I love Summer really. I like to get tan, and swim, and all that. Well here’s what has been going on. The night I wrote the last blog about the kitty pooping, I had locked him up all day and night, and I guess that was enough for him to realize. He didn’t poop on my carpet the next 2 days, so we left him out all night as a trial, and he still has not gone on the carpet any more. Yay for him! We finally decided on a name. Phantom. I guess it’s only right that a guy known as Ghost has a cat named phantom. Madison is still gone to Texas. She will be back in a little over a week. I kinda miss her, but it sure as been less hectic around here.
Things are still tight with money. I wish I could get a job. Blaine is still off work for his neck, it’s been nice having him home all the time. Too bad it can’t last. Isabella is getting big, and more hungry every day.
Oh! We do have some good news. My ex boyfriend’s sister who lives behind us came over the other day, and we were talking and her husband’s brother has a young AKC male boxer he wants to breed....YAY! So I talked to him when I went over there yesterday and he said all he wants in return is a puppy. So it’s all set. In November he will take Meeka to his house (cuz he has a fence) and let the dogs do their business! And then we will have money to build our fence. We are gonna sell them for $350 each. Man I hope she has like 10!
I have been painting Bryceton’s room for a few days now. We had bought all the paint before we even moved in, but I was so sore and tired from the pregnancy that I am just now getting to it, so we will put some pictures up when that is all done. It’s not the best job, but looks better than all white walls.

Our Sunday school class all got together and bought us like 5 packs of diapers, 4 things of wipes, wipe refills, clothes, socks, baby hangers, and a blanket that is so soft. I thought that was so great of them.

Bryceton had his first sleep over friend here last night. My ex’s sister’s boy. He is just 6 months older than Bryceton. We picked him up yesterday and they played with the chalk, slip n slide, and pool. Then played (fought over) xbox and finally they just walked over to his house about 5 minutes ago. Bryceton had fun playing with a non sister kinda person.

I took pictures and stuff yesterday. Fun times.
Guess that’s about it.

Babies, Kittens, and Stress

Oh it’s like I said. "It’s always something...." And it is. And I am so sick of it. When will anything ever go right? Seriously?

So, everything was starting to go right, and we became happy. I guess that’s where we messed up. Should have faked misery.
Blaine’s grandmother signed for us a loan so we could get caught up on bills, and pay some things off. Well so we wouldn’t have another payment to add to our mess, we decided to buy a washer and dryer, and let the rent to own place have theirs back. So we did that. And we bought Madison a mattress for her bed cuz we were renting that too.

And we paid for various other things, including 2 big cans of formula, getting the van tagged, stuff around the house, bottles, etc. Plus we also paid water bill, electric bill, house payment, car payment, blah blah. And we ate the whole time I was in the hospital plus the whole week I got out because I was too sore to cook, and well Blaine isn’t exactly a chef. So we are down to a couple hundred but Robert had gotten a new job, and it was taking the child support office like 4 weeks to start taking child support out again, so we were short about $564 for the month of May that we usually have in our budget. 

So we had to use the rest of the loan money to make up for that. What we had wanted to do was buy a lawn mower because our lawn is a jungle. Well finally last week they put some money on my child support card. Not the whole amount he was behind, but enough for a lawn mower. BUT what happens? Blaine hurts his neck. Seriously. He was crying in pain, couldn’t sleep, moaned and whined when he did sleep. He took muscle relaxers and pain killers, nothing helped. So I called a chiropractor. They get him in, $15 copay, no big deal. They want him to take some medicine, an anti-inflammatory, $40 and insurance won’t cover it through their office. So he needs to go to his family doctor to get a prescription for it that the insurance will cover. So I call to make an appointment there, and "oh you have an outstanding balance from your deductible....$101 and you have to pay that before we can see you...." There goes the lawn mower. Go there and it’s also a $15 copay, plus the $101, Siiiighhh. Then the chiropractor wants him back on Wednesday, $15 copay again. Come back this afternoon again. It’s a 20 minute drive there and back, and gas is not cheap! Pick up his medicine at Wal-greens, $16. Thursday morning, chiropractor again, you guessed it. $15 copay. Come back again this afternoon. More gas. Today is Friday, chiropractor again, yep $15....and gas.

But today is pay day so it’s ok. Blaine’s check will be short because he was off a whole week that I had Isabella, but 3 days of it was supposed to be covered by vacation pay...He gets his check, and it’s only $200 for 2 weeks!!! They shorted him his vacation pay, then told him he only had 2 days he could use, and they will give it to him, ON HIS NEXT PAYCHECK IN 2 WEEKS! How does that help us pay our bills that are due TODAY?

I can’t stand it always being something. We have a house payment, a car payment and a phone bill due today. Sigh again.

Oh and the dumb dog has broke her cord thing she was hooked too, and the neighbor keeps bringing her over here, and we tried to fix it but it’s hopeless. She must have nothing better to do than sit and look out her windows to know when our dog is loose. So I really want to sell this dog. BUT we really need to get a fence so we can sell her puppies, but it is so far away there is nothing we can do until then with her. And we can’t afford to keep buying dog cord things. That is the second one she has broke.

Not to mention all the computer mess we have had.

And we got a kitten, before all this mess happened. And he is pretty but he is annoying, he keeps trying to poop on my carpet instead of his box. I can’t have that. Any ideas? I know they make some kind of spray to make them not go where they shouldn’t.....We thought we were naming him Simba, now I am not sure, what does he look like to you?

Oh and lovely pictures of the baby that likes to be awake from 2 am to 6 am......


"oh it’s been a long day...."


I see you mom!


Yep she loves her mommy....


Awwwee she was crying cuz she wanted to go "bye bye"


And she was crying because she didn’t want to go "bye bye" lol....


Blaine and what I thought was my cat, but apparently it’s his.


Isn’t he pretty?


"cheeeeeeeese"


meow?


"Oh my tummy is sooo full now"


"Not that flashy thing again..."


How can you not love this face?


Looking at daddy


Soooo big!

                             
"mmmmmm fingers"


"It’s tough being so cute."