Chatterbox Hyena Thread (Everyone is Welcome)

[eatmypixiedust]

Happy 4th of July Hyenas!


I'm at the inlaws house at the beach. It is about 60 degrees, periodically misting, a bit windy and well...what can I say a typical 4th of July on the Washington coast!

DH went to the reservation and bought a big package of fireworks for the kids and later this evening we will go down to the beach to let them off and watch everyone else's also. The fire danger is LOW, so we can have a nice little campfire. Just waiting for 3 more hours to dark so we can head down there. Went to a little 4th of July festival in Westport this afternoon, ate a hot dog and warm freshly made donut (not quit on my diet list)! Went to a few shops and looked around, walked on the docks, came home and took a little nap. Don't know what it is, but every time we go to the beach I spend the first 2 days sleeping.

Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm glad you are having fun. You are so lucky to heave nice cool 60 degree weather. It's 95 degrees outside and I don't like it at all.

I ate lunch at Macaroni Grill with my parents and little sister today. I've been at home but I'm planning to go to Whole Foods in a minute.

 

[sameyeyam]

Hey Pix A Roo!! What's up??

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Hey Pix A Roo!! What's up??

Nothing much. I've been trying to stay indoors to beat the heat. It's just too hot outside. I'm waiting for my older sister to call me because she's driving down from SD. Her birthday is on the 6th. She will be :gasp: 30! I hope she brings her Wii fit.

 

[sameyeyam]

Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm glad you are having fun. You are so lucky to heave nice cool 60 degree weather. It's 95 degrees outside and I don't like it at all.

I ate lunch at Macaroni Grill with my parents and little sister today. I've been at home but I'm planning to go to Whole Foods in a minute.

75 or 80 degrees would be nice! This is bundle up in your hoodie & flannel shirts and watch fireworks weather. Brrrr!

I've seen commercials for Macaroni Grill, but the nearest one is about 50 miles from our house, so I've never been. But it looks tasty. Have a good trip to the store.

 

[sameyeyam]

Nothing much. I've been trying to stay indoors to beat the heat. It's just too hot outside. I'm waiting for my older sister to call me because she's driving down from SD. Her birthday is on the 6th. She will be :gasp: 30! I hope she brings her Wii fit.

DH & his dad just bbq'd some burgers and we had some fresh strawberries after dinner. Dh and the kids are outside now letting off a few of the smaller fireworks, smoke bombs, that sort of thing.

Those birthday's just sort of sneak up on a person don't they? My brother has the Wii fit. I haven't been over to see it yet, just got off my exercise restriction Wednesday. I can now exercise, but nothing that works up a sweat and not too vigorous. In other words, I can walk and do stretching exercises!

 

[sameyeyam]

Now it's raining, not just misting, but raining! BLEECH!!!! Guess I might be sitting in the truck running the windshield wipers as the kids set off fireworks outside!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Good evening, all!

DH is out on his walk. He looked ready to fall asleep after dinner (which, come to think of it, may explain the burnt bbq chicken...) Boys were playing in the backyard, then came in and handed me the package of earplugs I got for Disneyland (that we've never used.) They said they needed them. I explained that these were adult earplugs, they needed the orange kid=sized ones. Twenty seconds later they were back with the orange ones.

I haven't used these before, I was thinking they were like foam, but they're more like supersoft, pliable wax, except the don't have a waxy feel to the touch. We had to try a few times, but finally got four of them to stick (two ears on each boy), and now I can hear them running around screaming in the backyard.

It's not dark yet, but a few yahoos in the neighborhood have been setting off booms and fireworks all day. Last year I think everybody but one guy had the decency to end by 11 PM, which is better than our last neighborhood, where they went on until around 4 AM (the time I had to get up for work.)

DH bought fireworks but jokingly said he might not be awake by the time it gets dark enough to set them off. I am sure once we set foot outside, our neighbors will come over to hang out. (And by neighbors I mean the wacky ones, not the normal ones.) I'm just not sure if I can stomach that. Wish me luck.

 

[eatmypixiedust]

I just got home. My older sister and I went to Whole Foods and then my parents invited me over for dinner. We had some pork chops my mom made. Then I left and went to the gas station and also got a car wash. They have this high-tech car wash system that scrubs your wheels. It's pretty cool. Usually there is a long line and this time I was the only one there. Everyone else was hanging around watching fireworks. I got to see some as I was driving around.

I hope you all had a fun 4th of July!

 

[eatmypixiedust]

I need to get my hyena rump to bed early. I will be at DL tomorrow.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

 

[Alex2kMommy]

It's late!

Folks are still going strong over here, so I'm tired but probably not going to get any sleep anytime soon. Thought I may as well check in on my girlies!

The fireworks DH got were all the very tame variety, and not very many at all: flower blossoms, colored smoke bombs, one fountain, several little things that spun and then went WHOOSH! up into the sky, and a zillion sparklers. No "snakes"? No log cabin or car? And nothing really exciting that explodes in the sky? Oh. I think my little pyro is growing up.

So we started out in the backyard, but the spinning things didn't work well on the patio (which is like rough rock cemented together into squares and laid unevenly), so DH set a brick in the lawn and set something going; it plopped off the brick and tried to spin around in the grass, which thank goodness was very green and healthy, even a bit damp.

I said, "Let's just take it out to the street," and he reluctantly agreed. Sure enough we weren't out there two minutes before the neighbors appeared. The kids had fun playing and chatting with them and I kept my distance. As soon as all the fireworks were gone, DH shooed the kids into the house, so I was glad of that. Turns out he had more fireworks, he just didn't bring them all to the front yard. So we have a bunch of sparklers, smoke bombs and a few other (non-noisy) little things for later on.

We came in and watched a few big fireworks shows on TV (Tacoma's, Seattle's, and I'm not sure what was on Ch.7) then rushed the kids off to bed at 11. Yikes! Hope they sleep in a bit tomorrow.

Hope the boom boom boom calms down soon and we can get a good night's sleep.

 

[Mkgaapril]

Hello my sisters, do I have things to tell you about last night.......

The day started out just like any other 4th of July...out back talking with neighbors at the fence...where we discuss who, what , when, and where...

Every year this neighborhood likes to blast all the illegal fireworks you can get a persons hand on..and we have not really had any problems because its a street party....

We were all kinda miffed because it was rainy and to chilly to get in the pool...blah, blah, blah.....So I decided that it might be fun that night to head up the road and get caught up in the mess to watch the fireworks in town and then watch them from home since this year (I am sad to say) we did not set off our usual amount of fireworks because DH had to work and wasn't getting home till 10:30...no biggie right???



WRONG



Until firework time my MIL wanted my DD to help clean her basement with the promise of a shiny new Ipod she pulled out of her purse she had purchased that morning...Ahhhh....what a payment you say....so true....but it was also hush money..

Since my SIL is the worlds worst pack rat and still lives at home everything she has ever owned since birth is stacked in the basement for the ONE DAY I WILL MOVE OUT dream...(Yeah, ok) and in her bedroom..if you have any imagination when I say her room is so bad you can't open the door all the way..you can get it to a 45 degree angle and that is it..then you dive to the bed that has a space big enough for a body...(she is 28-28 I can't remember this second)

Anyway my MIL has had it with it in the basement...so she employed my DD to help organize , throw trash, and be the look out...She had a good thing going until my MIL (who is the worlds worst liar) decided to call my SIL and get a location and an estimate of how long she would be gone...DING,,,DING,,,DING

When MIL called SIL she first ask where are you and when will you be home..sounds ok...then she was "oh,,,ummm I was just wondering I was thinking I may order some pizza and *****(DD)*** and Gina are here...(great involve the delivery person...all I did was show up to drop off DD so that she could bribe my kid)....she then says oh maybe we will just go to the mall...while my DD screams from across the room....WHAT ABOUT THIS BOX GRANDMA.... MIL quickly hangs up the phone and picks it back up and calls her 10 seconds later "uh listen we are not doing pizza we are going to drop the kid off and go to the casino".... yea ok....anyone who knows me knows I don't miss my street party...DING DING I look at my MIL and ask..where is she..she tells me ..oh well if I were you I would just put up these items here and call it a night because you just gave yourself up and she will be here in 30 mins...

30 mins later guess who arrives and comes swooping in straight to the basement.... DUH...the fight was on....I am trying to break up the fight and I finally just yell at them..."Ya know what...kill each other...I don't care....you are making me late for my parties and I have to get ready"...they stop for a second look at me as if HOW DARE YOU...and I look back and say "YOU HEARD ME GO AHEAD JUST DO IT"

I tell my DD to get her things its time to go that I don't want for us to witness this...they continue on with the fight....

SOOOOOOOOOOO, on to town we go....We barely make it...and I was able to pull over in a parking spot that looked to be saved just for me....we watch and head home for the rest of the block party....

Now let me tell you I am all for big BOOMS on the 4th of July....and so are my neighbors....we all line up our chairs out front and drag our cooler of adult beverages with us...life is good....

WE FORGOT ABOUT THE NEW HILLBILLIES THAT MOVED IN A FEW MONTHS AGO 5 HOUSES DOWN...

The hillbillies had the music up so loud that we all turned ours off...and it was ok , heck save on our electric...they were playing our music so why not...they have people running all over their home...5 year olds playing with matches and bottle rockets, roman candles and firecrackers...(I AM NOT KIDDING....2 OF THE KIDS ARE 5).....

The 5 year olds are shooting them at each other, sending them up the sidewalk at us....we had a row of chairs on my part of sidewalk and driveway and all our mouths were open.....it would have taken a dozer to collect them..

A min or two later we hear "mamma (please use ky lingo when saying that it just sounds better) he is trying to shoot that stick at me.....we all look down again to see who is doing what....out comes big mamma...we are hoping mamma is going to give someone a one two, nope its "if you don't knock it off I am gonna take yurs and give them to yur brother"..OK

again we are all...OMG...and thats with beer in us.......

So we are all sitting in my driveway and its you gonna call, no I am not gonna call I did it last weekend and they know I did and now when they drive by I get the hand salute...I'm not going to call...why don't you call Gina..its your house we are all at....oh, ok ,,,,sure I will,,,,like I want my house egged tonight....besides the LAST 3 TIMES I CALLED THEY SAID WE WERE ALL LIARS...(they must have a scanner going because they always quit when we call the cops and resume when they leave )

I sit and think how can we get the police here without them knowing...at that point those big cannon shots came at us...we all jump....thats it, now I am ticked.....what can I do....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....think, think, think,,,,while I am cleaning my scraped knee from jumping out of the way and falling....(which down the street thought was funny,,,,)

I know, I will go across main road, there is a cop that lives there..so I do...he isn't home...I can't drive I have been drinking so now what...while I was gone my neighbors are getting out their hoses (hey, they are semi thinking)....thats when it happened...

I sit back down and tell everyone that the cop isn't home and now what....we are talking and watching the fireworks...they go on here until around 1-2 am....its big here....(come on its Ky...we don't know anybetter remember...fire...illegal fireworks....beer....) the kids walk part way up the street and start shooting fireworks AT US....at this point I am so mad that I am thinking if I wasn't afraid of serving time I would roll that older kid in plastic and dump him on 75.....but....(think I will get points for that...I may have to edit that).....they are hitting my house, and I am ready to lose my mind....

Thats when the men of our group went and got hoses put together to make 300 ft.of hose and walked down and waited on the kids to come back with more....

Everytime those kids came at us they would squirt their fireworks and ruin them....people don't make the parents of a hillbilly mad...its not pretty...

MAMMA , MAMMA, THAT MAN IS SQUIRTING OUR FIREWORKS...

Every hick at their house came running out front...we were in our driveway...laughing because we know its now a show down.......

Fireworks are shooting, hoses are squirting and words are flying....AND I AM DYING.....ahhhh,,,I see a way to get the cops here, I pick up my neighbors cell phone and call the cops,,,,he is down the road with his hose...(I wasn't using my phone..duh...911 calls are public record I think)

I call the police...they don't know because all the idiots are are outside...they couldn't hear a scanner....at this point people from the other street that go to their back yards to watch are hopping the fence just incase we need some muscle ya know....(mental note...turn on security cameras tonight...yes I have them on my cars....seems as though a few years ago someone thought it would be funny to keep egging my cars so we put them up to record and catch the punk....)

The police come,,,,and it was a free for all....because he didn't SEE the fireworks being shot at us he couldn't do anything and the hillbillies wanted my neighbor arrested for assult...yes from the water hose...At that second I am dying.....when I heard that it was something....are you kidding me...good thing the police are sick of going to that house....he came up to us...and I am laughing so hard I am crying...I have gone pee in my pants I was laughing so hard....he is like I tell you what....look,,,I know everyone back here has these fireworks....I don't care ....but don't let me see you shooting them...I will be back here in 15 mins to check on all of you....THANKS FOR THE WARNING.....so he leaves we are all cracking up


15 mins go by ... the dad that lives in the hillbilly house decides he is going to hop on his mower and drive up and down the street to tick us all off...

NEVER FEAR THE COPS ARE HERE...He was arrested for a DUI....

I am not sure but a few neighbors are going to the owner of the house to tell them that her renters are damaging this and that ... I doubt they do anything for them but it was a night...

HOW WAS YOURS

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Oh BOY Gina sounds like I missed a P A R T Y in your neighborhood.

Assult with a hose.

Can you imagine getting arrested for a DUI on a lawnmower. Priceless.


Our night was pretty lame in comparison.


We went to a party where my dh was miserable at because he didnt know anyone so we left about 8:45 in search of fireworks. Well, he was in no mood ot drive around so he pulled over at the side of a farm road and we watched fireworks from 2 cities over. They looked to be about 1/4 of an inch large. Then he wanted to go home and didnt want to get any closer to them.


I kept calling him a poopy head all night. He was absolutely no fun. I'm so irritated at him right now. the only reason we left the party where they were blasting off their own fireworks illegally was that he promised we would go see some local fireworks up close. I dont consider 20 miles away close.

Anyway, the poopy head is annoying me right now.

 

[funnygarcia]

OMG Gina.. too funny, I had to be careful .. otherwise I would have had to change my clothes.. OMG

can't breathe, can't breathe




HOW WAS YOURS ??


umm, dull in comparison

I love the

(please use ky lingo when saying that it just sounds better)

You're right... it does sound better

 

[funnygarcia]

I kept calling him a poopy head all night. He was absolutely no fun. I'm so irritated at him right now. the only reason we left the party where they were blasting off their own fireworks illegally was that he promised we would go see some local fireworks up close. I dont consider 20 miles away close.

Anyway, the poopy head is annoying me right now.

awwwwwwwwwwwww

Sorry things didn't go as planned.

We sat in our apt -- just chillin-- N watched one of the local community fireworks from the living room window, might as well take advantage of living on the third floor right?

Got up much too early this morning to pick up DNTheMarine tm from the airport. YAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWN

Didn't sleep much as hubby was restless and bouncing out of bed every few hours.. plus the cat stretched out on one of the tall boxes at about 3 am and knocked over a gallon jug of water THUNK in my bedroom.

Hubby growled and scowled-- arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, stupid cat---- she fled to the living room

Pick up at airport was a breeze, considering there are no cars on the highway at 6 am on a Saturday here-- ooooooooo I like that!
Offer DN a bed to sleep in-- nooo I'm going to stay awake. 15 minutes later, sits on love seat, curls up and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ




I bet his neck is gonna hurt reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllly bad when he wakes up

Love Seat + 6 ft Marine = CRICK... OUCH!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Good morning, hyenas!

Happy 5th of July!
The 4th is always fun, but the 5th is nice because all the noise of the 4th ends and people sober up. At least mostly.

Giiiiiinnnaaaaaaa! Oy oy oy! Those are some kinda neighbors. DH doesn't tolerate that kinda stuff well, and would have felt compelled to take care of it himself without calling the police first. He either would be in the hospital, morgue or jail today for something like that. Good thing your DH wasn't home.

Geesh, 5yos running around with that kinda stuff in their hands is scary enough, but actually aiming it at people, that's unreal! I wonder if the police are required to call CPS for that? No?

Busy day today. Boys and I have a fun outing today with my neighborhood friend and her DDs, then sometime later we need to go to Toys R Us to complete a gift for DS's friend, who is having a birthday party tomorrow. We will have ONE CHILD for a few hours tomorrow, WOOHOO!!!

Hope you and your neighbors have recovered from all the excitement, Gina! And thanks for sharing the excitement! First the Catfight at the OK Corral, then a front seat to the competition for the Darwin Awards! Wow.

 

[staley7580]

Wow Gina! Now THAT is a party! HOLY COW!!

Im sorry Shawna. Men suck sometimes, dont they? We watched fireworks from 7-10...on TV. We sent the kids to bed at 10, which is WAY past their bedtime..So even though it sounded like world war 3 outside, they passed the heck out. We made a big ole dinner and watched the Capitol 4th. Can I just say that everything tastes better on the grill? Cause it does.

Anyhoo... I have no clue what we are doing today. Somewhere between Tall SHips, Pike place... I dont know.. Maybe we will just go the Y.

 

[Mkgaapril]

anybody here? I am hoping someone will stop me from cleaning....

 

[Alex2kMommy]

My neighborhood friend and I took our kids (she has 2 girls) to this really cool place in Seattle today. It's a little shop that sells tumbled gemstones. Basically you enter the shop and purchase a bag(s) and spend your time picking among the literally 2 tons of rocks spread out on the floor. They have a rack to take off your shoes, and paving stones forming a path through two rooms. You just take your bag and sit in the rocks, picking through them to find your favorites.

We spent almost an hour there and had so much fun! I let the boys pick two small bags ($8 apiece), my friend's girls each got a medium-sized bag ($15 each, I think), while I got the largest bag ($25) because I'm going to use the stones to make a pattern on a handmade paving stone. There were all kinds of beautiful colored rocks; they gave us a guide showing the different types of stones and where they're from (around the world.) It was very cool!

DS7 picked out fairly large stones that were in interesting shapes. He said, "This is a ship. This is a boomerang. This is a pickle..." It was so funny. I couldn't tell if there was any logic to DS4's selection process, but he easily managed to fill his little bag, and is happy with his choices.

I wish I'd taken the time to look up the names of the rocks I got. I picked out smaller ones that I thought would show well on gray cement. I have several tiger eye, some reddish orange ones, purple ones, blue with white veins, black with white lacey spots (they look like snowflakes to me), golden yellow ones, and some interesting olive green with bits of orange.

After that we took the kids to Taco Time for lunch. All went well until DS4 was done eating. Then he began to get loud, obnoxious and physical, poking and slapping at his brother, trying to slide under the table, and loudly calling the older girl (10yo) "Mr. Peanut"... (Only he didn't say "peanut")...

Can we tell it's past his naptime? Thank goodness my friend thinks he's hilarious and her girls are good natured about it. (Her younger DD8 is the same one that DS4 poked his plastic fork into her chest at a school lunch we attended and giggled about her ****ies.)

Needless to say the last time he tried to crawl under the table, I let him so I could eat the last few bites of lunch and we could get out of there.

We are definitely going to make a return trip to that place. Other than my bag, it was a fairly economical, fun outing!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Oh, and Gina? Apparently we had some contenders for the Darwin Awards in our neighborhood last night. My friend had a cluster of neighbors out enjoying the evening in front of their house, setting off fireworks the families had all bought separately but brought to share. She lives near a house that has an uncontrolled teenager, and he and his bad news friends hang out there often. (The parents are too scared of the kids to do anything about them.)

Anyway, she said these teenagers were there last night and had roman candles and bottle rockets and were shooting them at each other. One of the male neighbors who has young children playing outside marched over at them and told them to knock it off or he was calling the cops. So they quit until this group of neighbors all went indoors, then they started up again in front of the neighbor's house, shooting them at each other and flying toward houses. Idiots!