Winging it

I hate when I see big date gaps here. So I’m going to just riff.

Why is the Bachelor/Bachelorette so popular? I don’t think any of the 15 or so bachelors ever married the final rose. One bachelorette married and had a kid. Yet they promote these shows with a ring in the “or.” And then seven million or so people watch and are “addicted.” I think the addiction is the catfights between the women for the guy. Everybody loves catfights…and tears. This show really makes women look bad (maybe men, too, but most of the time it’s one guy with 25 girls fighting over him and then each other.) Blah.

I rent – therefore I don’t have to do anything. I’m also mystified at the actions of my new renter neighbor. The “landlord” (haven’t seen her in months) played games with her ex-husband during their divorce. She ended up taking the house from him, refused to settle for a lower price, and now I have to deal with people who don’t care about the property, which also seems to include her. I still am picking up leaves she refused to rake from her tree. I end up picking up the renters’ junk that they drop on the street in front of my house. I end up picking up used napkins and paper plates from the animal-ripped garbage bag that they leave on the deck. I end up picking up Christmas tree debries that the wind blows over to me since they can’t take their tree, which is now a skeleton, out to the garbage can.

Sanitation workers do not make special trips into yards to grab all the garbage thrown out the back door. If I ever acted like that, my parents would disown me in two seconds flat. Just because someone is a renter doesn’t mean they aren’t suppose to be courteous of their neighbors and be sanitary. Now I have to hope we don’t get rats and continue to be the housemaid.

Arthur Foote’s Suite for Strings is awesome music. (Thought I should end on a positive note.)