De Ja Day!

It's been a case of de ja vu all day today.  I did a route in Lapeer finally, partly made up of a route I never did and one I did for about 2 and a half years.  It was weird.  How things change or stay the same, and how some remembered me.  One guy said I was on the wrong side of the house, until I told him I "switched teams", and that's when he figured out who I was - the girl who they gave cinnamin rolls to and once pancakes, lol.  Hey, you leave without eating and end up with the munchies.  You burn the calories out there (but can end up eating them back if you don't watch it).  I also ran into the other company's reader, doing the route the same as I had left it years ago.  He said he liked it, one of his favorite routes and he liked how I had it set up, drive first, walk last.  There's a lot of walking on it since he covers more territory than I do.  I found myself standing in front of electric meters, not having to read them anymore.  I'm so used to reading both.  One of the things that made me happy was finding this old fat yellow lab that used to have only about 20 square feet for his kennel.  He was always unhappy.  I fed him leftover hashbrowns from Mickey's.  I kinda forgot about him until I came up to the house and saw that he had tons of space and shelter.  I actually got to pet him for a change.  Over 2 years seeing him in this cage month after month, locked up, but now he was obviously happy and you could tell he remembered me.  Such a sweety.  Yeah, you get to know the dogs and have your favorites.

I got report cards.  Josh is on the honor roll (no surprise).  Ryan is flunking English (again, also no surprise) and the school still won't give me Bill's because someone stole his lock.  It's principle now, why I don't pay for it.  Nick doesn't get a report card but he now says toybox really well and just told me "feet down coat off", in other words "mom, take your coat off the stool and put your feet down, I'm sitting here".  Funny boy.  What's even funnier is that I taught him to call Eric a monkey butt and he says it well.