Unheard of!

May has SUCKED for me.
I’ll be glad when this month is over! In a couple of weeks I will go into the whole story of how truly bad his month sucked, but for now…trust me. SUCKED.

This morning a cop came knocking at my door because ‘The Pricks’ (the neighbors from hell) called because my dog barked at 9 in the morning and woke them up. They are the chronic cop callers on everyone in the neighborhood. I’ve had them called on me because my hedge in the front yard was too high, there were weeds in the backyard that were too high, because I had a boat parked in front of my house for 3 days, because I didn’t have my trash taken for 2 weeks in a row and because they said I left my dog in the house over the weekend and no one was home. They called it on the new neighbors because they parked their car on the street and again for having a trailer parked in the driveway while they were moving in. They called the cops because they had a basketball hoop in the street. The neighbor down the street got a visit from the cops because they were having a pool put in and the workers were making the road dirty.

So in a very unlikely move, I confronted the neighbor after the cops left. I think the fact that the cop was grumpy that he had to come out because the caller was ‘very agitated’ and insisted that my dog was non stop barking all night and into the morning.
I told the cop that my dog is crate trained and sleeps in the crate at night and is let out twice in the morning for 10 to 20 minutes to go pee and run around. The cop said he was tired of the neighbor calling and said something like, ‘I’m sorry you have to live next to a ‘prick’.’ This bolstered my need to finally confront The Prick.

It’s strange how some people can be just total self righteous pricks to other people.

Needless to say, he insisted that my dog was left out all night and barked all night and into the morning and I told him he was wrong.
I left shaking angry.

Then after the icky day, I called a few friends and bitched. I then went on my Flickr site and read all the comments people left. I read some great posts that made me smile.
I read some posts from people needing help. My world got bigger and the stupid things in life didn’t seem so huge anymore.

Something totally cool and UNHEARD of happened. I came up with SPF for next week a WHOLE week before. Did you hear that? A WHOLE WEEK!

It’s about being inspired and how two people see things totally different.
For example, when Shaun takes a picture he sees what he’s already going to do with it. When I take a picture I am trying to capture that moment so when I look at it again I can feel that moment as if it was happening all over again. Not to remember it, but to LIVE it.
Other people take the picture to caputure a moment to remember it.
Then there are people that see things out of this world in things we pass by every single day and might think it was trash. Some people can make something ugly into something so beautiful.

I am inspired by Wave of Modulation. She takes my breath away. Not only with her pictures, but her words that are so real, raw and soul squeezing. This week…it’s about WoM.

1. Something Discarded

2. Lay down on the ground and find something ugly and make it beautiful.

3. Take a picture in the style of the person that inspires you.

#3 is wide open – meaning if you took a picture that you wouldn’t have normally taken, but you thought, ‘hey so-in-so would love this’. Share with us your inspirations!!

Today sucked, but I just spent 2 hours rereading an old friend’s blog and giggling at his pink guitars and it’s hard to not laugh when you read his blog. He’s my internet secret lover…shhhh, don’t tell Shaun.