Oopsie.

So the next time I go to let the beagle out, I should probably check to make sure the back gate ISN'T propped WIDE OPEN from my lawnmowing endeavors.

I am such a bimbo. I mowed the lawn ALL BY MYSELF for the first time over the weekend (woohoo!!!) and then proceeded to leave the gate open. A while later I let the crazy beagle out, and was then treated to my neighbor returning him to me about a half hour after that and consequently pointing out my gate. Thanks, neighbor! So sorry you're living next to a COMPLETE IDIOT!!

I guess it would have been better for all of us had the beagle had made it far, far away and never looked back. I was wondering what all the commotion in the front yard was about. I heard him barking frantically, but I didn't realize (a) it was coming from the front yard and (b) he was trying to get my attention to let him back in the house. Usually people just ring the doorbell! If he was smart, he would have just done that.

But seriously, I usually surmise that everything happens for a reason, so I guess the beagle and I were meant to be. Dammit! Our one collective chance at happiness GONE in a poof of smoke...lousy do-gooding well-intentioned neighbor...

I would like to take this opportunity to DAMN the people at the M&M Mars corporation for making such delicious candies and the GOD-FORSAKEN M&M dispenser that someone conveniently set up approximately three steps from my cube. DAMN YOU, DELICIOUS M&M-MAKING PEOPLE! DAMN YOU AND YOUR CONVENIENT AND FUN M&M DISPENSER AND THE DELECTABLE LITTLE CANDIES ON DISPLAY WITHIN!

Also, a hex on the person that brought it to work, and an even bigger hex on the individual who so thoughtlessly set it up next to MY cube. This is SO unfair! Nobody else has to sit next to the candy dispenser and stare at the chocolate pieces waiting to be had within it all the live long day!!

Sigh. This spells more treadmill time for Hildy B. I'm weary.