Happy Crap-O-Ween

Today has been eventful to say the least. I woke up late this morning and rushed off to school to barely make it in time. Thankfully I got out of work early today (although that means working on Friday instead) to go home and start on a paper that's due tomorrow. I got home and began reading when Toby called and said his car had broken down. So off I went to go get him. When I got there, there were three people helping him: one guy her works with and two older men. On my way home from school, work, or whatever, there are always the same men sitting in lawn chairs on the side of the road in Alton Park. They just sit there all day (perfectly capable, handy men) drinking and smoking. It really makes me wonder where my tax dollars are going and who they are going too. Anyways...Toby broke down right in front of where the men always sit. One guy walks up to him and asks him if he has any money, insinuating that he would only help if Toby gave him cash...apparently you can't make money on kindness. So then a guy from work pulled up (who fortunately for us works on cars), he started helping and then the other guy began to "help," and when I say help, I mean he called over some other guy to come help while he stood there watching. When it was all said and done (and fixed) the guy looks over and asks us for 10 bucks!! Neither of us had any cash so we offered to by them a beer and a pack of smokes. Then he asks me why I can't just get cash at gas station! I mean come on!
So we finally get home and a few trick-or-treaters come and then our freaking cat runs up a tree. This is the second time in a week that she has gotten stuck in a tree. Last week she got stuck up the tree about 25 feet high and fell out just barely missing the drive way(by the way, cats don't always land on their feet, it's a myth). When we got home today after the car debacle, Annyong runs up the tree and won't come down. When we try to climb up a little and get her down she only climbs farther until she is about 35 feet up in the tree. Toby and I try to figure out what to do to get her down and toby comes up with this:


This is when Toby finally got up there and she wouldn't even come to him.






SUCCESS!

Our neighbor came out and started laughing and said she had never seen anyone rescue a cat from a tree before. I knew I married Toby for a reason.