No need to worry ladies and gentlemen, Abacus is here to keep you safe! No person passing by, no car driving by, heck no squirrel running around gets past this fellow! Yes, ladies and gentlemen you can rest assured that Abacus is on the job.
But like all security Abacus sleeps on the job…
What can you do? He works for cheap: food, petting and occasional playtime. 
I have mentioned before how I don’t look for trouble, trouble tends to find me. I don’t know how it happens so often, but it happens.
One prime example is our dog Abacus. He is 13 months old and mischief on paws. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I had Morpheus for 6 years before we adopted Abacus, but I am certain that having a well-behaved cat-dog has influenced our lack of tolerance on Abacus’ behavior. Regardless, Abacus is well-known in our little circle as being good at getting into trouble. Most of the trouble was avoidable if only my well-meaning soon-to-be-husband had listened to me. Example:
I could go on…but you get the idea. So after a lot of bitching on my part the following finally happened:
Another form of trouble that tends to find me is my tendency of being too nice and not being to say no when a favor is asked of me. This bit me hard in the ass when I agreed to help on for a school dance recital. I spent 8 hours on a Saturday being the buffer shield between parents and the dance teacher. I also had to keep the correct order of the children for the different dance numbers both during the dress rehearsal and the actual recital. Lets just say that I did me some drinking that night when all was said and done. I also learned to NEVER “volunteer” again.
The next case of trouble came in the form of two 7 year olds. Although this ended up being less trouble than I had mentally set myself up for. My soon to be niece had commented on Mother’s Day how she was bummed that she didn’t win the gift of time her uncle and I had donated to the school fundraiser. I told her that since we were her family that we could go to the movies as long as we set it up with her mom. This resulted in her inviting 3 friends to go with us before I go wind of it. I quickly explained to her that she could only have one friend come with and that she needed to stop mentioning the movies deal to other friends for they would get their feelings hurt for not being invited. I then had to text the mom of the child to make sure she had said yes, because children have a way of telling stories that aren’t true. Finally yesterday I took both my future niece and her friend home from school. We ate at Sonic and then headed over to see Rio in 3d. They behaved pretty well [minus two times I had to scold my niece for being a brat].
double trouble
Yup…trouble tends to find me. *sighs* Oh well.
