Cheryl Beckham Blog

A few years ago I was in Phoenix for a job interview. The company was a new franchising effort and they were staffing up. The open position was to replace someone who was leaving the company, and we hit it off great.Sitting in her office I noticed a pair of strange but cutely unique stuffed animals and a box logo’d with their likeness. I asked about them and she told me they were a gift from one of the franchisees, a new line of Hallmark Cards greeting cards and gifts. They are a pink kitty and a green bunny, named Hoops and YoYo, who are as funny as all get out.

So I went online later and looked for the Hoops and YoYo line and found a huge amount of free e-mail greeting cards and gift items for sale. They are hilarious, check them out sometime!

My daughter convinced me that she was capable and willing to take care of a dog, so for last Christmas I broke down and gave her a puppy, a 6 week old male Pug, that she named Scooter. I have to say that Scooter is one of the smartest and coolest dog that I have ever had the pleasure of being around. But like most puppies, there is the occasional accident that happens in the house and it always seems to happen on the carpet. Sometimes when I walk into the house I can tell and smell that we have a puppy and it is a major turn off, so I need to do something about it before it gets any worse and my Dad starts getting on us about the puppy.

Since I turn to the Internet for just about everything these days I figured that I would look for some odor removal tips and see if there is something out there that I wasn’t aware of. I’ve all ready tried everything that I know of and have asked around at work as well. One of my customers told me about a local company called The Steam Team that did wonders for his mothers carpets, he was even kind enough to send me the link http://www.thesteamteam.com/pet-odor-treatment.shtml  that took me directly where I needed to go to see what this company has to offer and what they are all about.

I’ve given them a shout out and they are scheduled to come out to the house on my next day off which is Tuesday of next week. If they do a good job my Dad is interested in them cleaning the rest of the carpet in the house which hasn’t been done in several years and it certainly could use it. So we will see how it pans out and hopefully we can move on.

I’m so glad that The Animal Planet cable channel as decided to bring back my all time current favorite TV show “Pit Boss” I was afraid that once again a TV show that I enjoy would end up being dropped, since that always (and I mean always) seems to happen to me. From the first day I saw the commercials advertising this up and coming TV show up until the last episode of the last season I have been hooked, hook – line- and sinker as they say.

I have a lot of respect for Shorty and his crew for all that they do for the Pit Bull breed and for what they are doing for the Little People in the world, both are widely misunderstood and this is bringing attention to both worlds.

I can’t believe that I have started watching “Say Yes To The Dress” that comes on The Learning Channel, which I have been watching more and more of lately. I never used to watch anything on TLC but then my TV started having issues with so many channels that I was limited to just a few of the higher channels for a while. Most of the channels that I usually watched were in the lower channels, like 36 and under. So when I could only get 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and sometimes 70 it put a real cramp in my TV viewing routine.

But with anything else, it is all on what you get used to and after while I started getting into the only programs that were being made available to me. The Cake Boss, 19 Kids and Counting,My Strange Addiction, DC Cupcakes, Extreme Couponing, LA Ink,Freaky Eaters, Hoarding: Burried Alive, Sister Wives and my newest one discovery My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding are all on TLC along with Say Yes To The Dress. That’s a lot of shows on one channel from my experiences.

Along with TLC there is MTV, VH1, E and MSNBC, BET and The Animal Planet which have all been getting a lot of my attention these past months. Sometimes change is good, at least in this case it was.

I should have pulled over immediately when I noticed that my engine was running hot. But since there was no safe place to pull over and I had my daughter and her new puppy with me I wanted to make sure that we had some shade, cell phone reception and a bathroom I decided that I would just keep on going to the dog park that was only a few more miles down the road. It’s too bad that my van wasn’t happy with that decision, although it did get us into the dog park’s drive way, just shy of a legal parking space.

As soon as I pulled into the drive way we heard and felt a big BANG from under the hood, while watching very hot water and steam spewing all over in various directions. It’s just a darned good thing that my brother-in-law was home and that he was able to hook up his new towing trailer up to his pick up in a timely fashion and get to us before it started getting dark.

So now I am stuck with no transportation, my van is sitting in a shop waiting to be given an estimate so I’ll know if I need to sell my first born in order to pay for it to be road worthy once again. It sucks to be me today.