All my family and FB friends know by now that I actually did get 2 kids Monday. The black one with white dots is a month old and I named her Dottie Belle. The mostly white one is only 2 weeks old and her name is Gypsy Zoli in spite of the fact that I put on Facebook that her name is Ginger. I will explain that later.
According to one source, the term Got your goat comes from horse racing in the early 20th century. Thorough bred race horses tend to be very high strung animals. So it was a practice to put a goat beside each horse to calm it down. If an opponent wanted to increase his odds of winning, he would steal the other one's goat. Got your goat!
In our terms it means to annoy.
Well, I have become rather annoyed by at least a couple of board members on numerous occasions. Hence, I named my cute little baby goats after them. Yes Dottie Bell is a fellow board member. I waited 2 weeks on a brown goat to give birth to a brown kid so I could name it Ginger (the other board member), but she had 2 black ones instead. I ended up getting a cute little white one with a black face and black legs. I just finished reading Zoli, a book about a gypsy, so Gypsy Zoli became the name of that goat.
When I am sitting through a board meeting and one of those board members begin to annoy me, I calm myself down and smile at the thought of my cute little goats going bah, bah, bah.
Yes, I have a devilish passive aggressive side. A friend said it is like the donkey braying ring tone she assigned to her husband's ex-wife's number. Yes, much like that. It gives you something to enjoy about the moment.