Mindless Chatter - Monday

I have a cold, and I'm not happy about it.

Thursday I felt like I might be getting a cold so did the plop-plop, fizz-fizz (alka seltzer cold plus for you youngsters) and felt FINE.  Then I woke up yesterday feeling like the whole rhino(virus) had come back and sat on my head.  Alternated between not being able to breath at all because of the congestion to having a waterfall from my nose.

I couldn't do my doggie thing yesterday which broke my heart......I love working the adoption table at PetsMart and DS filled in for me and told me that some of my favs went to forever homes.....and I didn't get to say goodbye!  Darned germs that I didn't want to share!  I piddled around all morning, not doing much and feeling like crap, so then I got up and got busy, just kind of pushed through it and actually felt better.  I don't like giving in to not feeling good, because then I usually feel WORSE.  I must have drunk 8 or 9 quarts of ice water yesterday tho.....when you can't breath at all through your nose, the mouth tends to feel like a high dessert at noon.  Between the fluids and just ignoring it yesterday, I do feel better this morning, but am still peeved that I got sick to begin with.  And it's soooo icky waking up with cruddy eyes!

DH of course is over the worst of his...I so appreciate him sharing.  But, not so much.

The dogs didn't get their walk yesterday either.  I was simply not up to being out in the cold and DH isn't comfy walking all of them off lead alone, especially with the two youngsters.  Zeke is being picked up on Friday to go to his forever home, and Charlie NEXT Friday, so want to do some extra work with both this week to be sure that I give them the best possible chance in their forever homes.  But, honestly, both are so smart and so biddable that they've made my job very, very easy.  It's a good thing they are leaving soon because the little stinkers have both wormed their way deep into my heart!  I'm going to try, cold willing, to take each alone into town for some serious leash work.....they don't need it really, but I so want to be sure before I send them off.  The one place I haven't taken them is by the dog pound (that place breaks my heart) so might up the distraction level today and do that.

But, I'd really be thrilled to be able to breath through my nose!

Why do computers have 'glitches'.  Mine is usually very stable but has this intermittent thing when you boot it up the sound card disappears.  Been like this since I got it.  Each time I fix it I think ah that'll keep it from happening again.

No dice.  Worked on it for a couple of hours yesterday and gave up.  Spent over an hour this morning and it is finally working again.

I've been suffering from debilitating headaches (sinus) and have done something awful to my shoulder(ongoing) so I admit to my fuse is short.  Computing issues wasn't what I needed.

Need to prepare for an interview tomorrow.  Need to find the desire to give it my all.

But hey the GIANTS won!!

Bugsy is here irritating me because I'm not going to walk him today.  I can't remember the last time he didn't get a walk, he finds it sacrilege to not get one and will keep begging for it for a couple of hours.

But the Giants won! 

Ummm, yes, the Giants winning certainly added to my head cold misery.  DH grew up in Boston and after 25 years, team loyalties start to rub off.......

I understand - I have been a G fan since birth so have lived through some difficult decades

anyway DH decided to take Bugsy for a walk.  I swear this dog has driving you insane down to a science.  He could get a job as a personal trainer. 

Cheza has to have surgery on Thursday. One of the lower canines came in funny, and the vet is worried it may limit the growth of the bottom part of her mouth and mess up her bite. She is having both lower canines removed just in case. I'm so worried about it, I can't stand it! I wish they could spay her then too so she would only be going under once, but the vet doesn't like to do it so early.

On top of that I have a strange lump on the back of my neck that I am going to get checked out on Thursday.

Everyone send us good thoughts on Thursday. I'm worried sick.

Tomorrow is "Fat Tuesday" and with the amount of food I ate last night I certainly will be still dressed in style for tomorrow...

Thursday is a Solar Eclipse?!

(can you tell I'm reading my calendar....)

Eating Lay's Wavy Original Potato Chips... I'm deff not a sweat tooth, I'm a total salty! :o)

Oh yuck yuck YUCK!! My nose/sinuses are bleeding down into my mouth!!! *vomits*  ick! 

In other Liesje news...I woke up Sunday morning and decided to do some therapeutic shopping.  I wear the same pairs of pants to work because we have a dress code and I need to be able to do "techy" things without clothes getting in the way.  So I decided to play dress up and find a cute outfit to wear shopping, only to discover that NONE of my pants fit!!  Even the smaller ones I kept around for when I lose weight I could pull right off.  I put on my jeans, now known as the "fat jeans" and went straight to the Gap, bought the jeans I wanted from online.  They are two sizes smaller!  The only bad thing is now I only have one single pair of pants that actually fits right.  I put my two pairs of work pants (which I've noticed have been feeling too big) in the dryer so hopefully they shrunk.  I also got a wool peacoat for half off!!  It's soo cute!  It's THIS ONE but this color (took a pic for my mom).  I like it 'cus it's nice and fitted (not too baggy when buttoned), but I can still wear a sweater or fitted fleece under it.

Good luck SalemsMom and Cheza!

The pregnancy has been relatively easy so far, but now I'm starting to get uncomfortable. I can feel more pressure in my belly and chest. I'm huffing and puffing a lot more!   And *burp* I'm more gassy!

Today, my mom came home with a sandwich machine from Walmart. Why? Because she doesn't like the smell of grilled cheese made on a frying pan. Ummm... yeah, we don't make it that often actually, we just have been the past week or so. Being that I am an evil person though, I feel an urge to go make a sandwich right now on a frying pan. This stupid machine she got cuts the sandwich in to triangles, which I don't like either. Way to waste money on crap mom! Also, this could be made on a George Foreman grill, and one can make loads more things on a George Foreman grill.

I don't really have much to do today, other than making a few phone calls, which I hate to do. One of them is in regards to a job I was offered, but I'm going to see if I can delay taking it. I think I can, and I get the impression that the place hires constantly. I decided now was not a good time to make the move, since I'll likely have to be back here several times over the next few months to fight my battle with Temple University.  

GUESS WHAT.... the CEO & VP are down in NY and won't be coming in today! Therefore... I'm going to go home and get Kayla!!! :o)

I've always been way too nervious to ask if I can bring my dog to work lol idk I just assume it's not very professional... but today... I am going to go get her ;o)

I've brought her in once before when the bosses weren't around... hehe excited!! here I go....!!! :o)

Good luck Cheza and SalemsMom!!  I'm thinking about you!

Liesje - lol I have fat jeans too!!  They are 2 sizes too big for me, lol I don't even have to unbutton them to take them off!  They are annoying sometimes though, because if I don't pull them up before I sit, my bum hangs out, literally! lol My BF always points out how classy I am when my bum hangs out lol. 

For some reason today I am very irritable.  Very very easily annoyed. ugh this student is pissing me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank the LORD!  I finally found a boarding facility I can afford.  All of the places I've been checking are $25-$50 per dog, per night.  With 2 dogs at 7 days, that's more than I can afford.  I called my vet on a whim and they do offer boarding, $11/night per dog for 2+ dogs.  Yes please! 

GOOD LUCK CHEZA!!!

It should be ok though. No one likes their baby being operated on. My Belle I found out this year should have had her puppy canines pulled. Her teeth hooked and prohibited the growth of her lower jaw. She eats just fine! She just can't do the little front tooth nibble other dogs like to do. And of course her mother shows EVERYONE Belle's over bite!!! I had no idea it could have been fixed. Oh well. They said if the puppy canines had been pulled her adult ones would have grown in correctly. Learn something new everyday.

I hope your lump turns out to be nothing but a strange lump. I have a couple of those. I will keep you and Cheza in my thoughts.

Worked on taxes this weekend, looks like we will be getting a sizable refund YIPPEE! We plan to get a new computer and put the balance on the big old credit cards. Pay those suckers down a bit. Hopefully no more vet bills and we can get them paid off.

Took Teddi and Max for a walk over the weekend together. We met up with two other Golden's at the park. DH let Max off the leash, Teddi is not allowed...yet. Anyway I am talking with the other dog owners, Teddi, and Max are sniffing with the other dogs,  not really paying attention, when I noticed another Golden. This one was darker like Max and Teddi...WAIT THAT IS TEDDI OMG SHE'S LOOSE!!! Sure enough I pick up the leash and I am only holding a collar. Don't know how she got out of her pinch collar, that thing is hard to fasten and unfasten. We got her corralled and put her collar and leash back on before she even realized she really was free! That could have been a disaster, she would have TAKEN OFF!!! I think the other dogs distracted her. She wants to run so bad.
 

The moderator of that training egroup deleted my snotty reponse to the person who told me to exercise and train my dogs. I sort of figured my response was a bit edgy for that group but boy did that girl make me angry!