Monthly Archives: August 2005

Is it weird that I’m craving Birthday Cake?

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I don’t know why I crave Birthday Cake but I will randomly get this strange craving for it! And it is usually around late summer or fall when I get these strange cravings. My theory is that all of our family birthdays are in the spring (March / April) and that is when I’m on Birthday Cake Overload. But then I go so long without Birthday Cake that I end up having these really odd cravings at really odd times!

Not a whole lot to mention. I got called in to work this morning for about 6 hours and then I came in tonight to work my scheduled shift. The Mysterious Red M is taking a few days of PTO to relax a little bit before she starts her last semester as a College Student! Because she has taken this time off, I’m working a few night shifts for her to cover the shift. It’s not bad! Just hard to get my body back into that routine…

I’m hoping to have some updated pictures of Astro around Wednesday-ish. Tuesday is his 11 week mark, so I plan to take pictures on that day. Well, I guess I should correct myself before I totally give off the wrong impression. Gene is the one who takes most of our pictures, so he gets most credit for them. Astro can “sit” very well, and is doing pretty good with “lay” and “shake.” The next thing he will be learning is “heel.” I’ve never in my life taught a dog to “heel” and quite honestly, I’m not exactly sure where to start or how to go about teaching it or what it consists of. We’ll figure it out though! Can’t have a 150+ lb dog pulling us around the neighborhood when he is on a leash!

Speaking of Gene, I should mention that he is the absolute most awesome person in the world! I got up this evening to an extremely yummy smell coming through the house! I think it was coming through the air vents because the bedroom door was shut and I could smell it. Did I mention that the bedroom is on the complete opposite end of the house! So, yeah he made me dinner! Sweetest boy ever!!! I love him so absolutely much!

I hate thinking up subject titles

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Astro is doing tons better! I want to take some updated pictures of him but my camera battery is dead. We had a really awful storm this evening and I went to take some pictures of it and bam, the camera wouldn’t turn on!

And speaking of that storm, boy was it a biggun! We had 65-70 MPH winds with torrential rains. We had to stack up our patio furniture and move it closer to the house because right before the storm hit, a huge wind gust came through and I saw our chairs and stuff sliding across the patio! Hah. It was hilarious. So we moved all of that up to the house and I’m glad we did!

We live next to a pretty busy street and when we were outside I think I saw a mattress fly out of the back of someone’s truck! I was actually kind of afraid that it was going to fly into our backyard or take down our back fence. We need that fence there! Otherwise, the dogs would be roadkill in seconds.

That is all for now. I think I’m going to have to change this layout or lighten up the background color. Something about it is not rubbing me the right way and it’s slightly annoying me.

Official name change from Astro to El Barfarino

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Last night was definitely not a good night! It was actually the first night I’ve had with very little sleep due to Astro. The first couple of nights we had them were pretty sleepless due to crying. Now last night was a totally different, more disgusting story.

I gave Astro and Emma both a “Greenie” (little green toothbrush shaped bone to chew on) and they both seemed to really enjoy it. Well, at 2:30 AM I woke up to a sound that was quite familiar, the sound of a dog throwing up! I got up, turned the light on and sure enough Astro had thrown up all over inside the crate. Put him and Emma outside while I get their blankets in the wash and then let them back in to play until the blankets are done.

The blankets are almost done and I see Astro starting to gag on the couch, I rush him outside and he throws up again. Poor little guy!! I felt so badly for him. But he wasn’t acting sick, at all. No lethargy or any other signs of being ill. He would just throw up and then go back to playing like his old self. So I had to hang their blankets up in the house because our dryer still is not fixed (long story there), put some towels down in their crate (not as soft but that is all I had until the blankets dry!) and put them back in bed. Now it is about 3 AM.

But apparently that was not the last of the throwing up, because a little after 4 AM, I wake up AGAIN to puking sounds. Turn the bedside light on and he is gagging but nothing is coming out. He only does it once, then lays down and goes to sleep for the night. So this morning I’ve let them both outside and they seem to be doing fine out there. I’m really debating on whether or not to feed him as much as I have been, in case his stomache is still a little sensitive.

A lot of people are grossed out by dog puke but I’m not at all. I’ve totally be de-sensitized to it because of Emma. Emma has a very weak stomache (she is fine health-wise), so if she gets WAY too excited or is extremely active near the time she eats, sometimes she will throw up. She threw up a lot as a puppy. Unfortunately she was fine until we had her spayed and that is when the throwing up ordeal started. Anyway, that is a little info on how my night went. Luckily I got to sleep until 9:30. Which is definitely a blessing!

Why, hello there Mister McYawnster

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My body does not want the day to start. Actually, it keeps telling me to shut up and go back to bed. I’m trying my hardest not to listen to what it says and just force it to be awake. See, I hurt my back on Monday morning and ever since then, I’ve been having trouble getting motivated. Work has been a challenge and when I come home all I want to do is sleep, sleep, sleep!

Luckily today is my day off so I can try my best to relax my back and hope that by the next day or 2 it is completely better. When I’m in constant pain like this, it turns me into a big ‘ol grouch. Who wants to be around a grouch all day? Not me! Well, going to go enjoy the peace and quiet while the doggies sleep!

P.S. I uploaded a few more pictures of Astro to my flickr!

C’mon, the bandwagon is waiting!

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I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and use Flickr. It seems like a great little photo sharing software and I like the idea that I can implement it into MT without much work at all. Anyway, that is really all I can think of updating right now. I’m at work and bored out of my mind currently. Weekends tend to be like that!

I present to you…Bootylicious!

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The new layout is up! After much fighting with this thing, it is finally here! Thank goodness. And now I figured out how to do it, I can just change my banner and colors whenever I want to. Hopefully for now on, things will always be this easy. Now I just gotta wait on the photoblog to get working.

Astro and Emma are driving me nuts right now. Astro likes to hide under the beds. Drives me batty! I just threw (not literally) them outside to play. Hopefully they can run off some of their energy. I’m ready to take a nap. I’m so tired! Gene and I went to the Farmer’s Market today and got some fresh Pecan Bread, Tomato Basil Bread, and 5 Cheese Bread. Oh and fresh blueberries! More later, I suppose. I have a Pampered Chef party to go to today.

Putting the photolog on hold

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As the title states, I am in fact putting my photo log idea on hold for a couple of weeks. Apparently my webhost is moving to a new provider so I can’t get the things installed that I need installed in order for MT to function as a photo log. Hopefully in a couple of weeks it will work better!

Nothing else is really new right now. We went over to Kaycee’s house to do up some laundry. Our dryer is still not in working condition. Something that I hope is remedied by the end of the month. I need a dryer! Oklahoma’s unpredictable summer weather prohibits me from hanging my clothes out on the line every day of the week. Plus, nothing is worse than having your clothes out drying in the warm, fresh sun and out of nowhere, and I mean literally out of nowhere, a rainstorm runs through. Not. Good. !