M...m...Mondays

for the record I HATE mondays. with a passion.

especially the ones where they are holidays and everyone stays home. our schedule gets thrown off and the girl WILL NOT sleep. than there is that annoying creature who throws melodramatic hissy fits because 'life isn't fair' *rolls eyes* well DUH! it isn't fair now suck it up and get over it. I swear to goodness I wish that i could just lock her up in a small cage and let her suffer. I am tired of her waking kenzie and not being held responsible for it.

*pauses* hold on a second i'm going to go on a rant about what i am tired of:

I am tired of:

• annoying teenage sisters
• people who scream at the top of their lungs and wake kenzie
• getting in trouble for yelling at them when they wake kenzie cause i JUST GOT HER TO SLEEP
• living with my parents(sadly its the only thing i can afford)
• not having my car so i can go out when i want to
• not having a job so i get more human contact
• my mother who is a complete and utter witch
• my sister whom is a spoiled little brat- seriously
• people telling me that my hair makes me look like a 'goth' uh no it doesnt

Okay i think thats it for the moment. okay am off now

Shelter sundays is off today

for those wondering- there wont be a shelter sundays today as i didn't work @ the shelter today.

instead i'll share my rather odd dream from the other night.

So as many of you know i am in absolute love over David Hewlett he is an amazing awesome funny, actor who I just can't get enough of. I swear I have NO IDEA where this dream came from as I can't explain it away as muscle relaxers since I hadn't taken any.

So anyways the other night I dreamt that I was sitting and watching the news in our living room on tv and that all the anchors were favorite characters from different TV shows I watch. Finally the weather came on(as I ALWAYS watch the weather) and there was David doing the weather(it wasn't rodney it was DAVID) so they go through the forecast for the week and the radar and whatnot, and then they get to the weather map(you know the one that lists the towns on it?) and all the names of the towns behind david are of different characters he has played- there was Rodney, Mckay, Grant, Jansky, Mel, Patrick, etc.

I woke up shortly thereafter wondering if my brain has been spending too much time thinking about david lately. Maybe my fan-girlishness is becoming an obsession?

Though I must say lately I have been having the STRANGEST dreams and not all of them can be attributed to my muscle relaxers as I try to avoid taking them unless I have to. Heck I didn't even have dreams this wierd when I was preggo with kenzie, and NO I am NOT preggo again so don't even say it!

weekly winners 1/20

it was tough to pick some of my favorites this week but since i didn't have alot to pick from i just used 'em. Something about my favorite camera is still broken. See its shutter button fell off while hiking- doesn't work so well without a shutter button.



so without further ado here are mine for the week you can find others HERE

Our 'new' boxer:


just for fun i made the image 'negative' and got this:


Pretty neat aye?

The girl training her dog:


The girl as a nut:


have i mentioned how much i love negative-ness when it comes to photos? check out the backround of the same pic as a 'negative':

I got the girl to give me a NICE smile not some goofy nutty grin for once:

I dont think i've ever seen her THIS excited:



Seriously its just cute the 'gimme' hand!


if you turn it 'negative' it really seems to 'pop' out!

Country Living Expo

Today was the Country Living Expo(CLE) it seemed to go off without a hitch. Well there were a few things that didn't happen the way they should but I just rolled with them here is how my day went:

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4:30 am- Wake up and go take care of mackenzie, for some reason Kenzie decided that TODAY was the day that she HAD to get up early. So I missed out on a half hour of sleep.

5:30 am- Kenzie went back to bed and I flopped on the couch for a bit since I didn't have to be in town until 6:30

6 am- got up pulled on my goat shirt shoved "ronald"(my laptop) into the bag and grabbed gloves and hat got ready to go

6:15 am- left for town

6:30 am- arrived at the school to find 4 scary looking tour buses parked out front- turned out it was ski bus. oh and there were about 5 livestock advisors there. we started setting up and were done with that by about 7:45

8am- doors opened and people started arriving, I was in-charge of speaker check in meaning i gave the speakers their blue folder(stuffed with goodies), and showed them on the map where we were NOW and where they had to be(classroom) before handing them off to an FFA kid to walk them out to their room.

9:30am- Vicky arrived I checked her in and than we drove over to her classroom and got set up for her cheese class. Sometime between here and 10:30ish she gave me the BESTEST christmas present EVER- a gift certificate for pick of the litter from her goats. Have I mentioned how awesome she is?

10:40-12:10 pm- Vicky's cheese class- it was quite popular and there were about 40-50 people in there.

approx. 1pm- We went and ate our prime rib it was okay but I wasn't super hungry.

~1:30 pm- I went and dropped my laptop off in the check in area and wandered the vendors checking them out.

~2:15 pm- did one last run through of my presentation only found 1 small problem which i fixed.

2:50 pm- was at my classroom got quickly set up and started my class. this is when i started having a couple of issues.

1. Ronald decided that this would be a good day to have my virus software go off in the MIDDLE of my presentation- mind you I had a GIANT projector screen- i just blew it off with a 'well like i said before my laptops been having issues lately'
2. Ronald also decided that THIS was the time to 'forget' some of my presentation, I got about halfway through my presentation and suddenly stuff was 'missing' from my slides. that was great fun, thankfully I switched to 'edit' view and it showed up.

4:20 pm- my class was over so we headed back to the registration area and found that the water that i'd gotten donated had barely been used. So I grabbed my 2(paid for) cases, and caught a ride home from vicky.

K.I.S.S.

Tonights blog will be short and simple as tommorow is the BIG DAY for my WSU Livestock Masters foundation Country Living Expo, and Cattlemen's Winter school. I have to be @ the school AT 6:30 in the AM to help set up and what not. Ought to be fun considering I am NOT a morning person.

2 quick notes(i will cover these more later this weekend):

1) Kenzie has her speech therapy evaluation on January 31st at 1pm

2) I have an appointment with a dermatologist about my wierd skin spots on the 19th of Febuary at 3:20 Pm.

Okay off to sleep see ya'll tommorow

Buts, Butts and juice

So today was a pretty blah day except for the fact that mackenzie learned a new word- BUT, at the moment she doesn't know what it means thankfully but she wanders around pointing at things and going 'but' (which comes out sounding like fut) its cute but will get old quick i can tell i think this brings her up to a grand total of 13 words. We are supposed to be getting scheduled for a speech therapy consult though I think she is pretty normal, she babbles a lot she just doesn't like to speak. Though I guess its better to be safe than sorry.

(really long back story here)

Now as many of you know back when kenzie was 3 months old she got her first UTI which was diagnosed by the wonderful folks at the hospital's ER. We were later refered down to children's by our FP's partner(she was on maternity leave) to get a VCUG(flouriscopic voiding cytourerthrogram) and a Renal Ultrasound to diagnose, any problems. It was at that time she was diagnosed with Vesicoureteral Refluxation of the III grade. The PA that we saw I didn't like(i didn't know at the time she was a PA) she had the WORST bedside manner EVER. Basically she told us that 'there is nothing we can do other than leave her on antibiotics'. So we came home with a prescription for some bactrin and orders to follow up with our FP.

Well we followed up with her at our regular WCC in december(she'd been diagnosed in september) at 9 months old. We were at that time given orders to re-see the PA in June/July to follow up a year after diagnosis. A few weeks later, Kenzie became inconsolable, fussy and was just not herself. So I called the FP's office to try and get an appointment as I suspected a new UTI. Well unfortunatly our FP was unable to see her BUT the brand new pediatrician just happened to have openings. We got an appointment less than an hour after I called(i seriously LOVE our pedi she's amazing) went in and took a urine sample by cath(which if you have never had to hold your child down while they catherize them count your lucky stars) and confirmed that she had a UTI. The Ped sent us home with a scrip for Amoxicillian, and orders to come back in a couple days for a reculture. Well we went home did the scrip routine, and came back. We ran another culture to find that her levels hadn't dropped at all in fact the little buggy boys had MULITPLIED. So we opted for some stronger antibiotic, and a order to check back monday. Well come monday still no change other than that the levels had stayed static and not gone up. So at that point she sends us home with some Omnicef, and let me tell you with in HOURS of her first dose kenzie was a whole new baby.

All the while while this was going on we(the ped and i) had been talking about when we were supposed to follow up with children's for a repeat VCUG and Renal U/s. Since I had so severely disliked the last urologist we'd seen down there(the PA) I hopped onto their website and started researching doc's. Well that was when I came across the little fact that the urologist we'd seen was a PA not an MD. So needless to say I was NOT a happy camper. I was lucky enough to find a WONDERFUL Doctor down there who SPECIALIZES in VUR. So on our next follow up to the pedi, when she and I decided it would probably be best to follow up sooner w/ the doc, I told her that I wanted to see Dr. Joyner. She said she'd get it set up and have them call us. A couple days later we got a call from children's to arrange the appointment with him. Apparently he is a very busy man because the first available appointment was in APRIL. But hey, this guy is the best right? OF course we'll wait for the best.

Between january and april she kept having reccurring bladder infections and was on constant antibiotics that caused her to have a HORRIBLE diaper rash. Imagine what your feet look like after they have been in wet socks all day. Than add in some blood, and giant cracks, and general pain. She had to have a 6 step diapering regime for it. first we had to change her as soon as we knew she was wet, secondly we had to wipe her with a wet WASHCLOTH(no wipies), (3)than we had to dry her with a dry washcloth, (4) apply a LIGHT coat of baby powder, than the bactrin ointment(for the open sores), (5) coat the rest in calmoseptine(used for bedsores) and finally (6) we could apply a new diaper. Her diaper rash got so bad that we actually had her on Zyrtec for a while because it helped with the puffiness, redness, and swelling of her poor butt. Every diaper change was pure hell.

Our visit to childrens was April 10th. I must say that I LOVED Dr. J from the moment we met him. It was night and day from our last Urologist. He smiled, had a wonderful bedside manner, appreciated the fact that I had done my research, and actually joked around with me between his explanations(i have a really good sense of humor that comes in handy down there sometimes). He looked at her films and reconfirmed what we already knew that she had a stage III VUR and had been having breakthrough infections on the meds. He and I discussed the options and we both agreed that doing a Deflux injection endoscopicly would be the best way to handle the treatment. Now at that point I expected that we would have at least a week to wait before the procedure. It just happened that he had an opening a few days later on the 13th and could squeeze her into the schedule. So we went in on Friday the 13th and had the endoscopic procedure done it didn't take that long and she got both her right and left sides done(she'd orignally just shown symptoms on the right in the VCUG but the other side looked just as bad). She was put on Nitrofurantoin and we were instructed to follow up in 6 weeks with another VCUG. We did that and came back and she was ALL better(mommy sigh of relief) so we started 'weaning' her off her meds and had her completely off by mid-july. Since than we have had ZERO breakthrough infections. We had a couple suspected breakthroughs but they turned out to be false alarms.

(END LONG BACK STORY)

So that brings us to tonight. I fed kenzie dinner and took her out of her high chair and went to carry her upstairs to bed. Just as soon as I touched her she started CLENCHING(tightening her abs and body) which isn't a good thing(if you've ever tried to carry a board stiff toddler you know what i mean). So I carry her upstairs her wailing incosolably the whole time that I am touching her. We get upstairs and I take her jammy off(i'm a bad mother i know) to change her diaper for bed, and pull the diaper off to reveal a HORRID diaper rash. Now over the course of the last few months I have come to realize that juice makes her have really acidic urine/poop so I try to avoid it at all costs. I gave her a SMALL amount yesterday(1/2 ounce in 9 ounces of water) so I am wondering if she is THAT sensitive or if it might possibly be another UTI as she is also exhibiting her 'symptoms'(she doesn't do textbook UTI symptoms) of clenching, being generally inconsolable, running a fever(100.9), and just not being herself. At this point I am not tooo worried because our 'magic number' is 101.5 which at that point we MUST go into either the dr's office, emergent care, or the ER depending on the hour. Sooo wish us luck that it isn't a UTI.

Oh, My, GOSH!

So I was going to start doing wordless wednesdays' today but i am just too excited to do that. So instead I will tell you the ROCK MY SOCKS OFF news i got at my WSU CLE/CWS meeting tonight. We originally(a little over 10 weeks ago) decided our 'high end' goal for attendance would be 300 people. Well last week we had exactly 89 registered on wednesday. Today we have 449 people who are already PRE-REGISTERED! Holy cow! I mean that is not including the 51 instructors that brings our total to 500 people, or an increease of 380 people in a WEEK, 7 days! WOW! So if you aren't signed up already get your butt on the ball and get your spot now its going to be a jampacked day!

Sleep and other such things

(written yesterday)

So today I got bored and sat and counted how much little sleep i have really been getting the last week and a half. I figured it out to a total of 20 hours in 11 days I'm sure that SOUNDS like a lot but when you break it down it really isn't. It works out to around 2 hours per night. No wonder I've been so tired. I know that it doesn't help that I am having panic attacks when I lay down and that my neck, and back are constantly sore.

I feel bad for my friends who have been helping me through my panic attacks(i mean who really wants to be woken up at 1:30 in the morning by a hysterical person?). I know that I am lucky to have them though because otherwise I wouldn't even be garnering that 2 hour average of sleep.

I also went to the doctor today and was diagnosed as having a neck sprain and it was while there that I realized how limited my movement has been since the accident. I used to be quite flexible, but I could barely turn my head or bend it anyway other than forward. The doctor ordered that I have some physical therapy pain & torture 1-2 x's a week for 2-8 weeks. She also wants me to take ibuprofen since i have been avoiding taking anything(i'm kind of anti-drug unless it is truely nessacary). So hopefully that will help me out some.

I was going to write a really insightful post....

Instead you'll just have to make due with a story about what happened while I was on the phone today.

Today I was on the phone enjoying a nice adult conversation when I realized that the house was completely silent. Normally that isn't a big deal because it means that kenzie is down for a nap, BUT today i KNEW that I had yet to put her down because her pre-nap drink was still sitting on top of the TV. So I go off looking for her and cant find her in any of her usual hiding places, like the toy bin, behind the chair or her FAVORITE:

The Closet

I close the closet door only to realize that the bathroom door is open, I don't recall opening it but hey I have mommy brain I can barely remember where I left my keys. So I push the door open and find kenzie standing at the toilet with a cup half full to her lips chugging down toilet water. My first reaction was to laugh but than I realized that I didn't know wether it was CLEAN or not, so I rush over there to find that it was clean, pry the cup out of her hands, and pick her up and carry her out of the bathroom while trying to avoid sloppy baby kisses.

Though I did find a new way to make yourself look skinny:



Though I'm not sure if the rockin' green tile adds weight or not.....

Sunday Shelter Stories

As many of you know on Sunday afternoon's I spend 4 hours volunteering in the local Animal Shelter's Vet Clinic. I have been volunteering with the shelter for 4 years since they opened in May of 2003. I started out as a 'Cat Kennel Technician', 'Dog Walker', and than moved up to a "Socializer" and am now a "Veterinary Nurse Assistant". This has given me a very interesting insight into the world of animal rescue and how shelters work. Therefore I think each Sunday that I will be doing a series called Shelter Stories. In it I will be sharing antidotes from the past and possibly even the story of one of our animals who is currently there.
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Todays story will actually be a tale from today about a dog that came into the shelter. Now normally we don't take dogs directly from the public as we are a 'rescue organization' who saves animals in over crowded shelters from being put to sleep. Well today this nice couple stopped by, with a dog that they had found. Apparently they were driving home from the San Jaun Islands and were getting ready to get on the freeway to head home when they saw this scared looking dog running towards the freeway on-ramp. They quickly pulled over when they noticed that she seemed to be limping and picked her up. They dropped by(as this was nearing closing time) with the dog scared that she'd been hit by a car(because of the limp) or that she had possibly fallen off the back of someone's truck. Since they live a good distance away from where they found her(several hours) they didn't want to take her farther from home than nessacery so they wondered if there was anything we could do for her. The wonderful staff decided that YES we could take her in for the night at least and than if nothing else send her up to the 'regional' shelter in the morning(where her owners are more likely to look for her) so that she can hopefully be found.

Things I found in My Purse

So today I cleaned out my purse:



I found LOTS of interesting items inside:


In one of the outside pockets I found a single "Wet Ones" wipe, and a Pampers diaper wipe


In the other outside pocket I found a packet of Tamiflu Tissues UNOPENED!


In the front pocket I found exactly TWO pens

Inside was really really messy.


from the top left:
2 Energy Pills, a emery board, 2 'Pump Tech' energy/diet pills, 2 packages of Lansinoh ointment, a tube of Arm & Hammer Toothpaste, 2 packages of Lansinoh disposable breast pads, 7 packages Pampers baby wipes(lavender singles), Bannana Boat Kids Sunblock SPF 30, Bannana Boat Baby Sunblock SPF 50, Spray bottle of Eucerin Anti Itch, Tube of Eucerin Lotion, Bannana Boat Dark Tanning Lotion SPF 4, and Eye Gel(you know for those times my eyes feel puffy ;) )


4 Single packs of Tissue Brand Tissues, a Tube of Mascara, another Tube of lotion(though i think its Aquaphor), a pair of nail clippers, and a trial size package of Dermaphase 365(for those times i want to freeze away fine lines in less than 10 minutes in one easy step)



I also have a veritable Drugstore in one pocket it contains:
1 BodiHeat heat pack, 1 Trial size of lubriderm lotion, Tylenol, Pecid Complete, a Packet of Benefiber, Bayer, Aleve, a Packet of Rolaids, a SalonPas heat patch, Alka Seltzer, Orajel Toothache Powder, 2 hair ties, and some Alavert.

So If you are ever in washington and you run into me and you happen to have some ache, pain, or other complaint I probably carry a cure for it in my purse. Unless of course you happen to need to see my ID because I happen to notice that I don't carry my WALLET in my purse. Or my Cell phone... Hmmm maybe I should make some room for them alongside the folding brush I got today and the mini mirror.....

I almost forgot I can't even figure out why some of this stuff is in there, as it has been MONTHS since I used it. I mean we haven't been breastfeeding since april the 4th when she turned 13 months old and I left on my trip to WSU....

Weekly winners

So heres *crossing my fingers* that this works Lotus i'm not all savy with how to do buttons and what not...






Look Mom! they came!



Soo soft!

Insert witty title here

So today has been an all around F'ed up day. It started with me 'oversleeping'(read sleeping for the first notable stretch all week), and running behind. That was followed by a long day with Gma, and a trip to the mall. All of which involved my current least favorite activity- riding in the car.

On a bright note I went to the local grocery mart here and they agreed to donate 300 bottles of water to our Country Living Expo.

In case you hadn't heard(and i know some of my fair readers havent) I was in a car accident a week ago thursday(yesterday). I wasn't physically hurt(i'll confirm this fact tuesday hopefully if all goes well) but mentally I have become a hyperventilating ball of goo. My neck and upper back have been seriously sore since it happened, and so the Dr. at the Walk In Clinic prescribed me muscle relaxers for 4 x's a day. Uh, how'mI supposed to take care of Kenzie? So I have been trying to avoid them as A) they turn me into a ball of goo, and B) they make me a wee bit paranoid(the other night i spent 4 hours sitting by kenzies crib watching her sleep). To make everything even more wonderful the last few nights(since Tuesday) I have been having horrific panic attacks. I literally cannot close my eyes easily and fearlessly. I have taken to sleeping(laying there staring at the ceiling) with Peter, and Bob along with my sound machine set to waves after making the whole room smell like coconuts to distract me.

I tried to explain to Dad today that yesterday the reason I was so mad at him was that when I updated him on the stituation with the insurance company that at that time I just wanted to vent not have him ride in and 'save the day' for me. I probably would have gone to him for help but I wanted it to be MY choice not HIS. He apparently thinks that I am just telling him to leave me the heck alone. *sighs* why are men so annoying?

Oh and on another front I got my Pap Smear letter in the mail today(mind you I had it last month on the 13th) telling me that my results came back 'not normal' so they ran an HPV test but that came back Negative, so that I should 'just follow up in a year'. I sat there shaking my head as I DISTINCTLY remember my Dr. telling me that if anything was 'not normal' she'd give me a call and let me know. So, uh, why am I just now finding out about it? Almost a FULL MONTH later?! Tuesday I think I will be following up on that and asking about my 'normal' thyroid levels as I still am really tired(though now i can't sleep so ironic aye?) and depressed and am gaining mass weight but not really eating. *sighs*

Oh and a week from tommorow is the BIG DAY! I can't believe it is here already, it seems like just yesterday we started planning! Today my box from the USBGA arrived in the mail and it was like christmas all over again except for it was all for me I don't have to share for a whole week!

Mother's little speech book

So today I realized that I really truely am turning into a MOTHER(you notice i dont say MY mother as she and i have a rocky relationship at best).

This evening I got a call from a friend we'll call Ali. Now normally Ali doesn't call me that often but she had called me earlier today returning one of my stalkerish phone calls(mind you we've known each other for 8 years so this is just a joke). Well we had a nice long converstation about nothing really in general yet everything at the same time(again this is just how we operate). Well later this evening I was sitting feeding munch the last of her dinner when my phone started buzzing at me. I looked down to find that Ali was calling me. I answered it to her in tears. I won't go into details as to what had upset her so but I will say that by the end of our conversation she had accused me of hanging out with her mother(who lives 4 states away). Apparently I told her the EXACT same things her mom did when she spoke to her on the phone only moments before calling me.

I mean I know that I have been a mother for almost two years but it always surprises me how many motherly instincts that I have since I had to create my own 'mothers' when I was growing up.

Snow pictures

Okay so I thought I'd share some snow pics today that I snapped of my FAVORITE tree! I love it year round but when it snows it looks amazing, especially after the partial fall it took last winter(it tried to top itself). I'll post some more with tonights entry!

January 9th

One of these days I'm going to start coming up with witty titles for these things but i'm not sure when. So today was just a wierd butt day all around. I found out that OD might not be insured(which explains a heck of a lot about his behavior). I also discovered that I really need to do something about my twitchy arm that keeps volunteering me for things.

I spent an hour or so on the phone with the USBGA today getting items for my class that I am teaching on the 19th, and talking to a wonderful woman(i think her name was annette). I am constantly amazed by the wonderfulness of the boer people and am seriously considering 'converting' i've done it in small doses before but I think I might actually buy me a boer doe and breed me some boer kids. Am I nuts?!

I have spent the day popping in and reading bits and pieces of pioneer womans (http://thepioneerwoman.com) Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love story. Gosh I love her writing and i think i'd marry it if that were legal and my cell phone would let me(seeing as i married it last week when i pronouced my undying love to my shiny new Krzer). So Pioneer Woman I LOVE your writing it is AWESOME!

January 8th

Okay so today I have my much promised snow pictures and a quick movie from yesterdays' snow fall. Yes that is me sounding dorky behind the camera! The pictures are out of order and were taken from bottom to top(not the way they are stacked) we went and visited her friends the goats and the little black one in front that she is touching is HER goat ms. Silver. She loves that little goat.

Today I had to deal with the insurance adjuster and got my side of the story filed sent her my estimate, and also the pictures of the accident damage. I must say that I LOVE the digital era we are living in. While I was on the phone with her I emailed her the pics(thus eliminating the need for a visual inspection), and we also pulled up a Google map of the intersection and went over where I was where the OD was, what happened etc. made for a lot clearer picture for her. She also said that YES i do have to have the car seat replaced(was pretty sure of that in the first place). There still hasn't been a liability determination but she did get the OD's statement from him, and apparently he has already had his visual inspection done by them, so now we just have to wait for everything to be in the computer. He readily admitted to her that he had NOT filed any kind of claim with his insurance, in fact hadn't even talked to them. So who knows where we will go from here?


OH! I am really jazzed Stargate Atlantis(my favorite tv show) won a PCA award tonight for the best sci fi show! A bunch of my other favorites won too but that was super duper exciting since I voted and voted on it!

January 7th

This entry was typed yesterday but I fell asleep early so didn't get a chance to post it.

So this morning I woke up and it was grey and dreary outside and I had to get to work and got out there and was working. I happened to look out the window and saw that it was SNOWING! I continued working since 'work' is right across the parking area. Come out and its still snowing and kept snowing for about a half hour. It snowed an hour in total for about 2 inches. Kenzie and I went out and played for a while and i snapped a bunch of pic's and a couple videos so will post those tommorow(today).

other than that nothing much new. filed a claim with the OG's insurance and tried to get a hold of my adjuster but she was out of the office for the day.

January 6th

So with today being sunday it was my Weekly sojourn from the house to work at "The Clinic" down at the Local animal shelter. As many of you know I LOVE animals and someday would like to achieve my DVM doctorate(also known as animal god license). Until then I am content helping in our clinic, and working with new to the animal world owners of pets.

I LOVE Dr. N she is amazing, awesome and KICKS BUTT! I cannot get enough of her. I also love M who is our nurse and I who is our 'kennel tech' we have such fun it isnt funny. Though I must say I do miss "A & A" who have left for greener pastures but on the bright side our dynamic hasn't really changed that much we still have just as much fun. It is nice to work in a place that you can actually smile and laugh and you know EVERYONE by their first name.

Today was pretty uneventful at the clinic I got to puppysit as we had to spay 2 and neuter 1 of the already adopted puppies so they could go home. It is such a fun thing to sit and watch over them as they get ready and than afterwards.

Unfortunantly at the end of the day I had to once again wonder if I am a bad person, or abuse puppies, or smell funny and have therefore ticked off some CARma god. I mean seriously! How many things can go wrong with one lousy car? Today I went to get ready to leave and go to start my car- it won't freaking start. Well I called the house dad's already gone mom's watching kenz(they are kind enough to watch her while i am at "the clinic") so I call dad on his cell and he agrees to turn around and come pick me up from the shelter.

He happens to be near where I got in my accident, so he pops by the scene and sees where I got hit and whatnot and finally understands why I keep saying that there is NO way it was my fault and thankfully he now agrees with me. He came and picked me up and we went grocery shopping and came home and I chilled with kenzie for a while before she went to bed and than I took a nap and am now going to bed!

january 5th

well today wasn't quite as boring(okay i admit it it was!) slept in this morning(which was nice) than got up and chilled with cranky pants kenzie(she hopefully just has a new tooth i'm going to wait and see how fussy she remains before i get freaked). Than I gave C the brochures for the WSU CLE/CWS on the 19th to take to goat club.

Than I ran to the doctors office to get my neck and stuff checked as it has been very stiff and sore since thursday evening. all they could find was that it is currently spasming and so they prescribed some muscle relaxants. I think i'll only take a half a dose after my last go round with those babies made me loopy for days.

I than came home watched the game. i must say i did get rather worried in that thar 4th quarter- where the FRELL did bad matt come from? hunh? couldn't he of just stayed home? really? please? I am sooo glad though that the Steelers got their patuckuses handed to them by the Jags' it was nice to see.

Than I slipped into the hot tub for a while(which really relaxed my back and neck but its now stiff again). I have been sitting here for the last hour and a half catching up on blogs(*waves* @ mommy bloggers) and the United Hollywood page to see what the latest is with the strike.