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Oh my....here are some videos of dogs greeting their masters who have been gone for months in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I am sobbing by the time I see this last one. Don't tell me that animals don't have "opinions" or "emotions". WOW.

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I usually try to use at least one new recipe found on the net.  Last year's was crock pot dressing...it was yummy and super easy.

I thought today was friday when I rolled out of bed.  Rolled out of bed to the sound of Harrison hacking (more on that in a minute).  I even rolled the trash out to the curb and the whole time I was cussing Brett in my mind for forgetting to do it.  I got all the way to the street and saw that no one else's trash was out.....shit it's only Thursday.

Oh, and Brett just about forgot his poop in a bag this morning.  He came in to kiss me bye this morning and I noticed that his poop was not in his hand w/ his keys and stuff so as he's walking back down the hall I yell as loud as I can at 5:30am "Don't forget your shit bag!!!!"

So on to Harrison.  Starting Monday morning he's been dry heaving and when something does come up it's only foam.  It only happens for the first few hours after he gets out of bed.  Strange.  So this continues onto Wednesday when Brett was off work so he took him to the vet yesterday.  $250 later we find out that he has a foreign object in his stomach.  Great.  When I started thinking about it, I realized that he hadn't been eating or drinking much over those few days so I was like we have to do something because it's only going to get worse.  He already has a fever which means that "something" was causing a bit of an infection.  We made a $700 decision to put a scope down his throat to retrieve this "something" and if that doesn't work then they will cut open his stomach to get it.  Whatever this "something" is is too big for him to poop out and if he's not puked it up by now he probably won't.  My first thought was omg it's a piece of a pantiliner that I caught him chewing on over the weekend.  But I was looking at the xrays last night and I think its too big to be that.  From one xray view it is round....about 1.5in across and from the other view it is hardly noticeable, like it's flat.  Ok, so now typing this out it makes me think it's a pantiliner again but I really don't think he ate that much of it when I was picking up the pieces of the liner.  Anyway, on to the story.  The surgery center wasn't going to be able to do his surgery until after 2p yesterday so the vet told Brett he could just take Harrison home and hang out w/ him there until driving him to the surgery center.  Brett's dumbass let Harrison eat.  Seriously?!? Your dog is about to have STOMACH surgery and you let him eat.  I'm sure he was just excited to even see him eating...but still.  I was LIVID! and to top it off Brett left the vet without even figuring out where this surgery place is.  Here I am at work during a busy freaking clinic day trying to take care of shit that Brett should have been doing.  Annoying as hell.  So now Brett has to take time off work this morning to take Harrison to the surgery place (which is like 40min away).  If all goes well, we'll be able to bring him home tonight.  I'm super curious as to what he ate.  If it's something of mine I will feel totally guilty.  I guess I can't expect much less from a lab though right?  A lady at work said her lab ate a whole pair of underwear and was able to poop them out.  Gross.

On to more drama....
My cousin had her baby 4 weeks early on Saturday morning.  He's been on a vent since Saturday night.  She sends me a text message on Monday "do you think u guys could pool some resources for me to get a breast pump? we're having problems with insurance covering one"  WTF?! Insurance paying for a breast pump?! Since when!!?
So I call her and left a voicemail "WIC will give you a brand new nice pump to use for 2 months.  You should call them and figure that out.  If that falls through, I will go to Walmart and buy you a pump and overnight it to you.  CALL me so we can figure it out"
She immediately sends me a text right back "phone is about to die. on my way to hosp. call you when I get there"
Freaking 3 hours later she sends me another text "ok the breast pump we can rent for $80/month which we realy can't afford.  we can buy one with help from insurance and it'll cost about $150"
Ok...is she freaking insane?!? Pump as the store are like $50 for a decent one and I'm sorry but when you're poor you freaking take what you can get.
My first thought was ok we're not doing business via freaking text message.  Grow some balls and freaking have the decency to CALL me if you need something.
So I text her back and say "makes no sense. WIC will supply one or they are $50 at Walmart"
No response back.
I don't give a shit.  I'm sorry but thats just plain ass stupid.
And then the stupid girl puts on her Facebook "thanks to my friend from driving all the way across state to visit.  So much for family eh?"
It took all I had to not comment.  Who the hell does she think she is?  Is it anyone else's fault that she's having kids she can't afford and is married to a dude from England who isn't even in this country legally and cheats on her? Really?! 
Beggars can't be chosers.  I'm not helping someone who isn't willing to try to help themselves.
Why does my fucked up family think I'm diamond jim all of a sudden?  Sorry, you ain't getting no cash from me.  I will possibly buy you what you need...but nope, not getting cash that you can go blow on cigarettes and shit.

I got more drama....but I'm sick of typing. 
Have a great day everyone....and remember it's Thursday..not friday :)

Tootles!
 

Its just a couple days late...ooops.

Good news:

Yesterday Ben and I were asked by our old roommate Talena if we could watch Osa the chihuahua this weekend while there is construction done in her new apartment! =)

To celebrate, I'm including some videos of Ben and I spending time with Osa.

This is Ben making Osa sing:

It's fun to make her howl because she purses her lips.
AND she starts to hack/cough like she's a smoker.

But my NUMBER ONE FAVORITE THING to do is this:

I'm still waiting for the day she leaps up and bites me in the face.
But I think she's too sweet for that.

I think I'm more of a dog person now.
I had a bad cat experience at my last apartment with Gordo. He was too needy. Shed too much.  Ate too much, ate when nervous, ate until he vomited. It all made me not want to leave my room.

Dogs are so much better, I think.

In other good news, Ben J. was featured on Daily Candy yesterday!
It is an AMAZING write-up.
I am v. proud.

P.S.
I might do a self portrait later...

• 20:03 @meghanthefox that's terrible! #
• 20:04 @christinaheart haha that's how I feel some nights. #
• 20:21 @meghanthefox my mom is the exact opposite of your dad in that she thinks that if people say anything about my weight I'll stop eating. #
• 20:26 I ate too much again. I seem to have lost my self control. A bit depressing. #
• 23:00 Kind of thirsty. But way too lazy/tired to go get water. #

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My DSL is repaired but will only work if I'm hooked up to the modem via an ethernet cable.

I've tried, for an hour this morning and another hour tonight, to configure the Linksys wireless router (which I installed and have previously reconfigured a couple times). It comes up as configured and connected but won't let me go anywhere - everything times out.

I think the problem is internet security settings... that I have them configured, somewhere, for the wireless router too. I've checked, disabled, and/or reset everything I can think of but still can't get internet access via my wireless router.

Yes, it is making me insane.

I'm in Seattle.  It's the first time I have been here.  I like it so far, but I'm getting very tired.  I've had a lot going on over the past week and it's all starting to catch up to me.  I'm going to go to sleep now.  I'm glad I flew across the country to go to bed really early in a city I have never visited before.  That was smart planning.  More later.

Not feeling altogether healthy today, so have been lying a little upon my bed. I have the blinds open and a crow is spending large amounts of time sitting on the lamp post outside my bedroom window and looking in at me. It flies away and then returns to take up its post again. I am not overly superstitious, but I am starting to get a little spooked out by the damn crow. I would indeed like to stone the damn thing.

 

 

Look you saggy bag of black feathers take your business somewhere else! SHOO!